page_title: Volodymyr Tsvil
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Volodymyr Tsvil / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Пребывание в Непале, Владимир Цвиль, 2005
context_page_description: Volodymyr Tsvil is a Ukrainian public figure, and a Ukrainian ex-Consul in Munich.
  In 2002, Volodymyr Tsvil wrote a book about the "cassette scandal", later known as Kuchmagate. The book speaks about the wiretapping of Leonid Kuchma, then President of Ukraine which was the result of the murder of independent journalist, Georgiy Gongadze. These events were catalysts in a resulting in a political crisis in Ukraine. Said crisis subsequently led to the events called "The Orange Revolution". Tsvil was in the centre of these events and described them in his book "In the Whirlpool of the Cassette Scandal. A Story Told by Eyewitness"
context_section_description: Volodymyr Tsvil, as plenipotentiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, arranged to have Helmut Kohl awarded with an Honorary Doctorate Diploma of the Ukrainian State Forestry University (the award ceremony was conducted in Berlin in the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft, on 4 December 2012). 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. Volodymyr Tsvil promoted his environmentalist activities in Nepal, Greenland, Kamchatka, and in other regions.
caption: Volodymyr Tsvil in Nepal mountains.
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