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Agence France-Presse: Moscow warns Ukraine ‘on Nazi path’

By AFP.

Published Jan. 3, 2015 at 10:08 am

Ukrainians hold torches during a march in Kyiv on Jan. 1, 2014, as they mark the 106th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera. Bandera was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in western Ukraine, who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. .

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists marched in Kiev to honor controversial resistance leader Stepan Bandera.

A torch-lit march held in Kiev to honor a controversial anti-Soviet resistance leader shows Ukraine is following in the footsteps of the Nazis, a senior Russian foreign ministry official said on Jan.2.