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Late in the afternoon of Dec. 28, Viktor Yushchenko was working on a speech in his small second-floor office at the headquarters of his party, Our Ukraine. He had plenty to feel good about: he'd survived an assassination attempt and a plot to steal Ukraine's presidency away from him, and he was finally President-elect - the results were in from the Dec. 26 poll, and he had pulled over 2.2 million more votes than his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. That evening Yushchenko was to address his supporters on "the Maidan," or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence...
...Will oil unite Russia and China in a way that communism never did? Yukos watchers assumed that the Russian oil titan, neutered by massive tax bills and the jailing of its CEO, would end up in the hands of the Russian government. But last week Russia's Energy Minister, Viktor Khristenko, announced that a 20% stake in the new business may be sold to China's state-oil company CNPC...
...poisoned Viktor Yushchenko? On Dec. 17, doctors identified a massive dose of TCDD, the most toxic form of dioxin, as the cause of the Ukrainian opposition leader's grievous illness and facial disfigurement. Yushchenko claimed that the poisoning took place on Sept. 5 at a dinner with General Ihor Smeshko, head of the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, and Smeshko's First Deputy, Volodymyr Satsyuk. "That was the only place where no one from my team was present and no precautions were taken concerning the food," Yushchenko said on Dec. 16. The next day, campaigning...
After months of speculation about the cause of Viktor Yushchenko's grotesquely disfigured face, doctors at a prestigious hospital in Austria presented evidence last Saturday that the Ukrainian opposition leader--just like that country's recent election--had been poisoned. Tests done during his third trip to Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic showed that the presidential candidate's blood contained such high levels of dioxin--a toxic by-product of the manufacture of certain disinfectants and herbicides, and an ingredient in Agent Orange--that it was difficult to get an accurate measurement. "The needle was literally off the charts," Rudolfinerhaus director...
...been easy to administer in a cream-based soup. So who did the poisoning? "Of course, it was done by the authorities," Yushchenko told TIME last week, calling it "an act of political reprisal" by the government of departing President Leonid Kuchma, which supports Yushchenko's rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. "All such allegations must be thoroughly investigated," says Kuchma loyalist Volodymyr Sivkovych, who headed a parliamentary investigation that noted that although Yushchenko complained of pains after dining with Ukraine's secret-service chief on Sept. 5, the food had been served on common plates and the drink from bottles...