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Heavyweight Champ Vitali Klitschko Was Sprayed With Teargas In A Ukranian Riot

A day after July 4, we are reminded how different things are away from America. WBC Heavyweight Champion boxer Vitali Klitschko was sprayed with teargas and “suffered a gash to his right arm” during riots in Ukraine.

“The WBC Heavyweight Champion was among rioters angry at the Ukranian government’s decision to make Russian, rather than Ukrainian, the main language in schools and local government in some parts of the former Soviet republic.

For the record, Klitschko is 40 years old, but is still an active boxer and the defending WBC Heavyweight Champion. He last boxed in February. The 6’7″ Ukranian ran in the 2006 Kiev mayoral election, but came in second with 26% of the vote. He founded his own political party, Udar, in 2010, and is running for mayor again in this year’s election. His campaign focuses on limiting corruption, increasing governmental transparency and lowering taxes.

This. Is. Crazy. The American equivalent would probably be Derek Jeter running for NY Mayor, and then getting injured in a postgame riot in Times Square. After Spanish had just been made our official language.

Seriously. You are crazy, Ukraine.

[h/t reddit; Daily Mail]

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