Profile: Viktor Yushchenko
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The man to watch in Ukraine is the highly popular 50-year-old Viktor Yushchenko, now fighting a rare disease that has disfigured his once handsome face.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko, who won last  month's presidential election re-run, will be sworn in as  Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political  turmoil in the ex-Soviet state.
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He was cast by critics as the Russian-backed bad guy during Ukraine's Orange Revolution two years ago, the burly politician who almost stole the presidential election from the telegenic, pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko. But Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, scheduled to arrive in Washington Sunday for a four-day visit, says he hopes to renovate his image in the West during his meetings with U.S. officials.
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Chicago Tribune - Two weeks after falling prey to dioxin poisoning, Viktor Yushchenko strode into Ukraine's parliament. The chamber fell still. Everyone gawked at Yushchenko's face, bloated with cysts and lesions. Yushchenko walked to his desk and slammed his papers down. "Why are you looking at me?" he shouted.
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Many opponents of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko call him 'a prot g of the West,' while supporters compare him with former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
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The tests on Viktor Yushchenko show concentrations of dioxin that are 1,000 times above normal levels. BY SUSANNA LOOF. VIENNA, Austria - Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with
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The week before Sunday&#39;s presidential rerun, Viktor Yushchenko held a 9-point lead over Viktor Yanukovich. KIEV, UKRAINE - Worries about violence and fraud persist, but many Ukrainians seem to have embraced
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KRAKOW, Poland -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is an "ally of freedom's cause," Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday in toasting the new leader, who leans toward the West yet plans to maintain his nation's historic ties with Russia.
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Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine&#39;s former prime minister who is seeking to bring the country closer to the European Union, won the first round of voting to choose a successor to President Leonid Kuchma, an exit poll showed.
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TARGETING CORRUPTION: Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, whom preliminary results show to be the winner of the Dec. 26 repeat presidential election, has said he'll make fighting corruption a top priority.
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UKRANIAN presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who was being discharged from a Vienna clinic today after doctors diagnosed his mysterious illness as dioxin poisoning, said the support for him in Ukraine was comparable to the groundswell that led to
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko listens to a journalist&#39;s question during a press conference at the private Viennese clinic Rudolfinerhaus, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, where doctors found
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Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko appeared headed for a comfortable victory Monday in a bitter campaign that required an unprecedented three ballots and Supreme Court intervention to pick a new Ukrainian leader.
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RBC, 22.11.2004, Kiev 13:04:55.According to the Ukrainian Central Election Commission, the gap between the Ukrainian presidential candidates Viktor Yanukovich and Viktor Yushchenko has increased to 3 percent.
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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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Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader who is expected to become president when Ukraine returns to the polls on December 26, on Friday warned the country&#39;s
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has an  unassailable lead in a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential  election with more than 90 percent of the vote counted,  election officials said on Monday. They told reporters that  with 90.52 percent of the ballot counted, Yushchenko had won  53.97 percent compared with 42.25 percent for Prime Minister  Viktor Yanukovich.