Ukrainian extra-parliamentary extreme right behind the provocations at the President Administration

A few extra-parliamentary extreme right groups took part in the attack on the President Administration in Kyiv today. Currently, there is no one reason to believe that these groups were somehow associated with the parliamentary radical right-wing Svoboda party or even with its paramilitary neo-Nazi units like C14.

One of these groups is "Tryzub" (Trident), which was originally formed as a paramilitary unit of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists but then became an independent organisation.

The second group is the "Maidan Action 'Right-Wing Sector'" (Акція на Майдані "ПРАВИЙ СЕКТОР"), a movement formed on the social networking web-site VK.

Also seen by the President Administration is Dmytro Korchyn'sky, leader of the "Bratstvo" (Brotherhood) party. Korchyns'ky is widely considered an agent provocateur, and his "Bratstvo" already took part in several actions that were meant to provoke police suppression of peaceful protests. Moreover, it is said that Korchyns'ky taught a course at the explicitly pro-Putin "Seliger" summer camp in Russia.

Dmytro Korchyns'ky

The link between Korchyns'ky and the pro-Putin movement in Russia seems quite alarming. According to Inna Bohoslovs'ka, who has discontinued her membership in the ruling Party of Regions on the 30th of November, the provocations by the President Administration were orchestrated by the authorities and can be seen as part of the Russian strategy to instigate separatism in Ukraine, like the Russians did in Moldova and, more recently, Georgia.

UPDATE 1: It seems that individual members of Svoboda and C14 took part in the attacks on the President Administration, but it seems that Svoboda's leadership did not sanction the attacks. Furthermore, Svoboda's leader Oleh Tyahnybok was one of the leaders of the opposition who tried to persuade the crowd by the President Administration to stop their actions and join the peaceful protests on Maidan.

UPDATE 2: The newly discovered video footage suggests that not only right-wing extremists were provoking the police. They might have been joined by dozens of hooligans (titushkis) who were paid by the authorities.