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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
Olexander Muzychko, the leader of a right-wing nationalist political group in Ukraine, was gunned down on March 24 in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne.
Mr. Muzychko was best known in and outside Ukraine as an extreme nationalist with an anti-Russian penchant.
Moscow tried to blame him as a symbol of what went wrong inside Ukraine in the recent uprising that overthrew Moscow’s ally President Viktor Yanukovych. But Muzychko was already under investigation by Ukrainian authorities for organized crime.
Moscow accused Muzychko of being a terrorist who was responsible for the torturing and death of more than 20 Russian military personnel in the restive Chechen area in 1994 and 1995.
During the recent unrest in Ukraine, Muzychko was known as an open critic of the interim government for its alleged impotence against Russian aggression in Crimea.
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