Jump to content

Party of Regions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Party of the Regions)
For other uses, see Party of Regions (disambiguation).
Party of Regions
Партія регіонів
Партия регионов
LeaderCollective leadership[1][2]
Executive secretaryBorys Kolesnikov[3][4]
FoundersMykola Azarov
Yukhym Zvyahilsky
Volodymyr Rybak
Founded26 October 1997
Banned21 February 2023
Succeeded byOpposition Bloc (mainly)
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
NewspaperVremya Regionov
Youth wingYoung Regions
IdeologySocial democracy[5][6]
Regionalism[7][8]
Russophilia[9]
Euroscepticism[10][7]
Catch-all party[11][12][13]
Political positionCentre-left[14][15][16]
National affiliationFor United Ukraine! (2001)
European affiliationProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (Cooperation, until 2014)
Oligarch associationDonetsk Clan[17]
Colours  Blue and   White
[18][19][20][21]
SloganStrong regions, strong country, rich people!
(Russian: «Сильные регионы, крепкая страна, богатые люди!»)
(Ukrainian: «Сильні регіони, міцна країна, багаті люди!»)
Party flag
Website
partyofregions.ua Edit this at Wikidata
Part of a series on
Russophilia in Ukraine
Ideologies
Intellectuals
Politicians
Parties (inactive, defunct, or banned)

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[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 Ukrainian Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party on 21 February 2023.[28]

History

[edit]

Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine

[edit]
The office of Party of Regions in Makiivka, 2009

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 Kyiv.[29] The first leader of the party was mayor of Donetsk, Volodymyr Rybak.[29] On 6 November 1997, the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine was registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,[30] 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 parliament of Ukraine. It was known as the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine and was headed by Gennadiy Samofalov.[citation needed]

During the 1998 parliamentary elections, the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine won 0.90% of the votes.[30] A single party representative was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament by winning one constituency in the regular elections.[29] The party was among the top 10 in Chernivtsi and Donetsk Oblasts. Volodymyr Rybak was the winner of constituency number 45 in Donetsk Oblast.[31]

During the 2nd Party Congress that took place in two stages during the spring of 1999, the Party decided to support candidate Leonid Kuchma for the next presidential elections. It was recommended[clarification needed] 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 Russian language official status. In the summer of 1999, the party entered the "Our choice – Leonid Kuchma" electoral bloc, consisting of 23 parties and led by Yevhen Kushnaryov, who endorsed incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in the presidential election of 1999.[29]

Creation of the Party of Regions

[edit]

On 17 November 2000, the 3rd Extraordinary Party Congress adopted the merger of five political parties, For Beautiful Ukraine (led by Leonid Chernovetsky), All-Ukrainian Party of Pensioners (A. Kapusta), Party of Labor (Valentyn Landyk), Party of Solidarity of Ukraine (Petro Poroshenko), and Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (Volodymyr Rybak), 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 Valentyn Landyk, Petro Poroshenko, and Volodymyr Rybak. Also, shortly before the merger, the Party of Solidarity of Ukraine was completely abandoned by one of its key components, the Peasant Party of Ukraine, which dissolved its union with Solidarity. On February 21, 2001, the Ministry of Justice registered the newly established Party of Regional Revival "Labour Solidarity of Ukraine".[citation needed]

On March 3, 2001, at the 3rd Party Congress, the party changed its name to Party of Regions.[citation needed] At the congress Mykola Azarov, who at that time was chairman of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, was elected the party leader but soon resigned in December 2001.[32] Azarov was replaced by his deputy and at that time Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko.[33] In an interview with the newspaper Den (Ukrainian: 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".[34] In December 2001 the Party of Regions member Ihor Yushchko was appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine.[33] On 21 March 2001, the Ministry of Justice re-registered the party under the number 939 with the older date of registration.[clarification needed]

On 23 May 2001, the party signed an agreement of partnership and cooperation with the party Labour Ukraine (Serhiy Tihipko), and on 7 June 2001, with the Agrarian Party of Ukraine.[citation needed]

"Regions of Ukraine" was the parliamentary wing of the Party of Regions and was created at the end of March 2001[33] 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.[34] Nine out of seventeen members of the faction had their political and business roots in the Donetsk region.[33] In July 2002 the party had a faction of 24 people (one deputy left the faction later).[35]

On 20 March 2001, Solidarity announced it would "be as a single bloc".[34] Eventually the Solidarity party became part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine during the 2002 parliamentary elections.[36]

During the Ukrainian parliamentary election the party was a member of the For United Ukraine electoral bloc.[30][37] It was then led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.[38]

The first government of Viktor Yanukovych

From 21 November 2002 until 7 December 2004, Viktor Yanukovych was Prime Minister of Ukraine. At a congress held on 19 April 2003, Yanukovych was elected party leader, succeeding Semynozhenko.[39] At that time, the party had 20 seats in parliament.[40]

Electoral breakthrough

[edit]

The party shifted its political ideology to the left and became much more populist in nature before the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and, as a result, Yanukovych won over a large part of the Communist party's electorate in eastern Ukraine.[citation needed] The party's stated platform included making Russian a second official language 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 federation.[citation needed]

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 electoral fraud triggered a series of events commonly known as the Orange Revolution. In the re-run of the presidential election ordered by the country's Supreme Court, Viktor Yanukovych lost the election to Viktor Yushchenko.[citation needed]

The Party claimed to be a victim of a political persecution campaign organized by the new government, in part because Borys Kolesnykov, the head of the regional party branch and the Donetsk regional council, was arrested in April 2005 and charged with criminal extortion.[41] The Party of Regions claimed this was an act of political repression, while the authorities believed that Kolesnykov had links to organized crime and his arrest was a purely criminal matter. The Council of Europe called the investigation "in full compliance with European standards".[42] Kolesnykov has since been cleared of charges and released from pre-trial detention.[43][needs context]

The party signed a collaboration agreement in 2005 with Russia's "United Russia".[44]

American consultant Paul J. Manafort has advised the party and Yanukovych since 2005.[45][46][needs update]

Map showing the results of POR the percentage of total national vote per region for the 2006 parliamentary election.

