Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is a Ukrainian politician and far-right activist who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist Svoboda political party. Previously, he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.
Tyahnybok in 2014
Tyahnybok with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting of Ukrainian parliamentary members, in 2014.
Opposition leaders Oleh Tyahnybok, Vitali Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, addressing demonstrators, 27 November 2013
Ukrainian nationalism is the promotion of the unity of Ukrainians as a people and the promotion of the identity of Ukraine as a nation state. The origins of modern Ukrainian nationalism emerge during the 17th-century Cossack uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Ukrainian nationalism draws upon a single national identity of culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics, religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history that dates back to the 9th century.
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, reconstructed after Ukrainian independence
Postcard published by the Ukrainian Brigade, "United Ukrainians defend against both Polish and Russian forces", 1920
Ukrainian nationalists demonstrate against the Soviet Union and for an independent Ukraine in 1941
Lviv football fans at a 2010 game against Donetsk. The banner reads "Bandera – our hero."
