By the way, I am not avoiding this question, I simply have no useful information to give you.
The non-obvious part is the Ukrainian government. I can say that Russia is not entirely incorrect when it claims there are radical elements there, but I do not think these elements form anywhere near the dominant majority (a similar situation with iffy radical elements often happens in parlamentary democracies).
The issue also is that Russia uses “fascist” as a rather flexible label. For example, the “Nashi” (“Ours”) youth group:
By the way, I am not avoiding this question, I simply have no useful information to give you.
The non-obvious part is the Ukrainian government. I can say that Russia is not entirely incorrect when it claims there are radical elements there, but I do not think these elements form anywhere near the dominant majority (a similar situation with iffy radical elements often happens in parlamentary democracies).
The issue also is that Russia uses “fascist” as a rather flexible label. For example, the “Nashi” (“Ours”) youth group:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_(youth_movement%29 http://www.nashi.su/
is called an “anti-fascist” youth organization, but is precisely the opposite (heavy shades of Hitler youth).
Those two pieces are both useful information. On their own not enough but they help with building the full picture. Knowing things is hard.