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We've had a good look at the far-right component of the euromaiden. Here's a few things looking at the far-right/fascist/eurasian motivations of those looking to defend Russia's role and actions here - see how easily they mesh with the posts from the resident russian state fetishist on here? (Btw the author Anton Shekhovtsov, seems to have moved from a panicked you in the west need to be aware of the hard core fasicts behind a lot of this around the turn of the year to a more nunanced there are competing groups but the dominant tone is not fascist it is simply anti govt)

The European extreme right and Russian imperialism

Thus, the European far right's calls for the EU's non-intereference in the "Ukrainian question" should be seen as the calls for the EU's sell-out of Ukraine to Putin's imperialist project. But Putin has his extreme right accomplices in Ukraine itself too. Russia is funding pro-Russian far right organisations in the Crimea and Sevastopol (Le Pen, by the way, visited Sevastopol last summer), while Ukrainian extreme right agent provocateur Dmytro Korchyns'ky was one of the people behind the controversial attacks on the presidential administration in Kyiv during the Euromaidan protests. And "by sheer chance", Korchyns'ky was a member of the Highest Council of Dugin's International Eurasian Movement...

Mölzer's and Le Pen's calls for the non-intereference in the "Ukrainian sovereignty" are only a tip of the iceberg of the collaboration between Russian imperialists and the European far right. The "Ukrainian question" may not be the most important aspect of this bigger picture, but if the EU loses Ukraine, it will be implicated in making the European extreme right even stronger.
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Pro-Russian network behind the anti-Ukrainian defamation campaign

The Canada-based Centre for Research on Globalization is also interesting. It was founded and is now headed by Michel Chossudovsky; among the Centre's contributors are Neil Clark, Mahdi D. Nazemroaya and William Engdahl. Chossudovsky, Nazemroaya and Engdahl are members of the scientific committee of the Italian journal Geopolitica, which also includes John Laughland and Natalya Narochnitskaya. Geopolitica is edited by Tiberio Graziani, a fervent advocate of the Eurasian cooperation and a member of the High Council of the International Eurasian Movement led by Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin. In 2008, Dugin called for the Russian occupation of Georgia, and even made a trip to South Ossetia together with his followers from the Eurasian Youth Union.

Geopolitica itself is an off-shoot from the Italian extreme right journal Eurasia, Rivista di Studi Geopolitici, published and edited by Italian Nazi-Maoist Claudio Mutti. The scientific board of Eurasia includes Aleksandr Dugin and William Engdahl. In the early January, Engdahl published a piece titled "The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests".
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Note Dugin with fingers in all the pies.

"Re-organisation of the Ukrainian space", or Putin's agents in Ukraine

Why would Russian authorities be interested in the division of Ukraine if they want to incorporate it in its Eurasian Union? Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin (whom I already mentioned earlier and will refer to again) believes that Ukraine is too diverse to be incorporated in its entirety in the Russian geopolitical project. In his Foundations of Geopolitics, where he describes the Russia-led Eurasian integration, Dugin writes:

The sovereignty of Ukraine represents such a negative phenomenon for Russian geopolitics that it can, in principle, easily provoke a military conflict. [...] Ukraine as an independent state with some territorial ambitions constitutes an enormous threat to the whole Eurasia, and without the solution of the Ukrainian problem, it is meaningless to talk about the contitental geopolitics. [...] Considering the fact that a simple intergration of Moscow with Kyiv is impossible and will not result in a stable geopolitical structure [...], Moscow should get actively involved in the re-organisation of the Ukrainian space in accordance to the only logical and natural geopolitical model.

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Provocations by the Presidential Administration and calls for the division of Ukraine are two sides of the same bad coin: the activities of Korchyns'ky, Romanenko, Zbitnev, and other right-wing extremists are inciting hatred, divisions, and fomenting civil war in Ukraine, and are eventually implementing the geopolitical strategy of Russian fascist imperialists.
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J Ed said:
Would be great if anyone who knows Ukrainian could tell us what it says on those shields.
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The caption from that photo (or the selection from which it came) is given as:

Anti-government protestors of the "14 Hundred Self-Defense" group take part in a protest rally in front of the Prosecutor General building in Kiev on February 14, 2014. (Yury Kirnichny/AFP)
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TruXta said:
Precisely because it's becoming more and more obvious what kind of people are running the street protests at the moment. With all these pictures of protesters decked in far-right regalia circulating it's not deniable anymore.
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To what extent are they being run?
 
J Ed said:
Would be great if anyone who knows Ukrainian could tell us what it says on those shields.
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The top bit says "14 Hundreds" Anything with "14" or "hundreds" is going to be dodgy isn't it? (The black hundreds were anti-Ukrainian so maybe not)
 
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copliker said:
The top bit says "14 Hundreds" Anything with "14" or "hundreds" is going to be dodgy isn't it?
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Could the ‘14’ not simply be a unit number? Sometimes fourteen is just fourteen, and not one-four. (That's not to say that being designated a ‘Hundred’ isn't already a big indication of right-leaningnes.) More expertise required here!

For those who may have missed it, the Dream Deferred article linked to above briefly describes the emerging structure of the paramilitary forces in Maidan:

...The fascist fighters included a new alliance, Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), bringing together hardcore nazis from the UNA-UNSO, Trident, Carpathian Sich and other groups under leader Dmytro Yarosh.

Now, as the protests have reached something of a stalemate, there has been a dramatic shift towards building a paramilitary force, dubbed Samooborona or “Self Defence”.

This move is endorsed by Euromaidan’s politician leaders, who called for people to join Self Defence “hundreds” or squadrons – actually from 50 to 300-strong – at Euromaidan’s main rally of 9 February.

