The death of an ultra-nationalist in Ukraine highlights the continuing internal and international forces challenging the authorities.<br /><br />Alexander Muzychko was killed in a shoot-out, according to the Interior Ministry in Kyiv, in Rivne, western Ukraine.<br /><br />The ministry said he resisted arrest in a police operation connected with an organised crime investigation. Three men with him were taken in.<br /><br />Videos posted on YouTube show Muzychko brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle at a meeting with municipal councillors and of him hitting a state prosecutor.<br /><br />He was also on Moscow’s most-wanted criminal list for actions with Chechen warlords against Russian servicemen in the mid-1990s.<br /><br />Far right groups were key participants in organised violence in the Maidan anti-government protests earlier this year.<br /><br />Muzychko was head of the paramilitary far right movement in Ukraine: Pravy Sektor.
