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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.