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Ukraine aid:House leaders decided to vote Tuesday on the package, putting off an expected Friday vote.
Aidto cash-strappedUkraineand sanctions on Russia remain on track in the U.S. Congress, but it will take a few days longer before the legislation gets to President Barack Obama.
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House leaders decided to vote Tuesday on the package, putting off an expected Friday vote. Congressional aidessaid the decision by the International Monetary Fund on Thursday to release billions of dollars toUkraine lessened the urgency to act.
The delay ensures that House members will have a chance to go on record with a roll-call vote in backing the Senate version of the bill.
If signed into law, the bill would provide $1 billion in loan guarantees toUkraineand further sanction Russia for its annexation of Crimea.
"We must target those guilty of aggression againstUkraineand stand by our allies and friends to ensure peace and security in Europe," said Rep. Ed Royce, a Republican and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Obama was wrapping up a three-country European trip during which he solicited support of allies in challenging Russia's moves inUkraine. The rare congressional unity contrasted with recent partisan divisions over theUkrainepackage, including disputes over new IRS regulations on groups claiming tax-exempt status and International Monetary Fund reforms.
In a retreat two days earlier, Senate Democrats backed down and stripped the IMF reform language from the bill, a defeat for the Obama administration, which had promoted the IMF provisions.
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Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, has condemned the ultra-nationalist Right Sector after it protested outside parliament, saying the group is bent on "destabilization."
Nationalist groups have fueled Russian propaganda claims that Nazis and fascists are in control in Kyiv, an excuse Moscow used to annex Crimea. Many Ukrainians want to see them off the streets and quickly integrated into mainstream institutions.
Ukrainian nationalists protested outside parliament Friday waiting for a vote to remove Interior Minister Arsen Avakov from his post. One radical group, Right Sector, blames the minister for the shooting death of one of its more militant leaders this week in western Ukraine.
'Self-defense forces'
Dressed in military fatigues, some wore flak jackets and carried clubs, riot shields and even hatchets.
Ukraine's self-defense forces, formed during recent anti-government protests, lined up at the main entrance to prevent provocation.
The night before, enraged nationalists marched to the parliament demanding Avakov's immediate resignation. Some in the crowd tried to break into the building before parliamentarians calmed them down, promising a vote on whether he should keep his job.
On Friday, the vote was cancelled and an investigation promised, but radicals in the crowd reacted remarkably calmly.
Right Sector East political head Kiva Ilya said they only want justice.
Our task is to maintain calm and not to make the Russian government see the situation in Ukraine as out of control," he said. "The 'Right Sector' is on the side of law in all our actions.
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