http://www.ourukraine.org/newsletter/issue19/programme.php
Viktor Yushchenko (left) as he appeared in July 2004 and (right) as he appeared in November after the alleged poisoning. (Gleb Garanich/Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
Note that the SOBs on Yanuk's staff joked and said something like 'Yushchenko must have gotten into some bad sushi.' Sounds like a comment your typical Russian Spectre member would chortle at, or a bad Schwarzenegger line. Except that they nearly killed the guy. They've also run Yush's car off the road and tried to kill him that way.
Yushchenko may well be a demagogue. He may be a scumball in his own right. He may be too left for my liking. But to my knowledge, he ain't a Communist, and he hasn't made Yanuk look like a leper. I will, I think, err on his side.
Yushchenko claims someone forced him off the road. Perhaps he just drinks.
But to my knowledge, he ain't a Communist.
He's a long time political hack who was appointed prime minister in 2000 by outgoing Commie President Kuchma. He may not be a Russian kind of Commie...maybe he's a China kind of Commie.