As with Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia, Washington has clearly groomed Viktor Yushchenko for the Ukrainian presidency for many years. Yushchenko’s wife, Yekaterina Chumachenko, is an American ...

In reality, it was a contest between two men. Viktor Yushchenko was born in the Sumy region of Soviet Ukraine to a family of teachers. He moved to Kyiv in 1985 armed with a PhD in economics and ...

A key example is former President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning in 2004. His supporters concluded that Russian intelligence introduced the chemical dioxin into ...

KIEV, October 27. /TASS/. Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has made it clear that he still has presidential ambition. "It will be immodest of me to say that I still strongly believe ...

Pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner over the pro-Western reformer Viktor Yushchenko in the Nov. 21, 2004 runoff, following widespread documented voter intimidation and ...

Few know the cost of challenging Russian influence better than Viktor Yushchenko. The former Ukrainian president was poisoned with a toxic chemical while campaigning in 2004 against a Moscow ...

The document also lists former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who was poisoned on the campaign trail during the 2004 presidential election, leaving his face temporarily disfigured.

Ukraine's former President Viktor Yushchenko has discredited the recently held Russian elections which declared Vladimir Putin as the winner with a majority of 87.3% of the vote on a record ...

His opponent Viktor Yushchenko then won a fresh vote. On Thursday, the EU Parliament called for new elections in Georgia, criticizing them over “numerous and serious electoral violations ...

"When [Viktor] Yushchenko came to power in 2005, the service underwent substantial changes. Certain other countries were seen as hostile to Ukraine — particularly Russia and Belarus," Mazur said.