Boxer Klitschko to fight Ukraine's parliamentary polls

KIEV, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's WBC heavyweight boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko, has announced he will take part in the country's snap parliamentary elections, the Ukrainian business daily Delo reported Tuesday. "We are carrying out negotiations to form a bloc and will decide with whom to make the bloc. This may be the Klitschko Bloc or other political forces," Dmitry Andriyevsky, a city council member from Our Ukraine, told the newspaper. Andriyevsky said Klitschko has been invited into the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, adding that the issue of allying with the Ukrainian prime minister had yet to be discussed. President Viktor Yushchenko ordered last Thursday the dissolution of parliament and called snap parliamentary... [read full story]