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</a> <ul id="toc-Party_of_Regional_Revival_of_Ukraine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Creation_of_the_Party_of_Regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Creation_of_the_Party_of_Regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.2 Creation of the Party of Regions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Creation_of_the_Party_of_Regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electoral_breakthrough" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electoral_breakthrough"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.3 Electoral breakthrough </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electoral_breakthrough-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2006_parliamentary_election_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2006_parliamentary_election_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.3.1 2006 parliamentary election results </div> </a> <ul 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id="toc-2012_parliamentary_election_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-Yanukovych_presidency" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-Yanukovych_presidency"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.5 Post-Yanukovych presidency </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post-Yanukovych_presidency-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Revolution_of_Dignity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Revolution_of_Dignity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.5.1 Revolution of Dignity </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Revolution_of_Dignity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Criminal_case_against_deputies/party_members_support_for_separatism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criminal_case_against_deputies/party_members_support_for_separatism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.5.2 Criminal case against deputies/party members support for separatism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Criminal_case_against_deputies/party_members_support_for_separatism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2014_parliamentary_election,_disintegration_and_ban" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2014_parliamentary_election,_disintegration_and_ban"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.5.3 2014 parliamentary election, disintegration and ban </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2014_parliamentary_election,_disintegration_and_ban-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Party's_electoral_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Party's_electoral_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Party's electoral results </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Party's_electoral_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Issue_stances" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domestic_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1.2 Domestic policy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Domestic_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-National_economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#National_economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1.3 National economy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government_and_society" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government_and_society"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1.4 Government and society </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government_and_society-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Selected_members" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Selected_members"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Selected members </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Selected_members-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vremya_Regionov" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vremya_Regionov"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Vremya Regionov </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vremya_Regionov-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International_cooperation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_cooperation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 International cooperation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_cooperation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" 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lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Партыя рэгіёнаў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%9E" title="Партыя рэгіёнаў – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Партыя рэгіёнаў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5" title="Партия на регионите – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Партия на регионите" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partit_de_les_Regions" title="Partit de les Regions – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Partit de les Regions" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strana_region%C5%AF" title="Strana regionů – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Strana regionů" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionernes_Parti" title="Regionernes Parti – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Regionernes Parti" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partei_der_Regionen" title="Partei der Regionen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Partei der Regionen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regioonide_Partei" title="Regioonide Partei – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Regioonide Partei" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_de_las_Regiones" title="Partido de las Regiones – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Partido de las Regiones" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partio_de_Regionoj_(Ukrainio)" title="Partio de Regionoj (Ukrainio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Partio de Regionoj (Ukrainio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_des_r%C3%A9gions" title="Parti des régions – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Parti des régions" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%80%EC%97%AD%EB%8B%B9" title="지역당 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="지역당" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partija_regija" title="Partija regija – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Partija regija" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_delle_Regioni" title="Partito delle Regioni – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Partito delle Regioni" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_(%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94)" title="מפלגת האזורים (אוקראינה) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מפלגת האזורים (אוקראינה)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%C4%A3ionu_partija_(Ukraina)" title="Reģionu partija (Ukraina) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Reģionu partija (Ukraina)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region%C5%B3_partija" title="Regionų partija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Regionų partija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85" title="حزب الاقاليم – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="حزب الاقاليم" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Wilayah" title="Parti Wilayah – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Parti Wilayah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partij_van_de_Regio%27s" title="Partij van de Regio's – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Partij van de Regio's" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E5%9F%9F%E5%85%9A" title="地域党 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="地域党" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionpartiet" title="Regionpartiet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Regionpartiet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partia_Region%C3%B3w" title="Partia Regionów – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Partia Regionów" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_das_Regi%C3%B5es" title="Partido das Regiões – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Partido das Regiões" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partidul_Regiunilor" title="Partidul Regiunilor – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Partidul Regiunilor" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Партия регионов – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Партия регионов" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" 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solid #003F81; border-bottom:2px solid #003F81; line-height: 1;"><div class="fn org">Party of Regions</div> <div style="font-size: 0.8em; padding-top:0.3em;" class="nickname">Партія регіонів Партия регионов</div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo" style="padding-top:.4em;padding-bottom:.3em;"><a href="/wiki/File:Party_of_Regions_logo_(Ukrainian_version).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg/180px-Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg/270px-Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg/360px-Party_of_Regions_logo_%28Ukrainian_version%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="527" data-file-height="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leader" title="Party leader">Leader</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;">Collective leadership<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-EnlargedBPoR-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Executive secretary</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Borys_Kolesnikov" title="Borys Kolesnikov">Borys Kolesnikov</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> <a href="/wiki/Yukhym_Zvyahilsky" title="Yukhym Zvyahilsky">Yukhym Zvyahilsky</a> <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Rybak_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volodymyr Rybak (politician)">Volodymyr Rybak</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">26 October 1997</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Banned</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">21 February 2023</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc" title="Opposition Bloc">Opposition Bloc</a> (mainly)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Vremya Regionov</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Youth_wing" title="Youth wing">Youth wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130616032200/http://mo-re.org/">Young Regions</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">Social democracy</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <a href="/wiki/Regionalism_(politics)" title="Regionalism (politics)">Regionalism</a><a href="#cite_note-PAE-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> <a href="/wiki/Russophilia" title="Russophilia">Russophilia</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <a href="/wiki/Euroscepticism" title="Euroscepticism">Euroscepticism</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-PAE-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/Big_tent" title="Big tent">Catch-all party</a><a href="#cite_note-Max_Bader_Center-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-SFFUkW-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-ideologicalsplits-13">[13]</a> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Centre-left_politics" title="Centre-left politics">Centre-left</a><a href="#cite_note-razumkov-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-clio-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-sokov-16">[16]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">National affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/For_United_Ukraine!" title="For United Ukraine!">For United Ukraine!</a> (2001)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/European_political_party" title="European political party">European affiliation</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_of_Socialists_and_Democrats" title="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats">Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats</a> (Cooperation, until 2014)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarchs" title="Ukrainian oligarchs">Oligarch</a> association</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Clan" title="Donetsk Clan">Donetsk Clan</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Colours</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style 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(<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: «Сильные регионы, крепкая страна, богатые люди!») (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: «Сильні регіони, міцна країна, багаті люди!»)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 0.8em;">Party flag</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg/180px-Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg/270px-Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg/360px-Flag_of_Party_of_Regions.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" 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abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Russophilia_in_Ukraine" title="Template:Russophilia in Ukraine"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Russophilia_in_Ukraine" title="Template talk:Russophilia in Ukraine"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Russophilia_in_Ukraine" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Russophilia in Ukraine"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> The Party of Regions (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: Партія регіонів, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">romanized</a>: Partiia rehioniv, <style 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2014. Since the <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a>, the party has not competed in elections and members have slowly dispersed; the last election in which the party participated was the <a href="/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-URK.VOTEPP6-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Rs15BBCU-25">[25]</a> The best-known former party members are former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Ukraine" title="Prime Minister of Ukraine">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> and former <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President of Ukraine</a> <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a>;<a href="#cite_note-AzarovLPR23410-26">[26]</a> both fled to <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> in February 2014 after <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AzYaPorftR-27">[27]</a> The Ukrainian Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party on 21 February 2023.<a href="#cite_note-PoR7390318-28">[28]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_of_Regional_Revival_of_Ukraine">Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Makeevka_086.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Makeevka_086.jpg/220px-Makeevka_086.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Makeevka_086.jpg/330px-Makeevka_086.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Makeevka_086.jpg/440px-Makeevka_086.