Almost three years after Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzyna was shot dead near his home in Kyiv, two men have gone on trial, charged with his murder. If Buzyna was a highly controversial figure, so too is ‘C 14’, the far-right organization that the suspects – Andriy Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk – are linked with.
A number of members of C14 were outside the court for the preliminary hearing on February 9, together with several members of the so-called ‘Natsionalni druzhyny’ vigilantes whose public oath-taking ceremony at the end of January aroused considerable public concern. The position taken by C14 and other nationalist groups has been that the men are innocent, and are being targeted as ‘patriots’.
