“Egg rain” in the Verkhovna Rada

April 27, 2010, Kyiv.

The plot is about the riots between the government and the opposition in the Verkhovna Rada over the ratification of the agreements on the extension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's stay in Ukraine until 2042 in exchange for a gas price reduction (the “Kharkiv agreements”). Stand-up by journalist Igor Krymov with an umbrella, the parliamentary hall, the speaker is being pelted with eggs, the opposition seats are covered with the Ukrainian flag, smoke from smoke bombs in the hall, a fight between deputies, the results of the vote.

Comments: politician from the Party of Regions Oleksandr Yefremov; representative of the opposition; representative of the opposition party “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tymoshenko.