Zelensky and his fascist friends
At the end of last month Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv, where he was presented with…
Tag: Ukraine
Will there be a fascist coup in Kyiv?
With Donald Trump apparently intent on pulling the plug on US support for the Ukrainian government in its war with…
Did Ukraine issue an official stamp to celebrate Waffen-SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka?
You might have thought there was sufficient substance to the scandal over Waffen-SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka’s recent appearance in the…
Did Zelensky name a Ukrainian army brigade after a Nazi military unit?
On 14 February Volodymyr Zelensky issued a presidential decree awarding the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine…
Has Zelensky sold off Ukraine’s agriculture to US multinationals?
According to a story doing the rounds on social media, Volodymyr Zelensky has sold 17 million hectares of his country’s…
Is Stepan Bandera’s birthday celebrated as a national holiday in Ukraine?
Every new year’s day far-right nationalists in Ukraine hold a torchlight march in Kiev to mark the birthday of their…
Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’?
For all its dodgy Cold War origins, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty once had a good record of exposing the role…
Fascists in defence of ‘democratic values’? The whitewashing of the Ukrainian far right continues
With the Azov regiment having finally accepted defeat and surrendered the Avostal steel plant to Putin’s forces, abandoning the last…
Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band
There was a time when the mainstream media were prepared to report accurately and in some detail on the disturbing…
Ukraine and the Bandera cult
After pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was brought down in 2014 by the Maidan protest movement, in which a decisive part…