RIA Novosti
Friday 22nd February, 2013
KIEV, February 22 (RIA Novosti) – Speaker Volodymyr Rybak opened the second session of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on Friday, after more than two weeks of filibustering by opposition deputies, the Kyiv Post reported. Lawmakers from three opposition factions – Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR and the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) Party blocked the speaker’s rostrum on February 5. Dozens of UDAR members, led by world heavyweight boxing champion Klitschko, have spent days and nights at the …
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