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>The office of Party of Regions in <a href="/wiki/Makiivka" title="Makiivka">Makiivka</a>, 2009</figcaption></figure> The founding congress of the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (the predecessor of the Party of Regions) was held on 26 October 1997 in <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DEN-29">[29]</a> The first leader of the party was mayor of <a href="/wiki/Donetsk" title="Donetsk">Donetsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Vasylyovych_Rybak" title="Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak">Volodymyr Rybak</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DEN-29">[29]</a> On 6 November 1997, the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine was registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a> and on the 27th of that month the 1st Party Congress took place, which adopted the electoral party list and platform for the next elections. On 13 January 1998, a parliamentary faction was created in the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Ukraine">parliament of Ukraine</a>. It was known as the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine and was headed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gennadiy_Samofalov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gennadiy Samofalov (page does not exist)">Gennadiy Samofalov</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] During the <a href="/wiki/1998_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election">1998 parliamentary elections</a>, the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine won 0.90% of the votes.<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a> A single party representative was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Parliament">Ukrainian Parliament</a> by winning one constituency in the regular elections.<a href="#cite_note-DEN-29">[29]</a> The party was among the top 10 in <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast" title="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Oblast" title="Donetsk Oblast">Donetsk Oblasts</a>. <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Vasylyovych_Rybak" title="Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak">Volodymyr Rybak</a> was the winner of constituency number 45 in Donetsk Oblast.<a href="#cite_note-CECU21998-31">[31]</a> During the 2nd Party Congress that took place in two stages during the spring of 1999, the Party decided to support candidate <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma" title="Leonid Kuchma">Leonid Kuchma</a> for the next presidential elections. It was recommended[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] that the candidate should include in his election campaign some of the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine's policy proposals, including one on granting the <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian language</a> official status. In the summer of 1999, the party entered the "Our choice – Leonid Kuchma" electoral bloc, consisting of 23 parties and led by <a href="/wiki/Yevhen_Kushnaryov" title="Yevhen Kushnaryov">Yevhen Kushnaryov</a>, who endorsed incumbent <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian President">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma" title="Leonid Kuchma">Leonid Kuchma</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="1999 Ukrainian presidential election">presidential election of 1999</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DEN-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation_of_the_Party_of_Regions">Creation of the Party of Regions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Creation of the Party of Regions">edit</a>]</div> On 17 November 2000, the 3rd Extraordinary Party Congress adopted the merger of five political parties, <a href="/w/index.php?title=For_Beautiful_Ukraine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="For Beautiful Ukraine (page does not exist)">For Beautiful Ukraine</a> (led by <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Chernovetsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Leonid Chernovetsky">Leonid Chernovetsky</a>), <a href="/w/index.php?title=All-Ukrainian_Party_of_Pensioners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="All-Ukrainian Party of Pensioners (page does not exist)">All-Ukrainian Party of Pensioners</a> (A. Kapusta), <a href="/wiki/Party_of_Labor_(Ukraine)" title="Party of Labor (Ukraine)">Party of Labor</a> (Valentyn Landyk), <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Ukraine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solidarity (Ukraine)">Party of Solidarity of Ukraine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a>), and Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (<a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Vasylyovych_Rybak" title="Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak">Volodymyr Rybak</a>), into a new one under the name of Party of Regional Revival "Labor Solidarity of Ukraine". The co-leaders of the new political group became <a href="/w/index.php?title=Valentyn_Landyk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valentyn Landyk (page does not exist)">Valentyn Landyk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Vasylyovych_Rybak" title="Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak">Volodymyr Rybak</a>. Also, shortly before the merger, the <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Ukraine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solidarity (Ukraine)">Party of Solidarity of Ukraine</a> was completely abandoned by one of its key components, the <a href="/wiki/Peasant_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Peasant Party of Ukraine">Peasant Party of Ukraine</a>, which dissolved its union with Solidarity. On February 21, 2001, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)">Ministry of Justice</a> registered the newly established Party of Regional Revival "Labour Solidarity of Ukraine".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On March 3, 2001, at the 3rd Party Congress, the party changed its name to Party of Regions.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] At the congress <a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a>, who at that time was chairman of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=State_Tax_Administration_of_Ukraine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="State Tax Administration of Ukraine (page does not exist)">State Tax Administration of Ukraine</a>, was elected the party leader but soon resigned in December 2001.<a href="#cite_note-glob-32">[32]</a> Azarov was replaced by his deputy and at that time Vice Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Semynozhenko" title="Volodymyr Semynozhenko">Volodymyr Semynozhenko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CEU2-33">[33]</a> In an interview with the newspaper Den (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: День) on 6 March 2001, Azarov said that he agreed to become the chairman for a brief period "until the party nominated a leader who will claim the office of the President of Ukraine in 2004".<a href="#cite_note-CEU1-34">[34]</a> In December 2001 the Party of Regions member Ihor Yushchko was appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-CEU2-33">[33]</a> On 21 March 2001, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)">Ministry of Justice</a> re-registered the party under the number 939 with the older date of registration.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] On 23 May 2001, the party signed an agreement of partnership and cooperation with the party <a href="/wiki/Labour_Ukraine" title="Labour Ukraine">Labour Ukraine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Serhiy_Tihipko" title="Serhiy Tihipko">Serhiy Tihipko</a>), and on 7 June 2001, with the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Ukraine)" title="People's Party (Ukraine)">Agrarian Party of Ukraine</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] "Regions of Ukraine" was the parliamentary wing of the Party of Regions and was created at the end of March 2001<a href="#cite_note-CEU2-33">[33]</a> after several deputies defected from their original faction. Critics claimed the deputies were "lured away" from those other factions by pressure, and analysts claimed most of them had nothing to do with the new party.<a href="#cite_note-CEU1-34">[34]</a> Nine out of seventeen members of the faction had their political and business roots in the <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Oblast" title="Donetsk Oblast">Donetsk region</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CEU2-33">[33]</a> In July 2002 the party had a faction of 24 people (one deputy left the faction later).<a href="#cite_note-UUPAnie-35">[35]</a> On 20 March 2001, Solidarity announced it would "be as a single bloc".<a href="#cite_note-CEU1-34">[34]</a> Eventually the Solidarity party became part of the <a href="/wiki/Our_Ukraine%E2%80%93People%27s_Self-Defense_Bloc" title="Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc">Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine</a> during the 2002 parliamentary elections.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/2002_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election">Ukrainian parliamentary election</a> the party was a member of the <a href="/wiki/For_United_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="For United Ukraine">For United Ukraine</a> <a href="/wiki/Electoral_alliance" title="Electoral alliance">electoral bloc</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> It was then led by <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Semynozhenko" title="Volodymyr Semynozhenko">Volodymyr Semynozhenko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg/220px-First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg/330px-First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/First_Yanukovych_Government.jpg 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="222" /></a><figcaption>The first government of Viktor Yanukovych</figcaption></figure> From 21 November 2002 until 7 December 2004, <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a> was <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Ukraine" title="Prime Minister of Ukraine">Prime Minister of Ukraine</a>. At a congress held on 19 April 2003, Yanukovych was elected party leader, succeeding Semynozhenko.<a href="#cite_note-Azarovleader-39">[39]</a> At that time, the party had 20 seats in parliament.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electoral_breakthrough">Electoral breakthrough</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral breakthrough">edit</a>]</div> The party shifted its political ideology to the <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left</a> and became much more <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populist</a> in nature before the <a href="/wiki/2004_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2004 Ukrainian presidential election">2004 Ukrainian presidential election</a> and, as a result, Yanukovych won over a large part of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist party's</a> electorate in eastern Ukraine.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The party's stated platform included making <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> a second <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">official language</a> in Ukraine, moving towards a pro-Russian foreign policy, and increasing social spending. It also advocated a regionalist ideology, and many members supported making Ukraine a <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federation</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Party of Regions moved into opposition after Viktor Yanukovych, its chosen candidate, lost the 2004 presidential election. Yanukovych first claimed an electoral victory, but strong allegations of <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">electoral fraud</a> triggered a series of events commonly known as the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Revolution" title="Orange Revolution">Orange Revolution</a>. In the re-run of the presidential election ordered by the country's <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Ukraine" title="Supreme Court of Ukraine">Supreme Court</a>, Viktor Yanukovych lost the election to <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko" title="Viktor Yushchenko">Viktor Yushchenko</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Party claimed to be a victim of a political persecution campaign organized by the new government, in part because <a href="/wiki/Borys_Kolesnykov" class="mw-redirect" title="Borys Kolesnykov">Borys Kolesnykov</a>, the head of the regional party branch and the Donetsk regional council, was arrested in April 2005 and charged with criminal extortion.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> The Party of Regions claimed this was an act of political repression, while the authorities believed that Kolesnykov had links to <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a> and his arrest was a purely criminal matter. The <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a> called the investigation "in full compliance with European standards".<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Kolesnykov has since been cleared of charges and released from pre-trial detention.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Provide_context_for_the_reader" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">needs context</a>] The party signed a collaboration agreement in 2005 with <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a>".<a href="#cite_note-PoRUR-44">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> consultant <a href="/wiki/Paul_J._Manafort" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul J. Manafort">Paul J. Manafort</a> has advised the party and Yanukovych since 2005.<a href="#cite_note-LOmoney-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_(PoR)v.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG/200px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG" decoding="async" width="200" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG/300px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG/400px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2006_%28PoR%29v.PNG 2x" data-file-width="2465" data-file-height="1749" /></a><figcaption>Map showing the results of POR the percentage of total national vote per region for the 2006 parliamentary election.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2006_parliamentary_election_results">2006 parliamentary election results</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2006 parliamentary election results">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a></div> In the <a href="/wiki/2006_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election">parliamentary elections</a> held on 26 March 2006, the party gained 32.14%<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a> of votes and won 186 (out of 450) seats in the <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Verkhovna Rada</a> (the Ukrainian Parliament), forming the largest parliamentary group. On 6 July 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Socialist Party of Ukraine">Socialist Party of Ukraine</a> abandoned the "<a href="/wiki/Orange_Revolution" title="Orange Revolution">Orange Coalition</a>" between <a href="/wiki/Our_Ukraine_(political_party)" title="Our Ukraine (political party)">Our Ukraine</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko_Bloc" title="Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc">Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc</a> following the failure of each bloc to reach agreement on the formation of a governing coalition.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On 10 July 2006, a new parliamentary majority called the "anti-crisis coalition", led by the Party of Regions and including the Socialist Party and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party</a>, was formed, nominating <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a> to the post of prime minister.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The coalition remained in office until the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">special parliamentary elections</a> held in September 2007.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the <a href="/wiki/2006_Crimean_parliamentary_election" title="2006 Crimean parliamentary election">2006 Crimean parliamentary election</a>, the Party of Regions was part of the <a href="/wiki/For_Yanukovych!" title="For Yanukovych!">For Yanukovych!</a> <a href="/wiki/Election_bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Election bloc">election bloc</a>.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> On 19 January 2007, <a href="/wiki/Yevhen_Kushnaryov" title="Yevhen Kushnaryov">Yevhen Kushnaryov</a>, a high-ranking member of the Party of Regions, died in <a href="/wiki/Izium" title="Izium">Izium</a> as a result of an accidental gunshot wound received while hunting.