[2] According to some observers, the ESM was created as a reaction to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the role the younger generation played in it.

The most prominent of these attacks that received nationwide attention was the desecration of Ukrainian state symbols on Mount Hoverla in October 2007.

[11] Due to the relatively high profile of these attacks the Ukrainian police asked for assistance from Russia in finding people responsible for them, but no suspects have been apprehended yet.

[13] The "Sova Center" in its classification classifies the ESM as the “ideological neighbors” of radical Russian nationalists.

[14] At the same time, Eurasians claim[15] that the Sova Center cannot objectively evaluate the patriotic organizations of Russia, since it is funded from the United States.