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Atlantic Council (blog)
April 3, 2018
The 2004 poisoning of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and the 2006 polonium attack on Alexander Litvinenko in London went largely unheeded. The Russian cyberattack on Estonia in 2007 was a major wakeup call that hinted at hybrid hostilities to come, but Western leaders preferredÃâà...
UNIAN
April 3, 2018
The former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has urged Europe to unite and wake up to Russia's "medieval policy," following the Salisbury poisoning scandal. Mr Yushchenko, still visibly scarred from facial welts that developed after a poison attack almost killed him in 2004, in a rare interview recalledÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
April 2, 2018
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has slammed Russia's 'medieval policies' while describing the horrifying effects of his 2004 poisoning. Yushchenko was poisoned when running against Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych in a 2004 election. His opponent went on to win the election afterÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
April 2, 2018
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has slammed Russia's 'medieval policies' while describing the horrifying effects of his 2004 poisoning. Yushchenko was poisoned when running against Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych in a 2004 election. His opponent went on to win the election afterÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
April 2, 2018
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has slammed Russia's 'medieval policies' while describing the horrifying effects of his 2004 poisoning. Yushchenko was poisoned when running against Russia-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych in a 2004 election. His opponent went on to win the electionÃâà...
The Hill
April 1, 2018
Yanukovych opposed the pro-Ukrainian independence faction led by Viktor Yushchenko, who knocked him out of power briefly with the help of a U.S.-supported democracy movement. He regained power in 2010, and Kilimnik later said it was due in part to the assistance of Manafort, whom he praised asÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 31, 2018
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov faces numerous accusations of corruption and other crimes, which he denies. However, he has kept his job and faced no charges since his appointment in February 2014, given that he is arguably the second most powerful person in the country after President PetroÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
The Hungarian government, in a bid to re-elect Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has dug up familiar anti-Semitic tropes for a statewide campaign attacking the philanthropist and businessman George Soros, one of Eastern Europe's favorite boogeymen. Likewise, in 2010 Viktor Yushchenko, president of UkraineÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 9, 2018
These two pictures show: Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in Kiev on (left) July 6, 2004, and (right) Dec. 10, 2004. “There is no doubt about the fact that the disease has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin,” said Michael Zimpfer, the medical chief of Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinicÃâà...
The American Conservative
March 8, 2018
... to do the same in Mongolia; gave nearly $1 million to Venezuelan rightists who went on to mount a short-lived putsch against populist leader Hugo Chavez in 2002; and then funded anti-Russian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine in 2005, and the later anti-Russian coup there in 2014.
Turkey Telegraph
March 7, 2018
In September 2004, Ukrainian Viktor Yushchenko, opposition candidate, hero of Orange Revolution in Ukraine, is severely ill in full campaign for presidential election that opposes Moscow's favorite candidate, Viktor Yanukovich. Austrian doctors identify dioxin poisoning three months later. Yushchenko isÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2018
Viktor Yushchenko, then a Ukrainian opposition leader, was poisoned during the campaign for the 2004 presidential election in which he stood on a pro-western ticket against the current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. He was poisoned with 1,000 times more dioxin than is normally present in the humanÃâà...
The Times
March 6, 2018
Poisons are becoming the Kremlin's weapon of choice, according to an MP who conducts academic research on Russian warfare. Bob Seely, 51, a member of the Commons foreign affairs committee who lived for four years in the former Soviet Union, said that there was evidence that the Russians wereÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 5, 2018
The monument to the killed Ukrainians in Pawlokoma was opened on May 13, 2006, in the presence of the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski. Tags: Poland Polish Armia Krajowa Ukraine Ãâ÷ Share Tweet Pocket Add to Bookmarks. Advertisement.
Delano.lu
February 25, 2018
The politicians include former government leaders Romano Prodi of Italy, Alfred Gusenbauer of Austria, Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine. Prodi, Gusenbauer and Kwasniewski have all denied being paid to lobby on behalf of Yanukovych. Meanwhile, former Irish MEPÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
February 24, 2018
At least four leaders – former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko – were named last year in public filings by the two lobbying firms. The firms said theÃâà...
Salon
February 22, 2018
That image was particularly tarnished after Yanukovych was accused of poisoning his political rival, Viktor Yushchenko, in an apparent assassination attempt during the 2004 Ukrainian election. Yushchenko survived and won that election, but required extensive medical treatment for facial disfigurementÃâà...
New Eastern Europe
December 31, 1999
European cycles, in turn, include the de-Stalinisation period, the time of the first three presidents of independent Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yushchenko) and the turn of 2014, which brought to power Petro Poroshenko. Using this approach, Kuzio analyses the most important areas ofÃâà...
Kyiv Post
December 31, 1999
Two pictures show: (L) ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in July 2004 and (R) in December of the same year. Yushchenko was the victim of dioxin poisoning, according to his doctor in Vienna. Yushchenko has no doubts it was Moscow to poison him. He's also sure that Russia poisoned formerÃâà...
Express.co.uk
December 31, 1999
Today, NATO became the latest organisation to take action, axing seven diplomats and blocking the appointment of another three. Ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who himself was poisoned during a 2004 election campaign, welcomed the international response. But he also warned RussianÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Viktor Yushchenko would go on to be president of Ukraine but in September 2004, he was engaged in a bruising election campaign battle against pro-Moscow candidate Viktor Yanukovich when he fell seriously ill. Months of tests in an Austrian clinic determined that he had ingested a massive amount ofÃâà...
