Ruslan Stefanchuk, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, addressed members of the European Parliament and urged the EU to grant Ukraine candidate status. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 | European Parliament

100K views · 856 reactions | #Ferguson is not the only city to experience protests in the wake of the #grandjury decision in the #MikeBrown case. Just across the bay from the AJ+ offices, #Oakland residents took to the street in the hundreds, chanting in support of Brown and temporarily closing a freeway. We sent a team to cover what was happening. This is what they saw. | AJ+ | Facebook