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RFE/RL: Ukrainian police detain far-right activists for hooliganism against pro-Russia party headquarters

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Vadym Rabinovych, a leaders of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, speaks at the Verkhovna Rada as other lawmakers from his party block the tribune to protest against land sale reform in Kyiv on Nov. 13, 2019.
Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Seventeen members of a far-right group have been detained for attacking the headquarters of Ukraine’s largest pro-Russia political party in Kyiv. Police said on May 23 that members of the far-right National Corps were arrested for hooliganism after they clashed with security guards and threw smoke bombs, fireworks, and paint cans at the headquarters of the Opposition Platform – For Life.

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