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Party of Regions Партія регіонів Партия регионов | |
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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!») |
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The Party of Regions (Ukrainian: Партія регіонів, romanized: Partiia rehioniv, pronounced [ˈpɑrt⁽ʲ⁾ijɐ reɦiˈɔn⁽ʲ⁾iu̯]; Russian: Партия регионов, romanized: Partiya regionov) is a banned pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that became the largest party in Ukraine between 2006 and 2014.[22][23]
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]
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.
Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the left-leaning Party of Regions, assumes the post of prime minister.
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.
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