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  Viktor Yushchenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In December 1999, Yushchenko was unexpectedly nominated to be the prime minister by President Leonid Kuchma after the previous candidate, Valeriy Pustovoytenko, fell short by one vote of ratification by the parliament.
Yushchenko's campaign was built on face-to-face communication with the voters, since the government prevented most major TV channels from providing equal coverage to the candidates.
Mary's Hospital in London, as the marks on Yushchenko's face are chloracne, a characteristic symptom of dioxin poisoning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko   (2559 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Yushchenko Leading in Ukranian Exit Polls
The three exit polls projected Yushchenko winning by at least 15 percentage points, and with ballots from just more than 30 percent of precincts counted he was leading with 57.43 percent to 38.89 percent for Yanukovych, election officials said.
Yushchenko promised economic and political reforms while favoring closer ties to the Western democracies of the EU and NATO.
Yushchenko's headquarters, meanwhile, charged that the names of the dead were included on a voter list in Donetsk.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A26987-2004Dec26?language=printer   (1103 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
Yushchenko was raised in suburban Chicago as the daughter of an electrician and seamstress.
Yushchenko through the tough campaign and it will likely be his relationship with her that will help him have a successful presidency.
Yushchenko was portrayed as a fascist puppet of Western bankers and Kateryna as an active CIA agent.
www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110006076   (1084 words)

  
 CNN.com - Yushchenko takes presidential oath - Jan 23, 2005
Yushchenko read the presidential oath in the Ukraine parliament, placing his hand on a copy of the constitution and an antique Bible.
Yushchenko has pledged to steer Ukraine on a new course, fighting corruption and bringing the former Soviet republic closer to the European Union and NATO while maintaining good relations with Russia.
Yushchenko addressed parliament after being sworn in, praising his hard-fought election win as a "national victory" and urging deputies to work with him to build prosperity.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/01/23/ukraine/index.html   (994 words)

  
 Viktor Yushchenko (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Yushchenko had previously served as the chairman of the country's central bank from 1993 to 1999 and as the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 1999 to 2001.
Yushchenko was born in the village of Khoruzhivka in Sums'ka oblast', into the family of a teacher.
Yushchenko was widely regarded as the leader of anti-president opposition in the government, since other opposition parties were less influential and had fewer seats in the parliament.
viktor-yushchenko.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (1844 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Profile: Viktor Yushchenko
Mr Yushchenko is not a "zapadenets" - a native of western Ukraine, where pro-Europe and anti-Russian sentiment is strongest and where he now enjoys the highest support.
There were numerous attempts to discredit Mr Yushchenko, but nothing had a greater impact than his poisoning, which left scars and blisters on his face weeks before the crucial vote.
Throughout the Orange Revolution protests, Mr Yushchenko made it clear that it was a "velvet revolution" against the Moscow-influenced elite that he had in mind.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4035789.stm   (646 words)

  
 CER | Ukraine: Yushchenko Bites the Dust
Yushchenko is currently continuing his responsibilities as prime minister after President Kuchma instructed the government to fulfill its duties until a new government is formed.
Yushchenko was regarded as a pro-Western politician and was highly respected by Western financial institutions for his success during his time as chief of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Whilst Yushchenko's fate as prime minister was being decided, he commented that his relations with President Kuchma were more like those of "a father and a son" and that voting him out of the premier's role was tantamount to voting out the pace of presidential reforms.
www.ce-review.org /01/16/solonenko16.html   (2152 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Yushchenko sure gov't poisoned him   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Yushchenko's comments, made in an interview with The Associated Press, were the first time he pinpointed when and where he believed he was poisoned with dioxin.
Yushchenko, whose face was disfigured by poisoning, told The AP that Ukrainian prosecutors were looking into the case and said he was confident the official culprits would be punished.
Yushchenko has been working hard in recent days to expand his base of support from western parts of the country, where Ukrainian nationalism is strong, to the eastern areas.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-16-yushchenko_x.htm   (787 words)

  
 Power struggle in Ukraine: what do Yushchenko and Yanukovich stand for?
They have openly sided with Yushchenko in the aftermath of the November 21 runoff election, which was won by Yanukovich, according to election officials controlled by the sitting president, Leonid Kuchma.
Yushchenko and his most important supporter, Yulia Tymoshenko, represent that part of the ruling layer that is determined to impose a radical opening up of the country to foreign capital.
Yushchenko himself threatened to close unprofitable mines and steel plants, thereby directly threatening the power base of the oligarchs in the east of Ukraine.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/dec2004/ukra-d01.shtml   (1843 words)

