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Party of Regions
Партія регіонів Партия регионов
Leader
Collective leadership[1][2]
Executive secretary
Borys Kolesnikov[3][4]
Founders
Mykola Azarov Yukhym Zvyahilsky Volodymyr Rybak
Founded
26 October 1997
Banned
21 February 2023
Succeeded by
Opposition Bloc (mainly)
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Newspaper
Vremya Regionov
Youth wing
Young Regions
Ideology
Social democracy[5][6] Regionalism[7][8] Russophilia[9] Euroscepticism[10][7] Catch-all party[11][12][13]
Political position
Centre-left[14][15][16]
National affiliation
For United Ukraine! (2001)
European affiliation
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (Cooperation, until 2014)
Oligarch association
Donetsk Clan[17]
Colours
Blue and White [18][19][20][21]
Slogan
Strong regions, strong country, rich people! (Russian: «Сильные регионы, крепкая страна, богатые люди!») (Ukrainian: «Сильні регіони, міцна країна, багаті люди!»)
Party flag
Website
partyofregions.ua
Politics of Ukraine
Political parties
Elections
The Party of Regions (Ukrainian: Партія регіонів, romanized: Partiia rehioniv, pronounced[ˈpɑrt⁽ʲ⁾ijɐreɦiˈɔn⁽ʲ⁾iu̯]; Russian: Партия регионов, romanized: Partiya regionov) is a banned pro-Russian[22][23] political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that became the largest party in Ukraine between 2006 and 2014.
Since the Revolution of Dignity, the party has not competed in elections and members have slowly dispersed; the last election in which the party participated was the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[24][25] The best-known former party members are former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych;[26] both fled to Russia in February 2014 after Euromaidan.[27]
The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party on 21 February 2023.[28]
^Yanukovych and Azarov are excluded from PR. Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2014
^"Politics ""Party of Regions" has excluded Yanukovich, Arbuzov, Klimenko and proceeded to the form of collective management". Breaking news "NovostiMira"". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^Anna German: Boris Kolesnikov, de facto, is the leader of Party of Regions Archived 2014-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. Party of Regions. March 29, 2014
^Reformed PR is headed by Borys Kolesnikov – Herman. Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2014
^"В Партии регионов объяснили, какие они социал-демократы". Украинская правда. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
^"Регионалы будут тренироваться вместе с эсдеками". Украинская правда. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
^ abNordsieck, Wolfram (2014). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
^Barrington, Lowell (2006), After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, University of Michigan Press, p. 205, ISBN 978-0-47206898-2
^"Viktor Yanukovych's party claims victory". The Economist. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^Arsenyi Svynarenko (29 August 2014). "Ukraine's political landscape is shifting". Politiikasta. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
^Against All Odds:Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN 978-9056296315 (page 82)
^Strange Familiar Faces, The Ukrainian Week (15 September 2012)
^Ideological Splits, The Ukrainian Week (10 March 2011)
^"Party System of Ukraine Before and After Maidan: Changes, Trends, Public Demand". National Security & Defence. 6–7. Razumkov Centre: 32. 2015. A political project – the "Socialists" party has emerged in the political field, whose leadership included prominent representatives of the centre-left Party of Regions and V. Tsushko and L. Kozhar and the media reported on the possible involvement of A. Klyuyev in its funding.
^Herb, Guntram H.; Kaplan, David H. (2008). "1989 to Present". Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview. Vol. 4. ABC-CLIO. p. 1619. ISBN 978-1-85109-907-8. Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the left-leaning Party of Regions, assumes the post of prime minister.
^Potter, William C.; Mukhatzhanova, Gaukhar; Sokov, Nikolai (2010). "Ukraine: A Postnuclear Country". Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century: Volume II. A Comparative Perspective. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-8047-6971-6. In all other cases mainstream Ukrainian politics-whether the center left (Party of Regions) or the center right (Our Ukraine-Bloc ofYulia Timoshenko) coalition-has tended to steer clear of the "pronuclear" stance.
^Zimmer, Kerstin (12 April 2005). "What Happened to 'Unity, Consent and Revival?' The Donetsk Clan before and after the Ukrainian Presidential Elections". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
^Yulia Abibok. How Ukraine’s old guard are trying to get back into parliament. openDemocracy. 18 July 2019
^Georgiy Avdeev. "Regionalists" without regions: What did "white-blues" forget to buy? («Регионалы» без регионов»: что забыли купить «бело-голубые»?) Archived 2021-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Patriotic Forces of Donbas. 1 June
^Oksana Denisova. How Oranges and White-Blues through middle of a night were dividing the Maidan (Как оранжевые и бело-голубые Майдан посреди ночи делили). Ukrayinska Pravda. 19 September 2007
^Liubov Borschevskaya. Party of Regions creates work places. Kommersant.ru. 2 October 2007
^Regionalists principally will speak in Russian – Bondarenko. ("Регіонали" принципово будуть виступати російською – Бондаренко). Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-14
^Kuzio, T. Populism in Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. Vol.57. "M. E. Sharpe". 2010. p.15
^Cite error: The named reference URK.VOTEPP6 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^(in Ukrainian) "Revival" "our land": Who picks up the legacy of "regionals", BBC Ukrainian (16 September 2015) (in Ukrainian) Party of Regions: Snake return, The Ukrainian Week (2 October 2015)
^Cite error: The named reference AzarovLPR23410 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Ex-PM Azarov, In Moscow, Proclaims 'Salvation Committee' For Ukraine, Radio Free Europe (3 August 2015) Ukraine accuses Russia of breaking CIS agreements over Yanukovych extradition, Interfax-Ukraine (12 January 2015)
^"The court banned the Party of Regions". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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