Mikghail Brodsky and Vladimir Shushkevich

Mikghail Brodsky, left, and Vladimir Shushkevich, the members of the Parliamentary Majority, the People's deputies watch the disorder in the VR sitting Hall in Kyiv, on Tuesday, February 8, 2000. On the same day the first Parliament joint siting took place. In the middle of January the Parliament cleaved and work separately all this time. According to Natalia Vitrenko, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine leader, the Parliamentary Minority member, at 7a.m. on February 8, the 86 representatives of the Parliamentary Majority arranged things with the VR Security Service and seized the VR Sitting Hall. During the opposition Brodskyi (the "Yabloko" Deputy group) beaten Petr Pomanchuk, the PSPU member. Ivan Malolitko and Mikhail Sidorchuk (the PSPU) suffered as well. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN