Author: Andreas Umland | Journal of Democracy

Andreas Umland, based at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, is editor-in-chief of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and a member of the Experts’ Council of the Ukrainian parliament’s Committee on European Integration.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: Ukraine’s Radical Right

Anton Shekhovtsov
Andreas Umland

Russian propagandists—echoed by some Western commentators—portray Ukraine as a hotbed of nationalist extremism. The truth is quite different.