Yuriy Gnatkevich

People's deputy of Ukraine Yuriy Gnatkevich after the fight with people's deputies from Party from Regions, in Kiev, on Thursday, December 16, 2010. Fighting broke out between Party of Regions and BYUT-Batkivschyna deputies in the Ukrainian parliament pass on Thursday evening. People's deputies from Party from Regions had rushed to the parliament's presidium and started beating opposition deputies. People's deputies from Party from Regions also threw out of the presidium the chairs that were used to block the door. They also tried to break the entrance door to the session hall, which was blocked from the inside by BYUT members. Meeting of parliament on Thursday failed. Before the meeting, the deputies of the BYUT-Batkivschyna faction blocked the parliament's rostrum and presidium and hung up posters reading "Hands off from Timoshenko!" and "Stop Political Repression!". Photo by Aleksandr Senko / UNIAN