Foreign notes: Glum Azarov appointed prime minister
Some saw shades of the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev era in Mykola Azarov's election to the post of premier.

Foreign notes: Glum Azarov appointed prime minister

Mar 12, 2010 at 11:04
Mykola Azarov's appointment as prime minister of Ukraine today was a strange, dare I say, even Brezhnevite affair? Watch the video here - by their expressions it looks as if both he and Yanukovych were suffering from painful haemorrhoids. The new president couldn't get out of the main session hall quickly enough, interrupting speaker Lytyvn who was addressing the gathered deputies, to shake his hand. Read the story here.