The Praxis Centre in Russia, a socialist group promoting the ideas and writings of Victor Serge, has recommended to us an informative blog post (with photos as evidence for its claims) on far-right elements in the pro-Russian forces which have staged local coups in east Ukraine.
The writer of the blog post stresses that it would be wrong to "associate all the pro-Russian insurgents in South-Eastern Ukraine with anti-Semites, racists and fascism" and that within the pro-Russian mobilisations there are "voices of dissent" against the far-right presence.
His evidence does, however, torpedo the claim that the pro-Russian coups, and maybe Russian invasion, are necessary because of the "far right" or "fascist" nature of the movement which overthrew the pro-Russian president Yanukovych and installed the Kiev government.
http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.de/2014/04/russian-and-pro-russian-right-wing.html