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During Ukraine's post-Soviet history, the far-right has remained on the political periphery and been largely excluded from national politics since independence in 1991. [1] [2] Unlike most Eastern European countries which saw far-right groups become permanent fixtures in their countries' politics during the decline and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the national electoral support ...
Right Sector (Ukrainian: Пра́вий се́ктор, romanized: Pravyi sektor) is a loosely defined coalition of right-wing to far-right [13] Ukrainian nationalist organizations. [ 6 ] [ 14 ] It originated in November 2013 as a right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several ultranationalist organizations at the Euromaidan revolt in Kyiv ...
Left-wing volunteers have gone to fight for the pro-Russian forces, accusing the Ukrainian government of being a "fascist state" and seeking to engage in an "anti-fascist struggle". However, these leftist volunteers have co-operated with far-right groups in Donbas. [47]
Two groups claiming to be Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine say they carried out the attack. Both describe themselves as armed Russian dissidents and both have members who have espoused white ...
Its political position has been described as right-wing, [16] [17] or far-right. [18] Described as an ultranationalist, [19] [20] right-wing populist party, [21] [22] it expressed support and staged commemorations honoring early 20th century, Ukrainian far-right nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, and it opposes immigration, globalism and free ...
There have developed two major movements [nb 2] [nb 3] in the Ukrainian parliament since its independence: [22] [23] [24]. A pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats [25] [20] who from time to time featured individual politicians with a nationalist past (for example Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy and Levko Lukyanenko) with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ...
Ukraine is made up of 24 oblasts, as well as two cities with special status (Kyiv and Sevastopol) and one autonomous republic (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea).All of these entities have oblast Councils (or city councils in the case of Kyiv and Sevastopol), which function as regional legislatures, and are the second level of government after the Verkhovna Rada.
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; Ukrainian: Організація українських націоналістів, romanized: Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established in 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups.