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In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led [[Untermenschen]]".<ref name="Jerry Harris">{{cite book|author=Jerry Harris|title=Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tYpXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93|year=2016|publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-0-9972870-4-2|pages=93}}</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{cite news| title=Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better' | newspaper=the Guardian | date=2018-03-13 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links | ref={{sfnref | the Guardian | 2018}} | access-date=2020-07-31}}</ref><ref name="Gordon M. Hahn">{{cite book|author=Gordon M. Hahn|title=Ukraine Over the Edge Russia, the West and the 'New Cold War'|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VCpADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |year=2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2875-2 |page=184 }}</ref> Biletsky denied ever making such remarks<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url = https://khpg.org/en/1443479556 |title=Anti-Semitism is no vote-winner even for Ukraine's far-right |website= Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group | date = 2 October 2015 | access-date = | language = en}}</ref> and said that it was a fake quotation fabricated by [[Sergey Lavrov]] to defame him.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://gordonua.com/publications/bileckiy-polovina-lyudey-kotorie-voyevali-za-ukrainu-razgovarivaet-na-russkom-jazike-507346.html | script-title=ru:Билецкий: Половина людей, которые воевали за Украину, разговаривает на русском языке | publisher = gordonua.com | date = 20 November 2018 | access-date = 19 October 2019 | language = ru}}</ref> |
In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led [[Untermenschen]]".<ref name="Jerry Harris">{{cite book|author=Jerry Harris|title=Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tYpXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT93|year=2016|publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-0-9972870-4-2|pages=93}}</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{cite news| title=Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better' | newspaper=the Guardian | date=2018-03-13 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links | ref={{sfnref | the Guardian | 2018}} | access-date=2020-07-31}}</ref><ref name="Gordon M. Hahn">{{cite book|author=Gordon M. Hahn|title=Ukraine Over the Edge Russia, the West and the 'New Cold War'|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VCpADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |year=2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2875-2 |page=184 }}</ref> Biletsky denied ever making such remarks<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url = https://khpg.org/en/1443479556 |title=Anti-Semitism is no vote-winner even for Ukraine's far-right |website= Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group | date = 2 October 2015 | access-date = | language = en}}</ref> and said that it was a fake quotation fabricated by [[Sergey Lavrov]] to defame him.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://gordonua.com/publications/bileckiy-polovina-lyudey-kotorie-voyevali-za-ukrainu-razgovarivaet-na-russkom-jazike-507346.html | script-title=ru:Билецкий: Половина людей, которые воевали за Украину, разговаривает на русском языке | publisher = gordonua.com | date = 20 November 2018 | access-date = 19 October 2019 | language = ru}}</ref> |
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Until 2011 Biletsky was in favour of forming a confederation between Russia and Ukraine, with Kyiv as its capital, according to [[BBC News Ukrainian]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Національний корпус в обличчях: хто ці люди і звідки |language=uk |work=BBC News Україна |url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-47527045 |access-date=}}</ref |
Until 2011 Biletsky was in favour of forming a confederation between Russia and Ukraine, with Kyiv as its capital, according to [[BBC News Ukrainian]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Національний корпус в обличчях: хто ці люди і звідки |language=uk |work=BBC News Україна |url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-47527045 |access-date=}}</ref> |
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{{As of |2014}}, the [[BBC]],<ref name="Ukraine vote">{{Cite news |date=24 October 2014 |title=Ukraine vote could push the country into chaos |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29755967 |quote=Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommerlad |first1=Joe |title=Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-azov-battalion-mariupol-neo-nazis-b2043022.html |access-date=5 May 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 March 2022 |quote=It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan}}</ref> and [[The Moscow Times|''The Moscow Times'']]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Josh |date=20 July 2015 |title=Ukraine Should Beware the Azov Extremists |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/07/20/ukraine-should-beware-the-azov-extremists-a48402 |website=The Moscow Times}}</ref> have described Biletsky as a white supremacist. In 2014, political science lecturer [[Ivan Katchanovski]] commented to [[Radio Sweden]] that: "The SNA/PU [Patriot of Ukraine] advocates a neo-Nazi ideology along with ultranationalism and racism."<ref>{{cite journal |first=Ivan |last=Katchanovski |url=https://www.academia.edu/7682293 |title=My Interview with the Radio Sweden Concerning the Azov Battalion in Ukraine |website=Academia |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=23 June 2016 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029000003/https://www.academia.edu/7682293 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=academia.edu is a self-publishing platform – there is no record of this on the Radio Sweden website. Is it noteworthy?|date=March 2022}} |
