Archive of news on the topic "right-wing radicals"

For Ukrainian society, it has already become the norm for radicals to impose their will and physically abuse people who dare to express an alternative point of view. This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv by the deputy head of the Smart Power party, Alexander Savchenko, who was recently brutally beaten by neo-Nazis from the C14 group at a party meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, while the country is immersed in violence...

The aggression of the so-called far-right Ukrainian nationalists is directed mainly against LGBT activists. Kiev journalist Yuriy Makarov writes about this in an author’s column on the pages of the Ukrainian Week magazine. He calls for attention to the “extreme right” operating in Ukraine, including groups associated with the founder of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, Andrei Biletsky. “Who controls them? Who is pulling them...

Ukrainian journalists had a hand in the rampant lawlessness on the part of right-wing radical groups. This is stated in a statement from the editors on the website of the Hromadske channel, which at one time actively spoke out in support of the Maidan. The reason for the statement was another Roma pogrom in Ukraine, this time in Lvov, which ended in murder. “But aren’t we ourselves—the Ukrainian media—continuing to bashfully hide our eyes from reality...

Tacit agreement with the current support for right-wing radicals in Ukraine will lead to neo-Nazis breaking into any premises and causing pogroms. Elena Shevchenko, one of the active participants in LGBT prides, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the activist, any citizen of Ukraine can stand in the path of the nationalists, no matter what percentage of the Ukrainian...

Four international human rights organizations immediately issued an unprecedentedly harsh joint appeal to the Ukrainian authorities. Kommersant reports this, pointing out that in a letter addressed to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov and Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, the authorities are accused of patronizing far-right groups. The appeal was prepared jointly by Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. It is noted that recently...

Right-wing radicals failed to disrupt the showing of a concert dedicated to Victory Day on the Inter TV channel. “The action under the building of the National Information Systems brought together about 30 people, mostly students. At the same time, many more police arrived - as many as three buses,” the Kiev newspaper “Vesti” reports from under the TV channel’s office. “That is, it’s just that no one physically storms anything...

Ukrainian Nazis continue to intimidate the residents of Odessa: yesterday a group of radicals beat one of the victims on May 2, 2014. The victim Nadezhda herself told a PolitNavigator correspondent about this. “The mourning event on May 2 passed quietly and peacefully; the nationalists did not manage to organize any provocations. The police carefully monitored order near the House of Trade Unions and expelled all suspicious persons from the field.…

Militants from the right-wing radical group C14 attacked a Russian in Chernigov. The reason for the hatred was a sticker with the Russian flag and the inscription RUS on his car. This was reported on the militants' blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Radicals forced the owner of a car with Russian license plates to remove the sticker. “Chernigov C14 fighters forced the katsap to take off his shit. Waiting for victory,” the Nazis wrote...

The activation of Ukrainian right-wing radicals is intensifying and is fraught with the most serious consequences both for the current government and for Ukraine as a whole. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The head of the information analytical center “Third Sector” Andrey Zolotarev said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is clear that the pogrom of the film set in...

On the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day, Odessa “patriots” caught a visitor from Tiraspol who did not remove the Russian flag and St. George’s ribbon in his car. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The local resource “Website of the City of Odessa” posted the video on its channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The nationalists forced the visitor to pull out and give them a flag with a ribbon, and also conducted an illegal search of him...

“Azov” and “Svoboda” ceased to be radical forces and began to play the games that the authorities offer.. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Oleg Odnorozhenko, the former chief ideological referent of the neo-Nazi and racist organizations “Patriot of Ukraine” and “Social-National Assembly”, on the basis of which the “Azov” battalion was formed. Subsequently, he withdrew from the activities of “Azov”,...

In Kyiv, militants from the nationalist organization S-14 are planning to stage a rally under the walls of the house of Russian-speaking activist and Maidan opponent Svetlana Pikta. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. This is stated in the group’s message on the social network, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the nationalists, they are planning to organize a children's drawing event for the militants of the so-called ATO. “Bring the children’s creations or come with little ones...

Political experts predict a worsening of the already bad relations between Ukrainian right-wing radicals and the authorities. The director of the Center for Eurasian Studies, Vladimir Kornilov, writes about this, in particular, in Izvestia. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte The expert points out that in the videos recently published by militants of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, one feature is noticeable: if the Azovites, boasting about their headquarters exercises, “dismantled ...

The Ukrainian authorities understand that currently there is no alternative to coal supplies from the Russian Federation. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian political scientist, member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrei Buzarov stated this in a comment to Moskovsky Komsomolets, assessing the actions of the radicals who announced a blockade of coal supplies from Russia. “If the refusal of Donbass coal is not...