Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with this news alert that has just been issued by RFE/RL's news desk:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has presented a "tomos" on autocephaly to Metropolitan Epifaniy at a church service in Istanbul. (TASS, Interfax)
We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.
Here's a timely Euromaidan Press video with some background info on the Ukrainian Church:
A long Facebook post, but worth a read:
You can read more on Ukraine's infamous parliamentary brawls here. And there's also this photo gallery from October 2017:
Ukrainian Politics: The Greatest Hits
A brawl in Kyiv's parliament on October 6 was just the latest case of Ukraine's politicians opting to bust heads rather than filibuster. A dip into the archives reveals 14 of the (many, many) times when dialogue broke down and fists, eggs, and smoke bombs flew.
