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Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy, who founded the fascist Social-National Party of Ukraine, now Svoboda, and is a vocal fan of nazi collaborator and Holocaust war criminal Stepan Bandera [Vadim Chuprina/Creative Commons]

WHOEVER said a bit of everyday journalism can’t make a difference?

Last week the Star set the news agenda at Holyrood, reporting the Presiding Officer’s invitation to the Scottish Parliament of a Ukrainian politician who founded a neonazi party.

The episode would have gone unnoticed were it not for the paper raising it in the post-FMQs press briefing, and subsequently putting in questions to parliamentary authorities.

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