On 2 November training for students of the third batch of the University of the Free Nations began. A special feature of this year’s University programme was the international level of the educational project because highly qualified experts from Lithuania and Georgia joined the teaching team of UVN. Leading Ukrainian specialists in research on liberation movements, lawyers, political scientists, economists, and media experts also traditionally work as mentors at the University.
The University’s audience became representatives of enslaved nations’ national liberation movements: Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Karelia, Mari El, Chechnya, Nogaistan, Cherkessia and activists of regionalist movements. As part of the training course, they will study the history of the liberation struggle, the theory of state formation, models of socio-economic development of the state, elements of informational and propaganda struggle and several other thematic subjects.
The inaugural meeting of the third cohort of the University of the Free Nations was opened by the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderites), the President of the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations, Oleh Medunytsya, who emphasized that the training of quality personnel for the national liberation movements of enslaved nations is the key to an inevitable victory over the common enemy.
The head of the educational project, Leontiy Shypilov, cited historical parallels between the cooperation of the Ukrainian liberation movement and representatives of the enslaved nations, noting that the most important task for contemporaries is to complete the work of their glorious predecessors. “The main goal of the University’s activity remains unchanged,” Leontiy Shipilov emphasized, “working with representatives of the national liberation movements of enslaved nations regarding their quality education and professional training of the managerial and political elites of future national states.” According to Leontiy Shypilov, the course programme is planned until February 2025, and the best diploma theses of UVN students will be presented at the 12th Bandera Readings.
We will remind everyone that the University of the Free Nations was organized in November 2023. The initiators of the creation of the University of the Free Nations were the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderites) and the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations. The purpose of UVN is to study the theory and practice of the national liberation struggle by representatives of enslaved nations who strive to create their own independent states on the ruins of the Moscow Empire.
