by Gordon M. Hahn
Below I present the updated leadership and structure of Ukraine’s influential neo-fascist movement and political party, Right Sector (Praviy Sektor or RS) as of 18 May 2015. Right Sector was founded on November 29, 2013 on the Maidan by three neo-fascist groups, including the notorious neo-Nazi party, the Social-National Assembly, of which the Maidan regime’s first chairman of the Ukrainian Defense and Security Committee Andriy Parubiy was a founding leader (http://pravyysektor.info/appeals/pryvitannya-dmytra-yarosha-z-richnytseyu-pravoho-sektora/). Its leader, Dmitro Yarosh was appointed an advisor to the Ukrainian Armed Forces last month. RS’s armed forces, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, has refused to subordinate itself to the Ukrainian armed forces’ command, however. RS has claimed responsibility for the 2 May 2014 terrorist pogrom in which 48 people were killed, most of them burned alive.
RIGHT SECTOR – LEADERSHIP AND STRUCTURE, 18 May 2015
Central Leadership
Leader (“Coordinator”) – Dmitro Yarosh, advisor to the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff
Deputy Leader – Andrei Tarasenko (political and social work)
Leader of Information Department – Borislav Beryoza (Ukraine Supreme Rada deputy)
Armed Forces
Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (DUK) Commander – Andriy Stempitskii
DUK Chief of Staff – Valeriy Voronov
Press Secretary – Artyom Skoropadskiy
Chaplain of DUK – Father Mikola Medynskiy-Zaliznyak (http://pravyysektor.info/news/kapelan-ps-o-mykola-medynskyj-zaliznyak-pro-informatsijnu-brehnyu/).
Regional Structures (leader)
Kyiv (Kiev city) – Volodomir Zagazei (2015). Predecessor: Andriy Tarasenko (2014)
Kyiv (Kiev) Oblast – Volodomir Gubok. Predecessor: Igor ‘Topol’ Mazur (2014)
Rivne Oblast – Roman Koval’
Ternopil Oblast – Vasil’ Labaichyuk
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast – Vasil’ Abramiv
Zakarpatiya Oblast – Olaksandr Sachka
Sicheslavsk Oblast – Rostislav Vinar
Chernivetsk Oblast – Ivan Balandyuk. Predecessor: Volodimir Ryasov (2014)
Vinnitsa Oblast – Rostislav Romanyuk. Predecessor: Sergiy Chumak (2014)
Sumy Oblast – Vitaliy Lyashko. Predecessor: Mikola Surzhenko (2014)
Cherkask Oblast – Andriy Cherevan
Lviv (Lvov) Oblast – Artyom Lutsak
Zaporozhe Oblast – Oleksandr Taran. Predecessor: Sergiy Kanivets (2014)
Volyn Oblast – Serhiy Druzhinovich. Predecessor: Pavel Danilchuk (2014)
Odessa Oblast – Serhiy Sternenko
Donetsk Oblast – Serhiy Chirina (2015). Predecessor: Serhiy Volkov (2014)
Zhitomir Oblast – Artyom Bakhuro
Poltava Oblast – Mark Anatoliovich Chauso. Predecessor: Ivan Balatskiy (2014)
Kirovograd Oblast – Igor Svyatokumo
Chernogiv Oblast – Vladislav Litvin
Kherson Oblast – Dmitro Semyon. Predecessor: Volodimir Vedenko (2014)
Mikolaivsk Oblast – Mikhail Borsuk
Kharkiv Oblast – Andriy Sanin
Khmelnitskii Oblast – Anatoliy Medvedchuk
Media
PS newspaper Praviy Sektor” (1st issue, 21 August 2014)
https://twitter.com/PravyjSektorRus
http://vk.com/yastrybd (Yarosh’s VKontakt page)
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SOURCES: “Zvernennya Lidera ‘Pravogo Sektora’ Dmitra Yarosha,” Pravyysektor.info, 15 July 2014, http://pravyysektor.info/news/zvernennya-lidera-pravoho-sektora-dmytra-yarosha-2/; “Organizatsiya,” Pravyysektor.info, http://pravyysektor.info/organization/, last accessed 18 May 2015; http://pravyysektor.info/news/kapelan-duk-ps-ukrajina-bude-todi-koly-bude-ukrajinska-vlada/, last accessed 10 May 2015; http://pravyysektor.info/news/kapelan-ps-o-mykola-medynskyj-zaliznyak-pro-informatsijnu-brehnyu/; and http://issuu.com/33569/docs/ps_kinceve_2/1?e=13233382/9013358, last accessed 10 May 2015.
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Gordon M. Hahn is an Analyst and Advisory Board Member of the Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Senior Researcher, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group, San Jose, California Analyst/Consultant, Russia Other Points of View – Russia Media Watch; and Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor, MonTREP, Monterey, California. Dr Hahn is author of three well-received books, Russia’s Revolution From Above (Transaction, 2002), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), which was named an outstanding title of 2007 by Choice magazine, and The ‘Caucasus Emirate’ Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland Publishers, 2014). He also has authored hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and other publications on Russian, Eurasian and international politics and wrote, edited and published the Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report at CSIS from 2010-2013. Dr. Hahn has been a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (2011-2013) and a Visiting Scholar at both the Hoover Institution and the Kennan Institute.