10.02.2025, Penza.
Ukraine is perceived worldwide as a center for training militants and developing militarized far-right groups, stated Andrey Bersenev, co-author of the multi-authored monograph “Ukrainism,” on February 6 during a plenary session of the forum “National Security and State Interests of Russia,” Rossa Primavera News Agency wrote.
“Ukrainian far-right groups have long been perceived globally as a center for training militants and developing militarized far-right organizations that carry out terrorist attacks worldwide… Ukrainians themselves speak of building a new Black International,” said Bersenev.
The researcher recalled the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand, where 50 people were killed, dozens were injured, and children were among the victims. The perpetrator, Brenton Tarrant, who released a manifesto featuring the Black Sun, had received training in Ukraine, he clarified.
The expert noted that before Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, major Western publications like The New York Times were less complimentary toward “Azov” (organization banned in Russia) and directly spoke about the threat of neo-Nazism.
“They directly stated that a new underground far-right international network was being created, spanning Europe, the Balkans, post-Soviet countries, the USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, and so on. This network is being formed,” he said.
“Major international centers assess it as the primary threat to the USA. They no longer view Islamic terrorism as the main threat. They say that while in the 2000s, the main threat to the United States came from Islamic terrorism, according to their internal assessments by major counterterrorism centers, since the mid-2010s, the main threat has been the far-right,” emphasized Bersenev.
The speaker noted that far-right groups are beginning to come to power in Europe. In Germany, the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been involved in numerous scandals with fascist undertones, is gaining increasing popularity, he added.
“The latest of these scandals involved them meeting with business representatives and discussing, in simple terms, how to ‘deal with migrants,’ and large-scale demonstrations took place across Germany… The same is happening in Finland, Sweden, and so on, with stops in France and now the USA,” the expert emphasized.
The researcher also warned that in Russia, amid a vacuum of meaning, there is an infiltration of neo-Nazi ideas and symbols, posing a risk of their growing popularity among youth.
The second edition of the multi-authored monograph “Ukrainism” was presented in Moscow in March 2023. The first two volumes of the book were shown at the presentation, with a total of six volumes planned for release.
The book was prepared by the research group of the Aleksandrovskaya Commune under the editorship of philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the public movement Essence of Time, Sergey Kurginyan.
A series of documentaries based on the monograph “Ukrainism” continues to air on the Zvezda TV channel. On February 4, the 25th episode, “Joseph Slipyj: Shepherd of ‘Anti-Moscowism,'” was released.
In May 2024, at the documentary short film competition of the XXXIII International Film Forum “Golden Knight” in Omsk, the first episode of the film was awarded a special diploma “for spirituality and civic engagement in cinema.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
