Dmytro Korchynsky

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Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Олександрович Корчинський; born 22 January 1964, Kiev) is a Ukrainian public figure and leader of the extremist BRATSTVO ("Brotherhood"),[1][2] a Ukrainian Orthodox[citation needed] rooted religious and political organization in Ukraine. Korchynsky is the former leader of the ultra-nationalist UNA-UNSO party.[3]

He is currently a fugitive on the international wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for his role in inciting riots during the Euromaidan-related 1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots.[4] On January 2, 2013 during the program "Freedom of Speech" on ICTV, Serhiy Sobolev claimed that Korchynsky cooperates with Viktor Medvedchuk.[5] In an exclusive interview to one of Ukrainian newspapers on February 10, 2005 Korchynsky said:

“ Viktor Medvedchuk is a strong-willed person and won't lay down his weapon ”

—Dmytro Korchynsky, Liga.net[6]

Politics

In 1987-1988 Korchynsky was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In the fall of 1992 he ran for the Supreme Council of Ukraine, but lost it placing fourth out of six in the 13th electoral district. Korchynsky ran again in 1994 and again lost it placing third out of 24 in the 2nd electoral district in city of Kiev (none were elected at all).

After being excluded[7] from UNA-UNSO in 1997, Korchynsky became a media pundit and political analyst. He founded the Bratstvo Organization in 2002, which he claims has several hundred members in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Chernihiv.[3] Bratsvtvo was not officially registered until March of 2004. Though the group describes itself as an Orthodox Christian organization, it is not affiliated with any of the three Orthodox churches operating in Ukraine. He has described his group in his self-published newsletter as the Orthodox Taliban,[3] and on his website as a Christian Hezbollah[8] Anton Shekhovtsov, a well-known specialist on far-right organizations spoke of Korchynsky as being “widely considered an agent provocateur, and his "Bratstvo" already took part in several actions that were meant to provoke police suppression of peaceful protests”. [9]

During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Korchynsky ran again for the Supreme Council of Ukraine as a member of the All-Ukrainian Party of Workers. He placed eight out of 23 in the 220th electoral district.

On December 29, 2003 Bratsvtvo organized a street fight with Berkut near the Canadian Embassy in Kiev.[10] Few days earlier on December 25, 2003, Ukrayinska Pravda received some correspondence (temnyk) from other journalists about intentions of the government to discredit opposition by connecting it to the problem with the arrested Ukrainian plane (Antonov An-124 Ruslan) in Canada.[11][12] On March 31, 2004 members of Bratstvo poured glue and then water onto George Soros during the forum among human rights organizations in Kiev "Human rights at elections".[13] In summer of 2004 in Kerch Bratstvo organized strike at the Zaliv Shipbuilding yard coowner of which was David Zhvania, a member of Our Ukraine.[14][15]

In the fall of 2004 Korchynsky participated in the presidential elections. After loosing in the first round, Korchynsky supported another candidate Viktor Yanukovych.[7] After Viktor Yushchenko was announced a winner, Korchynsky officially went in opposition and united with the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.[7][16]

In 2013 during the Euromaidan protests, 300 members of the Bratstvo organization led by Korchynsky attacked the presidential administration building.[17]

Personal

Korchynsky was born on January 22, 1964 in Kiev. In 1982 he finished a high school and enrolled in the Kiev Institute of Food Industry at the Department of Industrial Power Generation. After two years of study, he left the institute without finishing. Later Korchynsky participated in number of archaeological expeditions in the Southern Ukraine. In 1985-87 he served in the Soviet army. Korchynsky was in the 24th Iron Division of the Carpathian Military District as a commander of BMP-2. After demobilization he was dismissed in reserves as an assistant to a platoon leader.

After the army, Korchynsky enrolled in the Kiev University, but later that year left it.

Under his leadership, UNSO took part in several armed conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including Transdniester, Abkhazia and Chechnya.[3] In 1992 as a volunteer he left for Transnistria. In 1996 Korchynsky participated in the Chechen war. Next year he was completely ousted from the nationalist movement in Ukraine.

He is the President of the Institute of Regional Politics and Modern Political Science.[citation needed]

He is an author of a poem collection "Philosophy of distemper" (2002), an author of the following books: "War in the crowd" (1998), "This and It" (2002) and "Revolution haute couture" (2004).[citation needed]

Korchynsky is an advocate of several ideologies - Christianity, Orthodoxy, Nationalism,[18] Fundamentalism, and Anarchism[citation needed].

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References

  1. ↑ Jane's intelligence digest: the global early-warning service. Jane's Information Group. 2003-01-01. 
  2. ↑ Herb, Guntram H. (2008). Nations and nationalism: a global historical overview. 1989 to present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-907-8. Retrieved 4 March 2011. "These groups included the co-opted Ukrainian National Assembly, which had grown out of the late Soviet Inter-Party Assembly, Bratstvo (Brotherhood) led by the former Ukrainian National Assembly leader Dmytro Korchynsky,..." 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/radical-youth-leader-beats-war-drum.html?flavour=mobile
  4. ↑ http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/181903.html
  5. ↑ Sobolev: Korchynsky always was connected with Medvedchuk. "Freedom of Speech" (youtube). ICTV, 2013
  6. ↑ Medvedchuk wont lay down his weapon, - Korchynsky. Liga.net. February 10, 2005
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Skinheads from the Korchynsky's "Bratsvtvo". Ukrayinska Pravda. April 26, 2005
  8. ↑ http://bratstvo-info.blogspot.ca/2010/12/bratstvo-brotherhood.html
  9. ↑ http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/no-provoking-a-state-of-emergency-332870.html
  10. ↑ Incident near Canadian Embassy. Segodnya. December 29, 2003
  11. ↑ Intercepted temnyk: Yushchenko is responsible for the Canadian courts, Herbst - for mad cows. Ukrayinska Pravda. December 25, 2003
  12. ↑ Arrest of Ruslan in Canada. Korrespondent. July 16, 2003
  13. ↑ Soros was doused with glue by Bratstvo members. Ukrayinska Pravda. March 31, 2004
  14. ↑ Yushchenko's companion, Zhvania again ended up in temnyk. Ukrayinska Pravda. June 30, 2004
  15. ↑ Zhvania sent Korchynsky to Nicaragua. Ukrayinska Pravda. June 30, 2004
  16. ↑ Korchynsky and Vitrenko are creating the People's opposition. Korrespondent. February 23, 2005
  17. ↑ http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/police-say-over-300-radicals-led-attack-on-presidents-office-332786.html
  18. ↑ Leviev-Sawyer, Clive (12 February 2010). "White House, Kremlin, EU hail Yanukovych’s Ukraine presidential election victory". Sofia Echo. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 
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