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Parliamentary ceasefire in Ukrainian minister drunken brawl scandal

Published: 15 May, 2009, 16:51


Ukraine’s parliament has suspended Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko for a week for further investigation into the scandal at Frankfurt Airport where he was detained by German police after an alleged drunken brawl.

 
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