The Self Defence claims 5,000 members in Kiev with 10,000 across Ukraine – there is even an online sign-up form, asking about fitness levels and military experience.

A spokesperson claimed 35 “hundreds” were aligned with the conservative Fatherland party, with 20 run by fascist Svoboda.

These troops are nominally under the Euromaidan “commander”, Fatherland MP Andriy Parubiy. They include “former special forces, spetsnatz” members in the 18th hundred.

But the Right Sector Self Defence forces – they claim 1,500 in Kiev – act under their own commander, Yarosh. Allied with them are 200 Afghan War veterans (from the former USSR’s 1979-89 war)...
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littlebabyjesus said:
To what extent are they being run?
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This isn't just people turning up each day - there is a massive ongoing encampment with enforced borders stretching for many many blocks with its own security services and various commissions (one to procure bottles/one gas, one to get food, one to cook etc) - they get to decide who comes in and so on. Each of these is now dominated by far-right groups. The fighting groups who set the political tempo for the rest of the camp and pretty much decide where the thing is going are pretty clearly composed of the hardest of the hard core fascists. I'm not being funny but you seem to have missed loads of this.
 
butchersapron said:
Btw the author Anton Shekhovtsov, seems to have moved from a panicked you in the west need to be aware of the hard core fasicts behind a lot of this around the turn of the year to a more nunanced there are competing groups but the dominant tone is not fascist it is simply anti govt
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Why?
 
butchersapron said:
We've had a good look at the far-right component of the euromaiden. Here's a few things looking at the far-right/fascist/eurasian motivations of those looking to defend Russia's role and actions here - see how easily they mesh with the posts from the resident russian state fetishist on here? (Btw the author Anton Shekhovtsov, seems to have moved from a panicked you in the west need to be aware of the hard core fasicts behind a lot of this around the turn of the year to a more nunanced there are competing groups but the dominant tone is not fascist it is simply anti govt)

The European extreme right and Russian imperialism



Pro-Russian network behind the anti-Ukrainian defamation campaign



Note Dugin with fingers in all the pies.

"Re-organisation of the Ukrainian space", or Putin's agents in Ukraine
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None of these people have been cited in this thread, though, have they?
 
butchersapron said:
This isn't just people turning up each day - there is a massive ongoing encampment with enforced borders stretching for many many blocks with its own security services and various commissions (one to procure bottles/one gas, one to get food, one to cook etc) - they get to decide who comes in and so on. Each of these is now dominated by far-right groups. The fighting groups who set the political tempo for the rest of the camp and pretty much decide where the thing is going are pretty clearly composed of the hardest of the hard core fascists. I'm not being funny but you seem to have missed loads of this.
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Any links setting these points out?
 
 
J Ed said:
Why?
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This is what he says now:

ANTON SHEKHOVTSOV: Well, first of all, thank you for the invitation to Democracy Now!

I wrote the piece to highlight a very dangerous trend, in my opinion, is that many people in the West buy into Russian propaganda which is saying that Euromaidan is infiltrated by the neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. And this is completely untrue. There is a far-right element in the Euromaidan protests, but it is a minor element. And Euromaidan protest is basically a multicultural, democratic movement which is trying to build a new Ukraine, a democratic Ukraine. And sometimes, by the name "far right," there goes Ukrainian nationalism, and Ukrainian nationalism has—its main thrust is building of a truly independent Ukraine, a Ukraine which would be a national democratic state and not a colony of Russia, as Ukrainian nationalists think Ukraine is.
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Actually looking back at the piece i was referring to does seem a bit less panicked now i read it again- but does suggests that fascist involvement may be Russian provocation, and outside of the euromaiden itself. Very confused and doesn't really fit with a lot of his later stuff. It was early days then though i suppose.
 
sunnysidedown said:
it was this line that I found interesting (in light of his previous posts):

'If you read that "radicals", "extremists", "neo-Nazis" or whatever are leading the protests against the "legitimate government", DO NOT BELIEVE ONE WORD OF THESE LIES. The Ukrainian PEOPLE are fighting the terrorist regime.'

http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-ukrainian-criminal-terror-regime-in.html
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DaveCinzano said:
"The Self Defence claims 5,000 members in Kiev with 10,000 across Ukraine – there is even an online sign-up form, asking about fitness levels and military experience.
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Anything in admin? I have wonky knees due to a prepatellar bursitis problem a while back so fitness isn't great BUT I have a proper passion for ensuring talent management and planning strategies are developed and executed.
 
Interesting. A socialist group in Kiev (no idea who they represent, or if they have any followers) have produced a new manifesto:

" A paradoxical situation is unfolding. All conscientious economists (even quite neoliberal ones like, for example, Viktor Pinzenik) agree that the tax and regulatory systems of the country were built to completely exempt oligarchs from paying taxes. Everyone can see that this system won’t last much longer, but none of the politicians in the Parliament have dared to offer the obvious and realistic systemic alternative. Almost nobody dares to publicly admit that the most pressing issue facing Ukraine is not the EU or the trade union, but simply that oligarchs should start paying their taxes. The apparatus of the state is perfectly capable of forcing them to do so since the oligarchs’ functioning assets are all located in Ukraine. However, as Andrei Hunko recently pointed out, the oligarchization of Ukrainian politics has reached such proportions that not a single one of the existing parliamentary parties can even mention this matter.
Sadly enough, only radical leftists voice these minimal and obvious demands. I emphasize that these demands must be seen not as the agenda of the Left Opposition, but as first steps toward the formation of policies that could gather together all anti-oligarchic forces, who don’t consider an ultra-right fascist dictatorship to be any kind of solution – the kind of dictatorship the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda” so insistently pushes us towards, while the official opposition leaders sit by and watch."

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/manifesto-left-opposition-in-ukraine/
 
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