A screencapture of new Ukrainian Parliament members reading the oath.
A new Ukrainian Parliament gathered for its first plenary session on November 27, 2014. The Rada’s 418 members were elected in the October 26 snap elections, the first to take place since the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the beginning of a military conflict with Russia-backed separatists in two eastern regions.
Those elections took place according to a mixed electoral system: half the parliament’s seats went to political parties that crossed the 5 percent threshold, and the other half went to single-mandate districts.
New parliamentary elections were one …read more
Source: Global Voices
