UKRAINE-RUSSIA-PARLIAMENT

Security personnel protect with umbrellas Speaker of Ukraine’s parliament Volodymyr Liytvyn during a fight at a parliament sitting in Kiev on April 27, 2010. Fighting broke out and smoke bombs and eggs were thrown Tuesday as Ukraine’s parliament erupted into chaos as it ratified a bitterly controversial deal with Russia extending the lease of a key naval base. The deal signed last week by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych had been slammed by the pro-Western Ukrainian opposition as a historic surrender of sovereignty. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY