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| Right Sector | |
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| Пра́вий се́ктор | |
| File:Right Sector.jpgGroup insignia | |
| Leader | Dmytro Yarosh |
| Dates of operation | November 2013 (2013-11)–present |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| Active regions | Ukraine |
| Ideology | |
| Size | 5,000+ |
| Annual revenue | ? |
| Colors | Black and Red |
| Website | pravyysektor.info |
Right Sector (Template:Lang-uk, Pravyi Sektor) is a Ukrainian nationalist political party and paramilitary collective of several organizations, described by some major publications as having far right or ultranationalist views. The group's membership has been growing and has been estimated to be about 5,000, or over 10,000 according to Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. The group first emerged at the end of November 2013 at the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, as an alliance of far-right Ukrainian nationalist groups, as well as the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO).
History
Origins
Right Sector views itself within the tradition of Ukrainian partisans, such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought in the Second World War against the Soviet Union and both for and against the Axis. Dmytro Yarosh, Right Sector's leader, has trained armed nationalists in military exercises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
According to Yarosh and some other members, the organization formed in affiliation with or comprised several smaller far-right and nationalist groups, including Trident of Stepan Bandera (Yarosh), White Hammer, Patriots of Ukraine (Andriy Belitsky), and UNA-UNSO (Yuriy Shukhevych). Andriy Tarasenko, leader of Right Sector's Kiev branch, dates the establishment of the organization to late November 2013 and states that "most participants are just ordinary citizens having no relation to any organizations".
On 6 March 2014 Right Sector announced on its website its intention to dissociate itself from White Hammer, citing the group's presence as defaming, and an inability to discipline it.
Yarosh has stated that Right Sector has received some funding in U.S. dollars from the Ukrainian diaspora.
Entry into Maidan
Right Sector became one of the main actors in the January 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, a part of the Euromaidan protests, in their later and more violent stages. On 19 January 2014 Right Sector encouraged its members to bring bottles to the protests in order to produce Molotov cocktails and bombs. The Yanukovich government classified Right Sector as an extremist movement, threatening its members with imprisonment.
According to Volodymyr Ishchenko, in an op-ed piece in The Guardian, Right Sector was responsible for the violent 1 December 2013 attack on the Ukrainian administration and also led another violent provocation against the police. Right Sector's leader, Dmytro Yarosh, has stated that it has amassed a lethal arsenal of weapons.
In February 2014, Right Sector issued a statement warning of the possibility of attack by Russian or Ukrainian police operatives, leading the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) to announce that it was on heightened alert. In response, fearing a staged provocation for which it could be blamed, Right Sector stated that it was planning no terrorist attacks and that it opposed terrorist political tactics.
After Yanukovych
Right Sector has been described as the most organized and most effective of the Maidan forces. Following the collapse of the Yanukovych government in February 2014, with police having largely abandoned the streets of Kiev, groups of young men, including members of Right Sector, have been patrolling the streets armed mostly with baseball bats.
On 26 February 2014, Right Sector leaders visited the Israeli embassy in Ukraine, telling Israeli ambassador Reuven Din-El that the group rejects anti-semitism, chauvinism, and xenophobia. Right Sector participated in a funeral procession for a Jewish activist killed by authorities during the revolution.
Russia has cited attacks by Right Sector on Russian speakers and Jews as the main reason it sent troops into Crimea. The Associated Press reports that it has found no evidence of hate crimes by the group.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Yanukovych government, Yarosh was proposed as a deputy to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, but was not appointed. Yarosh then tried to negotiate for himself a position as deputy head of the State Security Service but did not succeed.
In a poll conducted by the Sotsis research center (25 February–4 March 2014), Yarosh's possible candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections (planned for 25 May) received the support of 1.6% of the respondents.
On 7 March 2014, Kiev chairman Andriy Tarasenko told Interfax-Ukraine that the "informal movement" would be transforming itself into a political party at a congress on 15 March.
According to Voice of Russia, Yarosh has threatened to attack the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, which travels through Ukraine. He reportedly said, "Russia is earning money by transporting its oil and gas to the West through our pipe, therefore, we'll destroy this pipe in order to deprive Russia of its financing source."
On 11 March 2014, in Russia's State Duma, opposition leader Valery Rashkin called on Russian special services to "liquidate" Yarosh and Oleksandr Muzychko, the group's West Ukrainian leader.
On 19 March Right Sector formed the Russian Legion, a splinter group of volunteers made up of Russian citizens who want to fight against Putin's regime.
Ideology
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Other Ukrainians and political parties
In an interview, Yarosh stated that Right Sector and Svoboda "have a lot of common positions when it comes to ideological questions," but that Right Sector “absolutely don’t accept certain racist things they share.” He distinguished the two group's attitudes toward non-Ukrainian nationalities, citing Stepan Bandera's philosophy: those who "oppose" the national liberation struggle should be dealt with "in a hostile way," but those living on the land who "do not oppose" the struggle should be treated "in a tolerant way" and those fighting with his group "for Ukraine" should be treated "as comrades."
Tarasenko likewise cited Bandera, stating: "We are enemies to those saying that there no Ukraine, or Ukrainians, or … Ukrainian language."
According to journalist Oleg Shynkarenko, Yarosh has indicated that Right Sector opposes homosexuality and has also implied that the right of the nation trumps human rights.
In an interview with a major Polish newspaper, Tarasenko stated that territories of Poland like Przemysl should be "returned" to Ukraine and that it should regain nuclear weapons. When asked whether Bandera was responsible for the 100,000 Poles murdered in Volhynia, Tarasenko argued that this is "nonsense."
According to international-relations consultant Emmanuel Dreyfus, Right Sector defines itself as neither xenophobic nor anti-Semitic but nationalist, defending the values of white, Christian Europe against the loss of the nation.
Tarasenko has stated that the group has no "phobias", that it respects every other nation, that it supports the nation state model, and that there accordingly is no chauvinism or fascism in Ukrainian nationalism.
Attitude towards Europe
Right Sector's website says that its members distrust the "imperial ambitions" of both Russia and the West.
Policy
Domestic policy
Right Sector has the position that the population should keep or bear arms, as in Switzerland.
Military force
Right Sector seized military weaponry from an Interior Ministry arsenal in western Ukraine, near Lviv, towards the end of the Maidan revolution. Those weapons reached Kiev in February, but according to protest leaders and analysts played little role in overthrowing the Ukrainian government. Right Sector delivered some weapons to Ukrainian authorities in the aftermath of the revolution, and kept others.
According to Yarosh, Right Sector has recruited retired officers of the interior ministry and the security agencies. He told Newsweek that the group coordinates its actions with the army and the National Security and Defense council and that "as in any army" it has specialists who are trained to use S-300 antiaircraft missiles.
In Ukraine today
Right Sector is now considered the largest far-right group in Ukraine.
A Right Sector video ("Sasha Communicates with a Prosecutor") shows Muzychko ("Sasha White") yelling at a local prosecutor, grabbing his tie and threatening to pull him to Maidan Square with a rope.
Death of Oleksandr Muzychko
Oleksandr Muzychko was shot to death in Rivne, West Ukraine, on 24 March 2014. Ukraine's Interior Ministry stated that he was shot after opening fire on police and Sokil special forces. He was captured alive and arrested but died from his wounds before paramedics arrived. Police said he was being detained on suspicion of organized crime links, hooliganism and threatening public officials.
A witness told a local news service that a dozen unknown men had taken Muzychko out of a cafe and handcuffed and beaten him. Other witnesses said that they heard shots fired and that his body was found near the cafe.
Right Sector representatives said that Muzychko's hands had been cuffed, so he could not have shot at police. They held Interior Minister Arsen Avakov accountable for his death and vowed to avenge him. An independent member of Ukraine's Rada said that Muzychko had been dragged into a car by police, then thrown to the ground and executed with two shots to the heart.
