On September 5, 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko attended a private dinner at a dacha outside Kiev. He was meeting with Ihor Smeshko, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, to discuss the upcoming election. By the following morning, the 50 year old politician was deathly ill. Within weeks, his once handsome face had physically transformed, becoming bloated, pockmarked, and gray. Medical specialists at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna discovered that Yushchenko had