2006 parliamentary election results

[edit]
Main article: 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election

In the parliamentary elections held on 26 March 2006, the party gained 32.14%[30] of votes and won 186 (out of 450) seats in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament), forming the largest parliamentary group. On 6 July 2006, the Socialist Party of Ukraine abandoned the "Orange Coalition" between Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc following the failure of each bloc to reach agreement on the formation of a governing coalition.[citation needed]

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 Communist Party, was formed, nominating Viktor Yanukovych to the post of prime minister.[citation needed] The coalition remained in office until the special parliamentary elections held in September 2007.[citation needed]

In the 2006 Crimean parliamentary election, the Party of Regions was part of the For Yanukovych! election bloc.[47]

On 19 January 2007, Yevhen Kushnaryov, a high-ranking member of the Party of Regions, died in Izium as a result of an accidental gunshot wound received while hunting.[citation needed]

In mid-2007, the Ukrainian Republican Party and Labour Ukraine merged into and became part of the Party of Regions.[48]

Map showing the results of the Party of Regions (percentage of total national vote) per region for the 2007 parliamentary election.

2007 parliamentary election results

[edit]
Main article: 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
See also: List of the Party of Regions members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2007-2012

In the parliamentary elections 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.[30] The party received the highest number of votes, with a swing of +2.23% in comparison to the 2006 vote.

Rally in support of the Party of Regions in Kyiv, 2007

Following the formation of a governing coalition between Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the election of Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister on 18 December 2007, the Party of Regions formed the parliamentary opposition.[citation needed]

On 13 March 2009, Victor Yanukovych stated the Party of Regions was ready to unite into a coalition with its archrivals[49][50] the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT). He noted: "We are ready to unite, but only on the base of the program on struggle with crisis".[51] 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 next Ukrainian presidential elections.[52] Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated on 17 March 2009 that her bloc was ready to join efforts with the Party of Regions to pass certain bills in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada). Tymoshenko said,[to whom?] "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."[53] 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 Constitution of Ukraine involving local self-government reform, judicial reform and clear division of authority among President, government and parliament.[54] According to Yanukovych, talks with the BYuT were still ongoing in late May 2008.[55]

In early June talks to build a national unity government to address the economic crisis 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."[56]

In September 2009 Member of Parliament 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."[57]

In September 2009 Mykola Azarov announced the creation of the Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine, the chairmen of which were Dmytro Shentsev (member of parliament for Kharkiv) and the head of the Luhansk Region State Administration, Valeriy Holenko.[58][59][relevant?]

Yanukovych presidency

[edit]
See also: 2010 Ukrainian presidential election
Electoral campaign for the Party of Regions says in Russian "Our Party!" (Kharkiv, 31 October 2010)

The Party of Regions endorsed Viktor Yanukovych as their candidate for the 2010 presidential election.[60] The party intended to create a new coalition in the Verkhovna Rada and form a new government if Yanukovych won the 2010 presidential elections.[61] Yanukovych was elected President of Ukraine on 7 February 2010.[62][63] On 19 February the Ukrainian parliament terminated the powers of Ukrainian Member of Parliament (MP) Yanukovych, in his place #179 on the electoral list of the Party of Regions at the 2007 early parliamentary elections.[clarification needed] Tamara Yehorenko was registered as an MP by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on 26 February.[64] On 3 March, Ukrainian President Yanukovych suspended his membership in the Party — Yanukovych was barred by the Constitution from heading a political party[65] — and handed over leadership in the party and in the parliamentary faction to Mykola Azarov.[39] Nine days later Azarov handed it to Oleksandr Yefremov. On 11 March 2010, together with Bloc Lytvyn and Communist Party of Ukraine, the party joined the first Azarov Government.[66] The Party of Regions elected Azarov as its new Chairman at its 12th congress on 23 April 2010.[65][67][26]

Seven extra deputies (four of whom were Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) members) joined the Party of Regions faction in October 2010.[68][69] In March 2011 five more former BYuT deputies joined the faction.[70][71] By late November 2012 the Party of Regions faction consisted of 195 lawmakers (20 more than the 175 elected in September 2007).[30][68]

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party won majorities on most regional and city councils as well as most of the mayoralties (except in Western Ukraine), and in the 2010 Crimean parliamentary election (where it won over 70% of the seats).[72] It was the only party that won representatives in all Ukrainian oblasts 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 Western Ukraine).[73] In Crimea, particularly in 2010–2014, the Party of Regions was nicknamed "Makedonians" because the Crimean Prime Ministers Vasyl Dzharty and Anatolii Mohyliov were associated with the "Makiivka-Donetsk clan."[74]

In September 2010, the party was planning to sign a memorandum on cooperation with China's Communist Party.[75] On 14 October 2010, the Party of Regions formed a cooperative arrangement with the Socialists and Democrats European parliamentary group.[76][77]

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 BYuT to do so, but both denied those charges.[78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87]

2012 parliamentary election results

[edit]
Results in the 2012 elections

In August 2011 Strong Ukraine and People's Party announced that both parties aimed to merge with the Party of Regions.[88][89][90][91] The merger between People's Party and Party of Regions did not materialise,[92] but Strong Ukraine and Party of Regions merged on 17 March 2012.[93] Former Strong Ukraine leader Serhiy Tyhypko was unanimously elected Party of Regions deputy chairman and member of the Party of Regions political council the same day.[94] Party of Regions parliamentarian Olena Bondarenko 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.[95] 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 United Centre with the Party of Regions in March 2012.[96]

In October 2011 a cooperation agreement was signed in Astana between the Kazakhstani Nur Otan and the Party of Regions.[97]

In late 2011, the party's popularity dropped in opinion polls below 20%, mainly because the party was losing votes to the Communist Party of Ukraine.[98][99][100][101]

In April 2012, the top PR consultancy Burson-Marsteller 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 Yulia Tymoshenko case", as explained by Robert Mack, a senior manager at Burson-Marsteller.[102]

