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KIEV, Ukraine — To Viktor Yushchenko, the man at the heart of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution a decade ago, March 2014 looks a lot like August 1939. Europe, once again, is at war. But Europe is also, once again, refusing to realize it and react. Yushchenko, the former Ukrainian president who has spent much of his political life at odds with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and incurred his wrath, says there should not be any doubt about what is going on: Putin’s Russia has been waging economic and information war on his country for years. It has now added a territorial...

Latest data from Ukraine: -------------------------- CEC (99.87% counted) 52.02% (Yushchenko) - 44.18% (Yanukovich) National Exit-Poll 56.31% - 41.31% Social-Monitoring Poll 58.10% - 38.40% The Luntz Research Company 56% - 41% Yushchenko HQ 54.91% - 40.46%

Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The extent of an apparent plot to poison Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's opposition leader, and then cover up the evidence now reaches across Europe.

A veteran liberal member of Russia's State Duma, or parliament, has been shot dead in a Moscow suburb. Sergey Yushenkov was shot several times in the chest in the latest political assassination to rock post-Soviet Russia. The BBC's Russian affairs analyst Stephen Dalziel says such a high-profile killing stands out even in a country where murders of politicians and businessmen are relatively common. Mr Yushenkov was one of the co-founders of a new political party, Liberal Russia. Another MP from the party, Vladimir Golovlev, was shot dead last August in a killing which Mr Yushenkov described as politically motivated. The...

Moscow (dpa) - An unknown gunman shot and killed Sergei Yushenko, a member of the Russian parliament and a former information minister who was felled Thursday by numerous shots to the chest as he arrived at his Moscow home. A pistol thrown away by the assailant was recovered near the scene of the shooting in north-west Moscow. Yushenko was shot as he exited his government car. Police said they had no apparent motive for the killing. Last year Vladimir Golovlyev, who with Yushenko was co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party, was shot dead by assailants in a Moscow park. Yushenko,...