Questions Linger About Yuschenko's Illness
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What ails Viktor Yushchenko? As Ukraine's popular pro-Western opposition leader claimed victory Tuesday in hotly contested presidential elections, the mystery surrounding an appearance-altering illness that twice prompted him to check into a Vienna hospital persisted.
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Campaign officials say Mr. Yushchenko fell ill in early September and was flown to Vienna for treatment several days later. Aides say he was diagnosed in Ukraine as having the flu, but doctors in Austria said
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Former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar is certain his mysterious sudden illness last month was caused by poisoning and that opponents of the Russian authorities were likely responsible, he said Thursday.
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The apparent front-runner was out of action for weeks with a mysterious illness. His close rival was hospitalized after an attack and was then warned he could be assassinated. With Ukraine's presidential election three weeks away, democracy seems to have gone badly awry as chaos and suspicion overshadow campaign issues in this strategically important country that sways between the West and Russia.
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The radioactive substance that doctors believe killed a Kremlin critic and former Soviet spy could have come from Russia, but nuclear experts said Saturday it would be difficult for investigators to pinpoint blame for the death even if the origin of the toxin is determined.
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12 December 2004 -- Officials in Ukraine have reopened their investigation into the illness of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko after doctors in Vienna said yesterday that new tests left &quot;no doubt&quot; Yushchenko was poisoned in September by large
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Ukrainian presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, most likely intentionally, doctors in Vienna who have been struggling to diagnose his mystery illness confirmed Saturday.
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The health of Russian ex-PM Yegor Gaidar - who has a mystery illness - has improved, a spokesman says.
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In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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A popular Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate has been hospitalized with a sudden illness.
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Ukrainian former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, with his face disfigured by illness, speaks to the media during a news conference in Kiev, in this Friday, Nov.
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Austrian doctors are to re-examine Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, struck by a mystery illness.
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The United States expressed concern on Monday at reports that Ukraine's opposition leader and presidential candidate, Viktor Yuschenko, had been poisoned and called for a full investigation.
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PRAGUE, Jan 30 (IPS) - The investigation into the 2004 alleged poisoning  of President Viktor Yushchenko when he was a candidate for the  presidency remains unsolved, but there is no lack of chilling  theories, some of which stain the President himself.
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An Austrian hospital says it has determined the cause of a mysterious illness afflicting Ukrainian opposition presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko and plans to announce the details at a news conference on Saturday.
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The mysterious poisoning of an ex-KGB spy has heightened debate over the nation's direction.