{{As of |2014}}, the [[BBC]],<ref name="Ukraine vote">{{Cite news |date=24 October 2014 |title=Ukraine vote could push the country into chaos |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29755967 |quote=Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sommerlad |first1=Joe |title=Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-azov-battalion-mariupol-neo-nazis-b2043022.html |access-date=5 May 2022 |work=The Independent |date=24 March 2022 |quote=It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan}}</ref> and [[The Moscow Times|''The Moscow Times'']]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Josh |date=20 July 2015 |title=Ukraine Should Beware the Azov Extremists |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/07/20/ukraine-should-beware-the-azov-extremists-a48402 |website=The Moscow Times}}</ref> have described Biletsky as a white supremacist. In 2014, political science lecturer [[Ivan Katchanovski]] commented to [[Radio Sweden]] that: "The SNA/PU [Patriot of Ukraine] advocates a neo-Nazi ideology along with ultranationalism and racism."<ref>{{cite journal |first=Ivan |last=Katchanovski |url=https://www.academia.edu/7682293 |title=My Interview with the Radio Sweden Concerning the Azov Battalion in Ukraine |website=Academia |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=23 June 2016 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029000003/https://www.academia.edu/7682293 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=academia.edu is a self-publishing platform – there is no record of this on the Radio Sweden website. Is it noteworthy?|date=March 2022}} |
Revision as of 01:45, 3 June 2022
Andriy Biletsky Андрій Білецький | |
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Leader of National Corps | |
Assumed office 14 October 2016 | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
Commander of Azov Battalion | |
In office 5 May 2014 – October 2014 | |
Succeeded by | Ihor Mykhaylenko |
Personal details | |
Born | Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletsky 5 August 1979 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR |
Citizenship | Ukrainian |
Political party | Tryzub (2002-2005) Patriot of Ukraine (2005-2008) Social-National Assembly (2008-2016) National Corps (since 2016) |
Spouse |
Yulia Biletskaya
(m. 2003; div. 2016) |
Children | 1 son |
Residence(s) | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Alma mater | University of Kharkiv[3] |
Religion | Rodnovery |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Ukraine |
Branch/service | Militsiya (Special Tasks Patrol Police) (2014) National Guard |
Years of service | 2014–2016[4][1] |
Rank | lieutenant colonel of police[5][6] |
Commands | Azov Battalion |
Battles/wars | War in Donbas |
Awards | 25 Years of Independence of Ukraine Medal Order For Courage, 3rd Class[citation needed] |
Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletsky (Template:Lang-uk, IPA: [ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ij jeu̯ˈɦɛn⁽ʲ⁾ijoʋɪt͡ʃ b⁽ʲ⁾iˈɫɛt͡sʲkɪj]; born 5 August 1979[7]) is a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion,[4][1] and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly.[8][9][10][11][12][13] From 2014 until 2019 Biletsky was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament.
Biography
Andriy Biletsky was born in 1979 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union. Biletsky's father Yevheniy Mykhailovych Biletsky hailed from an old Cossack family that founded the village of Krasnopavlivka (Lozova Raion), while Biletsky's mother Olena Anatoliyivna Biletsky (née Lukashevych) descended from a noble family from Zhytomyr region, to which belong the Decembrist Vasiliy Lukashevich (Vasyl Lukashevych) who founded the "Little-Russian Secret Society".[7]
In his youth, Biletsky practiced several types of martial arts and boxing. Unlike many Ukrainians, he declined to join the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization. Biletsky, along with senior schoolmates, raised the Ukrainian flag over his school.[14] His major patriotic influence in his youth was his father's gift of a book prohibited in the Soviet Union, History of Ukraine for Children by Anton Lototsky.[14] During the Kosovo War, Biletsky, along with a group of Ukrainians, attempted to join the Yugoslav Army as volunteers to fight against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) but the Yugoslav authorities rejected them.[15][16][17] In 2001, Biletsky graduated with honors from the History faculty of the University of Kharkiv. His thesis was about the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.[3] The same year Biletsky participated in the Ukraine without Kuchma (UBK) protests, for which he was placed under administrative arrest. The Security Service of Ukraine pressured the university administration to expel Biletsky from the institution.
