[AntiGuv]

In your world, I have no doubt that's true.

[MarMema]

No I meant a virus could cause all three.

[Yaelle]

Last month, Yushchenko fell gravely ill and spent weeks in hospital after an attempt to poison him. He remains unwell and suffers from partial facial paralysis. Poisoning is a old favorite of KGB. Whether Yushchenko was poisoned by the Russian or Ukrainian KGB is unknown, but he clearly was victim of an assassination attempt.

Yanukovych claimed he, too, was targeted for assassination, and was briefly hospitalized, after being hit by an egg.

While the west has been absorbed by the American election drama, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin orchestrated a massive covert effort to support Yanukovych, including large sums in bribes, and efforts to mobilize Ukraine’s ethnic Russian minority. Over the past decade, Moscow has also conducted a subtle and quite effective campaign to keep Ukraine diplomatically and economically isolated from the west. Much of Ukraine’s economy and power grid remains tied to Russia.

from eric margolis Oct.30, 2004

[txhurl]

It's poison.

Damn.