Mob beats lawmaker from ousted Ukrainian leader's party
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A deputy from the party of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich was attacked and beaten by a crowd in the Black Sea resort of Odessa on Tuesday (September 30) during political campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26.
Nestor Shufrich, a deputy of Yanukovich's Regions Party and a critic of Kiev's military campaign against pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face, his shirt ripped to the waist, before he was bundled into a van by his bodyguards.
Supporters said Shufrich had been campaigning on behalf of an opposition bloc running against pro-Western and Ukrainian nationalist parties in the election.
The crowd of about 20 activists, some of them masked and wearing camouflage fatigues and wearing the armbands of the right-wing nationalist "Right Sector" group, cornered the 47-year-old Shufrich as he tried to enter the main regional municipal building in Odessa to give a
A deputy from the party of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich was attacked and beaten by a crowd in the Black Sea resort of Odessa on Tuesday (September 30) during political campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26.
Nestor Shufrich, a deputy of Yanukovich's Regions Party and a critic of Kiev's military campaign against pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face, his shirt ripped to the waist, before he was bundled into a van by his bodyguards.
Supporters said Shufrich had been campaigning on behalf of an opposition bloc running against pro-Western and Ukrainian nationalist parties in the election.
The crowd of about 20 activists, some of them masked and wearing camouflage fatigues and wearing the armbands of the right-wing nationalist "Right Sector" group, cornered the 47-year-old Shufrich as he tried to enter the main regional municipal building in Odessa to give a