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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI myself find it hard to believe Russia would ever involve itself in other country's elections.
Isn't that right, Victor Yushchenko?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_presidential_election,_2004
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/12/remember-when-an-ukrainian-presidential-candidate-fell-mysteriously-ill/?utm_term=.bf773ef8d49d
Remember when a Ukrainian presidential candidate fell mysteriously ill?
By Terri Rupar
March 12, 2014
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It sounded like a spy novel: A Ukrainian opposition candidate falls mysteriously ill, his face disfigured by a blotch of lesions. He has severe abdominal and back pain, and the left side of his face is paralyzed.
Yushchenko said he was poisoned. Opponents said maybe it was bad sushi and booze.
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Arnold Schecter, a dioxin expert at the University of Texas School of Public Health at Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said dioxins can be highly effective poison in people who are sensitive to their effects. If Yushchenko was deliberately given dioxin, it was done by someone who "was very clever and very knowledgeable," Schecter said.
"If someone put a drop of pure dioxin in his food, he wouldn't taste it, he wouldn't see it and a few days later he'd start to get sick," Schecter said.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)TomCADem
(17,378 posts)I think that is the point of the above post. Let Republicans have their way as some sort of karmic pay back that is owed by the working class.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)TomCADem
(17,378 posts)...to an election. You introduce the Bush administration's pretextual invasion of Iraq. If you are not trying to assert some sort of karmic penance, not sure what the relevance is. The other responded to your post was also confused.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) The Ukrainian president says a former political ally pressured him into attending a dinner in 2004 at which he says he was poisoned.
Viktor Yushchenko is accusing David Zhvania of involvement in his poisoning.
He said Monday that he did not want to go to the dinner but was persuaded by Zhvania. At the time Yushchenko was an opposition presidential candidate. He became gravely ill and was later diagnosed by experts with dioxin poisoning.
Zhvania denies Yushchenko's accusations and disputes that Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin. Instead he says Yushchenko suffered regular food poisoning.
A four-year investigation ended this month without tangible results.
Zhvania is a member of the pro-Yushchenko parliamentary faction.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-28-Yuschenko-poison_N.htm
Viktor Yushchenko yesterday threw the four-year investigation into his near-fatal dioxin poisoning into turmoil when he implicated a former close friend and Orange Revolution ally.
Asked during a televised press conference if he suspected David Zhvania, godfather to one of his children, the Ukraine president said: "I think, yes. And that is putting it softly."
The question was prompted by persistent rumours of Mr Zhvania's involvement in the September 2004 poisoning that -disfigured Mr Yushchenko's face.
Mr Zhvania, a Georgian native and current Ukrainian parliamentarian for a pro-Yushchenko party, held a senior position in the president's hard-fought 2004 election campaign.
Mr Zhvania has denied any involvement in the case and has cast doubt on whether Mr Yushchenko was poisoned at all, suggesting the illness might have been caused by pancreatitis, herpes and facial nerve inflammation.
He has also accused the president's office of spearheading a legal campaign to strip him of his Ukrainian citizenship.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ce08e220-59e3-11dd-90f8-000077b07658.html
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"
Russian journalist and opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza remains in critical condition after having fallen ill as a result of what is feared to be poisoning...
Almost forgotten is the case of then opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who was poisoned in 2004 with dioxin during the Ukrainian election campaign for Presidency against Putins choice Viktor Yanukovych...
The most well known case is that of former KGB-officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, who died in 2006 in London as a result of poisoning with a radioactive substance...
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Otherwise, we'd just have to shut the fuck up about someone trying to influence ours ...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Let's just let it drop.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Sure, that works.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Somehow, it did not seem that my sarcasm was too obfuscated, given what everyone knows of American history of continuous interference in foreign elections, frequent invasions, covert support of regime change, overt regime change actions, assassination of foreign leaders, support of regimes known for killing liberals, .... I could go on at length.
We should not ignore the historical context of these events.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Has invaded the Crimea and Ukraine is now rolling missiles into Eastern Europe.
ananda
(28,783 posts)...
I believe in fake news, too.
MFM008
(19,782 posts)He will find these tactics backfire..eventually.