Opposition party office attacked 

KHARKIV – At least 50 young men, many in balaclavas, attacked the former office of the Party of Regions in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv on August 3. The office is currently used by National Deputy Mykhailo Dobkin, who represents the Opposition Bloc in the Verkhovna Rada. The attackers destroyed a minibus parked near the office and smashed the building’s windows with stones. They claimed to represent the Ukrainian right-wing nationalist group Right Sector and an organization called Public Guard. The attackers said they gathered at the site to protest against the Opposition Bloc’s participation in local elections in October and attacked the building after Mr. Dobkin’s people started shooting at them with firearms, wounding one activist. Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, is only about 20 kilometers from the Russian border. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by UNIAN, Pravda.ua, and Interfax)