In the October 2012 parliamentary elections the party won 72 seats and 30% of the votes under party-list proportional representation (falling from 34% in 2007 and 32% in 2006)[103] and another 115 by winning 115 simple-majority constituencies (it had competed in 204 of the 225 constituencies);[104] this sum gave them a total of 187 seats and 41.56% of the 450 seats in the Ukrainian Parliament.[105] The party had lost about 2 million voters compared with the previous election.[106] On 12 December 2012 the party formed a parliamentary faction of 210 deputies.[107]

At least 18 Party of Regions deputies have criminal ties, according to Hennadiy Moskal, deputy head of Parliament's Committee on Organized Crime and Corruption.[108]

In June 2013, 148 people's deputies of Ukraine signed a letter to the Polish Sejm asking to recognize the Volhynian tragedy as a genocide. A total of 119 of those parliamentarians were members of Party of Regions, while other 23 were from the Communist Party of Ukraine.[citation needed]

Post-Yanukovych presidency

[edit]

Yanukovych impeachment

[edit]

From November 2013 to February 2014, Ukraine was gripped by a series of anti-government demonstrations collectively known as Euromaidan.[109] Two main goals of Euromaidan were the impeachment of President Yanukovych[110] and the calling of snap elections.[111] In late January 2014, the party's symbol and activities were banned in the Chernivtsi,[112] Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions,[113][114] although there was no legal basis for these bans, since in Ukraine only a court can ban the activities of a political force.[115][citation needed] The Party of Regions faction in Zhytomyr announced its dissolution on 19 February 2014, in connection with the crisis of the preceding three months.[116]

On 22 February 2014, during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the Ukrainian parliament voted to impeach the honorary chairman of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, as President of Ukraine.[117] Out of the 38 PoR deputies present, 36 voted in favor of ousting Yanukovych, while two did not take part in the vote.[118] Simultaneously, both Yanukovych and former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov fled to Russia.[27] 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."[119] On 24 February 2014, faction leader Oleksandr Yefremov declared that the party was moving into the opposition.[120] 77 of its MPs had left the faction in the preceding days.[120] On 25 February 2014, Anatoliy Kinakh and 32 other mostly former PoR deputies created the parliamentary faction Economic Development.[68][121]

On 28 March 2014, Yanukovych asked the Party of Regions to exclude him.[122][clarification needed] The next day, at a party congress, the party nominated Mykhailo Dobkin as its presidential candidate for the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election.[123] The congress expelled many former leaders from the party including Yanukovych, Azarov, former First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, ex-chairman of the Ministry of Revenue and Duties Olexander Klimenko, former Energy Minister Eduard Stavitskyi, ex-governor of the Donetsk region Andrew Shishatskiy, and Valery Konovalyuk.[2] On 7 April 2014, the political council of the party also expelled Sergiy Tigipko, Oleh Tsariov, and Yuriy Boiko from the party.[123]

Mykhailo Dobkin was the Party of Regions' candidate in the snap presidential election of 25 May 2014, and received only 3 percent of the vote.[124]

On 3 June 2014, another twenty Party of Regions deputies left the party's parliamentary faction.[125] 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.[107][126][68] As a result, it became the second biggest faction in parliament after the 85 member-strong Batkivshchyna faction.[68] On 2 July 2014, the 32 member-strong new parliamentary faction For Peace and Stability, composed mostly of former Party of Regions MPs, was formed.[127][128] 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.[129]

Criminal case against deputies/party members support for separatism

[edit]

On September 17, 2014, amidst the ongoing war in Donbas, a group of 24 people's deputies of Ukraine from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine met with Sergei Naryshkin, the chairman of the Russian State Duma.[130] On September 25, 2014, the Central Investigation Administration of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against those deputies, charging them with infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.[131]

The Ukrainian press claimed that during the days around the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution, several party members called for the disintegration of Ukraine and for a union with the Russian Federation. News outlets claimed that Oleksandr Yefremov, leader of the Ukrainian parliamentary faction,[which?] was in full support of these proposed actions,[132] and that Vladimir Konstantinov, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea went to Luhansk to support these actions.[133]

2014 parliamentary election, disintegration and ban

[edit]

On 14 September 2014, the Party of Regions officially announced their choice not to participate in the 2014 parliamentary elections; the party deemed the election as lacking legitimacy because the residents of the Donbas could not vote in the election.[134] Many individual members of Party of Regions ended up as candidates of the Opposition Bloc.[135][134] As of 2024, the Party of Regions has not participated in elections since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[24]

By the summer of 2015, most representatives of the party in 2014 had become members of Opposition Bloc, Revival or Our Land.[25] Others continued their political careers in other parties (mostly Petro Poroshenko Bloc).[136] 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.[137] In the 2020 local elections, former Party of Regions members ran mainly as candidates of the Opposition Platform — For Life, Opposition Bloc, Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv, Trust Deeds and Servant of the People parties.[138][139][140][141][142]

Following the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and Vladimir Konstantinov's announcement that the Party of Regions Crimean branch would be reorganized,[143] many of its members joined the United Russia party.[144] Officially — according to the TASS news agency and Konstantinov — there is no succession of the United Russia Crimean branch from the Party of Regions Crimean branch,[145] but according to several local news resources from Sevastopol, the transfer was in fact organized by former activists of the Party of Regions and Russian Unity.[146]

As of July 2019, the Party of Regions' former website redirected to “Golos Pravdy”, a pro-Russia blog website which the Atlantic Council considers to be linked to Fancy Bear and which is run by politicians that fled Ukraine in 2014.[147]

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many former members of the Party of Regions supported the Russian side.[148] A number of city leaders in Russian-occupied territories were accused of collaboration and high treason for their cooperation with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.[149][150] For instance, Galina Danilchenko, a deputy in Melitopol who was part of the Party of Regions and the Opposition Bloc, 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, Ivan Fedorov, had been arrested by the Russian military the previous day.[151] In Kupiansk, mayor Gennady Matsegora of the Opposition Platform — For Life party voluntarily surrendered the city to the Russian armed forces.[152] Many former members of the Party of Regions on the ground were also appointed by Russian troops as heads of civil administrations in the occupied territories.[153][154]