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In mid-2007, the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Republican_Party" title="Ukrainian Republican Party">Ukrainian Republican Party</a> and <a href="/wiki/Labour_Ukraine" title="Labour Ukraine">Labour Ukraine</a> merged into and became part of the Party of Regions.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_(PoR)v.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG/200px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG" decoding="async" width="200" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG/300px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG/400px-Ukrainian_parliamentary_election_2007_%28PoR%29v.PNG 2x" data-file-width="2465" data-file-height="1749" /></a><figcaption>Map showing the results of the Party of Regions (percentage of total national vote) per region for the 2007 parliamentary election.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2007_parliamentary_election_results">2007 parliamentary election results</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2007 parliamentary election results">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Party_of_Regions_members_of_the_parliament_of_Ukraine,_2007-2012" class="mw-redirect" title="List of the Party of Regions members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2007-2012">List of the Party of Regions members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2007-2012</a></div> In the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">parliamentary elections</a> held on 30 September 2007, the party won 175 seats (losing 11 seats) out of 450 seats with 34.37% of the total national vote.<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a> The party received the highest number of votes, with a swing of +2.23% in comparison to the 2006 vote. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_(2007)_closer_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg/220px-Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg/330px-Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg/440px-Party_of_Regions_meeting_in_Kiev_%282007%29_closer_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Rally in support of the Party of Regions in Kyiv, 2007</figcaption></figure> Following the formation of a governing coalition between Our Ukraine and the <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko_Bloc" title="Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc">Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc</a> and the election of <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko" title="Yulia Tymoshenko">Yulia Tymoshenko</a> as prime minister on 18 December 2007, the Party of Regions formed the parliamentary opposition.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On 13 March 2009, Victor Yanukovych stated the Party of Regions was ready to unite into a coalition with its archrivals<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko_Bloc" title="Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc">Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc</a> (BYuT). He noted: "We are ready to unite, but only on the base of the program on struggle with crisis".<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> The previous day, the deputy leader of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko faction, Andriy Portnov, said that the union of his political force with the Party of Regions was highly improbable, but that it could be possible after the <a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2010 Ukrainian presidential election">next Ukrainian presidential elections</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Ukraine" title="Prime Minister of Ukraine">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko" title="Yulia Tymoshenko">Yulia Tymoshenko</a> stated on 17 March 2009 that her bloc was ready to join efforts with the Party of Regions to pass certain bills in the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian parliament">Ukrainian parliament</a> (Verkhovna Rada). Tymoshenko said,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">to whom?</a>] "You are a representative of the Regions Party, [and] I represent the BYuT. It's time to join efforts for the benefit of the country."<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> On 30 March 2009, Victor Yanukovych stated he did not believe in the possibility of forming a coalition with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the current parliament. At the same time, he added that "it would be necessary to agree on main issues" concerning amendments to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine" title="Constitution of Ukraine">Constitution of Ukraine</a> involving local self-government reform, judicial reform and clear division of authority among President, government and parliament.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> According to Yanukovych, talks with the BYuT were still ongoing in late May 2008.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In early June talks to build a <a href="/wiki/National_unity_government" title="National unity government">national unity government</a> to address the <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Ukrainian_financial_crisis" title="2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis">economic crisis</a> collapsed, and Yulia Tymoshenko accused Yanukovych of betrayal, saying: "He unilaterally, without warning anyone, quit the negotiation process, making a loud political statement, killing the merger and the chances for Ukraine."<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> In September 2009 <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> Vasyl Kiselev was expelled from the party and the political council of the Party of Regions. Kiselev was expelled "for violation of provisions and demands of the charter of the Party of Regions and harming the reputation of the party."<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In September 2009 <a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> announced the creation of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anti-Fascist_Forum_of_Ukraine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine (page does not exist)">Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine</a>, the chairmen of which were Dmytro Shentsev (member of parliament for <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>) and the head of the Luhansk Region State Administration, Valeriy Holenko.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">relevant?</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yanukovych_presidency">Yanukovych presidency</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Yanukovych presidency">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2010 Ukrainian presidential election">2010 Ukrainian presidential election</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trolza_3306.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Trolza_3306.JPG/200px-Trolza_3306.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Trolza_3306.JPG/300px-Trolza_3306.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Trolza_3306.JPG/400px-Trolza_3306.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2134" /></a><figcaption>Electoral campaign for the Party of Regions says in Russian "Our Party!" (<a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>, 31 October 2010)</figcaption></figure> The Party of Regions endorsed Viktor Yanukovych as their candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2010 Ukrainian presidential election">2010 presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Yanukovych_president-60">[60]</a> The party intended to create a new coalition in the <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Verkhovna Rada</a> and form a new <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Ministers_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine">government</a> if Yanukovych won the 2010 presidential elections.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Yanukovych was elected <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President of Ukraine</a> on 7 February 2010.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> On 19 February the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian parliament">Ukrainian parliament</a> terminated the powers of Ukrainian <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) Yanukovych, in his place #179 on the electoral list of the Party of Regions at the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2007 early parliamentary elections</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] Tamara Yehorenko was registered as an MP by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Election_Commission_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Election Commission of Ukraine">Central Election Commission of Ukraine</a> on 26 February.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> On 3 March, Ukrainian President Yanukovych suspended his membership in the Party — Yanukovych was barred by the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine" title="Constitution of Ukraine">Constitution</a> from heading a political party<a href="#cite_note-newlpor2010-65">[65]</a> — and handed over leadership in the party and in the parliamentary faction to <a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Azarovleader-39">[39]</a> Nine days later Azarov handed it to Oleksandr Yefremov. On 11 March 2010, together with <a href="/wiki/Bloc_Lytvyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloc Lytvyn">Bloc Lytvyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>, the party joined the <a href="/wiki/First_Azarov_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="First Azarov Government">first Azarov Government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The Party of Regions elected Azarov as its new Chairman at its 12th congress on 23 April 2010.<a href="#cite_note-newlpor2010-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-AzarovLPR23410-26">[26]</a> Seven extra deputies (four of whom were <a href="/wiki/Bloc_Yulia_Tymoshenko" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko">Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko</a> (BYuT) members) joined the Party of Regions faction in October 2010.<a href="#cite_note-ithaschanged-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> In March 2011 five more former BYuT deputies joined the faction.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> By late November 2012 the Party of Regions faction consisted of 195 lawmakers (20 more than the 175 elected in September 2007).<a href="#cite_note-DATA-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-ithaschanged-68">[68]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_local_elections" title="2010 Ukrainian local elections">2010 Ukrainian local elections</a>, the party won majorities on most regional and city councils as well as most of the mayoralties (except in Western Ukraine), and in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Crimean_parliamentary_election" title="2010 Crimean parliamentary election">2010 Crimean parliamentary election</a> (where it won over 70% of the seats).<a href="#cite_note-SvobodawonthankstoYanu-72">[72]</a> It was the only party that won representatives in all <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_oblasts" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian oblasts">Ukrainian oblasts</a> where elections were held, and it won the most votes in all but four of those oblasts (the four oblasts where it did not were situated in <a href="/wiki/Western_Ukraine" title="Western Ukraine">Western Ukraine</a>).<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>, particularly in 2010–2014, the Party of Regions was nicknamed "<a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Makedonians</a>" because the Crimean Prime Ministers <a href="/wiki/Vasyl_Dzharty" title="Vasyl Dzharty">Vasyl Dzharty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anatolii_Mohyliov" title="Anatolii Mohyliov">Anatolii Mohyliov</a> were associated with the "<a href="/wiki/Makiivka" title="Makiivka">Makiivka</a>-<a href="/wiki/Donetsk" title="Donetsk">Donetsk</a> clan."<a href="#cite_note-PT415makedonia-74">[74]</a> In September 2010, the party was planning to sign a memorandum on cooperation with <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">China</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Communist Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-kyivpost.com-75">[75]</a> On 14 October 2010, the Party of Regions formed a cooperative arrangement with the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_of_Socialists_and_Democrats" title="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats">Socialists and Democrats</a> <a href="/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Political groups of the European Parliament">European parliamentary group</a>.<a href="#cite_note-socialistsanddemocrats.eu-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-rferl.org-77">[77]</a> During Yanukovych's presidency, both he and the Party of Regions were accused of trying to create a "controlled democracy" in Ukraine and of trying to "destroy" the main opposition party <a href="/wiki/BYuT" class="mw-redirect" title="BYuT">BYuT</a> to do so, but both denied those charges.<a href="#cite_note-Umland-78">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-Olszanski-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2012_parliamentary_election_results">2012 parliamentary election results</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2012 parliamentary election results">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png/220px-Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png/330px-Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png/440px-Ukr_elections_2012_multimandate_oblasts_pr.png 2x" data-file-width="1754" data-file-height="1240" /></a><figcaption>Results in the 2012 elections</figcaption></figure> In August 2011 <a href="/wiki/Strong_Ukraine" title="Strong Ukraine">Strong Ukraine</a> and <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Ukraine)" title="People's Party (Ukraine)">People's Party</a> announced that both parties aimed to merge with the Party of Regions.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-SUmergePoR1-90">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-SUmergePoR2-91">[91]</a> The merger between People's Party and Party of Regions did not materialise,<a href="#cite_note-nomergePPPoR-92">[92]</a> but Strong Ukraine and Party of Regions merged on 17 March 2012.<a href="#cite_note-finmergePORSU-93">[93]</a> Former Strong Ukraine leader <a href="/wiki/Serhiy_Tyhypko" class="mw-redirect" title="Serhiy Tyhypko">Serhiy Tyhypko</a> was unanimously elected Party of Regions deputy chairman and member of the Party of Regions political council the same day.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> Party of Regions <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Deputy_of_Ukraine" title="People's Deputy of Ukraine">parliamentarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Olena_Bondarenko_(Party_of_Regions_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Olena Bondarenko (Party of Regions politician)">Olena Bondarenko</a> had stated in early March 2012 that Party of Regions, Strong Ukraine party and "another party" planned to hold a unity congress on 17 March.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> No additional third party merged with the Party of Regions on 17 March 2012; according to Ukrainian media Tyhypko had personally prevented a merger of <a href="/wiki/United_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="United Centre">United Centre</a> with the Party of Regions in March 2012.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> In October 2011 a cooperation agreement was signed in <a href="/wiki/Astana" title="Astana">Astana</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstani</a> <a href="/wiki/Nur_Otan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nur Otan">Nur Otan</a> and the Party of Regions.