On 2 February 2025, the third cohort of students from the University of Free Nations graduated – a unique educational project created on the initiative of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderites) to train leaders of national liberation movements of enslaved peoples.
The training at the University of Free Nations took place online, with the best Ukrainian teachers involved in anti-colonial studies, geopolitics, international law and the law of peoples, political science, the history of the Ukrainian liberation movement, conducting information special operations, managing social networks and digital security, social communication, and the basics of counterintelligence activities. A feature of the third cohort was that the teaching staff became international, as academics from leading educational institutions in Lithuania and Georgia joined.
The University’s third cohort of graduates were representatives of Circassia, Tatarstan, Karelia, Mordovia, and other enslaved nations. For three months, the students mastered theoretical knowledge acquiring practical skills in the specified disciplines, the results of which they demonstrated in their graduation projects, which received favourable assessments from the examination committee.
Summing up the educational process, the head of the University of Free Nations, Leontiy Shypilov noted both the exemplary professionalism of the teachers and the high level of motivation of the students. Although not every student successfully passed the final tests, those who became graduates of the University fully correspond to the words of the outstanding poet and nationalist Oleh Olzhych from the poem “To the Unknown Soldier” – “A state is not created in the future, a state is built now.”
Traditionally, the graduates and teachers of the University of Free Nations were congratulated by the Head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderites) and the President of the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations, Oleh Medunytsya, who emphasized that the University of Free Nations is one of the best educational public projects in Ukraine and abroad. The participants not only receive high-quality knowledge but also fully apply it in their practical activities, namely, in the national liberation struggle for freedom and the decolonization of Muscovy.
Executive Director of the ABN Oleh Vitvitskyj assured those present that studying at the UVN is only the first step in the cooperation of the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations with leaders and activists of the national liberation movements of the enslaved nations. In the near future, this cooperation will also develop in all other main areas of the ABN’s work: informational, human rights, and most importantly, socio-political. A vivid example of such interaction is the fact that the best graduates of the third batch of the University will become participants in this year’s Bandera Readings, which will be held on 7-8 February in Kyiv, and will be dedicated to the history and prospects of the liberation struggle of the nations enslaved by Russia.
