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The Azov Brigade's official magazine is titled "Black Sun newspaper" which it produces and distributes to several tens of thousands within the Ukrainian military still uses the black sun, because it's literally the fucking name of the publication.
Some but not all of them are available here: https://archive.org/details/black_sun/
Given that this archived collection goes up to 2017, you are full of shit.
Yeah no that's indefensible and the original editor in chief is nuts (google translate from the Ukrainian wikipedia page):
Couldn't find out when it was discontinued, the azov.press domain certainly is dysfunctional. Azov's official news feed seems to be here.
Could neither find out how official the whole thing was, either, and especially not in the crucial post-incorporation times. They might just have continued to operate independently.
Still, though: Is current-day Azov out there doing Nazi things? Ultimately that's the only question that matters. Of course from the Russian perspective yes it is according to Russian propaganda everyone opposed to Russia (and that includes being opposed to being invaded) is a Nazi.
The magazine is produced by Azov's political wing, the National Corps as of 2016, which has currently suspended activity during the war. It will spin up its political wing again afterwards. Links and references in the other comment I sent here.
This started redirecting to Nackor.org in 2016 when the National Corps was started.