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Just got off the phone with someone from Right Sector USA who confirmed the organization is no longer active. "What happened? Did you lose touch with Right Sector?" I asked. "You could say that." I didn't pry for a better explanation but hope to follow up.
According to this spreadsheet posted on the now-defunct Right Sector USA website (rightsectorusa.com), RS-USA raised about $30,000 from 2014-2016. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
It appears that one of the last things Right Sector USA did was to partner with the Brooklyn-based Ukrainian "Social Development Institute" (SDI) to sponsor the "psychological rehabilitation" of Ukrainian children of soldiers killed in the Donbas. 
Mykhaylo Kazarenko (@mykhaylokaz), president of the SDI, is a far-right—if not neo-Nazi—Ukrainian nationalist from Donetsk who moved to the United States in the 1990s, where he founded his Institute in 2005-2007, and has worked for the New York City Fire Department since 2010.
Kazarenko has posted several anti-semitic images on his Facebook account alleging Ukraine to be controlled by Jews & liked a handful of far-right pages including "Slavic-Aryan Vedas" (Славяно Арийские Веды), the name of an extremist, racist neo-pagan text: facebook.com/vedic.slavic.a…
Right Sector USA appears to have been most active in the summer of 2014. @Russian_Starr attended a demo of theirs that August, apparently unfazed by their presence. "Right Sector [is in] the hizouse!"
In September 2014, Right Sector USA & other Ukr. nationalist diaspora orgs (ODFFU in particular) protested outside the Russian embassy in New York City. I just realized that among others the apparent neo-Nazi recycling coordinator of Hanover, NJ was there:
The OUN-B affiliated Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine (ODFFU) hosted at least one Right Sector USA meeting in New York City in 2014, which was attended by at least one Ukrainian neo-Nazi, Petro Petrovich, who currently lives in Toronto: vk.com/id12735028
Also just realized the phone number I reached earlier belongs to the New Jersey-based "Bohdan Studios," which has documented some Right Sector USA events and made this weird RS propaganda video: vimeo.com/109349067
