Section: US & Canada
Ukraine lawmaker manhandles PM Yatseniuk in rowdy parliament scenes
Fighting erupts after member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc picks up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulls him from podium …read more Source: The Globe and...
Watch: A bouquet of roses kicked off Ukraine’s most bizarre parliament brawl ever
MOSCOW — Ukraine’s parliament is known for its knock-down, drag-out brawls, but Friday’s melee was particularly untimely. Just three days earlier, Vice President Biden had urged Ukraine’s famously divided lawmakers to “put aside parochial differences” and pass sweeping reforms almost two years after the Maidan...
Ukraine Parliament Brawl Video: Watch Fight Erupt With Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk And Lawmakers
As Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was speaking Friday in the country’s parliament, a lawmaker approached him and offered him a bouquet of red roses before trying to remove him from the podium, kicking off another mass brawl among politicians, local media reported. Ukraine’s parliament has seen its fair share of brawls over...
AP Interview: Polish leader: Sanctions on Russia must remain
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new foreign minister says he welcomes the new cooperation between Russia and the West in the fight against the Islamic State group, but insists that Ukraine’s interests cannot be sacrificed as a reward to Moscow for those efforts. …read more Source: CNS...
Brawl breaks out in Ukraine Parliament
Lawmakers scuffle amid collection of signatures for resignation of unpopular PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk …read more Source:...
Watch: Flower Delivery, Crotch Grabbing Make Up Ukraine Parliamentary Brawl
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was pulled away from the podium by a political opponent while speaking. …read more Source: ABC...
Brawl erupts in Ukrainian parliament after lawmaker swats PM with bouquet of roses, tries to drag him from podium
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was delivering his annual report to parliament, urging lawmakers to adopt the state budget for 2016 and a new tax code …read more Source: Vancouver...
U.S. vice-president addresses Verkhovna Rada
Biden says cost to Moscow will rise if aggression persists KYIV – U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden told Ukraine’s Parliament that Western pressure on Russia will increase if Moscow continues its “aggression” against Kyiv. “If Russian aggression persists, the cost imposed on Moscow will continue to rise,” Mr. Biden said on December 8 in a rare...
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk speaks on civil society in Ukraine at Fordham University
NEW YORK – Svyatoslav (Slava) Vakarchuk delivered a guest lecture, titled “Ordinary Citizens in Extraordinary Times: Civil Society in Ukraine,” at Fordham University on November 20. This event was sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the deans of arts and science in an attempt to advance the understanding of world politics among...
IN THE PRESS: Op-ed by Turchynov
“Allying with Putin against the Islamic State would be a devil’s bargain,” by Oleksander Turchynov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, The Washington Post, December 3: …it is understandable that Western governments should want to form the broadest possible international coalition, including with Russia, to...
