Scholars Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovstov have written that Right Sector formed as a loose collection of small groups, outside parliament, that were ultraconservative and included a neo-Nazi fringe.
[39] According to researcher
Alina Polyakova, one of Right Sector's constituent groups, Tryzub, is composed of radical, right-wing nationalists. She writes that the Patriots of Ukraine, another constituent group, has organized attacks against foreigners or international students, and is connected to neo-fascist ideology and symbolism; scholar Volodymyr Ishchenko describes the group as neo-Nazi.
[102] Polyakova describes the ideology of the UNA-UNSO as nationalist, and sometimes including aspects of anarchism.[
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Shekhovstov has written that Patriot of Ukraine and Social National Assembly, which are racist and engage in real or symbolic violence against minorities, also oppose alcohol and drug use.
[103] (Also) according to Shekhovtsov "The main peculiarity of the Ukrainian far right is that its main enemy is not
immigrants or
national minorities, as often happens with the
EU-
based far right, but the
Kremlin".
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