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Moscow -- The Russian Supreme Court on Nov. 17 classified the organizations Right Sector and the Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian People's Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) as extremist organizations. 

Thus, the court has granted a request made by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office.

The Russian Supreme Court has also classed the organizations Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Stepan Bandera’s Trident as extremist organizations.

The trial was closed to the press as some of the case materials were labeled “classified.”

UNA-UNSO has existed since 1990. In 2014, the organization became part of the Ukrainian Right Sector movement.

According to earlier reports, the Russian Investigative Committee had opened criminal cases against some UNA-UNSO members (including Ihor Mazura, Valeriy Bobrovych, Dmytro Korchynsky, Andriy and Oleh Tiahnybok, Dmytro Yarosh, and Volodymyr Mamalyha). Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax earlier that the people were suspected of “creating a stable armed group for the purpose of attacking citizens, administration of such a group, and involvement in attacks by it.”