Dmytro Korchynskyy

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Dmytro Korchynsky was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. He was the only candidate among 26 candidates for President who did not have higher education. He is the President of the Institute of Regional Politics and Modern Political Science. He is a leader of a public movement "Brotherhood", which became a party during the election campaign. Before 1997 he was a vice chair of the party Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA) and a chair of nationalistic association UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian National Self Defense). He is a co-author of a poem collection "Philosophy of distemper" (1998), an author of the following books: "War in the crowd" (1998) and "Authoritarian Alternative" (1998), and an editor of the book "War in the crowd" (1999). In his program, he speaks in support of "industrial manufacturing of mysticism", claims that the European Union is a set of countries saved by Ukraine and that one should demand especially respectful treatment of Ukraine from them.

In his policy Korchynsky combinates ideas of different radical antidemocratic ideologies - radical Nationalism, Panslavism, Fundamentalism, Stalinism, Anarchism, Trotskyism and even Fascism. His ideas also seem to have been influenced by those of Dmytro Dontsov. Korchynsky was also known to be a provocateur and an ally of the former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and his aid Victor Medvedchuk. Both were implicated in the massive election fraud during the 2004 presidential campaign in Ukraine (see Orange Revolution).