Volodymyr Tsvil

The scandal unfolded when recordings surfaced of then-President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, allegedly ordering the kidnapping of independent journalist, Georgiy Gongadze, whose decapitated corpse had recently been found.

Volodymyr Tsvil was a leader of a working group of young politicians that organised a reburial of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj from Rome to Lviv in St. George’s Cathedral in 1992.

In 1993, Tsvil became the candidate in Verkhovna Rada in the majority constituency of the Rivne region, and was also a delegate of the VI World Congress of Free Ukrainians (Toronto, Canada).

The content of these recordings supposedly proved involvement of the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, and his associates, in a series of sensational crimes.

Among many academics were: Dr Taras Kuzio, professor of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies in George Washington University, as well as Jaroslaw Koshiw, author of "Beheaded.

Volodymyr Tsvil organised this ceremony as part of his work to promote ecological causes worldwide, since Helmut Kohl was the person who initiated a review of the first World Environmental Constitution while he was the German Chancellor in 1997.

In January 2013, Volodymyr Tsvil finished work on a book, "Unknown Kandinsky", in co-authorship with Professor Dmitry Gorbachev [10], who is an expert of avant-garde art.

The book contains twelve novels, each of which throws light on previously neglected periods in the biography of the famous artist, Vasiliy Kandinsky.

During the Christie’s auction in New York on 5 February 2009, for instance, the illustration to Kandinsky’s own book, "Point and line to plane", exceeded by three times the original estimate of the work, and was sold for more than $40,000.

Some of Kandinsky’s watercolor works, which were preserved in a good condition and had precise dating, could be more expensive than fine art paintings.

If the subject and the date of these works revealed that it belonged to one of the remarkable moments in the author’s creative evolution, its price could rise dramatically.

In 2005, Kandinsky’s work, "Sketch for the composition IV", (created in 1911 at the same time as The Blue Rider group was founded), raised almost $507,000 on the Hauswedell & Nolte auction in Hamburg, while the original estimate amounted to $180,000.

The "Sketch for the composition No.8" was sold for $23 million, and has finally beaten the artist’s own record, which remained for the sale of "Fuga" for 22 years".