  
 CNN.com - Yushchenko aide 'warned of danger' - Dec 14, 2004
Yushchenko, 50, has previously accused Ukrainian authorities of having tried to poison him in the run-up to November's fraudulent presidential election.
Yushchenko, then a telegenic campaigner, was taken to the Vienna hospital in September after he first fell ill. He resumed campaigning later in the month, his face pockmarked and disfigured.
Still, Zimpfer said Yushchenko is in good spirits and feels good, though he remains on pain medication, is taking topical medication for his facial lesions and a medication intended to block the reuptake of dioxin by the liver.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/12/14/ukraine.yushchenko/index.html   (1254 words)

  
 CNN.com - Doctors: Yushchenko was poisoned - Dec 11, 2004 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Viktor Yushchenko is shown in photos taken in July, left, and in November, after his illness.
In Ukraine, the prosecutor-general is reopening a probe into Yushchenko's illness, according to the Interfax news agency.
Saturday, Yushchenko's U.S.-born wife, Kateryna Chumachenko, said she was convinced that her husband was the victim of an assassination attempt.
www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2004/WORLD/europe/12/11/yushchenko.austria/index.html   (808 words)

  
 BHHRG (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Viktor Yushchenko was deputy chairman of the board of Bank Ukraina, and was one of the individuals who is alleged to have embezzled huge revenues at a time when legislative oversight of banking activities was practically non-existent.
Viktor Yushchenko, lauded by the West for his reformist credentials, ran as the staunch “opposition” candidate in 2004 using harsh language to criticize the regime.
Yushchenko’s wife, Yekaterina Chumachenko, is an American citizen from the Ukrainian Diaspora, her parents having emigrated from Ukraine at the time of the Second World War.
www.bhhrg.org.cob-web.org:8888 /LatestNews.asp?ArticleID=53   (2241 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Yushchenko ends talks; aides call for blockades
Yushchenko's move was aimed at ratcheting up pressure on Ukrainian authorities and his government-backed opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, after Yushchenko's team suffered new setbacks during a tumultuous day in Ukraine's parliament over the disputed Nov. 21 presidential runoff.
Yushchenko, international observers and Western governments say the election was tainted by widespread fraud.
Yushchenko and his allies in parliament rushed to the building's front entrance and persuaded demonstrators to return to the streets.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002105312_ukraine01.html   (665 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ukraine PM urged to admit defeat - Dec 28, 2004
On Monday Yushchenko told supporters the country was witnessing the beginning of a new political era.
Yushchenko said his job would be to determine "how to bring truth into the Ukrainian government and to make sure that freedom doesn't depend on Moscow, America or Europe.
Yushchenko's mysterious dioxin poisoning, which disfigured his face, galvanized world attention and triggered widespread speculation that someone may have tried to kill him.
edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/12/28/ukraine.vote   (697 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Yushchenko may have settled for smaller prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Yushchenko's orange-clad supporters in the streets of Kiev are highly unlikely to accept constitutional reforms that strip power from an elected President Yushchenko.
The most likely reasons would be both the "Orange Revolution" momentum in Yushchenko's favor and also an end to censorship on Ukrainian national television channels and an inability to undertake most of the fraudulent methods used in both rounds of the elections.
Yushchenko walked into this trap on 1 December during negotiations brokered by the EU's Foreign Policy chief Xavier Solana and Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10314   (1095 words)

