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Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.
Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.

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10:54 23.7.2014
Parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov (file photo)
Parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov (file photo)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has reportedly signed legislation on parliamentary procedure that appears to empower the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, or lower house, to dissolve parliamentary clubs that lose members.

Parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov vowed after its passage that he would "announce the dissolution of the Ukrainian Communist Party faction" once it got the presidential signature.

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Thanks, @MyroslavaPletsa, for uncovering this video of the scuffle today in the Ukrainian parliament, where the Communist club is about to be dissolved.

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Not a single figure offered to support this "trend" story.

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