On 21 February 2023, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the Party of Regions.[28] This ban was initiated by the Ministry of Justice and the Security Service of Ukraine.[28] Because of the Russo-Ukrainian War (leading to loss of Ukrainian government control in parts of the country), no local elections have been held in some areas since the 2010 Ukrainian local elections; as such, the Party of Regions deputies in those territories still have their mandate.[28]

Party's electoral results

[edit]
Verkhovna Rada
Year Party-list Constituency /total Overall seats won Seat change Government
Popular vote % Seats /total
1998 241,262 0.9% 0/225 2/225
2 / 450
 Increase 2 minority support
2002 For United Ukraine bloc 6/225 25/225
31 / 450
 Increase 29 coalition government
2006 8,148,745 32.14% 186/450 N/A
186 / 450
 Increase 155 coalition government
2007 8,013,895 34.37% 175/450 N/A
175 / 450
 Decrease 11 opposition
2012 6,116,815 30.00% 72/225 113/225
185 / 450
 Increase 10 government
2014 No participation 0% 0 0
0 / 450
 Decrease 185 extra parliamentary
Presidency of Ukraine
Election year Candidate First Round Second Round Result
# of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote 		# of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote
1999 Leonid Kuchma 9,598,672 38.0 15,870,722 57.7 Won
2004 Viktor Yanukovych 11,008,731 39.3 12,848,528 44.2 Lost
2010 Viktor Yanukovych 8,686,642 35.3 12,481,266 49.0 Won
2014 Mykhailo Dobkin 546,138 3.0 Lost
Date Party leader
1997–2001 Volodymyr Rybak
2001–2002 Mykola Azarov
2002–2003 Volodymyr Semynozhenko
2003–2010 Viktor Yanukovych
2010–2014 Mykola Azarov
2014–present Borys Kolesnikov

Issue stances

[edit]

The Party of Regions has been described as center-left[14][16] or left-leaning.[15] The party is associated with other left-wing parties such as Volodymyr Lytvyn's People's Party and the Communist Party of Ukraine.[155] All three parties have combined a pro-Russian orientation with populist, redistributive policies.[156]

In 2011, the party asserted it had a pragmatic approach to Ukrainian EU membership 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."[157]

The party accepts Ukrainian as the only state language in Ukraine,[citation needed] but also claims to promote "both the development of the state Ukrainian language and languages of other nationalities residing on the territory of Ukraine".[158][159][third-party source needed]

The Party of Regions supports the cancellation of a number of benefits for deputies of the Ukrainian parliament.[160] Leading party members have stated the party "would mercilessly expel corrupt officials from its ranks".[161]

In November 2013 Party of Regions MP Oleh Tsariov demanded a criminal investigation into the activities of the United States Department of State-led TechCamp in Ukraine because he believed it was engaged in "preparations for inciting a civil war" 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 Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria".[162]

The Party of Regions lost much of its policy influence amid the 2014 revolution in Ukraine. 72 deputies[163] 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".[164]

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.[165][clarification needed]

Political program

[edit]

European integration

[edit]

On the question of European integration, different views exist within the party.[needs update] On the one hand, President Viktor Yanukovych, who is a member of the party, has repeatedly underlined his pro-European stances.[166][157] On the other hand, experts have described the Party of Regions as eurosceptic.[167][168] The Party's official stance is for increased European integration, but within a framework that is favorable to Ukraine.[169][needs update]

Domestic policy

[edit]
Blue flags at a demonstration
Party of Regions flags in Donetsk, 2010

The party supports policies including affordable housing funded through state mortgages with a 3% annual percentage rate, social contracts with employers, financial aid for newborns, perinatal centers in each region, and the upgrading of maternity homes.[citation needed]

The party supports plans for at least 75 percent placement in higher-educational institutions, a minimum-wage student stipend, a minimum 20-percent annual raise in educator salaries, and universal Internet access. 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 ₴8,000 by 2017.[citation needed][clarification needed][needs update]

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 HIV/AIDS, 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.[citation needed][needs update]

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 poverty threshold, 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 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant by 2015, as well as the installation of 20,000 centralized water-purification systems and recycling plants in each region.[citation needed][needs update]

National economy

[edit]

Economically, the Party of Regions' core policy proposals are a gradual reduction of corporate income tax, the introduction of tax holidays for IT and innovation projects, and an increase in affordable bank loans for domestic manufacturers. In the energy sector, the Party of Regions advocates: increasing the extraction of domestic coal, oil, and shale gas; 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.[citation needed][needs update]

Government and society

[edit]

The Party of Regions' stated civil policy priorities include intellectual freedom, freedom of speech, equal opportunities for women and men in all spheres of life, and granting the Russian language the status of the second state language (while maintaining legislative support for Ukrainian).[citation needed][needs update]

Billboard of the Party of Regions in the Crimea

The Party also emphasizes regional policies, such as an increase in local government power and a shift of the state budget towards funding local councils and their initiatives. The Party promotes the idea of a Ukrainian shift towards a contract army with an abolition of compulsory conscription.[citation needed][needs update]

Selected members

[edit]

Vremya Regionov

[edit]

The Party of Regions publishes a nationwide newspaper called Время Регионов ("Time of the Regions" in English). The newspaper is published in Kyiv and was launched on 24 August 2008. It is released weekly (every Thursday) in Ukrainian and Russian and is available online.

