A court in Kyiv is holding a hearing on the government's request to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine. The Justice Ministry says the party should be banned because it has supported pro-Russian rebels fighting government forces in the country's east.
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Associated Press: Ukrainian government moves to ban Communist Party
A man holds a red flag with the state emblem of the former Soviet Union during a May Day rally organised by the Communist party in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 1, 2014.