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In late 2011, the party's popularity dropped in opinion polls below 20%, mainly because the party was losing votes to the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> In April 2012, the top PR consultancy <a href="/wiki/Burson-Marsteller" class="mw-redirect" title="Burson-Marsteller">Burson-Marsteller</a> was hired to represent the interests of the Party of Regions, "to help them communicate its activities as the governing party of Ukraine, as well as to help it explain better its position on the <a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko" title="Yulia Tymoshenko">Yulia Tymoshenko</a> case", as explained by Robert Mack, a senior manager at Burson-Marsteller.<a href="#cite_note-euobserver-102">[102]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election">October 2012 parliamentary elections</a> the party won 72 seats and 30% of the votes under <a href="/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">party-list proportional representation</a> (falling from 34% in <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2007</a> and 32% in <a href="/wiki/2006_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2006</a>)<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> and another 115 by winning 115 simple-majority constituencies (it had competed in 204 of the 225 constituencies);<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> this sum gave them a total of 187 seats and 41.56% of the 450 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Parliament">Ukrainian Parliament</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> The party had lost about 2 million voters compared with the <a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">previous election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CESOlszańskiUKel12-106">[106]</a> On 12 December 2012 the party formed a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_faction" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary faction">parliamentary faction</a> of 210 deputies.<a href="#cite_note-PRmakes185210-107">[107]</a> At least 18 Party of Regions deputies have criminal ties, according to <a href="/wiki/Hennadiy_Moskal" title="Hennadiy Moskal">Hennadiy Moskal</a>, deputy head of Parliament's Committee on Organized Crime and Corruption.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> In June 2013, 148 <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Deputy_of_Ukraine" title="People's Deputy of Ukraine">people's deputies of Ukraine</a> signed a <a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%96%D0%B2_%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%96%D1%97_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2_%D1%96_%D0%9A%D0%9F%D0%A3_%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%83" class="extiw" title="uk:Звернення депутатів від Партії регіонів і КПУ до польського Сейму">letter</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Polish_Sejm" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish Sejm">Polish Sejm</a> asking to recognize the <a href="/wiki/Volhynian_tragedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Volhynian tragedy">Volhynian tragedy</a> as a genocide. A total of 119 of those parliamentarians were members of Party of Regions, while other 23 were from the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Yanukovych_presidency">Post-Yanukovych presidency</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Post-Yanukovych presidency">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Revolution_of_Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Revolution of Dignity">edit</a>]</div> From November 2013, protests against Yanukovych's rule evolved into the largest democratic mass movement in Europe since 1989,<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a><a href="#cite_note-ViktorDictatorBB-110">[110]</a> which led to the <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a>. Two main goals of Euromaidan were the removal of President Yanukovych<a href="#cite_note-KPbn4664566-111">[111]</a> and the calling of <a href="/wiki/Snap_election" title="Snap election">snap elections</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nytbn4677633-112">[112]</a> In late January 2014, the party's symbol and activities were banned in the <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi_Oblast" title="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi</a>,<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ternopil_Oblast" title="Ternopil Oblast">Ternopil</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ivano-Frankivsk_Oblast" title="Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast">Ivano-Frankivsk</a> regions,<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> although there was no legal basis for these bans, since in Ukraine only a court can ban the activities of a political force.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> The Party of Regions faction in <a href="/wiki/Zhytomyr" title="Zhytomyr">Zhytomyr</a> announced its dissolution on 19 February 2014.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> On 22 February 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Ukrainian parliament</a> voted to impeach the honorary chairman of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, as President of Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-Yanuousted-118">[118]</a> Out of the 38 PoR deputies present, 36 voted in favor of ousting Yanukovych, while two did not take part in the vote.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Simultaneously, both Yanukovych and former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> fled to <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AzYaPorftR-27">[27]</a> In a written statement the next day, the party denounced Yanukovych, stating they "strongly condemn the criminal orders that led to human victims, an empty state treasury, huge debts, shame before the eyes of the Ukrainian people and the entire world."<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> On 24 February 2014, faction leader <a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Yefremov" title="Oleksandr Yefremov">Oleksandr Yefremov</a> declared that the party was moving into the opposition.<a href="#cite_note-PoRdKP-121">[121]</a> 77 of its MPs had left the faction in the preceding days.<a href="#cite_note-PoRdKP-121">[121]</a> On 25 February 2014, <a href="/wiki/Anatoliy_Kinakh" title="Anatoliy Kinakh">Anatoliy Kinakh</a> and 32 other mostly former PoR deputies created the parliamentary faction <a href="/wiki/Economic_Development_(parliamentary_faction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Development (parliamentary faction)">Economic Development</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ithaschanged-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-EDRU25214-122">[122]</a> On 28 March 2014, Yanukovych asked the Party of Regions to exclude him.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] The next day, at a party congress, the party nominated <a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Dobkin" title="Mykhailo Dobkin">Mykhailo Dobkin</a> as its presidential candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2014 Ukrainian presidential election">2014 Ukrainian presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7414expfPoR-124">[124]</a> The congress expelled many former leaders from the party including Yanukovych, Azarov, former First Deputy Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Serhiy_Arbuzov" title="Serhiy Arbuzov">Serhiy Arbuzov</a>, ex-chairman of the Ministry of Revenue and Duties <a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Viktorovych_Klymenko" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleksandr Viktorovych Klymenko">Olexander Klimenko</a>, former Energy Minister <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Stavitskyi" class="mw-redirect" title="Eduard Stavitskyi">Eduard Stavitskyi</a>, ex-governor of the Donetsk region <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Shishatskiy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Shishatskiy (page does not exist)">Andrew Shishatskiy</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Valery_Konovalyuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valery Konovalyuk (page does not exist)">Valery Konovalyuk</a>.<a href="#cite_note-EnlargedBPoR-2">[2]</a> On 7 April 2014, the political council of the party also expelled <a href="/wiki/Sergiy_Tigipko" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergiy Tigipko">Sergiy Tigipko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oleh_Tsariov" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleh Tsariov">Oleh Tsariov</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yuriy_Boiko" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuriy Boiko">Yuriy Boiko</a> from the party.<a href="#cite_note-7414expfPoR-124">[124]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Dobkin" title="Mykhailo Dobkin">Mykhailo Dobkin</a> was the Party of Regions' candidate in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2014 Ukrainian presidential election">snap presidential election of 25 May 2014</a>, and received only 3 percent of the vote.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> On 3 June 2014, another twenty Party of Regions deputies left the party's parliamentary faction.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> Including this change, the faction's strength was reduced from 210 deputies (at its highest point on 12 December 2012) to 80 deputies by 6 June 2014.<a href="#cite_note-PRmakes185210-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-20quitPoR3614-127">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-ithaschanged-68">[68]</a> As a result, it became the second biggest faction in parliament after the 85 member-strong <a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a> faction.<a href="#cite_note-ithaschanged-68">[68]</a> On 2 July 2014, the 32 member-strong new parliamentary faction <a href="/wiki/For_Peace_and_Stability_(parliamentary_faction)" class="mw-redirect" title="For Peace and Stability (parliamentary faction)">For Peace and Stability</a>, composed mostly of former Party of Regions MPs, was formed.<a href="#cite_note-FPiSUP2714-128">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-DynfPiS-129">[129]</a> In the following months many former members of the Party of Regions became objects of the so-called "trash bucket challenge", where Ukrainian officials dumped images of the former PoR members into garbage bins and other trash containers.<a href="#cite_note-26616901tcUo-130">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Criminal_case_against_deputies/party_members_support_for_separatism">Criminal case against deputies/party members support for separatism</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Criminal case against deputies/party members support for separatism">edit</a>]</div> On September 17, 2014, amidst the ongoing <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">war in Donbas</a>, a group of 24 <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Deputy_of_Ukraine" title="People's Deputy of Ukraine">people's deputies of Ukraine</a> from the Party of Regions and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a> met with <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Naryshkin" title="Sergey Naryshkin">Sergey Naryshkin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_State_Duma" title="Chairman of the State Duma">chairman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma">State Duma</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> On September 25, 2014, the Central Investigation Administration of the Ukrainian <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)">Ministry of Internal Affairs</a> opened a criminal case against those deputies, charging them with infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> The Ukrainian press claimed that during the days around the February <a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Ukrainian revolution">2014 Ukrainian revolution</a>, several party members called for the disintegration of Ukraine and for a union with the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a>. News outlets claimed that <a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Yefremov" title="Oleksandr Yefremov">Oleksandr Yefremov</a>, leader of the Ukrainian parliamentary faction,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">which?</a>] was in full support of these proposed actions,<a href="#cite_note-20140301040756Yef-133">[133]</a> and that <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Konstantinov_(politician)" title="Vladimir Konstantinov (politician)">Vladimir Konstantinov</a>, chairman of the Supreme Council of the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Crimea" title="Autonomous Republic of Crimea">Autonomous Republic of Crimea</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Luhansk" title="Luhansk">Luhansk</a> to support these actions.<a href="#cite_note-krymtatar57357-134">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2014_parliamentary_election,_disintegration_and_ban">2014 parliamentary election, disintegration and ban</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2014 parliamentary election, disintegration and ban">edit</a>]</div> On 14 September 2014, the Party of Regions officially announced their choice not to participate in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2014 parliamentary elections</a>; the party deemed the election as lacking legitimacy because the residents of the <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a> could not vote in the election.<a href="#cite_note-OBBBCU-135">[135]</a> Many individual members of Party of Regions ended up as candidates of the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc" title="Opposition Bloc">Opposition Bloc</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FPoR23914-136">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-OBBBCU-135">[135]</a> As of 2024, the Party of Regions has not participated in elections since the <a href="/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-URK.VOTEPP6-24">[24]</a> By the summer of 2015, most representatives of the party in 2014 had become members of <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc" title="Opposition Bloc">Opposition Bloc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Revival_(Ukraine)" title="Revival (Ukraine)">Revival</a> or <a href="/wiki/Our_Land_(Ukraine)" title="Our Land (Ukraine)">Our Land</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Rs15BBCU-25">[25]</a> Others continued their political careers in other parties (mostly <a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko_Bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Petro Poroshenko Bloc">Petro Poroshenko Bloc</a>).<a href="#cite_note-potoibppd23okt15-137">[137]</a> According to Ukrainian media research from February 2016, 22% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc representatives in regional councils and 12% of the party's parliamentary deputies were former members of the Party of Regions.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/2020_Ukrainian_local_elections" title="2020 Ukrainian local elections">2020 local elections</a>, former Party of Regions members ran mainly as candidates of the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life" title="Opposition Platform — For Life">Opposition Platform — For Life</a>, <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kernes_Bloc_%E2%80%94_Successful_Kharkiv" title="Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv">Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv</a>, <a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B9_%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="uk:Довіряй ділам">Trust Deeds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Servant_of_the_People" title="Servant of the People">Servant of the People</a> parties.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-chesnopost4176PoRND-143">[143]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Konstantinov_(politician)" title="Vladimir Konstantinov (politician)">Vladimir Konstantinov</a>'s announcement that the Party of Regions Crimean branch would be reorganized,<a href="#cite_note-porCa20140312-144">[144]</a> many of its members joined the <a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a> party.