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LOL this is crazy. For those who want to know what the fight was over, and can't be asked to read the article..shame on you! it was over allowing the Russian language to be used in different public and governmental institutes. There was one casualty.

However, it seems fortunately, this time there were no chairs thrown about.

Ukrainian democracy crashes in fistfight

Published: 25 May, 2012, 14:18

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Kiev : Deputies of the Ukrainian opposition fight with deputies of the pro-presidential majority during a session of parliament in Kiev, as opposition parties protest a bill proposed by the ruling party which would make Russian an official state language along with Ukrainian. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

The head of the Ukrainian parliament has admitted that the legislative power system in the country has failed after several MPs started a fistfight over the status of the Russian language.

Vladimir Litvin said that “the parliamentary system in the country was completely destroyed” as he spoke to reporters at a briefing dedicated to the fight that took place at the latest State Rada session while MPs discussed the status of Russian in the country.

“I have suggested a political decision – admit this fact and vote to dissolve [the Rada] and to announce out-of-term elections,” the speaker told the press. However, he also said that the parliament did not support his suggestion.

The official said that currently the Ukrainian parliament is considering several options over the fate of the Russian language bill – in particular, to stop discussing it, to postpone the discussion until better times or to approve the document in the first reading and order a working group to amend it before the second reading is held.

Other parliamentarians told the press that they considered the speaker’s suggestion little more than attention-seeking. The head of the pro-presidential Party of Regions faction, Aleksander Yefremov noted that Ukraine has already seen a period of self-dissolved parliament, and that this move brought the country no good.

The bill that caused the strife in Ukrainian parliament and society suggests that Russian could become an official language in regions where 10 per cent of the population or more are Russian speakers. The bill is supported by the Party of Regions with its base in Russian-speaking industrial Eastern Ukraine. Nationalist opposition with supporters in the West of the country opposes the bill, sometimes through extreme means.

http://rt.com/politi...-fistfight-197/

For a visual report:

http://news.uk.msn.c...ideoID=2ivta44f

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Yeah I remember the first time it happened 2 years back (they even threw rotten tomatoes and smoke bombs amidst the brawling).

Ukrainian Parliamentary politics is so much more entertaining to watch than PM's Questions in the UK.

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^ lol yeh, this gave me quite a laugh, esp the vid. It is quite starteling if you think about it, the problem exists in a few European countries (Belgium for example), the north and south, or east and west are divided up by languages, and serious issues can occur for a person if they end up being in the wrong area, even if they are the same nationality, but speak a different language.

Also, completely agree that our parliament seems boring compared a few other countries, but i love our politicians wits and the battle or words and statistics.

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