Communists against NATO accession

March 5, 2008, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the protest of representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada against Ukraine's accession to NATO.

On the video: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the meeting hall, balloons with the inscription "NATO no!" (in Russian); press conference with Ivan Kyrylenko; parliament, various plans, deputies sabotage.

Comments: People's Deputy, leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction Ivan Kyrylenko; People's Deputy, leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych; People's Deputy, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko; People's Deputy, leader of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction Vyacheslav Kyrylenko; People's Deputy, leader of the Lytvyn Bloc Volodymyr Lytvyn; Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Journalist — Hanna Kalyna.

Reference: In March 2008, the leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft resolution on the appointment of an all-Ukrainian referendum on the people's initiative on Ukraine's accession to NATO and participation in the Common Economic Space. The initiative continued the policy of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which since 2006 had insisted on considering the issues of Euro-Atlantic integration and cooperation with Russia through direct democracy. Despite the preliminary collection of citizens' signatures and the decision of the Central Election Commission in December 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko did not schedule a referendum.