<a href="#cite_note-novayagazeta64823-145">[145]</a> Officially — according to the <a href="/wiki/Telegraph_Agency_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union">TASS news agency</a> and Konstantinov — there is no succession of the United Russia Crimean branch from the Party of Regions Crimean branch,<a href="#cite_note-tass1102563-146">[146]</a> but according to several local news resources from Sevastopol, the transfer was in fact organized by former activists of the Party of Regions and <a href="/wiki/Russian_Unity" title="Russian Unity">Russian Unity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sn6863466-147">[147]</a> As of July 2019, the Party of Regions' former website redirected to “Golos Pravdy”, a pro-Russia blog website which the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Council" title="Atlantic Council">Atlantic Council</a> considers to be linked to <a href="/wiki/Fancy_Bear" title="Fancy Bear">Fancy Bear</a> and which is run by politicians that fled Ukraine in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-@DFRLab_2019-148">[148]</a> After the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> in 2022, many former members of the Party of Regions supported the Russian side.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> A number of city leaders in <a href="/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine" title="Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine">Russian-occupied territories</a> were accused of <a href="/wiki/Collaboration_with_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Collaboration with Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine">collaboration</a> and high treason for their cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces" title="Russian Armed Forces">Armed Forces of the Russian Federation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> For instance, <a href="/wiki/Galina_Danilchenko" title="Galina Danilchenko">Galina Danilchenko</a>, a deputy in <a href="/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol">Melitopol</a> who was part of the Party of Regions and the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc</a>, was proclaimed by the Russians as “acting mayor of the city” on 12 March 2022 with support from the Russian army. The mayor of Melitopol, <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Fedorov_(politician)" title="Ivan Fedorov (politician)">Ivan Fedorov</a>, had been arrested by the Russian military the previous day.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Kupiansk" title="Kupiansk">Kupiansk</a>, mayor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsegora_Gennady_Mykolayovych&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matsegora Gennady Mykolayovych (page does not exist)">Gennady Matsegora</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life" title="Opposition Platform — For Life">Opposition Platform — For Life</a> party voluntarily surrendered the city to the Russian armed forces.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> Many former members of the Party of Regions on the ground were also appointed by Russian troops as heads of <a href="/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine#Collaboration" title="Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine">civil administrations in the occupied territories</a>.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> On 21 February 2023, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the Party of Regions.<a href="#cite_note-PoR7390318-28">[28]</a> This ban was initiated by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)">Ministry of Justice</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine" title="Security Service of Ukraine">Security Service of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-PoR7390318-28">[28]</a> Because of the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a> (leading to loss of Ukrainian government control in parts of the country), no local elections have been held in some areas since the <a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_local_elections" title="2010 Ukrainian local elections">2010 Ukrainian local elections</a>; as such, the Party of Regions deputies <a href="/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine#Before_February_2022" title="Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine">in those territories</a> still have their mandate.<a href="#cite_note-PoR7390318-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Party's_electoral_results">Party's electoral results</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Party's electoral results">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <caption><a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Verkhovna Rada</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Year </th> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Party-list </th> <th rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Constituency /total </th> <th rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Overall seats won </th> <th rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Seat change </th> <th rowspan="2">Government </th></tr> <tr style="background:#d3d3d3;"> <td style="text-align:center;">Popular vote </td> <td style="text-align:center;">% </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Seats /total </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1998_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election">1998</a> </th> <td>241,262 </td> <td>0.9% </td> <td>0/225 </td> <td>2/225 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">2 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 2 </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">minority support </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2002_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2002</a> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/For_United_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="For United Ukraine">For United Ukraine</a> bloc </td> <td>6/225 </td> <td>25/225 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">31 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 29 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">coalition government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2006_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2006</a> </th> <td>8,148,745 </td> <td>32.14% </td> <td>186/450 </td> <td>N/A </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">186 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 41%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 155 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">coalition government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2007</a> </th> <td>8,013,895 </td> <td>34.37% </td> <td>175/450 </td> <td>N/A </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">175 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 39%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 11 </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2012</a> </th> <td>6,116,815 </td> <td>30.00% </td> <td>72/225 </td> <td>113/225 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">185 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 41%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 10 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2014</a> </th> <td>No participation </td> <td>0% </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;">0 / 450<div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #003F81; color:inherit; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 185 </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">extra parliamentary </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">Presidency of Ukraine</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election year </th> <th rowspan="2">Candidate </th> <th colspan="2">First Round </th> <th colspan="2">Second Round </th> <th rowspan="2">Result </th></tr> <tr> <th># of overall votes </th> <th>% of overall vote </th> <th># of overall votes </th> <th>% of overall vote </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1999_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="1999 Ukrainian presidential election">1999</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma" title="Leonid Kuchma">Leonid Kuchma</a> </td> <td>9,598,672 </td> <td>38.0 </td> <td>15,870,722 </td> <td>57.7 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Won </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2004_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2004 Ukrainian presidential election">2004</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a> </td> <td>11,008,731 </td> <td>39.3 </td> <td>12,848,528 </td> <td>44.2 </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">Lost </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2010 Ukrainian presidential election">2010</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a> </td> <td>8,686,642 </td> <td>35.3 </td> <td>12,481,266 </td> <td>49.0 </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Won </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2014 Ukrainian presidential election">2014</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Dobkin" title="Mykhailo Dobkin">Mykhailo Dobkin</a> </td> <td>546,138 </td> <td>3.0 </td> <td colspan="2" style="background:lightgrey;"> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">Lost </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>Date</th> <th>Party leader </th></tr> <tr> <td>1997–2001</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Vasylyovych_Rybak" title="Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak">Volodymyr Rybak</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001–2002</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002–2003</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Semynozhenko" title="Volodymyr Semynozhenko">Volodymyr Semynozhenko</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003–2010</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010–2014</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014–present</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Borys_Kolesnikov" title="Borys Kolesnikov">Borys Kolesnikov</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Issue_stances">Issue stances</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Issue stances">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html 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(March 2023)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> The Party of Regions has been described as center-left<a href="#cite_note-razumkov-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-sokov-16">[16]</a> or left-leaning.<a href="#cite_note-clio-15">[15]</a> The party is associated with other left-wing parties such as <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Lytvyn" title="Volodymyr Lytvyn">Volodymyr Lytvyn</a>'s <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Ukraine)" title="People's Party (Ukraine)">People's Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> All three parties have combined a pro-Russian orientation with populist, redistributive policies.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> In 2011, the party asserted it had a pragmatic approach to <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_EU_membership" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian EU membership">Ukrainian EU membership</a> and the country's foreign economic interests; it said it supported "[walking] the path of European integration and the implementation of respective standards in the social and economic spheres". Yet, given the European financial crisis at the time, the party saw the issue of Ukraine's accession to the EU as "purely theoretical."<a href="#cite_note-purely_theoretical-158">[158]</a> The party accepts <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> as the only <a href="/wiki/State_language" class="mw-redirect" title="State language">state language</a> in Ukraine,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] but also claims to promote "both the development of the state Ukrainian language and languages of other nationalities residing on the territory of Ukraine".<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent source needed</a>] The Party of Regions supports the cancellation of a number of <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada#Deputies" title="Verkhovna Rada">benefits for deputies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian parliament">Ukrainian parliament</a>.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> Leading party members have stated the party "would mercilessly expel <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Ukraine" title="Corruption in Ukraine">corrupt</a> officials from its ranks".<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> In November 2013 Party of Regions <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">MP</a> <a href="/wiki/Oleh_Tsariov" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleh Tsariov">Oleh Tsariov</a> demanded a criminal investigation into the activities of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a>-led <a href="/wiki/Office_of_eDiplomacy#Major_programs" title="Office of eDiplomacy">TechCamp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> because he believed it was engaged in "preparations for inciting a <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">civil war</a>" because during training "instructors share their experience of Internet technologies, which are aimed at shaping public opinion and enhancing the protest potential and which were used to organize street protests in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>".<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> The Party of Regions lost much of its policy influence amid the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Revolution_of_2014" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Revolution of 2014">2014 revolution in Ukraine</a>. 72 deputies<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> left the party; the remaining deputies either supported key opposition demands like impeaching Yanukovich, firing Zakharchenko and the General Prosecutor or did not vote. On 23 February 2014, the party faction of Verkhovna Rada published a statement blaming everything wrong on "Yanukovych and his inner circle", accusing him in particular of giving out "criminal orders", and lamenting that the whole party had been "in effect hostage of one corrupt family".<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> On 7 April 2014, the party presented its new economic doctrine, which consisted of policies including setting minimal taxes and fees, maximum investor protection, increasing investment attractiveness, deregulation and simplification of licensing procedures, the establishment of a transparent tax system and tax cuts, decreasing the inspections of small and medium-sized businesses, maintaining a 15-year preferential tax system in agriculture, the introduction of effective direct subsidies to farmers to compete on the world market, and a compensation of 50% of new fixed assets in crop.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_program">Political program</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Political program">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute">factual accuracy</a> may be compromised due to out-of-date information. 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In labor issues, the party supports fully subsidizing employers of the disabled, orphans, single mothers, and workers over age 50; training the unemployed for occupations with labor shortages; providing internships to students; giving young professionals their first job; and a median salary of <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_hryvnia" title="Ukrainian hryvnia">₴</a>8,000 by 2017.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] The party supports a median salary of ₴8,000 for physicians and ₴5,500 for other medical personnel, reducing basic-medicine prices by 30 percent, providing access to medicines to patients with cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, and <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a>, mobile medical facilities in all rural areas, treatment, and rehabilitation for people with limited physical abilities and new pools, stadiums, ice arenas, and sports fields in all regions.