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"Initial tests had shown the level of poison in Mr Yushchenko's blood was more than 6,000 times higher than normal - the second highest level ever recorded in humans."

"Viktor Yushchenko, who served as President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010, had a meeting with the leaders of Ukraine's security service in Vienna in September 2004. Soon afterwards, he fell ill and was hospitalized. Medics diagnosed dioxin poisoning."

His Op-Ed: "Brussels also fails to understand that in one important respect Mr. Yanukovych [Now President] and Ms. Tymoshenko are cut from the same cloth: Neither has a genuine interest in promoting democracy and reform."

"The 52-year-old is suspected of "ordering and organizing" a hit on the life of Yevhen Scherban and three others, who were shot to death as they stepped off an airplane."

"Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution in 2004, when hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians protested in response to allegations of widespread fraud in the election of Viktor Yanukovich over rival Viktor Yushchenko."

"The imprisonment of Tymoshenko has contributed to unrest in the country."

"She is serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of power for ordering a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko said she believes her prosecution and detention are politically motivated and that she has not been granted judicial review."

"A new team of investigators assigned to the case after Yushchenko lost power to his long-term rival Viktor Yanukovych, alleged that the Yushchenko dioxin poisoning could have been falsified to strengthen his positions during 2004 presidential elections."

"The original medical reports by toxicologists from Switzerland, which claimed dioxin levels in Yushchenko’s body 50,000 times above normal, were sharply criticized for lack of supporting, peer-reviewed research."

"The blood tests by Ukrainian doctors in November 2005 were mysteriously destroyed."

"The Ukrainian Supreme Court called for the runoff election to be repeated because of widespread election fraud in favor of Viktor Yanukovych in the original vote. Yushchenko won in the revote (52% to 44%). Public protests prompted by the electoral fraud played a major role in that presidential election and led to Ukraine's Orange Revolution." (wiki)

"Many have linked Yushchenko's poisoning to a dinner with a group of senior Ukrainian officials (including Volodymyr Satsyuk) that took place on 5 September." (wiki)

"In September 2009, a special commission, created by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine Parliament), came to a conclusion that the Yushchenko dioxin poisoning was falsified to strengthen his positions during 2004 presidential elections." (wiki)

"There were allegations US intelligence services injected blood samples taken from Yushchenko with dioxin to feign poisoning. These allegations were dismissed by Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General." (wiki)

Satsyuk was the former deputy head of Ukraine’s secret police.

Poisoned and disfigured in a contested election campaign, Yushchenko was elected Ukrainian President and served from 2005-2010.

"This documentary focuses on the peculiar fascination with poisoning as a means of assassination in Russia and the former Soviet countries, starting with the recent, brutal poisoning of Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko during the bitterly fought 2004 election campaign."