WATCH: Brawl Erupts at Parliamentary Session in Ukraine
Published at(NEW YORK) — In a scrum that more readily resembled a hockey brawl than a meeting of politicians, Ukraine’s parliament erupted into an all-out fistfight on Tuesday.
The exchange of ideas — and later shouts and fists — began when a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions began a speech in Russian, which didn’t go over well at all with members of the nationalist Liberty Party, who shouted for him to speak Ukrainian.
When the speaker admonished his critics as “chanting neo-facists,” the fight was on, notes Russia Today, and it took some time for cooler heads to prevail.
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