International cooperation

[edit]

The party has previously had international cooperation agreements with the following parties:

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Yanukovych and Azarov are excluded from PR. Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2014
  2. ^ a b "Politics ""Party of Regions" has excluded Yanukovich, Arbuzov, Klimenko and proceeded to the form of collective management". Breaking news "NovostiMira"". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Reformed PR is headed by Borys Kolesnikov – Herman. Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2014
  5. ^ "В Партии регионов объяснили, какие они социал-демократы". Украинская правда. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Регионалы будут тренироваться вместе с эсдеками". Украинская правда. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  7. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2014). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "Viktor Yanukovych's party claims victory". The Economist. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  10. ^ Arsenyi Svynarenko (29 August 2014). "Ukraine's political landscape is shifting". Politiikasta. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  11. ^ Against All Odds:Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN 978-9056296315 (page 82)
  12. ^ Strange Familiar Faces, The Ukrainian Week (15 September 2012)
  13. ^ Ideological Splits, The Ukrainian Week (10 March 2011)
  14. ^ a b "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.
  15. ^ a b 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.
  16. ^ a b 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.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Yulia Abibok. How Ukraine’s old guard are trying to get back into parliament. openDemocracy. 18 July 2019
  19. ^ 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
  20. ^ 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
  21. ^ Liubov Borschevskaya. Party of Regions creates work places. Kommersant.ru. 2 October 2007
  22. ^ Regionalists principally will speak in Russian – Bondarenko. ("Регіонали" принципово будуть виступати російською – Бондаренко). Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-14
  23. ^ Kuzio, T. Populism in Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. Vol.57. "M. E. Sharpe". 2010. p.15
  24. ^ a b "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote. Archived from the original on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  25. ^ a b (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)
  26. ^ a b Azarov elected Regions Party head, Kyiv Post (23 April 2010) Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ a b 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)
  28. ^ a b c d "The court banned the Party of Regions". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  29. ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) Ілюзорна ідилія, Den (7 February 2007)
  30. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) Партія регіонів, Database DATA
  31. ^ "Elections of Peoples Deputies, 1998". Central Election Commission of Ukraine. 29 November 1998. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  32. ^ Ukraine Political Parties, GlobalSecurity.org
  33. ^ a b c d 2001 Political sketches: too early for summing up, Central European University (January 4, 2002)
  34. ^ a b c New «region» formed in Ukrainian Parliament, Central European University (26 March 2001)
  35. ^ Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design by Paul D'Anieri, M.E. Sharpe, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7656-1811-5
  36. ^ Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 3-525-36912-3 (page 391)
  37. ^ "parties of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc". Za Yediny Ukrayinu! (in Ukrainian). 2002-11-24. Archived from the original on 2004-11-06. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  38. ^ "Leaders of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc". Za Yediny Ukrayinu! (in Ukrainian). 2002-11-24. Archived from the original on 2004-12-08. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  39. ^ a b Yanukovych suspends his membership in Party of Regions, hands over party leadership to Azarov, Kyiv Post (3 March 2010)
  40. ^ UKRAINE COUNTRY ASSESSMENT April 2003, ecoi.net (April 2003)
  41. ^ Lutsenko suggests Regions Party deal with Piskun, who sanctioned proceedings against Kolesnykov, Kyiv Post (3 March 2009)
  42. ^ Countries at the crossroads: a survey of democratic governance by Sanja Tatic & Christopher Walker, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, ISBN 0742558010/ISBN 978-0742558014 (page 580)
  43. ^ Yanukovych’s inner circle, Kyiv Post (24 January 2010)
  44. ^ Party of Regions hopes for strengthening collaboration with 'United Russia' party, Kyiv Post (22 November 2009)
  45. ^ Paid advisers descend on candidates, nation, Kyiv Post (19 November 2009)
  46. ^ "Spin Doctors at elections 2006: those who worked for Yanukovych, Akhmetov, Tymoshenko, Medvedchuk…". Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 May 2006.[dead link]
  47. ^ (in Russian) [1], Росбалт.RU (06/10/2009)
  48. ^ "Party merger". ITAR-TASS.[dead link]
  49. ^ "Aliens took Tymoshenko on their flying saucer?". UNIAN. 5 September 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
  50. ^ "Regions Party ready to form coalition 'to save country'". Interfax Ukraine. 8 October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008. [dead link]
  51. ^ "Party of Regions is ready to unite with BYUT– Yanukovych". UNIAN. 13 March 2008.
  52. ^ BYT says union Party of Regions highly improbable, Interfax-Ukraine (13 March 2008)
  53. ^ "BYT ready to join efforts with Regions Party to pass law on aviation development, says Tymoshenko". Interfax-Ukraine. 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012.
  54. ^ Yanukovych does not believe in coalition with BYUT, UNIAN (30 March 2009)
  55. ^ Party of Regions holding talks with BYuT – Yanukovych, UNIAN (25 May 2009)
  56. ^ Ukraine Premier Fails to Form Alliance to Oppose President, The New York Times (8 June 2009)
  57. ^ Lawmaker Kiselev expelled from Party of Regions , UNIAN (16 September 2009)
  58. ^ "- MediaPort". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  59. ^ "Азаров і Добкін створили Антифашистський форум". ТСН.ua. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  60. ^ "Party Of Regions Nominates Yanukovych As Its Presidential Candidate". 2009-10-23. Archived from the original on 2012-08-14.
  61. ^ "Regions Party aiming for posts of president and premier". Kyiv Post. 26 November 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012.
  62. ^ Ukraine: Tymoshenko vows to contest election result, BBC News (February 15, 2010)
  63. ^ Mark Rachkevych (25 February 2010). "Yanukovych has yet to secure ruling majority in parliament". Kyiv Post. Archived from the original on 12 June 2012.
