Commies Rally Against NATO as Scheffer Visits Kyiv

A few hundred Communists and Progressive Socialists sweated outside Kyiv Mohyla Academy, where the NATO Secretary-General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, came to deliver a speech.

The protesters carried anti-NATO signs and chanted anti-Orange slogans. Riot police cordoned them off from a few dozen Nasha Ukrayina supporters, who played Orange Revolution theme songs. Interestingly, the Party of Regions ignored the Kyiv event and instead pursued Scheffer in several eastern Ukrainian cities he visited.

Yesterday, PM Tymoshenko presented Scheffer with a 2004 white paper by then-presidential candidate Yanukovych in which he had advocated the idea of gaining NATO membership by 2008.


National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy




Have you seen my childhood?



United Colors of Russia


"NATO, here's your mohyla!" (mohyla means grave in Ukrainian)


Man waves a Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc banner





Nasha Ukrayina banners