Ivan Kirilenko and Yaroslav Sykhoy

BYUT leader Ivan Kirilenko, left and lawmaker from the Party of Regions Yaroslav Sykhoy speaking in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kyiv, on Monday, April 6, 2009. The extraordinary session of the VR is closed. The extraordinary session took place in the parliament today, because the VR does not work in the plenary regime this week. The lawmakers adopted a range of laws and listened to the speech of the President of the European Parliament. The next plenary session of the VR will take place on Tuesday, April 14. Photo by Aleksandr Kosarev/UNIAN