Communist Party of Ukraine
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Communist Party of Ukraine
Комуністична партія України |
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| First Secretary | Petro Symonenko |
| Second Secretary | Igor Alekseyev |
| Founded | June 19, 1993 |
| Dissolved | December 16, 2015 |
| Split from | Socialist Party of Ukraine |
| Preceded by | Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) |
| Newspaper | Komunist (2000-present) |
| Youth wing | Komsomol of Ukraine |
| Membership (2012) | 115,000 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism Left-wing populism |
| Political position | Far-Left |
| International affiliation | International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties |
| Continental affiliation | Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Colors | Red |
| Website | |
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The Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Комуністична партія України, Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny, KPU) is a political party founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine, which was banned in 1991. The party is currently banned from taking part in elections in Ukraine; this ban does not prevent individual members of the party from taking part in elections as an independent candidate.
Communist parties have a long history in Ukraine but the KPU is not currently represented in the Verkhovna Rada. It was represented in that body from 1994 until the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election which resulted in national representation for communists in Ukraine ending for the first time since 1918. The party and its immediate CPSU predecessor emerged as the largest political force after each Ukrainian parliamentary election from 1990 until 2002. Until the aftermath of the Orange Revolution in 2004 it was continuously the largest single party in the Ukrainian parliament. Since 1993 the party has been led by Petro Symonenko.
The General Prosecutor of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine have both filed charges against the party. The charges include supporting the annexation of Crimea by Russia and "financing terrorism" (i.e. providing support to separatists in Eastern Ukraine), both acts of treason against the Ukrainian state.
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