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] The party supports comfortable, affordable housing; security for senior citizens; the repayment of all deposits in the Sberbank of the USSR up to ₴5,000 by 2017; a minimum pension of 20 percent over the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_threshold" title="Poverty threshold">poverty threshold</a>, and significant pension increases for military and law-enforcement personnel. In the environmental sector, the party supports the completion of the Shelter Project for the <a href="/wiki/Chornobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant">Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant</a> by 2015, as well as the installation of 20,000 centralized water-purification systems and recycling plants in each region.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="National_economy">National economy</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: National economy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. 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In the energy sector, the Party of Regions advocates: increasing the extraction of domestic coal, oil, and <a href="/wiki/Shale_gas" title="Shale gas">shale gas</a>; developing the shelf gas fields; enhancing the use of solar, wind, and hydropower; and modernizing power plants so they can efficiently use domestic coal and other fuel sources. The Party of Regions also has a rural focus, with proposed policies including the creation of 1,500 agricultural cooperatives, the construction of new crop storage sites, government-set prices for land and rent. In addition to a rural emphasis, the Party of Regions' infrastructure policy also includes: the construction of more modern automobile roads; a new speed rail link between the capital and regions; more affordable aviation transportation; the construction and redevelopment of airports, seaports and rail stations; and the development of more metro stations and commuter rail links.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Government_and_society">Government and society</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Government and society">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. 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The Party promotes the idea of a Ukrainian shift towards a contract army with an abolition of compulsory conscription.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_members">Selected members</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Selected members">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Azarov" title="Mykola Azarov">Mykola Azarov</a> – Chairman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Yefremov" title="Oleksandr Yefremov">Oleksandr Yefremov</a> – Deputy Chairman of the Party of Regions on Relations with the Parliament of Ukraine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petro_Pysarchuk" title="Petro Pysarchuk">Petro Pysarchuk</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vremya_Regionov">Vremya Regionov</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Vremya Regionov">edit</a>]</div> The Party of Regions publishes a <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">nationwide</a> <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a> called Время Регионов ("Time of the Regions" in English). The newspaper is published in <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> and was launched on 24 August 2008. It is released weekly (every Thursday) in <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> and is available <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100621193322/http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/42691596bc139/4c176b692b7fc/">online</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_cooperation">International cooperation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: International cooperation">edit</a>]</div> The party has previously had international cooperation agreements with the following parties: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>: <a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-171">[171]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/23px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/35px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/45px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="540" /> <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a>: <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_of_Socialists_and_Democrats" title="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats">Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Amanat_(political_party)" title="Amanat (political party)">Nur Otan</a><a href="#cite_note-auto1-173">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>: <a href="/wiki/New_Azerbaijan_Party" title="New Azerbaijan Party">New Azerbaijan Party</a><a href="#cite_note-auto1-173">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Armenia" title="Republican Party of Armenia">Republican Party of Armenia</a><a href="#cite_note-auto1-173">[173]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prosperous_Armenia" title="Prosperous Armenia">Prosperous Armenia</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-171">[171]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ar-Namys" title="Ar-Namys">Ar-Namys</a><a href="#cite_note-auto1-173">[173]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>: <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_of_Working_People" title="Progressive Party of Working People">Progressive Party of Working People</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>: <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Left_Alliance_(Poland)" title="Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)">Democratic Left Alliance</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/45px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>: <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam" title="Communist Party of Vietnam">Communist Party of Vietnam</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetov" title="Rinat Akhmetov">Rinat Akhmetov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yevhen_Kushnaryov" title="Yevhen Kushnaryov">Yevhen Kushnaryov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_National_Unity" class="mw-redirect" title="Alliance of National Unity">Alliance of National Unity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Ukrainian_political_crisis" title="2006 Ukrainian political crisis">2006 Ukrainian political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Ukrainian_political_crisis" title="2007 Ukrainian political crisis">2007 Ukrainian political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Ukrainian_political_crisis" title="2008 Ukrainian political crisis">2008 Ukrainian political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc" title="Opposition Bloc">Opposition Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc (2019)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life" title="Opposition Platform — For Life">Opposition Platform — For Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Ukraine" title="Politics of Ukraine">Politics of Ukraine</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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March 29, 2014 </li> <li id="cite_note-EnlargedBPoR-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EnlargedBPoR_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-EnlargedBPoR_2-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.novostimira.com.ua/news-eng-100734.html">"Politics ""Party of Regions" has excluded Yanukovich, Arbuzov, Klimenko and proceeded to the form of collective management". Breaking news "NovostiMira""</a>. Retrieved 16 February 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Politics+%22%22Party+of+Regions%22+has+excluded+Yanukovich%2C+Arbuzov%2C+Klimenko+and+proceeded+to+the+form+of+collective+management%22.+Breaking+news+%22NovostiMira%22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novostimira.com.ua%2Fnews-eng-100734.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://partyofregions.ua/news/53370dc9f620d2c2450000be">Anna German: Boris Kolesnikov, de facto, is the leader of Party of Regions</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140402012259/http://partyofregions.ua/news/53370dc9f620d2c2450000be">Archived</a> 2014-04-02 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Party of Regions. March 29, 2014 </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/03/29/7020743/">Reformed PR is headed by Borys Kolesnikov – Herman</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ukrayinska_Pravda" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrayinska Pravda">Ukrayinska Pravda</a>. March 29, 2014 </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2010/10/19/5495112/">"В Партии регионов объяснили, какие они социал-демократы"</a>. Украинская правда. 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Retrieved 2024-06-02. <q>Der Euromaidan im Jahr 2013 / 2014 war kein von den USA organisierter und von ukrainischen Faschisten durchgeführter Putsch, wie dies einige hier in Deutschland mit Verweis auf die russischen Medien darstellen wollen. ... Es gibt eine große Zahl von sehr überzeugenden, geschichts-, kultur-, sozial- und politikwissenschaftlichen Studien dazu, dass der Euromaidan die größte demokratische Massenbewegung Europas seit dem Jahr 1989 gewesen ist.</q> [The Euromaidan in 2013 / 2014 was no coup organized by the US and carried out by Ukrainian faschists, as some people here in Germany want to present it with reference to the Russian media. ... There is a large number of very convincing studies from the fields of history, cultural science, social science, and political science showing that the Euromaidan was the largest democratic mass movement in Europe since 1989.]</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Osteuropa-Historiker+vs+8+Thesen+zum+Ukraine-Krieg&rft.pub=Eberhard+Karls+Universit%C3%A4t+T%C3%BCbingen+Philosophische+Fakult%C3%A4t+Institut+f%C3%BCr+Osteurop%C3%A4ische+Geschichte+und+Landeskunde&rft.date=2023&rft.aulast=Gestwa&rft.aufirst=Klaus&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6GqWDhHzRdo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-ViktorDictatorBB-110"><a href="#cite_ref-ViktorDictatorBB_110-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/-sp-ukraine-maidan-protest-kiev">Ukraine's Maidan protests - one year on</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> (21 November 2014) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-24/where-ukraines-president-viktor-yanukovych-went-wrong">"Where did the downfall of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych begin?"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Public_Radio_International" title="Public Radio International">Public Radio International</a>. 24 February 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Where+did+the+downfall+of+Ukraine%27s+President+Viktor+Yanukovych+begin%3F&rft.date=2014-02-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pri.org%2Fstories%2F2014-02-24%2Fwhere-ukraines-president-viktor-yanukovych-went-wrong&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-KPbn4664566-111"><a href="#cite_ref-KPbn4664566_111-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/ukrainian-opposition-calls-for-president-yanukovychs-impeachment-332241.html">"Ukrainian opposition calls for President Yanukovych's impeachment"</a>. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_golos?g_id=3863">the original</a> on March 12, 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82+%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8+%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4+%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83%D1%86%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C+%28%E2%84%964193%29+%E2%80%93+%D0%B7%D0%B0+%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%83+%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%B2+%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%83&rft.pub=Parliament+of+Ukraine&rft.date=2014-02-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fw1.c1.rada.gov.ua%2Fpls%2Fradan_gs09%2Fns_golos%3Fg_id%3D3863&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/where-is-viktor-yanukovych-337418.html">"Where is Viktor Yanukovych? 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Retrieved 16 February 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%22%D0%95%D0%A1+%E2%80%93+%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C+%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8E+%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%85+%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82+%E2%80%93+%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%22%3A+%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3+%D0%9F%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%98+%D0%A0%D0%95%D0%93%D0%98%D0%9E%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%92+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpartyofregions.ua%2Fnews%2Fevent%2F5298bd7fc4ca42ca7a0000aa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-171">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_171-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_171-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131203022420/http://partyofregions.ua/news/event/50ad06ba3fcad04e4c000003">"Представители ПАРТИИ РЕГИОНОВ приняли участие в Евразийских межпартийных консультациях - Официальный сайт украинской партии "Партия Регионов""</a>. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ckpr.com.ua/novosti/partyne-zhittya/102-partya-regonv-pdpisala-ugodu-pro-spvpracyu-z-progresivnoyu-partyeyu-trudovogo-narodu-kpru.html">the original</a> on 2013-07-30.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%D0%9F%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%A2%D0%86%D0%AF+%D0%A0%D0%95%D0%93%D0%86%D0%9E%D0%9D%D0%86%D0%92+%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0+%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8E+%D0%B7+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8E+%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%96%D1%94%D1%8E+%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83+%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%83+%C2%BB+%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F+%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%96%D1%97+%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fckpr.com.ua%2Fnovosti%2Fpartyne-zhittya%2F102-partya-regonv-pdpisala-ugodu-pro-spvpracyu-z-progresivnoyu-partyeyu-trudovogo-narodu-kpru.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParty+of+Regions" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130202065726/http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/news/4fe2ffc363eac51f480005f4">"Партія регіонів співпрацюватиме з Демократичним альянсом польського сейму і сенату - Официальный сайт украинской партии "Партия Регионов""</a>. 