  64. ^ "CEC registers new MP from Regions Party to replace Yanukovych". Kyiv Post. 25 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012.
  65. ^ a b "Ukraine's Party of Regions to choose new leader". RIA Novosti. 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  66. ^ "Ukrainian parliament creates new coalition". Kyiv Post. 11 March 2010. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
  67. ^ Regions Party to elect new leader at congress on Friday, Kyiv Post (20 April 2010) Archived September 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  68. ^ a b c d e (in Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation Archived September 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Verkhovna Rada
  69. ^ "Seven individual MPs join Regions Party faction, Our Ukraine MP joins Lytvyn Bloc". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  70. ^ "Former BYUT members Feldman, Yatsenko, and Glus joined PR faction". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  71. ^ "Former BYUT members Bagraev and Pavlenko joined PR faction". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  72. ^ Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Centre for Eastern Studies (4 October 2010)
  73. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
  74. ^ Russia in global politics. The new game rules with rules (compilations) (Россия в глобальной политике. Новые правила игры без правил (сборник))
    Zakhar Samsonov. Sevastopol: "Makedonians" are marching (Севастополь: «македонцы» на марше). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 7 February 2019
    Oleg Glavatskiy, Valeriy Kosarev. The Crimean choice (Крымский выбор).
    Borislav Kashikhin, Nadezhda Isaeva. Between "Udmurts" and "Makedonians": The Chaly Bloc is pre-estimating Sablin (Между «удмуртами» и «македонцами»: блок Чалого приценивается к Саблину). Primechaniya.ru. 13 February 2019
    Petr Kozlov. "If it had particular a stage directing, the stage director had to be given a five with mark («Если это имело определенную режиссуру, режиссеру нужно поставить пять с плюсом»). Vedomosti. 16 March 2015
  75. ^ Regions Party planning to sign memorandum on cooperation with Communist Party of China, Kyiv Post (14 September 2010)
  76. ^ Perspectives of good cooperation between S&D and the party of regions of Ukraine Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, socialistsanddemocrats.eu. 14 Oct 2010. Retrieved 25 Aug 2011.
  77. ^ Kuzio, Taras (22 Nov 2010). "Ukrainian Democracy Will Be Built By Deeds, Not Pronouncements". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 25 Aug 2011.
  78. ^ Ukraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?, openDemocracy.net (3 January 2011)
  79. ^ Olszański, Tadeusz A. (29 Sep 2010). "The Party of Regions monopolises power in Ukraine". OSW Commentary. Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). Retrieved 3 Aug 2011.
  80. ^ Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko charged with misusing funds, BBC News (20 December 2010)
  81. ^ Ukraine viewpoint: Novelist Andrey Kurkov, BBC News (13 January 2011)
  82. ^ Ukraine launches battle against corruption, BBC News (18 January 2011)
  83. ^ Ukrainians' long wait for prosperity, BBC News (18 October 2010)
  84. ^ Ukraine:Journalists Face Uncertain Future Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (27 October 2010)
  85. ^ Yanukovych Tells U.K's Cameron No Fears for Ukraine's Democracy[permanent dead link], Turkish Weekly (6 October 2010) [dead link]
  86. ^ Yulia Kovalevska:Only some bankrupt politicians try to use the Day of Unification with the aim of self-PR, Party of Regions official website (21 January 2011) [dead link]
  87. ^ President: Ukraine must fulfill its commitments to Council of Europe Archived January 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, president.gov.ua (13 January 2011)
  88. ^ Azarov: We welcome other parties joining Regions Party, Kyiv Post (23 August 2011) Archived August 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  89. ^ "Azarov: Regions Party teams up with Strong Ukraine". Kyiv Post. 16 August 2011. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011.
  90. ^ Strong Ukraine postpones decision on merger with Regions Party, Kyiv Post (22 October 2011) Archived October 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  91. ^ Strong Ukraine to prepare its proposals to Regions Party on posts distribution, says Tigipko, Kyiv Post (22 October 2011) Archived October 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  92. ^ (in Ukrainian) Литвин поведе Народну партію на вибори саму, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 December 2011)
  93. ^ Tigipko hooks up with Party of Regions, Kyiv Post (20 March 2012)
    Strong Ukraine party decides on disbanding to join Regions Party, Kyiv Post (17 March 2012) "Tigipko hooks up with Party of Regions - Mar. 20, 2012". 20 March 2012. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  94. ^ Tigipko unanimously elected Regions Party deputy head, political council member, Kyiv Post (17 March 2012) Archived March 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  95. ^ "Lawmaker: Party of Regions to merge with two other parties on 17 March". Kyiv Post. 6 March 2012. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
  96. ^ (in Ukrainian) Тігіпко зажадав від "Регіонів" не брати Балогу, Ukrayinska Pravda (15 March 2012)
  97. ^ Regions Party to cooperate with ruling party in Kazakhstan, Kyiv Post (24 November 2011)
  98. ^ Electoral moods of the population of Ukraine: December 2011, Rating (20 December 2011)
  99. ^ Poll: Batkivschyna Party's electoral rating tops Regions Party in Ukraine, Kyiv Post (9 December 2011) Archived December 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  100. ^ Ratings of parties, Sociological group "RATING"
    Electoral moods of the Ukrainian population: February 2012 Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, Sociological group "RATING" (5 March 2012)
  101. ^ Sparkle Design Studio. "Ukraine, poll: If parliamentary elections were held next Sunday how would you vote? (recurrent, 2010–2013) // Razumkov Centre". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  102. ^ EU Observer, 27 April 2012
  103. ^ The Distorted Will of the People, The Ukrainian Week (5 November 2012)
  104. ^ (in Ukrainian) Candidates Archived 2014-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, RBC Ukraine
  105. ^ (in Ukrainian) Proportional votes Archived October 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine & Constituency seats Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine
    % of total seats, Ukrayinska Pravda
  106. ^ After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions, Centre for Eastern Studies (7 November 2012)
  107. ^ a b It was announced about creation of 5 factions in VRU – Party of Regions, Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda and CPU, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (12 December 2012)
