BYuT
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Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
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| Leader | Yulia Tymoshenko |
| First Deputy | Oleksandr Turchynov |
| Parliamentary leader | Andriy Kozhemiakin |
| Founded | 9 February 2001 |
| Dissolved | 15 December 2012 |
| Preceded by | National Salvation Committee |
| Succeeded by | Dictatorship Resistance Committee |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Ideology | Solidarism,Pro-Europeanism, social democracy,liberal nationalism However, parties in the Tymoshenko Bloc can have stances on some issues that vary considerably from other member parties. |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Red heart on a white background |
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1The alliance contained different political groups with diverging ideological outlooks |
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The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was since 2001 the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko. In November 2011 the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections was banned. The core party of the alliance Fatherland stayed a major force in Ukrainian politics.
Founded for the 2002 parliamentary elections the alliance attracted most of its voters from Western Ukrainian (Ukrainian speaking) provinces (Oblasts) and from central Ukraine. The alliance had low support in the east and the south of Ukraine (where the Russian language is dominant). They did recruited several politicians from these Russian speaking provinces like Crimea (Lyudmyla Denisova) and Luhansk Oblast (Natalia Korolevska). The alliance was often associated with the 2004 Orange Revolution (the alliance's leader Yulia Tymoshenko was one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution) and thus named an Orange Party in media publications. The alliance had some prominent members who used to be associated with the opponents of the Orange Revolutions (the Blue camp) like the formerfaction leader of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) faction in the Ukrainian Parliament Ivan Kyrylenko. Other noticeable (former) BYuT deputies are Soviet dissident Levko Lukyanenko and former UNA-UNSO leader Andriy Shkil.
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