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href="/wiki/Hromada_(political_party)" title="Hromada (political party)">Hromada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_Party_(Ukraine)" title="Justice Party (Ukraine)">Justice Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peasant_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Peasant Party of Ukraine">Peasant Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_Party_of_Oleh_Liashko" title="Radical Party of Oleh Liashko">Radical Party of Oleh Liashko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Social Democratic Party of Ukraine">Social Democratic Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine_(united)" title="Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)">Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Union_(Ukraine)" title="Social Democratic Union (Ukraine)">Social Democratic Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Ukraine" title="Socialist Ukraine">Socialist Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spade_(political_party)" title="Spade (political party)">Spade</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unregistered parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borotba" title="Borotba">Borotba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_(2001)" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)">Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Communists_of_Ukraine" title="Union of Communists of Ukraine">Union of Communists of Ukraine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine">Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Movement_(Ukraine)" title="Social Movement (Ukraine)">Social Movement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic">Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)">Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(renewed)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)">Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Workers_and_Peasants" title="Communist Party of Workers and Peasants">Communist Party of Workers and Peasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derzhava_(Ukrainian_party)" title="Derzhava (Ukrainian party)">Derzhava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Communist_Labour_Bund_(Ukraine)" title="Jewish Communist Labour Bund (Ukraine)">Jewish Communist Labour Bund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Communist_Party_(Poalei_Zion)" title="Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)">Jewish Communist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left_Opposition_(Ukraine)" title="Left Opposition (Ukraine)">Left Opposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left_Socialist-Revolutionaries" title="Left Socialist-Revolutionaries">Left Socialist-Revolutionaries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borbysts" title="Borbysts">Ukrainian Party of Left Socialists-Revolutionaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Progressive_Party" title="Moldavian Progressive Party">Moldavian Progressive Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashi_(Ukrainian_political_party)" title="Nashi (Ukrainian political party)">Nashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Marxists" title="Organization of Marxists">Organization of Marxists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Democratic_Revival_of_Ukraine" title="Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine">Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Party of Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Ukrainian_Party" title="Revolutionary Ukrainian Party">Revolutionary Ukrainian Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">Russian Social Democratic Labour Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Socialist Party of Ukraine">Socialist Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_%E2%80%93_Forward!" title="Ukraine – Forward!">Ukraine – Forward!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Communist_Party" title="Ukrainian Communist Party">Ukrainian Communist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borotbists" title="Borotbists">Ukrainian Party of Communists-Borotbists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Party" title="Ukrainian Democratic Party">Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Party_of_Socialist_Independists" title="Ukrainian Party of Socialist Independists">Ukrainian Party of Socialist Independists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Radical_Party" title="Ukrainian Radical Party">Ukrainian Radical Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Socialist-Revolutionary_Party" title="Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party">Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Peasant_Democratic_Party" title="Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party">Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party">Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spilka" title="Spilka">Ukrainian Social-Democratic Union (Spilka)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Left_Forces" title="Union of Left Forces">Union of Left Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Jewish_Socialist_Workers_Party" title="United Jewish Socialist Workers Party">United Jewish Socialist Workers Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Ukraine_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)">Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Resistance" title="Workers Resistance">Workers Resistance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Political_parties_in_Ukraine_(list)277" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_Ukraine" title="Political parties in Ukraine">Political parties in Ukraine</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Ukraine" title="List of political parties in Ukraine">list</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Official factions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Servant_of_the_People" title="Servant of the People">Servant of the People</a> (240)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Solidarity" title="European Solidarity">European Solidarity</a> (27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a> (24)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holos_(political_party)" title="Holos (political party)">Holos</a> (20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_the_Future_(political_party)" title="For the Future (political party)">For the Future</a> (20)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parliamentary groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Platform_for_Life_and_Peace" title="Platform for Life and Peace">Platform for Life and Peace</a> (25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Politics_(Ukraine)" title="Smart Politics (Ukraine)">Smart Politics</a> (25, inside <a href="/wiki/Servant_of_the_People" title="Servant of the People">SN</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dovira" title="Dovira">Dovira</a> (18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restoration_of_Ukraine" title="Restoration of Ukraine">Restoration of Ukraine</a> (18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_(parliamentary_group)" title="Justice (parliamentary group)">Justice</a> (11, inside <a href="/wiki/Holos_(political_party)" title="Holos (political party)">Holos</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties without faction status</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)" title="Svoboda (political party)">Svoboda</a> (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self_Reliance_(political_party)" title="Self Reliance (political party)">Self Reliance</a> (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Baloha%27s_Team" title="Andriy Baloha's Team">Andriy Baloha's Team</a> (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bila_Tserkva_Together" title="Bila Tserkva Together">Bila Tserkva Together</a> (1)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parties with regional representation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Servant_of_the_People" title="Servant of the People">Servant of the People</a> (305)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Solidarity" title="European Solidarity">European Solidarity</a> (283)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life" title="Opposition Platform — For Life">Opposition Platform — For Life</a> (230)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a> (193)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_the_Future_(political_party)" title="For the Future (political party)">For the Future</a> (183)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)" title="Svoboda (political party)">Svoboda</a> (50)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kernes_Bloc_%E2%80%94_Successful_Kharkiv" title="Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv">Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv</a> (46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Land_(Ukraine)" title="Our Land (Ukraine)">Our Land</a> (43)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Strategy_of_Groysman" title="Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman">Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman</a> (40)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposition_(political_party)" title="Proposition (political party)">Proposition</a> (35)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Alliance_for_Reform" title="Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform">UDAR</a> (30)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_Party_of_Oleh_Liashko" title="Radical Party of Oleh Liashko">Radical Party</a> (27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dovira" title="Dovira">Dovira</a> (22)</li> <li>Native Home (19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Ukrainian_Union_%22Cherkashchany%22" title="All-Ukrainian Union "Cherkashchany"">Cherkashchany</a> (18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svitlychna_Bloc_%E2%80%94_Together!" title="Svitlychna Bloc — Together!">Svitlychna Bloc — Together!</a> (17)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strength_and_Honor" title="Strength and Honor">Strength and Honor</a> (16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holos_(political_party)" title="Holos (political party)">Holos</a> (16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Vilkul" title="Oleksandr Vilkul">Bloc Vilkul — Ukrainian Perspective</a> (16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unity_of_Oleksandr_Omelchenko" title="Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko">Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko</a> (14)</li> <li>Symchyshyn's Team (13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihor_Kolykhaiev" title="Ihor Kolykhaiev">We Have to Live Here!</a> (13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agrarian_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Agrarian Party of Ukraine">Agrarian Party</a> (12)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_Zakarpattia" title="Native Zakarpattia">Native Zakarpattia</a> (12)</li> <li>Trust the Deeds (11)</li> <li>Community Platform (10)</li> <li>For Tangible Solutions (10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Power_of_the_People" title="Power of the People">Power of the People</a> (9)</li> <li>Volodymyr Buryak — United (9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self_Reliance_(political_party)" title="Self Reliance (political party)">Self Reliance</a> (9)</li> <li>Native City (9)</li> <li>United Alternative (9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Hungarians_of_Ukraine_(KMKSZ)" title="Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (KMKSZ)">Party of Hungarians</a> (8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc</a> (8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Baloha%27s_Team" title="Andriy Baloha's Team">Andriy Baloha's Team</a> (7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Galician_Party" title="Ukrainian Galician Party">Ukrainian Galician Party</a> (7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Movement_of_Ukraine" title="People's Movement of Ukraine">People's Movement of Ukraine</a> (6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Shariy" title="Party of Shariy">Party of Shariy</a> (6)</li> <li>People's Control (6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Saldo_Bloc" title="Volodymyr Saldo Bloc">Volodymyr Saldo Bloc</a> (5)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/5.10" title="5.10">5.10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aktsent" title="Aktsent">Aktsent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brotherhood_(Ukrainian_political_party)" title="Brotherhood (Ukrainian political party)">Brotherhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_(Ukraine)" title="Christian Democratic Union (Ukraine)">Christian Democratic Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Position" title="Civil Position">Civil Position</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conscience_of_Ukraine" title="Conscience of Ukraine">Conscience of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" title="Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists">Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_(Ukraine)" title="Democratic Alliance (Ukraine)">Democratic Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Axe" title="Democratic Axe">Democratic Axe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Democratic Party of Ukraine">Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Yarosh#Governmental_Initiative_of_Yarosh" title="Dmytro Yarosh">DIYA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Party_of_Ukraine" title="European Party of Ukraine">European Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_Ukraine!" title="For Ukraine!">For Ukraine!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hromada_(political_party)" title="Hromada (political party)">Hromada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Internet Party of Ukraine">Internet Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_Party_(Ukraine)" title="Justice Party (Ukraine)">Justice Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Ukraine" title="Labour Ukraine">Labour Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine">Liberal Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Liberal Party of Ukraine">Liberal Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_(political_party)" title="Liberty (political party)">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherland_Defenders_Party" title="Motherland Defenders Party">Motherland Defenders Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_of_New_Forces" title="Movement of New Forces">Movement of New Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Corps" title="National Corps">National Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Life_(party)" title="New Life (party)">New Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Politics_(Ukraine)" title="New Politics (Ukraine)">New Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Rus" title="One Rus">One Rus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Ukraine_(political_party)" title="Our Ukraine (political party)">Our Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Greens_of_Ukraine" title="Party of Greens of Ukraine">Party of Greens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Free_Democrats" title="Party of Free Democrats">Party of Free Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Industrialists_and_Entrepreneurs_of_Ukraine" title="Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine">Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Pensioners_of_Ukraine" title="Party of Pensioners of Ukraine">Party of Pensioners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People_Bloc" title="People Bloc">People Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_(Ukraine)" title="People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)">People's Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Front_(Ukraine)" title="People's Front (Ukraine)">People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Ukraine)" title="People's Party (Ukraine)">People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Pirate Party of Ukraine">Pirate Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_Party_of_Small_and_Medium-sized_Businesses_of_Ukraine" title="Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine">Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reasonable_Force_(political_party)" title="Reasonable Force (political party)">Reasonable Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Christian_Party" title="Republican Christian Party">Republican Christian Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Platform" title="Republican Platform">Republican Platform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revival_(Ukraine)" title="Revival (Ukraine)">Revival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_Sector" title="Right Sector">Right Sector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Christian_Party_(Ukraine)" title="Social Christian Party (Ukraine)">Social-Christian Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine_(united)" title="Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)">United Social Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solidarity_of_Women_of_Ukraine" title="Solidarity of Women of Ukraine">Solidarity of Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spade_(political_party)" title="Spade (political party)">Spade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strong_Ukraine" title="Strong Ukraine">Strong Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Ukrainian_Republic_(party)" title="Third Ukrainian Republic (party)">Third Ukrainian Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National-Democratic_Association_%22Ukraine%22" title="National-Democratic Association "Ukraine"">National-Democratic Association "Ukraine"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_%E2%80%93_Forward!" title="Ukraine – Forward!">Ukraine – Forward!