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Ukraine's most powerful whatsapp phone number list far-right group and the one most favored by state largesse. In recent years, Bellingcat researchers have examined Azov's attempt to establish contacts with American white nationalists and whatsapp phone number list the funding he received from the Ukrainian state to teach "patriotic education" courses and support for demobilized veterans ; investigated the neo-Nazi black metal festivals organized by the movement and the support given to the exiled Russian neo-Nazi group whatsapp phone number list Wotanjugend , anti-Putin and practitioner of a very marginal form of esoteric Nazism , which shares space with Azov in its Kiev