Developmental tendencies of the right-wing radicalism in Ukraine
Developmental tendencies of the right-wing radicalism in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The author concentrates on the problem of right-wing radical oriented parties in Ukraine: their classification, activity, contradictions, development. He shows the main features of the Ukrainian party system in general and points the main features which affect it. The author distinguishes the radicals: Ukraineoriented and Russia-oriented. I.Stryapko in this article shows the origins of the right-wing ideas, evelopment of Ukrainian right-wing radical parties and shows their evolution and development during last electoral campaigns. He analyses the contradictions inside the right-wing movement and shows their effect on their activity. An important role in the ideological system of the Ukrainian right-wing radicals of the nation is given to the problem of migration. A number of problems could be selected. The first is the problem of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Traditionally, Ukrainian right-wing radicals recognize to be Ukrainians those people, who are primarily a native Ukrainian language and culture bearers. However, taking into consideration that recently «Svoboda» has been quite popular among young people in Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine, a certain change in the approach to this problem could be observed. First of all the spreading of «Russian-speaking Ukrainian nationalist» phenomenon. Plenty of attention is paid to Russia-oriented right-wing-radicals. The main region of pro-Russian radicalism was and remains the Crimea. Most of pro-Russian radical parties are concentrated there.

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