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By Max Fisher

This (see photo above) is what happened Wednesday, the first day of the national legislature’s new session, in Kiev’s Verkhovna Rada parliament building. Those are national lawmakers.

Yes, scuffles are nothing new for the Ukrainian parliament, as this slideshow demonstrates.
Given that the country’s second-largest party recently saw its leader
sentenced to seven years in prison on charges that the European Union
called politically motivated,
and that the recent election was marred by violence, protests and
allegations of fraud, maybe it’s not shocking that lawmakers are unhappy
with one another.

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