Ukrainian Journalists Launch YanukovychLeaks
By ROBERT MACKEY
Viktor Yanukovych may have vanished early Saturdayfrom Ukraine’s presidential palace outside Kiev, but not without a trace. His entourage left behindsecurity-camera images of a hasty flight from the lavish compound, and something else — tens of thousands of apparently incriminating documents that were still floating near a dock at the waterfront residence when journalists and curious spectators arrived.
Since then, reporters from a dozen media organizations have been combing through the sodden papers at the Mezhyhirya compound along the Dnieper River, and on Tuesday they published high-quality images of hundreds of documents on a new website they call YanukovychLeaks. It quickly drew more than a million hits, according to Natalie Sedletska, a journalist for Radio Free Europe’s Ukrainian service.
