page_title: Right Sector
section_title: Description by the party
hierarchical_section_title: Right Sector / Ideology / Description by the party
caption_attribution_description: English: Torchlight procession in honor of the 106 anniversary of the birthday of Stepan Bandera, Kiev, 1 January 2015.Українська: Cмолоскипна хода з нагоди 106-ї річниці від дня народження Степена Бандери, Київ, 1 cічня 2015.
context_page_description: Right Sector is a Ukrainian nationalist political party and paramilitary movement, generally described as far-right. It originated in November 2013 as a paramilitary confederation of several radical nationalist organizations at the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev, where its street fighters participated in clashes with riot police. The coalition became a political party on 22 March 2014, at which time it claimed to have roughly 10,000 members.
  Founding groups included Trident, led by Dmytro Yarosh and Andriy Tarasenko; the Ukrainian National Assembly–Ukrainian National Self-Defense, a political/paramilitary organization. Other founding groups included the Social-National Assembly and its Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary wing, White Hammer, and Carpathian Sich. White Hammer was expelled in March 2014, and in the following months Patriot of Ukraine left the organization along with many UNA-UNSO members.
  Right Sector's political ideology has been described as nationalist, neofascist, or far right. Right Sector was the second-most mentioned political group in Russian media during the first half of 2014; Russian state TV depicted it as neo-Nazi because of its far-right, extremist views.
context_section_description: The party's ideology is based on the Ukrainian national idea. The party believes that idea of a nation is more broad than the concept of people as ethnos, yet nothing even close to the cosmopolitan concept of "political nation". Nation is a conscious and effective unity of people united around the idea of freedom that is based on ethno-social and spiritually cultural factors.
  Ukrainian nationalism is
  An ideology of national freedom, freedom of people and person
  An idea and cause in the name of Ukraine
  An ideology of defense, preservation, and state assertion of the Ukrainian nation
  A philosophy of national existence
  The main component of Right Sector's natiocentric outlook is natio-existential Shevchenko Thought, based on protection, development, and revival of the nation based on national imperative or absolute order.
  According to its literature, an idealistic worldview is intrinsic to Ukrainian nationalism.
caption: March in Kiev on anniversary of the birthday of Stepan Bandera, 1 January 2015
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