Tarashcha
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Tarashcha or Tarascha is a city in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Tarashcha urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 9,689.
Steam mill
Motorcycle track near Tarashcha
Cassette Scandal
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The Cassette Scandal, also known as Tapegate or Kuchmagate, was a 2000 political scandal and political crisis in Ukraine caused by the emergence of recordings, alleged by former presidential bodyguard
Tarashcha
…and influential person in the neighborhood. There were even speculations between these two facts and Moroz's significant role in Gongadze case and Cassette Scandal. Until 18 July 2020, Tarashcha was the administrative center of Tarashcha Raion. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform…
Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
People's Deputies Oleksandr Moroz (right) and Yuriy Lutsenko playing recordings in the Verkhovna Rada, 28 November 2000
Prior to the scandal, Leonid Kuchma (on left) pursued European integration due to a mutual distrust of Russia
After the scandal, Kuchma pursued increased relations with Russia, granting several economic concessions during a February 2001 summit (pictured)