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MOSCOW — The former president of Ukraine whose political skulduggery helped precipitate that country’s democratic Orange Revolution seven years ago was officially named Tuesday as a suspect in the killing of a prominent investigative journalist.

Former President Leonid Kuchma, who served from 1994 to 2005, has repeatedly denied involvement in the 2000 murder of the journalist, Georgy Gongadze, and has withstood numerous efforts to bring him to trial for the crime.

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