  
 The Yushchenko Mythos
On the other hand, Yushchenko's indiscretions – which are not being reported in the Western media at all – were neither youthful nor the occasion for his public repentance.
The idea that Yushchenko is some kind of outsider, whose victory will cause the fresh winds of free-market reform to blow through the sealed chamber of corruption that is the Ukrainian economy is another Western fairy tale that has no basis in reality.
Yushchenko is a creature of this system, and his tenure at the National Bank of the Ukraine was marked by the corruption so characteristic of the political culture: a scandal involving falsification of the country's credit ledger – essentially lying to the International Monetary Fund about the quantity of Ukrainian cash reserves.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/november2004/291104yushchenkomythos.htm   (2829 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Ukrainian Candidate Checks Into Hospital - U.S. & World
Yushchenko, 50, first fell ill in September and was rushed to the Vienna hospital.
Yushchenko suffered from a series of symptoms, including back pain, acute pancreatitis and nerve paralysis on the left side of his face.
Yushchenko told reporters in Vienna that he was confident of winning the election and that, in reality, he had already done so.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,141174,00.html   (728 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Ukraine Election Dispute Grows into Political Crisis -- November 23, 2004
In a provocative act, Yushchenko placed his hand on a bible and read the oath of office before opening a window and addressing his supporters.
Yushchenko went before a parliament, a rump parliament, the other folks were not there.
Yushchenko has organized the opposition, again as the map really clearly showed, it's red state, blue state in America, well, here it is, it's very polarized in Ukraine as well.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/july-dec04/ukraine_11-23.html   (1924 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - World - YUSHCHENKO'S FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE
Yushchenko himself believes that the new Ukrainian authorities have managed to assert freedom of speech and justice.
Yushchenko also believes that the people of Ukraine now receive more impressive social benefits, just as had been promised before elections.
According to Markov, "Yushchenko's team has now launched a crackdown on the opposition under the pretext of fighting corruption." Markov believes that this is a negative aspect.
en.rian.ru /world/20050503/39788033.html   (707 words)

  
 The Scotsman - International - Spy chief is poisoning suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mr Yushchenko, expected to be elected president in re-run elections on 26 December, yesterday promised a full investigation of the case.
Mr Yushchenko yesterday insisted his poisoning would not be the key issue in campaigning ahead of the presidential run-off contest against prime minister Viktor Yanukovich.
Mr Yushchenko yesterday insisted his focus remained on the achievement of his supporters in forcing the government to re-run November’s presidential elections after the supreme court and international monitors found widespread fraud.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=1421852004   (1084 words)

  
 The Yushchenko 'Poison Plot' Fraud- by Justin Raimondo
In news accounts of the Yushchenko "poisoning" mystery, Zimpfer is variously described as the "president" or the "head" of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic, but a better description of his position is "administrative chief." His official title is President of the clinic's Board of Supervisors.
In any case, what is clear at this point is that Yushchenko and his supporters are the ones doing the poisoning – by spreading their lies far and wide, and then calling for a delay in the investigation.
If Yushchenko wins, you can bet the truth will never come out in a court of law – although some news outlets, albeit not the English-speaking media, are exposing him for the fraud that he is.
antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=4164   (1044 words)

  
 Yushchenko poisoned, doctors say
Yushchenko raised allegations that he was poisoned after falling ill last September.
On Friday, Yushchenko said he felt certain that he was poisoned as an act of political reprisal against a politician in opposition.
Yushchenko's wife, Kateryna Chumachenko told reporters Saturday that she had always suspected her husband had been poisoned.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2004/12/11/ukraine-yushchenko-041211.html   (1384 words)

  
 Yushchenko: 'Live And Carry On', Ukraine's President Talks Exclusively With Christiane Amanpour - CBS News
Dioxin, one of the world’s most toxic chemicals, was responsible for the scarring of his face and threatened his future with cancer.
The attempt to eliminate Yushchenko is as Byzantine as Kiev’s skyline, filled with plots and potential villains.
Yushchenko and his hosts shared crayfish, salad and a few beers, and ironically they had been meeting to discuss the death threats against him.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/28/60minutes/main670103.shtml   (1588 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Yushchenko Declares Victory in Ukraine Vote - U.S. & World
Earlier, Yushchenko told journalists and others crammed into his campaign headquarters that Ukraine had opened a new era, which would include neither current President Leonid Kuchma (search) nor Yanukovych, the prime minister and candidate hand-picked by Kuchma to be his successor.
Yushchenko promised to uproot the corruption that concentrated the former Soviet republic's wealth in the hands of about a dozen tycoons.
Yushchenko, whose face remains badly scarred from dioxin poisoning he blamed on Ukrainian authorities, built on the momentum of round-the-clock protests that echoed the spirit of the anti-communist revolutions that swept other East European countries in 1989-90.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,142564,00.html   (1315 words)

  
 Yushchenko Was Poisoned, Doctors Say (washingtonpost.com)
The face of the once youthful-looking Yushchenko, 50, was mysteriously transformed into a blotch of lesions after he reached Austria.
Yushchenko contends he was poisoned in an assassination attempt by "government officials" who feared that he would defeat Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in elections.
If Yushchenko was deliberately given dioxin, it was done by someone who "was very clever and very knowledgeable," Schecter said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A58049-2004Dec11.html   (719 words)

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