Kiev, Ukraine
Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko said this week that a truck swerved into his car and tried to run him off the road, a near accident he called an assassination attempt. Yushchenko, an anti-corruption crusader who is favored to win the October presidential election, had recently confronted Interior Ministry officials with proof that they were spying on him, in a scandal that embarrassed the government. Car accidents are the preferred method of assassination in Ukraine. In 1999, prominent dissident Vyacheslav Chornovil was killed by a swerving truck, and in 2002, leading opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko was badly injured in a head-on collision.
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