Bang-up job, guys.
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, reached a new achievement in dysfunction yesterday by descending into a literal brawl. Oleh Barna, a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s eponymously-titled political party (the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc,” a naming convention sadly too common here, though they added back in the party’s old name of “Solidarity” for Byzantine reasons), a man not usually known for open combat, approached current Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk bearing a bouquet of roses.
Barna was not about to ask Yatsenyuk on a date, though a hug was apparently coming.
Yatsenyuk was in the middle of a speech explaining why his …read more
Source: CXSSR