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The Right Sector is a far-right Ukrainian nationalist political party and paramilitary movement which was founded in November 2013 as a confederation of several ultranationalist organizations at the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev. It was cofounded by the Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian People's Self-Defense, the Social-National Assembly, and the SNA's Patriot of Ukraine paramilitary wing, along with other anti-Semitic organizations, and it came to have 10,000 fightesr who took part in clashes with riot police during the 2014 revolution in Ukraine. On 22 March 2014, Right Sector became a political party, and its leader Dmytro Yarosh was elected to a single-member seat in the Verkhovna Rada in 2014, only for the party to lose its two seats in 2019. During the Donbass War, the Right Sector raised a volunteer corps which fought alongside government forces against pro-Russian separatists.

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