The Jerusalem Post: Ukraine party attempts to lose anti-Semitic image

By The Jerusalem Post.

Published Jan. 21, 2013 at 8:01 am

Members of the of nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) movement burn the flags of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions of Ukraine during a rally marking the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.

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Yuri Syrotyuk, senior figure in the Svoboda party, says Jews have nothing to fear in his country.

KRAKOW – The Ukraine’s parliamentary elections in October 2012 brought bad news to the Jews living in the country. For the first time since it took part in the general elections, the far-Right Svoboda (“Freedom”) party had won a number of parliamentary seats – surprising even its biggest fans.

Svoboda was established in 1991 and became an official political party in 1995.