Authorized the nationalist party "Freedom" and extremist " Right sector ", which on Wednesday carried out a March in downtown Kiev on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the "Ukrainian insurgent army" (UPA), are sent to jail where the arrested activists of " Svoboda ", reports journalist Last news .

The column of the marchers marched from Mykhailivska square along Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya street and goes to jail. Participants in the March holding the flags of " Freedom ", "Right sector" and national flags of Ukraine. They go under the drum. Vehicular traffic along the route of the March covered.

Activists of the event are sent to jail, where activists of "Freedom" are in prison while the criminal case about mass riots Near the Parliament on 31 August within the framework of voting for constitutional changes in the part of decentralization. Near the detention facility scheduled concert.

"Right sector" - Ukrainian Union of radical nationalist organizations. In January and February 2014 the militants of the movement participated in battles with the police and the seizure of administrative buildings, and from April - in the suppression of protests in Eastern Ukraine. In November 2014, the Supreme court recognized the Union of right-wing extremist organization and banned its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.

"Ukrainian insurgent army" (UPA) was completed in October 1942 as the military wing "of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists" (OUN), its purpose was proclaimed the struggle for independence of Ukraine. The UPA acted mostly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet troops, cooperating with the Nazis. Field the end of the great Patriotic war she continued to fight against the Soviets extremist methods - injured UPA fighters became Authorized intelligentsia and local authorities, Komsomol and party activists. In the Russian Federation are also prohibited.

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