Political activism 2002-13
In 2002 Biletsky became a leader of the Kharkiv branch of the political organization Tryzub, and was a member of the Kharkiv section of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), but opposed the idea of its transformation into Svoboda.[3]
After the transformation of SNPU into Svoboda and liquidation of the original Patriot of Ukraine, in 2005 Biletsky initiated a revival of the Patriot of Ukraine,[3] independent from any political factions. The new Patriot of Ukraine initially consisted of the Kharkiv branches of UNA-UNSO, Tryzub, and former SNPU. Since 2005, Biletsky also cooperated with the newly established Ukrainian Conservative Party.[citation needed]
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Biletsky unsuccessfully ran for Ukrainian parliament.[14]
Patriot of Ukraine, Azov Battalion, 2014
During the Euromaidan events, members of the Biletsky's Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of Right Sector on 28 November 2013. On 24 February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a decision on the freedom of political prisoners. The next day, Biletsky and other prisoners were completely acquitted of all charges and freed from custody.[citation needed]
On 12 March 2014, Biletsky became a party leader in special operations for the "Right Sector - East," which included such regions as Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts. On 5 May 2014, in Berdyansk Biletsky became a founder of the Azov Battalion (as a territorial battalion of patrol service), and its first commander. The battalion was initially composed of members of the Patriot of Ukraine, SNA, football fans (notably Dynamo Kyiv supporters) and the AutoMaidan movement. The paramilitary unit became known as the Little black men as an opposition to the Russian special operations "Little green men".[14] It would be transformed from a militia into a regular regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine on 20 November 2014.
On 13 June 2014, Biletsky led his detachment in the successful First Battle of Mariupol. According to British military reporter Askold Krushelnycky, "Biletsky was cool in the evaluation of actions and giving orders calmly and, in my opinion, logically".[14] On 2 August 2014, Biletsky, holding a rank of Major of Militsiya,[citation needed] was awarded the Order For Courage (III degree)[18][non-primary source needed] and promoted to lieutenant colonel of police[5][6] on 15 August 2014.
On 10 September 2014, Biletsky was admitted to the military council of the People's Front, yet did not become a member of the party. On 27 September 2014, he ran as an independent candidate in the 217th electoral district (Kyiv) for the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election and won by receiving 31,445 votes (33.75%). In parliament, he joined the inter-factional group UKROP.[19] In October 2014, Ihor Mykhailenko replaced Biletsky as commander of Azov Battalion.[citation needed]
In an interview to LB.ua (Left Bank) given on 10 December 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the war, and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion.[20] In the same interview Biletsky said that the logo of the battalion is different from the German Wolfsangel and symbolizes Ukrainian national idea.[20]
Elected official, 2016-19
On October 14, 2016, Biletsky was voted as the leader of the newly formed party National Corps.[21] In October 2016 Biletsky officially left the Ukrainian National Guard because Ukrainian elected officials were barred from military service, but he vowed to continue his military career "without titles".[4]
During his first three years of work in Verkhovna Rada Biletsky participated only in 2% of votes,[22] He took part in only 229 votings, taking the fifth place in the rating of deputies with the fewest votings.[23][24] He missed 328 sittings of the Ukrainian parliament.[25][26] He missed all sittings of the Verkhovna Rada in 2016 and did not appear in parliament as of March 2017.[27][28][29] According to a research of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, published in August 2017, Biletsky did not write any laws that were adopted in the Verkhovna Rada. With 30 unsuccessful projects, he is in the first place among the deputies who submitted unsuccessful draft laws.[30][31][32]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was placed 2nd on the joined list of Svoboda with the far-right National Corps, the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh and Right Sector.[33] His party did not win enough votes to clear the 5% election threshold and thus did not gain any parliamentary seats.[34]
