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Editor's Note: The following story was published online by Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded information organization that has been criticized for its anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Ukraine’s new Rada session on Thursday showed how hot headed politics
can get in the country. Enraged deputies rushed to block the
parliament’s rostrum, brawling their way through and trampling on their
rivals.

Opposition party MP’s broke into a fistfight with the
representatives from the pro-presidential Party of Regions, after
alleging that some deputies of the ruling party voted for their absent
colleagues during Thursday’s parliamentary session.

The resulting
chaos blocked the rostrum of the Ukraine’s parliament, and a
thirty-minute break in the session had to be announced.

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