Right Sector
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Right Sector
Правий сектор |
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| Leader | Andriy Tarasenko |
| Founded | November 2013 Registered 22 May 2014 |
| Merger of |
Tryzub UNA–UNSO Sich Former constituents: Social-National Assembly (left in 2014) White Hammer (expelled in 2014) C14 (left in 2014) |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Paramilitary | Volunteered Ukrainian Corps (unofficial) |
| Membership | 10,000 |
| Ideology |
Ukrainian nationalism Religious conservatism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colors | Red, Black |
| Slogan | God! Ukraine! Freedom! |
| Verkhovna Rada |
1 / 450
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| Regions (2015) |
2 / 158,399
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| Website | |
| pravyysektor.info | |
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1In addition, former party spokesman Boryslav Bereza won a seat as an independent. |
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Right Sector (Ukrainian: Правий сектор, Pravyi Sektor) is a far-right Ukrainian nationalist political party that originated in November 2013 as a paramilitary confederation at the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev, where its street fighters fought against riot police. The coalition became a political party on 22 March 2014, at which time it claimed to have perhaps 10,000 members.
Founding groups included Trident (Tryzub), led by Dmytro Yarosh and Andriy Tarasenko; and the Ukrainian National Assembly–Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA–UNSO), a political/paramilitary organization. Other founding groups included the Social-National Assembly and its Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary wing, White Hammer, and Carpathian Sich. White Hammer was expelled in March 2014, and in the following months Patriot left the organization along with many UNA-UNSO members.
In June 2014 one of the groups was assigned by the Interior Ministry to surveil Mariupol after it captured the city from Russian-backed insurgents.
Right Sector's political ideology has been described as nationalist, ultranationalist, neofascist, right-wing, or far right. Right Sector was the second-most mentioned political group in Russian media during the first half of 2014; Russian state TV depicted it as neo-Nazi. The Associated Press found no evidence that the group had committed hate crimes. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Yarosh as a Right Sector candidate won a parliament seat by winning a single-member district with 29.8% of the votes. Right Sector spokesperson Boryslav Bereza as an independent candidate also won a seat and district with 29.4% of the votes.
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