Vladimir Litvin and Vladimir Sushkevich

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, right, and President of Ukraine's Paralympic Committee Valery Sushkevich at the VR sitting in Kiev, December 25, 2008. Ukraine's parliament failed on Thursday to pass the 2009 budget. The budget motion fell short three votes of the 226 needed, with all communist party and over a dozen deputies from the pro-presidential Our Ukraine party failing to vote for the draft. Photo by UNIAN