Lev Golinkin — Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

Longish and detailed, with lots of documentation. It's an excellent reference tool.

Concerning in itself but also because of US support that turns a blind eye to it. "Never again" is happening again.

The Nation
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
Lev Golinkin

Novorosinform — Poles send Ukraine a message: Prison term for calling Bandera, Shukevich, OUN-UPA heroes, or for denying the Volyn Massacre

Poland drops the hammer on Ukrainian neo-Nazism.

For Russ
Poles send Ukraine a message: Prison term for calling Bandera, Shukevich, OUN-UPA heroes, or for denying the Volyn Massacre

Novorosinform, translated by Tom Winter

Warsaw to Kiev — ‘You Won’t Get Into Europe Glorifying War Criminal Bandera’

Former Polish President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the influential leader of the country’s ruling Law and Justice Party, has some frank advice for Kiev, telling Ukrainian officials that the country would never join Europe if it continued to try to build its national identity on the glorification of notorious Nazi-allied war criminals like Stepan Bandera.

In an interview for the news weekly magazine Do Rzeczy, excerpts from which were published by other Polish outlets on Monday, Kaczynski indicated that he had warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Kiev would have no place in Europe if it continued to indulge in the glorification of war criminals like Stepan Bandera, the leader of the WWII-era Ukrainian nationalist organization that collaborated with the Nazis.
Kaczynski said “for years now, we have disagreed with the construction in Ukraine of a cult to people who engaged in genocide against the Poles. They even surpassed the cruelty of the Germans, which was not easy to do.”

“In short, this is a matter of choice for Ukraine,” the politician emphasized. “I told President Poroshenko clearly that Ukraine wouldn’t be entering Europe with Bandera. For me this is an issue that is absolutely clear,” he added, “because we have demonstrated great patience. But this patience has its limits.”

A defining moment.

Defend Democracy
Warsaw to Kiev: ‘You Won’t Get Into Europe Glorifying War Criminal Bandera’

also

TASS
Russia’s Investigative Committee opens cases over rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine

Politnavigator — CIA reveals Stepan Bandera was a German spy and a CIA accomplice

The electronic library of the Central Intelligence Agency published a four-page document dated 1951, stating that the icon of Ukrainian nationalism, Stepan Bandera, was a German spy.…

If this document is not enough, you can dig deeper into the CIA archives. You will be met with 293 pages of various documents on the subject of Nazism, and personally Bandera. You will learn that Stepan Bandera cooperated not only with the Third Reich, but also with the CIA itself....

Fort Russ

CIA reveals Bandera was a German spy - and a CIA accomplice

Politnavigator

translated by Inessa Sinchougova | Editor and Journalist at Fort Russ News and research fellow and translator of the Belgrade based Center for Syncretic Studies.

George Eliason — Russia Hacking the Election the Inside Story

We know by now that Alexandra Chalupa was the person in charge of the Democratic National Committee’s “ethnic outreach” efforts. According to Yahoo News, she was one of the 16 people that shaped the national election in 2016. In the Yahoo story journalist Michael Isikoff described her as a normal person that shaped history.

Alexandra Chalupa has been the voice behind saying Russia illegally interfered with the election. And according to her story, she was almost hacked repeatedly while researching Paul Manafort. The Democrats say this caused the Clinton defeat. No one explained why “researching” Paul Manafort, an American, would excite Russian attention.

Strangely, every article about her neglects to mention that Chalupa and her family are not Democrats as suggested. Instead they are admitted ultra-nationalists bent on sending America to war with Russia by any means possible. And they are vocal about it.

None of the articles connect the fact that the Clinton loss is personal for the Chalupa family. At least 2 of them were going to the White House as advisors and cabinet members….

The Ukrainian nationalist connection. Backgrounder on OUN Bandera.

Washington's Blog
Russia Hacking the Election the Inside Story
George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine

Kristina Rus — CANVAS and Right Sector trail in the murder of Nemtsov

Broadening and deepening the plot.

