Opposition Leader Yatsenyuk Doused In 'Zelyonka'

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Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the chairman of Ukraine's opposition Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction, went to Kharkiv on February 12 to visit jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. His shirt, and much of his face, was left dripping in deep-green liquid after he and his first deputy, Oleksandr Turchynov, were confronted by a pair of assailants carrying spray bottles and more than a dozen vials of a Soviet-era topical antiseptic known as "zelyonka."