2020-present
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Political views
In 2010, Biletsky said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led Untermenschen".[35][36][37] Biletsky denied ever making such remarks[38] and said that it was a fake quotation fabricated by Sergey Lavrov to defame him.[39]
Until 2011 Biletsky was in favour of forming a confederation between Russia and Ukraine, with Kyiv as its capital, according to BBC News Ukrainian.[40]
As of 2014[update], the BBC,[41] The Independent[42] and The Moscow Times[43] have described Biletsky as a white supremacist. In 2014, political science lecturer Ivan Katchanovski commented to Radio Sweden that: "The SNA/PU [Patriot of Ukraine] advocates a neo-Nazi ideology along with ultranationalism and racism."[44][better source needed]
In 2020, The Guardian reported that Biletsky "has toned down his rhetoric in recent years".[36]
Earnings
According to the electronic declaration, in 2015, Biletsky received ₴ 58,990 (US$2,087) as salary in the Verkhovna Rada. He had ₴ 250,000 (US$8,846) in cash.[2][45] The declaration also indicated an apartment in Kyiv (see below), which was recorded as belonging to Biletsky's spouse Yuliya.[2][46][47] In the declaration for 2016, Biletsky indicated 115,652 hryvnia (US$4,423) as deputy salary, and ₴ 250,000 in cash.[48]
Personal life
From 2003 to 2016, Andriy Biletsky was married to Yuliya Oleksandrivna Biletskaya (née Brusenko); their son was born in 2007. In April 2016, the couple divorced.[49][50]
References
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) The former leader of "Azov" Beletsky declared only salary and $ 5,000, Ukrayinska Pravda (30 October 2016)
- ^ a b c Білецький Андрій Євгенійович. Декларація (щорічна) (in Ukrainian). Unified State Register of Declarations. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) "We are trying to come to power through elections, but we have all sorts of possibilities" - as "Azov" becomes party, Hromadske.TV (13 October 2016)
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Andriy Biletsky: Avakov - man system, but the system I think is negative, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 October 2016)
- ^ a b "Andriy Biletsky", Національний Кореспондент [National Correspondent] nackor.org, 8 December 2015
- ^ a b "Ukraine's Interior Ministry elaborates on duties of newly created 'national militia units' (Video)", Unian, 30 January 2018
- ^ a b "Андрій Білецький" [Andriy Biletsky]. Національний Кореспондент [National Correspondent] nackor.org (in Ukrainian). 8 December 2015. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ Shekhovstov, Anton (March 2011). "The Creeping Resurgence of the Ukrainian Radical Right? The Case of the Freedom Party". Europe-Asia Studies. 63 (2): 203–228. doi:10.1080/09668136.2011.547696. S2CID 155079439.
- ^ Shekhovstov, Anton (2013). "17: Para-Militarism to Radical Right-Wing Populism: The Rise of the Ukrainian Far-Right Party Svoboda.". In Wodak (ed.). Right-Wing Populism in Europe. Bloomsbury Academic.
- ^ Anton Shekhovtsov, Andreas Umland Ukraine's Radical Right // Journal of Democracy. Volume 25, Number 3 July 2014
- ^ Shekhovtsov, Anton (2013). "17: From Para-Militarism to Radical Right-Wing Populism: The Rise of the Ukrainian Far-Right Party Svoboda". In Ruth Wodak (ed.). Right-Wing Populism in Europe. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 249–263. ISBN 978-1780932453.
- ^ Ishchenko, Volodymyr (2011). "Fighting Fences vs Fighting Monuments: Politics of Memory and Protest Mobilization in Ukraine". Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 19 (1–2): 369–395. doi:10.1080/0965156X.2011.611680. S2CID 145492425.