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_is_Our_Home" title="Ukraine is Our Home">Ukraine is Our Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine_United" title="Ukraine United">Ukraine United</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Alliance_for_Reform" title="Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform">Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Party" title="Ukrainian People's Party">Ukrainian People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Republican_Party_(registered_in_2006)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Republican Party (registered in 2006)">Ukrainian Republican Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UKROP" title="UKROP">UKROP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Communists_of_Ukraine" title="Union of Communists of Ukraine">Union of Communists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volt_Ukraine" title="Volt Ukraine">Volt Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youth_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Youth Party of Ukraine">Youth Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Banned</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(renewed)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)">Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Workers_and_Peasants" title="Communist Party of Workers and Peasants">Communist Party of Workers and Peasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Bloc_(party)" title="Russian Bloc (party)">Russian Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Unity" title="Russian Unity">Russian Unity</a></li> <li>20 March 2022 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Derzhava_(Ukrainian_party)" title="Derzhava (Ukrainian party)">Derzhava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left_Opposition_(Ukraine)" title="Left Opposition (Ukraine)">Left Opposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashi_(political_party)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashi (political party)">Nashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life" title="Opposition Platform — For Life">Opposition Platform — For Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Shariy" title="Party of Shariy">Party of Shariy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine">Progressive Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Socialist Party of Ukraine">Socialist Party of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialists_(Ukraine)" title="Socialists (Ukraine)">Socialists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Left_Forces" title="Union of Left Forces">Union of Left Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Saldo_Bloc" title="Volodymyr Saldo Bloc">Volodymyr Saldo Bloc</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Ukraine_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)">Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Party of Regions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Ukraine" title="Politics of Ukraine">Politics of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Politics" title="Portal:Politics">Politics portal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">Communist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Unity" title="Russian Unity">Russian Unity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unrepresented</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Bloc_(party)" title="Russian Bloc (party)">Russian Bloc</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milliy_Firqa" title="Milliy Firqa">Milliy Firqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Crimea" title="Republican Party of Crimea">Republican Party of Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_Bloc_of_Kunitsyn" title="Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn">Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_Yanukovych!" title="For Yanukovych!">For Yanukovych!</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Politics" title="Portal:Politics">Portal:Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="List of political parties by country">List of political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Crimea" title="Politics of Crimea">Politics of Crimea</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Euromaidan_and_the_Revolution_of_Dignity221" style="wide;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Euromaidan" title="Template:Euromaidan"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Euromaidan" title="Template talk:Euromaidan"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Euromaidan" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Euromaidan"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Euromaidan_and_the_Revolution_of_Dignity221" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><div>21 November 2013 – 23 February 2014</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Main topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Euromaidan" title="Timeline of the Euromaidan">Timeline of the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_responses_to_the_Euromaidan" title="Domestic responses to the Euromaidan">Domestic responses to the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Euromaidan" title="International reactions to the Euromaidan">International reactions to the Euromaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casualties_during_the_2013%E2%80%932014_Ukraine_crisis" title="Casualties during the 2013–2014 Ukraine crisis">Casualties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_casualties" title="Maidan casualties">Heavenly Hundred</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Heavenly_Hundred_Heroes" title="Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes">Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_monuments_to_Vladimir_Lenin_in_Ukraine" title="Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine">Damaged communist monuments</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><a href="/wiki/File:Ukraine_EU.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Ukraine_EU.svg/89px-Ukraine_EU.svg.png" decoding="async" width="89" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Ukraine_EU.svg/134px-Ukraine_EU.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Ukraine_EU.svg/178px-Ukraine_EU.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1186" data-file-height="798" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Main events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1_December_2013_Euromaidan_riots" class="mw-redirect" title="1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots">1 December 2013 riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_monument,_Kyiv" title="Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv">Fall of the monument to Lenin in Kyiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_December_2013_Euromaidan_assault" title="11 December 2013 Euromaidan assault">11 December 2013 assault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_December_2013_Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_action_plan" title="17 December 2013 Russian–Ukrainian action plan">Ukrainian–Russian action plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Maidan" title="Anti-Maidan">Anti-Maidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasylkiv_terrorists_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasylkiv terrorists case">Vasylkiv terrorists case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-protest_laws_in_Ukraine" title="Anti-protest laws in Ukraine">Anti-protest laws in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes" title="2014 Odesa clashes">2014 Odesa clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Hrushevskoho_Street_riots" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots">2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Euromaidan_regional_state_administration_occupations" title="2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations">2014 RSA occupations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agreement_on_settlement_of_political_crisis_in_Ukraine" title="Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine">Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Aftermath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine">2014 pro-Russian unrest</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="Timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russian military intervention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Timeline of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas" title="War in Donbas">War in Donbas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Yatsenyuk_government" title="First Yatsenyuk government">First Yatsenyuk government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lustration_in_Ukraine" title="Lustration in Ukraine">Lustration in Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decommunization_in_Ukraine" title="Decommunization in Ukraine">Decommunization in Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election" title="2014 Ukrainian presidential election">2014 Ukrainian presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_local_elections" title="2014 Ukrainian local elections">2014 Ukrainian local elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kyiv_local_election" title="2014 Kyiv local election">2014 Kyiv local election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum" title="2014 Crimean status referendum">2014 Crimean status referendum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums" title="2014 Donbas status referendums">2014 Donbas status referendums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election" title="2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election">2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Main places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_Nezalezhnosti" title="Maidan Nezalezhnosti">Maidan Nezalezhnosti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mezhyhirya_Residence" title="Mezhyhirya Residence">Mezhyhirya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khreshchatyk" title="Khreshchatyk">Khreshchatyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lypky" title="Lypky">Lypky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bankova_Street" title="Bankova Street">Bankova Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Square_(Kyiv)" title="European Square (Kyiv)">European Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrushevsky_Street_(Kyiv)" title="Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)">Hrushevskoho Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valeriy_Lobanovskyi_Dynamo_Stadium" title="Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium">Dynamo Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_City_Council" title="Kyiv City Council">Kyiv City Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trade_Unions_Building_(Kyiv)" title="Trade Unions Building (Kyiv)">Trade Unions Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_House" title="Ukrainian House">Ukrainian House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariinskyi_Park" title="Mariinskyi Park">Mariinskyi Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_Palace" title="October Palace">October Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Conservatory">Kyiv Conservatory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">European integration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Ukraine–European Union relations">Ukraine–European Union relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Partnership" title="Eastern Partnership">Eastern Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Association_Agreement" title="European Union Association Agreement">European Union Association Agreement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Ukraine_Association_Agreement" title="European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement">European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine" title="Constitution of Ukraine">Constitution of Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Protest figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_People%27s_Union" title="Maidan People's Union">Maidan People's Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euromaidan_Press" title="Euromaidan Press">Euromaidan Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Parliamentary</a> opposition parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)" title="Svoboda (political party)">Svoboda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Democratic_Alliance_for_Reform" title="Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform">UDAR</a></li></ul></li> <li>Other parties <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" title="Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists">Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_(Ukraine)" title="Democratic Alliance (Ukraine)">Democratic Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E2%80%93_Ukrainian_People%27s_Self-Defence" title="Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence">UNA–UNSO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice_Party_(Ukraine)#United_Left_and_Peasants" title="Justice Party (Ukraine)">United Left and Peasants</a></li></ul></li> <li>Civic organizations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Automaidan" title="Automaidan">Automaidan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Road_Control" title="Road Control">Road Control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidsich" title="Vidsich">Vidsich</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mejlis_of_the_Crimean_Tatar_People" title="Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People">Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People</a></li> <li>Militant groups <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Resistance" title="Autonomous Resistance">Autonomous Resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_Sector" title="Right Sector">Right Sector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spilna_Sprava" title="Spilna Sprava">Spilna Sprava</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Lead figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko" title="Vitali Klitschko">Vitali Klitschko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk" title="Arseniy Yatsenyuk">Arseniy Yatsenyuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleh_Tyahnybok" title="Oleh Tyahnybok">Oleh Tyahnybok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuriy_Lutsenko" title="Yuriy Lutsenko">Yuriy Lutsenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov" title="Oleksandr Turchynov">Oleksandr Turchynov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko" title="Yulia Tymoshenko">Yulia Tymoshenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy" title="Andriy Parubiy">Andriy Parubiy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Sadovyi" title="Andriy Sadovyi">Andriy Sadovyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsen_Avakov" title="Arsen Avakov">Arsen Avakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruslana" title="Ruslana">Ruslana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetiana_Chornovol" title="Tetiana Chornovol">Tetiana Chornovol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Bulatov" title="Dmytro Bulatov">Dmytro Bulatov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Yarosh" title="Dmytro Yarosh">Dmytro Yarosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refat_Chubarov" title="Refat Chubarov">Refat Chubarov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Anti-protest figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Azarov_government" title="Second Azarov government">Second Azarov government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)">Ministry of Internal Affairs</a></li> <li><a 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