The author researches phenomenon of the right wing radical political parties in Europe. As far as in political science there is no vivid approach towards determination of this phenomenon, author analyzes terminological approaches and offers to use term «right wing radicals» as common for this phenomenon. Recently, we can increasingly observe in political practice that conservative political parties adopt the rhetoric of right-wing radicals and are increasingly using their slogans, especially anti-immigrant rhetoric in their work. This is due to increased (...) competition in the right range. To protect themselves from competition from the right, conservatives are forced to use slogans that are acceptable for the majority of voters. Thus, in modern political science there is no single approach to the concept of extreme right-wing parties. However, the term «neo / neo-Nazism» is outdated and can not explain the phenomenon of modern political parties, most of them distance themselves from totalitarian ideologies of right and do not recognize their ideology. The term «right-wing populism» has no methodological clarity for use as a generic concept. The best is the term «right radicalism,» which reflects features of the ideology and practice of extreme right-wing political parties and can be used as a generic concept. (shrink)

Any study of the religious situation in Ukraine always faces one problem - the lack of detailed information on the number of believers of a particular denomination. The most recent census did not include the question of denominational affiliation, as it was considered a violation of the principle of freedom of conscience. The only officially recognized statistical unit we have is the religious community. Approximate number of adherents of a particular denomination is given by the results of sociological research. However, (...) it is precisely at the border of statistics and sociology that one of the paradoxes that the current religious situation in Ukraine is rich in is the paradox of the inconsistency of sociological data with statistics. Thus, according to the State Committee for National Religions of Ukraine as of January 1, 2009, there were 11539 communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, 4128 communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, and 1184 communities of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. As the traditional Greek churches include the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Roman Catholics, their number is 3570 and 907 communities, respectively. (shrink)