28 November 2000 was the day when the foundations of a young and
fragile Ukrainian democracy were fundamentally shaken. The national
deputies and the entirety of the Ukrainian population became aware
of the records made by the former officer of the State Security
Service, Mykola Melnichenko, which implicated the then President of
Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, in being involved in the murder of an
independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze. The tape affair, or as it
became known in the West, the 'Kuchmagate', was an unprecedented
event in the history of modern Ukraine. Kuchmagate and the collapse
of the Orange idea is a story told by Volodymyr Tsvil, a close
associate of the main characters involved in the scandal, who
himself was directly involved in the affair. Tsvil provides a
unique insight into the events that followed immediately after the
outbreak of the Kuchmagate and reveals a web of complex
relationships between major Melnychenko and a plethora of
politicians, journalists, governments and NGOs who were keen to
obtain the contents of these records and use them for their own
purposes. The story of Kuchmagate and the collapse of the Orange
idea, however, is not merely a description of events which inspired
the Orange revolution in 2004. Many Ukrainians entertained the hope
that new people in the government could deliver their promises for
a just and free society. These hopes were shattered by the same
politicians' insincerity and personal interest in political
expediency demonstrated during the Kuchmagate. The hopes of
ordinary Ukrainians that justice would prevail were sidelined and
largely forgotten. Today, the Orange coalition and its leaders are
forgotten, marginalised or even imprisoned. In contrast, the
Kuchmagate affair is alive and to the present day is far from being
solved. The main question of who ordered the murder of Georgiy
Gongadze remains unanswered. In order to find an answer to this and
many other questions, more details about the Kuchmagate should be
revealed to the public. Tsvil's book makes one the first
contributions to this cause, providing first-hand information about
the development of the scandal in a clear and objective manner.
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