Laughland has claimed that Ukraine's presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's coalition was linked with "neo-Nazis" in an article for "The Guardian" in 2004, that his ultimately successful attempts to seize power were backed on the streets by "druggy skinheads from Lvov" in "The Spectator"; that reports of mass graves in Iraq were being exaggerated for political purposes; and that concern for the massacres in the Sudanese Civil War was driven by oil.