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New MP, Boxer Klitschko, Gives Lawmaker Brawl a Miss

A session of Ukraine's new parliament collapsed amid chaos on Thursday. Groups of deputies wrestled with each other in a mass of bodies after the opposition tried to physically block a vote on the ruling Party of the Regions' nomination for the position of speaker. In equally rowdy scenes on Wednesday, opposition deputies paralysed the session by encircling the podium to hamper ruling party efforts.
 

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