On September 16 marked five years since the disappearance of Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. His murder, which caused a loud political scandal, has still not been fully solved – even under the new government. The mother of the deceased accuses the prosecutor's office of lying, and the Verkhovna Rada for the fourth year cannot hear the scandalous report in the Gongadze case. Giorgiy's relatives and colleagues insist that this case cannot be closed until the masterminds of the murder are punished. Today, at the entrance to Tarashcha, where the body likely belonging to the journalist was found, a rally dedicated to the mournful date will be held near the memorial sign. In the evening in Kyiv, participants in the memorial action will create a human chain from the Union of Journalists of Ukraine on Khreshchatyk through Independence Square to the Presidential Secretariat and will honor the journalist's memory with a mourning march and a moment of silence. Participants in the action intend to hold a meeting at the Secretariat, hand over a petition with demands to representatives of this agency and the Prosecutor General's Office. On Bankova Street they want to spontaneously install signs reading "Heorhiy Gongadze Street," Interfax-Ukraine reports. \n \n \n \nIn 2005, Heorhiy Gongadze would have turned 36. \n \nHeorhiy was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. His body has still not been buried. \n \nIn addition, the examination of the body found in 2000 in Tarashcha raises doubts in the journalist's mother. \n \nGongadzegate \n \nOn September 16, 2000, the head of the internet publication "Ukrainska Pravda," Heorhiy Gongadze, left work and has not been seen since. \n \nIn November of that same year, a headless body was found in the Tarashcha forest in Kyiv Oblast; examinations indicate a high probability that this is the body of the missing journalist. The head has still not been found. \n \nWith Gongadze's disappearance, a political scandal erupted in Ukraine over the possible involvement in this murder of Kuchma, Lytvyn, Derkach, as well as Kravchenko, who on March 4 of this year died at his dacha from a gunshot wound before questioning at the Prosecutor General's Office. \n \nHow the journalist was killed \n \nIn March, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Sviatoslav Piskun recounted details of the brutal murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. \n \nAccording to Piskun, several people took part in the abduction and murder of Gongadze. They planned and organized the operation and set up a car for the journalist, which he took for a taxi. \n \nCiting the allegedly broken front seat, the journalist was forced to sit in the back. As soon as Gongadze got into the car, 2-3 men jumped in. They attacked Gongadze and restrained him. \n \nThe car with the abducted journalist set off out of the city. Along the way Gongadze was beaten. Then his hands were tied. \n\nOutside Kyiv the journalist was killed by strangulation. According to Piskun, his body was doused with gasoline and set on fire or "subjected to some kind of thermal treatment." \n\nAccording to the prosecutor general, the murder itself did not happen in Tarashcha. \n\nThe prosecutor general once again emphasized that Gongadze's death was not accidental. \n\nPiskun noted that the abductors and direct perpetrators of the murder could have been different people. According to preliminary information, there were two perpetrators. \n\nIn March 2005, a court approved the arrest of suspects in Gongadze's murder. General Oleksiy Pukach, who headed the department of external surveillance and intelligence during the period of Gongadze's murder, is wanted. \n\nThe Prosecutor General's Office established that Gongadze's murder was not accidental, the suspects were carrying out a criminal order, and during the period when the murder was committed they worked in the department headed by Pukach. \n\nIn early April, Viktor Yushchenko stated that officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspected in the journalist's murder had admitted their guilt. \n\nHowever, many politicians in Ukraine and international observers believe that the case of the journalist's death cannot be considered solved until not only the perpetrators but also the masterminds of the murder are found and punished. \n\nRenewed investigation \n\nFollowing the fact of his disappearance, a criminal case was opened under two articles – "disappearance" and "murder." \n\nIn early August, the Prosecutor General's Office announced the completion of the investigation in the case of Heorhiy Gongadze's murder. The "Gongadze case" consists of about 60 volumes. \n\nHowever, the widow of the murdered journalist Gongadze, Myroslava, opposed transferring the criminal case regarding her husband's murder to court in parts. She demands investigation and transfer to court also of materials about the masterminds of the murder. \n\nOn Thursday, September 8, Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Holovaty (faction of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc), who defends the interests of the mother of the murdered journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, Lesia, stated that the Prosecutor General's Office had informed him of the renewal of the investigation in the Gongadze case. \n\nUnwanted report \n\nIn early September, the deputy group of the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" within the faction of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Verkhovna Rada announced its readiness to block the parliamentary rostrum with a demand to hear the report on the "Gongadze case." \n\nThe head of the parliament's investigative commission in the Gongadze case – deputy head of URP "Sobor" Hryhoriy Omelchenko says that the parliament for the fourth year does not want to hear the scandalous report. \n\nAccording to Omelchenko, the parliamentary investigative commission has already reached unambiguous conclusions that four people were accomplices in organizing the abduction of Heorhiy Gongadze (which ended in the journalist's murder): former President Leonid Kuchma, former head of the presidential Administration and now Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, and former head of the Security Service and now people's deputy Leonid Derkach. \n\nAccording to Omelchenko, back in September 2002 the commission unanimously decided to send materials to the Prosecutor General's Office to open a criminal case and hold the named persons accountable. This decision was confirmed in 2003 as well. All materials with evidence found by the commission were transferred to Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun, but he refused to open a criminal case against these persons. Since then the investigative commission has been seeking Lytvyn's dismissal from the post of parliament chairman. \n\nOmelchenko emphasized that over the past three years he and other deputies have dozens of times demanded that the investigative commission's report be heard. But this issue was not included in the agenda. \n\n"Volodymyr Lytvyn, for understandable reasons, is doing everything possible to prevent this from happening," said Omelchenko. \n\nOnce again the Verkhovna Rada refused to hear the parliamentary commission's report on the investigation of Gongadze's death in March of this year. At that time, according to Lytvyn, at the conciliation council only 3 factions supported such a proposal. \n\nThe parliament speaker added that President Viktor Yushchenko asked Verkhovna Rada deputies not to use the investigation of Gongadze's death for political purposes. \n\nBased on materials from "Interfax-Ukraine