By Gala Sklyarevska, for Detector Media A volunteer battalion for several months in 2014 and later a part of the National Guard, Azov has become a neo-Nazi bogeyman thanks to Russian propaganda and nonsensical publications in some Western media. One of the most widespread lies disseminated by Russian propaganda about Ukraine revolves around the so-called nationalist battalions. These are, allegedly, illegal armed groups that are not controlled by the government and military command. They ostensibly terrorize civilians and profess neo-Nazism or just Nazism. In the early days of the full-scale invasion, Russian media were trying to convince their audiences that...