Rain lashes the ninth-floor balcony from which Ukrainian prosecutor Sergei Melnychuk was thrown to his death. On the concrete below, his portrait and a few candles in glass jars form a meagre memorial. Wind off the Black Sea has dashed one jar to the ground, the shattered glass a grim reminder of his body after the fall.
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A multi-billionaire and at that time top leader of the Regions Party, Rinat Akhmetov, speaks during his first press conference in Kyiv on March 30, 2006 since the weekend legislative elections.