31 March shooting incident
Right Sector activist started shooting in the Ukrainian capital’s center near the Mafia restaurant. Three people, including deputy head of the Kiev city state administration Bogdan Dubas, were wounded in a incident.
References
- ^ "'Right Sector' has become a party". Українська правда. Kiev. March 22, 2014.
Combining radical parties and organizations of Ukrainian patriots, 'Right Sector' has decided to become a political party.… 'It happened on the legal and human-resource base of Ukrainian National Assembly,' … said.
Cite error: The named reference "party" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - "Ukrainian nationalist targeted over alleged Chechnya atrocities". Moscow. RIA Novosti . 7 March 2014.
Muzychko is a coordinator for Pravy Sektor, the radical far right opposition group that was responsible for some of the most violent opposition to police…. Russian state media has tried to cast the demonstrations as a predominantly Fascism-inspired movement.
- "Ukraine far-right leader Muzychko dies 'in police raid'". BBC News. 25 March 2014.
Muzychko … was a leader of Right Sector, a far-right group which was prominent in the recent anti-government protests.
- Polityuk, Pavel (8 March 2014). "Far-right leader to run for president in Ukraine". Reuters.
Ukrainian far-right leader Dmytro Yarosh said on Saturday he would run for president…
- ^ Shuster, Simon (4 February 2014). "Exclusive: Leader of far-right Ukrainian militant group talks revolution with TIME". TIME.
Dmitro Yarosh, leader of the far-right militant group Pravy Sektor, says…
- ^ Danilova, Maria (March 14, 2014). "After Ukraine protest, radical group eyes power". Associated Press.
Hundreds of members of the radical ultranationalist group, the Right Sector, continue to patrol central streets and occupy buildings…. Demonized by Russian state propaganda as fascists and accused of staging attacks against Russian speakers and Jews, the Right Sector has been used by Moscow as the main reason it has sent troops into Crimea…. The AP and other international news organizations have found no evidence of hate crimes.
- "Ukraine: Extreme right-wing group Pravy Sektor likely to be put under ban" (in Italian). Rome. TMNews . 28 March 2014.
The ultra-nationalist party Pravy Sektor … could be banned in Ukraine after the 'blitz' staged yesterday in front of parliament….
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"The radical Ukrainian group Right Sector". Die Welt. 22 February 2014.
Der Rechte Sektor (Prawy Sektor) ist eine informelle Vereinigung von rechtsradikalen und neofaschistischen Splittergruppen.
- ^ Nemtsova, Anna (19 March 2014). "Yarosh: Russians, Rise Up Against Putin!". Newsweek. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
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Baranova, Maria (3 March 2014). "No One Has Done More for Ukrainian Nationalism than Vladimir Putin". The New Republic. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
Members of "Right Sector," an organization which was victorious on the Maidan, do not hide the fact that they are heirs to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army... They've promised to deal with the Russians and have even called on Doku Umarov to help.
- Klußmann, Uwe (3 March 2014). "Conflict with Russia". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- Official announcement of the Right Sector. Right Sector. March 6, 2014
- "ОФІЦІЙНА ЗАЯВА "ПРАВОГО СЕКТОРУ"". Політрада «Правого сектору». Right Sector. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
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- ^ Shynkarenko, Oleg (March 1, 2014). "Can Ukraine control its far right ultranationalists?". Daily Beast.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov condemned the video as 'not an exaggerated manifestation of the hunt for justice, but sabotage against people's faith in possible order.'
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Ultranationalists and neo-Nazis from groups like Svoboda and Right Sector took over Euromaidan's self-defense forces…. Right Sector, whose social network page features extensive neo-Nazi imagery, has been patrolling alongside police….
