By David M. Herszenhorn
KYIV - The last time Oleg Tyagnibok was a member of Ukraine’s Parliament, his colleagues kicked him out over a fiery speech in which he described how Ukrainians, during World War II, bravely fought Muscovites, Germans, Jews “and other scum,” and then used slurs to refer to the “Jewish-Russian mafia, which rules in Ukraine.”
Eight years later, Mr. Tyagnibok is preparing to return to Parliament,
not as a lone member of a broader coalition, as he was when he was
ejected, but as the leader of Svoboda, the ultranationalist, right-wing
party that will control 38 of 450 seats, or about 8.5 percent of the
national legislature.
