• In January he authored a bill clamping down on anti-government protesters
A controversial Ukrainian Member of Parliament was unceremoniously thrown into a wheelie bin and pelted with rubbish after being targeted by an angry mob.
Vitaly Zhuravsky, once a member of former President Viktor Yanukovich’s ruling party, was seized as he walked past crowds outside the parliament building in Kiev this morning.
Zhuravsky, now a member of the Economic Development Party, authored a controversial bill in January severely tightening restrictions on anti-government protesters.
In the past, he authored a bill criminalising libel. More pics after the cut