- Template:Uk icon "Правий сектор" запевнив посла Ізраїлю, що відкидає антисемітизм, Ukrainian Pravda (27 February 2014). Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- Likhachev, Vyacheslav (March 3, 2014). "The Jewish Division of Ukraine's Heaven's Hundred". Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
- Olearchyk, Roman (26 February 2014). "Arseniy Yatseniuk poised to become Ukraine prime minister". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
In a bid to appease protesters demanding an end to government corruption, Mr Yatseniuk's cabinet will have civic activists to oversee it. Andriy Parubiy, a lawmaker who served as commander of the protest movement's guards, was chosen to serve as chair of the national security and defence council. Victoria Siumar, a civil society activist, and Dmytro Yarosh, head of Right Sector, a militant protest group, were proposed as his deputies.
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- http://www.charter97.org/ru/news/2014/3/19/91149/
- ^ English translation of an interview with the leader of Right Sector by Ukrayinska Pravda's Mustafa Nayem and Oksana Kovalenko. Ukrainian original published by Ukrayinska Pravda on 4 February 2014. English translation by William J Risch, published by Sean Guillory on his blog on 7 February 2014.
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Svoboda's success over the past few years and the presence of neo-fascist groups such as Pravy Sektor in Independence Square are signs of a crisis in Ukrainian society. It is first and foremost a crisis of identity: in 22 years of independence, Ukraine has not managed to develop an unbiased historical narrative presenting a positive view of all its regions and citizens: even today, the Ukrainians are seen as liberators in Galicia but as fascists in Donbass.
- Petro, Nicolai (March 3, 2014). "Threat of Military Confrontation Grows in Ukraine". The Nation. N.Y.C.
Its members are critical of party politics and skeptical of the 'imperial ambitions' of both Moscow and the West.
- http://maidan.charter4.org/2014/03/13/lanta-ru-we-are-not-armed-forces/ "Our lawyers are working out the law on lustration and the law on arms. We think that the population should be armed. Like in Switzerland."
- ^ Kramer, Andrew (20 March 2014). "Ukraine Sets Deadline for Militias to Surrender Illegal Guns". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ "Ukraine far-right leader Muzychko dies 'in police raid'". BBC News. 25 March 2014.
Muzychko fired at police as he was trying to flee…. Police then returned fire and captured him and three others … Yevdokimov said. 'He was still alive as they were arresting him….'
- Pemble, Adam; Leonard, Peter (25 March 2014). "Busloads of Ukrainian troops leave Crimea". Associated Press.
Russian state television, which is widely viewed by Ukraine's Russian-speaking population in the east, has regularly aired lurid reports on Muzychko's antics as part of what media analysts say is a sustained effort to undermine the government…
- Interior Ministry: Right Sector coordinator Muzhychko killed in shootout with police Kyiv Post Retrieved on March 25, 2014
- "Notorious Ukrainian nationalist militant shot dead in police raid". RT. TV-Novosti. 26 March 2014.
Police discovered … a total of $3,500 and 5,000 Ukrainian hryvnas in cash on Muzychko's body…. A former senior official at the Ukrainian Security Service told … that the militant leader was … pursuing his own interests through his leadership of the Right Sector movement.
- Petrulya, Stephen (25 March 2014). "Version No. 2–Sasha White Shot" (in Ukrainian). Rivne, Ukraine. News Rivne.
A resident of the town … said that around twelve unknown men entered the Karas cafe…. They brought out all customers, including Muzychko. They put handcuffs on him and beat him and two bodyguards. After a time people heard two gunshots….
- "Nationalists threaten Ukrainian top cop with 'revenge' over far-right leader murder". RT . TV-Novosti. 25 March 2014.
A former senior Ukrainian intelligence official Muzychko started … to interpret the orders of the Right Sector leadership in his own way. … Videos … have recently where lashed out at a local prosecutor, threatened local authorities with an AK-47, and made openly anti-Semitic statements.
- Robinson, Matt (25 March 2014). "Ukrainian far-right figure shot dead by police". Reuters.
Independent lawmaker Oleksander Doniy said … Muzychko had been executed.
- Top Kiev official wounded in shooting incident in city center
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