The "nationalist and neo-fascist" sentiment in western Ukraine must be "decisively condemned", Russia's foreign minister has said.
Sergei Lavrov's warning came as Ukraine's acting interior minister said he had disbanded the elite Berkut riot police that protesters blamed for scores of deaths in last week's clashes.
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov Mr Lavrov made his call to democracy watchdog the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which he also said should condemn attempts by nationalists to ban the Russian language in Ukraine.
"Lavrov called on the OSCE to decisively condemn the rise of nationalist and neo-fascist sentiment in the west of the country, (to condemn) calls to ban the Russian language, to turn the Russian-speaking population into 'non-citizens' and to restrict freedom of expression," his ministry said in a statement.
References to fascism are evocative of the Cold War period, when authorities in the East routinely described the West as fascist.
It came as Ukraine's acting interior minister, Arsen Avakov, announced the end of the riot police unit involved in violence that left almost 100 people dead last week.
"The Berkut is no more," he wrote on his Facebook account.
"I have signed Decree No 144, dated February 25, 2014 on the dissolution of the Berkut special police units of civil defence."
Members of Ukraine's Berkut riot police unit Britain and the US had earlier sought to ease tensions, saying Ukraine should not be a battleground between East and West.
Foreign Secretary William Hague, after talks with his American counterpart John Kerry, backed Ukraine's territorial integrity amid fears that the nation could be torn apart following the protests that ousted pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych.
"This is a country that needs financial assistance from many sources, including from Russia," Mr Hague said.
"It's not about pulling them away from Russia. It's about enabling them to make their own choices."
Mr Kerry said: "This is not a zero-sum game, it is not a West versus East.
Those who died in the Kiev clashes are being mourned "This is about the people of Ukraine and Ukrainians making their choice about their future."
His comments echoed those previously made by Mr Lavrov, who had said: "We confirmed our principled position of non-intervention in Ukraine's internal affairs.
"We are interested in Ukraine being part of the European family, in all senses of the word. It is dangerous and counterproductive to force Ukraine into a choice."
Meanwhile, former president Mr Yanukovych has been missing since Friday when he fled Kiev. He is wanted by police in the country on charges of mass murder.
Hundreds of mourners have been gathering in the centre of Kiev where flowers and other tributes have been left in honour of those who died.
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