Parliament punch-up: Ukrainian nationalists slammed by opposition for inspiring crisis in southeast

A brawl broke out in the Ukrainian parliament after the leader of the Communist Party blamed right-wing nationalists for fomenting the split of the country by failing to address the concerns of southeast regions and “eliminating” their independence.

A brawl broke out in the Ukrainian parliament Tuesday after the Communist leader blamed the nationalists for encouraging the split of the country by failing to address the concerns of south-eastern regions and “eliminating its independence.”

Fistfights in Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, have been a common sight in recent years, certainly before the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovich. A return to brawling on the parliament floor, instead of in the streets outside, might be a sign that the situation in the country is finally stabilizing. On Tuesday, the scuffle occurred toward the end of a speech by Communist Party leader Pyotr Simonenko, who blamed the current crisis on the nationalists.

The MP accused the Kiev government of being passive in the southeastern regions, where people demand that authorities address their social problems and make Russian a second official language.

Simonenko said that the new government is describing the activists seizing administrative buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov as “separatists.” And that is while those who were doing exactly the same in western Ukraine before the February coup were referred to as “patriots,” Simonenko said.

“I used to claim that nationalists were pursuing pro-American and pro-Western policies, but I was wrong,” he said. The MP recalled that radical protesters had seized administration offices and weapon arsenals at an earlier stage of the crisis, thanks to which “thousands of barrels” are still in hands of those who set up armed gangs.

“Was it not you who set an example for such a scenario? You were fulfilling not an American but a Russian scenario on destroying Ukraine’s independence,” he said.

Following these words, two deputies from the far-right nationalist Svoboda party ran to the rostrum to push Simonenko away. Communist lawmakers rushed to help their leader, with others joining the fray and exchanging punches. The scuffles lasted about five minutes.

Later Tuesday, parliament speaker and acting president Aleksandr Turchinov vowed that MPs should not descend to using fists again and apologized to other lawmakers for the incident. Leaders of all factions condemned the use of any kind of force in parliament and agreed that lawmakers will not use such practices in future, Ukrainian media reported him as saying.

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US wants to destroy Ukrainian ‘bridge’ between EU and Russia – German intellectuals support Putin

Members of German civil society have written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, condemning Russophobia in mass media and German political establishment while showing support for Moscow's actions in the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.

Retired German Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jochen Scholz wrote an open letter to the Russian leader in response to the speech Putin made on March 18, 2014 at the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The letter was cosigned by hundreds of Germans including lawyers, journalists, doctors, servicemen, scholars, scientists, diplomats and historians.

In that letter the German intellectuals said that Putin’s speech “appealed directly to the German people” and deserved a “positive response that corresponds to the true feelings of Germans.”

The letter acknowledges that the Soviet Union indeed played a decisive role in the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany and supported the reunification of Germany and its ascension into NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.

Then US President George Bush Sr. had given assurances to Russia that NATO will not expand eastward, and yet despite Moscow's show of trust, the US and its allies violated that commitment, Scholz says.

“NATO expansion into the former Soviet republics, the creation of military bases in the former Warsaw Pact countries and the setup of an umbrella missile defense system in Eastern Europe, while unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM Treaty by the US is a flagrant violation of promises,” the letter reads.

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People's resistance of Donbass

People's resistance of Donbass STOP Junta of Kiev! STOP fascism in Ukraine!

Genocide by Ukraine style

LOOK! Ukrainian nationalists and supporters of the new government of Kiev straighten out the young supporters of the #referendum in Odessa This is a direct genocide of those who think differently.

Fascist barking

Lugansk - Russian anthem April 8, 2014 Putin, Take us we are Russian We want to go home anti-fascist resistance in Lugansk - one fascist junta

"Our" liberals like to point out that the International Women's Day is celebrated as International in Russia but in the world is very limited . Apparently, this is for them it's just a balm for their heart.

However , we note that this day is NO a holiday in the sense in which they are accustomed to thinking about the holidays . This day of solidarity with women around the world for women's rights , for justice, for socialism and its highest stage of communism .

But cannot our bourgeois lackeys to make sense of it all.
I want to tell them not respected gentlemen , do not worry . Today, some countries did not join the solidarity , and tomorrow they will understand and join us .

So don't worry , time is work not on you, and your capitalist aspirations soon be broken into small pieces , turn to dust and disappear on an international scale . And we certainly will try do it , we will !

Bourgeois not join to us in this celebration . This holiday is not yours!