EuroMaidan supporters pushed away from outside of Crimea parliament HQ
SIMFEROPOL. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The parliament of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea is not expected to hold a session on Friday, a Crimean Supreme Council spokesman told Interfax in response to media reports claiming the Crimean Parliament's session addressing the social and political situation in the country was supposed to begin at noon on Friday.
"Parliament is operating as usual," the spokesman said.
A Crimean Supreme Council source, for his part, said that the Party of Regions faction in the autonomy's parliament had planned to hold an expanded session on Friday. Eighty of the Crimean legislature's 100 deputies are members of this faction.
Meanwhile, a clash broke out between 30 EuroMaidan-Crimea movement members and 150 supporters of the authorities outside the parliament building today.
Pro-European Union protesters holding Ukrainian and EU flags came to the legislature because they thought that the legislature might discuss the possibility of Crimea seceding from Ukraine.
Pro-government supporters beat the EuroMaidan activists, among them Kurultay Rukh faction member Leonid Pilunsky, and chased them away from the parliament building.