Fort Russ
CANVAS and Right Sector trail in the murder of Nemtsov

Kristina Rus

Also

What do Banderite and Nemtsov's memorial rallies have in common?

The Remarkable Coincidences of John C. Tefft

Evgeny Fedorov: The Russian revolution has begun

Andrew Korybko — The Galician Backhand (II)

The specter of European history. Another problem is that the US doesn't understand this dimension anymore than it understands the history of the Middle East and how history affects contemporary affairs in these regions. These people have long memories, unlike Americans whose own history is a mere blip on the screen. Americans are heavily influenced historically. Most other peoples are. Americans in generally cannot understand this and have no clue about what is really happening in these lands.

Oriental Review
The Galician Backhand (II)

Andrew Korybko | the American political correspondent of Voice of Russia who currently lives and studies in Moscow

Memories are made of this

Russia Insider
Does this Chilling Neo-Nazi Torch-lit March through Kiev Remind You of Something?
Damir Marinovic

Russian Lawmakers Outraged as Kiev Declares Pro-Nazi Force Creation Date as National Holiday

Tass

Many Russian legislators are deeply angered by Kiev’s decision to declare October 14, the day when the pro-Nazi Ukrainian Insurgent Army was created during World War II in 1942, as Defender of the Nation Day and a public holiday. The UIA gained notoriety as an active collaborator with the Nazi force of occupation and participant in many WW II massacres of civilian population. Members of both houses of the Russian parliament interpreted this move as Kiev’s official confirmation of its commitment to Nazi ideas....

“Certainly, each country has the right to introduce its own memorable dates, but the fact that October 14 was selected to cater to the tastes of the followers of Stepan Bandera (UIA founder) regrettably shows once again that Kiev is officially supportive of Nazi ideology,” said State Duma Deputy Speaker Sergey Zheleznyak. “It also confirms the dependence of the Ukrainian authorities in their decision-making on radical nationalists and the attempt to trample underfoot the common history of our countries and peoples, and ridicule World War II veterans and the memory of millions of people who gave their lives for the sake of our great victory in those awesome battles.” 

“Mr. Poroshenko has instituted a special holiday honouring Ukraine’s number one Nazi henchman. He did that in a very cynical way by abolishing the existing holiday, revered by many millions of officers and men, both retired and still in active service,” Zheleznyak said.

Meanwhile, in Japan…

Bloomberg
Abe Sends Offering to Tokyo War Shrine as Lawmakers Visit
Takashi Hirokawa

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering to a Tokyo war shrine in lieu of a visit, which may have provoked the ire of China and South Korea and undermined his push for summits with both nations’ leaders. 

A cross-party group of 110 lawmakers visited Yasukuni Shrine today, upper house lawmaker Toshiei Mizuochi told reporters. Abe’s offering of a traditional “masakaki,” a leafy branch on a stand swathed in colorful cloth, was confirmed by a shrine spokesman. At least one cabinet minister is expected to pay their respects today, at the start of the shrine’s autumn festival. 

Abe’s donation to a shrine seen by many as a symbol of Japan’s past aggression in Asia comes as he pushes for meetings with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and South Korean Park Geun Hye at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing next month. Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso may hold talks with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on the sidelines of a meeting of finance ministers in Beijing next week, the Nikkei newspaper reported today, citing people it did not identify. 

“As long as Abe and any of the key ministers don’t go, Yasukuni will not be a roadblock to summit meetings,” Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo, said by e-mail. “Abe doesn’t want to be seen to be kowtowing to Beijing to get a meeting, but also doesn’t want to derail that possibility given that it seems to be a done deal.”

Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi said this week she would visit the shrine for the autumn festival. Yasukuni honors millions of Japanese war dead, including 14 wartime leaders convicted as Class A War criminals after the war. 

The US is OK is all this.