  108. ^ "Outside View: Viktor Yanukovych: From partner to violent kleptocrat". UPI. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  109. ^ Ukraine's Maidan protests - one year on, The Guardian (21 November 2014)
    "Where did the downfall of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych begin?". Public Radio International. 24 February 2014.
  110. ^ "Ukrainian opposition calls for President Yanukovych's impeachment". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  111. ^ Herszenhorn, David M. (1 December 2013). "Thousands of Protesters in Ukraine Demand Leader's Resignation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  112. ^ (in Ukrainian) У Чернівцях теж заборонили ПР і КПУ "Chernivtsi is also banned the Communist Party and the Party of Regions", Ukrayinska Pravda (26 January 2014)
  113. ^ "Party of Regions, Communist Party banned in Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil regions". KyivPost. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  114. ^ "Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council bans activities of Communist Party, Regions Party, Opposition Bloc, Ukraine Development Party". Interfax-Ukraine. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  115. ^ Dangerous Liaisons, The Ukrainian Week (18 May 2015)
  116. ^ "Житомирские регионалы самораспустились". Обозреватель. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  117. ^ Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News (23 February 2014)
    Ukraine protests timeline, BBC News (23 February 2014)
  118. ^ Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про самоусунення Президента України від виконання конституційних повноважень (№4193) – за основу та в цілому [Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on the withdrawal of the President of Ukraine from fulfilling constitutional obligations (№4193) – as the primary and on the whole] (in Ukrainian). Parliament of Ukraine. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014.
  119. ^ "Where is Viktor Yanukovych? (VIDEO, UPDATE)". KyivPost. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  120. ^ a b Party of Regions faction becomes opposition, Kyiv Post (24 February 2014)
  121. ^ Rada creates Group for Economic Development Archived May 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Radio Ukraine (25 February 2014)
  122. ^ "Ousted leader Yanukovych calls for referendum in every region of Ukraine". euronews. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  123. ^ a b Ukraine's Party of Regions expels presidential hopefuls Tigipko, Tsariov and Boiko, Interfax-Ukraine (7 April 2014)
  124. ^ "Poroshenko wins presidential election with 54.7% of vote – CEC". Radio Ukraine International. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014.
  125. ^ 20 MPs leave Regions Party faction, Interfax-Ukraine (3 June 2014)
  126. ^ 20 lawmakers quit Party of Regions faction in Ukrainian parliament, ITAR-TASS (3 June 2014)
  127. ^ (in Ukrainian) [2], Ukrayinska Pravda (2 July 2014)
  128. ^ (in Ukrainian) Dynamics in the fraction For Peace and Stability in the VII convocation, Verkhovna Rada
  129. ^ Tom Balmforth. Frustrated Ukrainian Activists Dishing Out 'Trash-Bucket Justice'. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2 October 2014
    Roland Oliphant. Up to a dozen Ukraine officials dumped in wheelie bins. The Telegraph. 07 Oct 2014
    Ishaan Tharoor. Watch: Ukrainian politician gets dump in the trash. Washington Post. 16 September 2014
    Katya Gorchinskaya. Frustrated over lack of justice, Ukrainians throw officials in trash (VIDEO). Kyiv Post. 26 September 2014
  130. ^ It became known [Ukrainian] deputies who in Russia "stand for the interest of the Russian World". Ukrayinska Pravda. 18 September 2014
  131. ^ MVS opened a criminal case for the voyage of deputies to the State Duma. Ukrayinska Pravda. 25 September 2014
  132. ^ Yefremov travels to Luhansk to discuss possibility of the separation of the South-East – source. LB. February 20, 2014
  133. ^ The Crimean speaker in Moscow threatens of the Crimea's secession to Russia Archived 2014-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. The Crimean Tatar question. February 21, 2014
  134. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) What distinguishes the "opposition bloc" of the Party of Regions?, BBC Ukrainian (23 September 2014)
  135. ^ Opposition Bloc chooses top ten candidates for parliamentary elections, Interfax Ukraine (23 September 2014)
    Allies of Yanukovych trying for parliament, Kyiv Post (21 September 2014)
    Party Of Regions Will Not Contest Snap Parliamentary Elections Independently, Ukrainian News Agency (14 September 2014) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 24, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  136. ^ (in Ukrainian) Activists noticed that most ex-Regions are on lists of Poroshenko, Ukrayinska Pravda (22 October 2015)
  137. ^ (in Ukrainian) Media: the BPP 22% of the members of regional councils and 12% of MPs – ex- "Regions", Ukrayinska Pravda (February 7, 2016)
  138. ^ "Активисты "Евромайдана" намерены пикетировать съезд партии "Доверяй делам" Кернеса и Труханова в Харькове". Интерфакс-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  139. ^ Паскевич, Анна (2020-10-16). "Кандидаты в мэры Днепра 2020: список, биографии и рейтинги". OBOZREVATEL NEWS (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  140. ^ Басакін, Олексій (2020-12-08). "Дети депутатов и приближенные Кернеса: кто был избран в горсовет. Часть 2". NewsRoom (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  141. ^ "Миллионеры и безработные: кто идет в горсовет от ОПЗЖ". NewsRoom (in Russian). 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  142. ^ Zelensky presented the Kherson team: former members of the BPP, the Party of Regions and other political forces, Civil movement "Chesno" (21 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)
  143. ^ Party of Regions in Crimea will be reorganized, announced the head of the Supreme Council (Партия регионов в Крыму будет реорганизована, заявил глава ВС). RIA Novosti. 12 March 2014
    In Crimea Party of Regions will be renamed, Konstantinov (В Крыму переименуют Партию регионов – Константинов). Segodnya. 13 March 2014
  144. ^ Andrei Sambros. Cleansing of cadres in Crimea: what was it. Novaya Gazeta. 7 July 2015
    Petr Bologov. How again Party of Regions won election in Crimea (Как Партия регионов опять выиграла выборы в Крыму). Republic.ru. 15 September 2014
    Pavel Krivosheev. "United Russia" is the party of government, but not people", the Crimea activists («Единая Россия» – партия власти, но не народа» – крымские активисты). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 10 December 2019
  145. ^ In Crimea was created a regional branch of the "United Russia" party (В Крыму создано региональное отделение партии "Единая Россия"). TASS. 7 April 2014
