(Para)military unit "black corps" ("Azov") as the most famous political-military expression of extreme Ukrainian nationalism
Journal: ПОЛИТЕИА
Year: 2025

After Ukraine gained independence in 1991 and a period of long-term equidistance between the East and West, Ukrainian politics definitively turned towards the West in the period after the »Maidan« events in the winter of 2013/14, when proWestern – liberal, but also nationalist political forces willing to separate Ukraine from the Russian Federation in every respect came to power (for the second time). This was also the beginning of open tensions with the Russian Federation, and then came the Rus