Watch: Angry mob throw Ukraine MP into rubbish bin

Watch: Angry mob throw Ukraine MP into rubbish bin
By Chris Harris
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This is the moment an angry mob grabbed an MP and threw him in a rubbish bin.

The group, screaming curses and insults, hurled Vitaly Zhuravsky into a large waste container outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv.

A protester pinned down a shaken Zhuravsky by his head, preventing him from escaping. He had his briefcase and a tyre thrown at him.

Zhuravsky was a member of former president Viktor Yanukovich’s Party of the Regions. He was behind a bill in January which tightened restrictions on anti-government protestors. He has also authored a bill criminalising libel.

The protest came on the day the EU and Ukraine signed a landmark political and trade agreement.

It was Yanukovich’s decision not to sign a similar agreement last year – instead agreeing a deal with Russia – which sparked a revolution and his downfall.

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