- ^ Ghosh, Mridula (2013). Ralf Melzer (ed.). The Extreme Right in Ukraine's Political Mainstream: What Lies Ahead?. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
- ^ a b c d e Bereza, A. Andriy Biletsky. How war changed a political prisoner into a commander of the Azov Battalion. "Novoye Vremya". 22 October 2014
- ^ "Ukrajinci se na Košarama borili na srpskoj strani". Balkanska bezbednosna mreža. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "Ukrajinci se na Košarama borili na srpskoj strani, i komandant Azova se prijavio". N1 (in Serbian). 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "Андрій Білецький: "Наші хлопці – українофіли, а не ксенофоби»". konkurent.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №631/2014". president.gov.ua.
- ^ Justice Ministry registered the party Kolomoisky, Korrespondent.net (18 June 2015)
- ^ a b Shvets, Ye. Andriy Biletsky: Half of Azov speaks the Russian language. But they die and kill for Ukraine. LB.ua. 10 December 2014
- ^ Talant, Bermet (15 October 2016). "Nationalist Azov Battalion starts political party". Kyiv Post.
- ^ "43 депутата почти никогда не голосовали в Раде - КИУ" (in Russian). Ukrayinska Pravda. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ КИУ назвал 10 депутатов, которые проигнорировали больше всего голосований Рады за три года (in Russian). 112 Ukraine. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ КВУ склав рейтинг ТОП-10 депутатів, які ігнорують голосування у ВР (in Ukrainian). Committee of Voters of Ukraine. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ Опубликован рейтинг наибольших депутатов-прогульщиков Верховной Рады за 3 года (in Russian). 24 Channel. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ Ярош, Билецкий, Добкин: Топ-10 прогульщиков Рады за три года (in Russian). TSN / 1+1. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
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- ^ "5 нардепов пропустили все заседания Рады в 2017 году – КИУ" (in Russian). Ukrayinska Pravda. 9 September 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ Топ-5 нардепов-прогульщиков: КИУ назвал фамилии избранников, пропустивших все заседания ВР в 2017 году (in Russian). Ukrainian Independent Information Agency. 9 September 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ "Более 60 депутатов не стали авторами ни одного принятого закона - КИУ". Ukrayinska Pravda. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "В Верховной Раде более 60 нардепов до сих пор не стали авторами принятых законов, - КИУ". RBK Ukraine. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Півсотні депутатів досі не стали авторами жодного прийнятого закону". Committee of Voters of Ukraine. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Ярош, Тягнибок та Білецький таки сформували єдиний список на вибори".
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- ^ a b "Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better'". the Guardian. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
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Andrei Biletsky, a white supremacist commander
- ^ Sommerlad, Joe (24 March 2022). "Who are Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion?". The Independent. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
It was organised by Andriy Biletsky, a white supermacist former football hooligan
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- ^ Katchanovski, Ivan (19 June 2014). "My Interview with the Radio Sweden Concerning the Azov Battalion in Ukraine". Academia. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
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- ^ Семья командира «Азова» Билецкого во время боев за аэропорт купила квартиру в киевском новострое (in Russian). Strana.ua. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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- ^ Білецький Андрій Євгенійович. Виправлена декларація (щорічна) (in Ukrainian). Unified State Register of Declarations. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Alexey Romanov (14 October 2016). Квартирный вопрос вождя Билецкого - жилье за 4 миллиона в Киеве и развод с женой (in Russian). Strana.ua. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ Андрей Билецкий: почему украинский националист не голосует в Раде (in Russian). Politeka.net. 4 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
External links
- Biletsky, A. Word of the White Leader. "RiD". Kharkiv.
- Profile at the Ukrainian parliament website
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- Living people
- People from Kharkiv
- Politicians from Kharkiv
- National University of Kharkiv alumni
- Ukrainian nationalists
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- People of the National Guard of Ukraine
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- Far-right politics in Ukraine
- Prisoners and detainees of Ukraine
- Ukrainian prisoners and detainees
- Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
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- Recipients of the Order For Courage, 3rd class
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