Oleh Rybachuk was the Chief of Staff to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European Integration from February to September 2005. Rybachuk agreed to sit down for an interview with me on July 13, 2015. In that interview, Rybachuk shared his experiences and insights on the 2004 Ukrainian election campaign, Yushchenko’s poisoning, Yushchenko’s tenure as president, his defeat to Yanukovych, and his relatively quiet post-presidential life. The transcript of this portion of my interview with Rybachuk is below: The poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko during the 2004 election campaign gained an immense amount of …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