  146. ^ Nataliya Nazaruk. At election the ruling party in Crimea will be led by Aksyonov and Konstantinov (Партию власти в Крыму на выборы поведут Аксёнов и Константинов). ForPost. 14 June 2019
    Stanislav Smagin. How Russian parties came to Crimea and Sevastopol (Как российские партии пришли в Крым и Севастополь). Russkaya Ideya. 6 June 2019
    Dmitriy Sablin: Bigger portion of the United Russia members in Sevastopol are former members of Party of Regions (Дмитрий Саблин: Большая часть членов «Единой России» в Севастополе – бывшие члены «Партии Регионов»). Sevastopol Independent Television. 9 February 2019
  147. ^ @DFRLab (2019-07-25). "Facebook Takes Down the "Voice of Truth" in Ukraine - DFRLab". Medium. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  148. ^ "Внутренний враг: три примера коллаборации или ее попыток со стороны украинских политиков | Mind.ua". 2022-05-23. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  149. ^ "Знакомьтесь, коллаборанты: кто и как сдавал украинские города и прислуживает оккупантам". KP.UA (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  150. ^ "Война в Украине: мэр-коллаборант Рубежного сдает оккупантам украинских активистов | Новости на Gazeta.ua". 2022-04-30. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  151. ^ "Kidnapping of Ukrainian Mayor in Melitopol Met With a Show of Resistance - The New York Times". The New York Times. 2022-04-02. Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  152. ^ "Геннадий Мацегора сам сдал Купянск оккупантам (ФОТО) – новости Харькова". 2022-04-07. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  153. ^ "Коллаборант Андрей Шевчик занял кабинет мэра Энергодара". 2022-04-14. Archived from the original on 2022-04-14. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  154. ^ "РИА Новости объявило о "назначении" в Херсоне и Херсонской области "новых руководителей" Месяц назад один из них говорил, что Херсон — это Украина — Meduza". 2022-04-27. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  155. ^ Fisun, Oleksandr; Movchan, Uliana; Madlovics, Bálint; Magyar, Bálint (2023). "Regime Cycles and Neopatrimonialism in Ukraine". Ukraine's Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War. Vol. 1. Central European University Press. p. 128. doi:10.7829/jj.3985461.8. ISBN 978-963-386-664-1. JSTOR 10.7829/jj.3985461.8.
  156. ^ Katchanovski, Ivan (2006). The Orange Evolution? The Political Realignment and Regional Divisions in Ukraine (PDF). Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association in Toronto. p. 18.
  157. ^ a b Regions Party: Question of Ukraine's EU membership now 'purely theoretical', Kyiv Post (15 December 2011) Archived December 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  158. ^ Yuriy Miroshnychenko: Viktor Yanukovych promotes the comprehensive development and use of the official language, Official Information Server of the party (21 February 2011) Archived May 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  159. ^ Volodymyr Zubanov: The current government promotes the development of the languages of all people in Ukraine, Official Information Server of the party (21 February 2011) Archived May 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  160. ^ Olexander Yefremov: The Party of Regions supports cancellation of a number of benefits for MPs Archived 2012-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Official Information Server of the party (5 December 2011)
    Yefremov says Party of Regions ready to vote for cancelation of parliamentary immunity, Interfax-Ukraine (15 April 2013)
  161. ^ Kliuyev:Corruption a key reason for delay in reforms in Ukraine, Kyiv Post (2 March 2012) Archived March 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  162. ^ Party of Regions MP Tsariov accuses US Embassy in Ukraine of training revolutionaries for street protests, Interfax-Ukraine (20 November 2013)
  163. ^ "Еще трое депутатов вышли из Партии регионов, в сумме уже 72". Gazeta.ua. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  164. ^ "Ответственность за события в Украине лежит на Януковиче и его ближайшем окружении – заявление фракции Партии регионов". Интерфакс-Украина. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  165. ^ Наталья Кобзар (7 April 2014). "Партия регионов презентовала новую экономическую доктрину". Status Quo. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  166. ^ Ukraine's course for European integration remains the same, repeats president & Ukraine will decide on conditions of signing agreement with EU before March summit – Yanukovych, Interfax-Ukraine (10 December 2013)
    Yanukovych orders government to analyze economic risks of partnership treaty with EU by March, Interfax-Ukraine (10 December 2013)
  167. ^ Ukraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?, openDemocracy.net (January 3, 2011)
  168. ^ Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe by Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 978-3525369128 (page 396)
  169. ^ ""ЕС – да, сокращению рабочих мест – нет": митинг ПАРТИИ РЕГИОНОВ на Европейской площади". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  170. ^ a b "Представители ПАРТИИ РЕГИОНОВ приняли участие в Евразийских межпартийных консультациях - Официальный сайт украинской партии "Партия Регионов"". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
  171. ^ "ПР й "Прогресивний альянс соціалістів і демократів" Європарламенту домовилися про співробітництво - Український тиждень". 14 October 2010.
  172. ^ a b c d "ПАРТИЯ РЕГИОНОВ развивает межпартийное сотрудничество - Официальный сайт украинской партии "Партия Регионов"". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
  173. ^ "Партія регіонів та казахстанська партія НДП "Нур Отан" підписали документ про співробітництво ЛОО Партії регіонів - офіційний сайт". Archived from the original on 2013-05-24.
  174. ^ "Делегатів XIV з'їзду Партії регіонів привітало керівництво Партії "Новий Азербайджан" - Офіційний сайт української партії "Партія Регіонів"". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
  175. ^ "ПАРТІЯ РЕГІОНІВ підписала Угоду про співпрацю з Прогресивною партією трудового народу Кіпру » Черкаська обласна організація Партії регіонів". Archived from the original on 2013-07-30.
  176. ^ "Партія регіонів співпрацюватиме з Демократичним альянсом польського сейму і сенату - Официальный сайт украинской партии "Партия Регионов"". Archived from the original on 2013-02-02.
  177. ^ "Партія регіонів подружилася з китайськими комуністами - Новини - Український тиждень". 18 April 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02.
  178. ^ "ПАРТІЯ РЕГІОНІВ та правляча Комуністична партія В'єтнаму уклали угоду про співробітництво - Офіційний сайт української партії "Партія Регіонів"". Archived from the original on 2013-02-02.
[edit]

Media related to Party of Regions (Ukraine) at Wikimedia Commons

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Party_of_Regions&oldid=1234045498"