People's Movement of Ukraine
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People's Movement of Ukraine
Народний Рух України |
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| President | Vasyl Kuybida |
| Founded | February 9, 1990 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Youth wing | Young Activists of the Popular Rukh |
| Membership | 35000 (November 2016) |
| Ideology | Ukrainian nationalism Liberal conservatism Economic liberalism Pro-Europeanism Atlanticism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | European People's Party (observer) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue, yellow |
| Slogan | Statehood, Democracy, Reforms |
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The People's Movement of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrajiny) is a Ukrainian centre-right political party. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement (Ukrainian: Рух, Rukh). The party is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP).
Rukh gathers most of its voters and support from Western Ukraine. In November 2016 the party had 35.000 members.
Initially organized as the People's Movement of Ukraine for Reconstruction (i.e. for Perestroika), Rukh was founded in 1989 as a civil-political movement as there were no other political parties allowed in the Soviet Union but the Communist Party. The founding of Rukh was made possible due to Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost policies. The program and statutes of the movement were proposed by the Writers Association of Ukraine and were published in the journal Literary Ukraine (Literaturna Ukraina) on February 16, 1989. The organization has its roots in Ukrainian dissidents — the most notable of them being Vyacheslav Chornovil — yet not excluding the fact that it was accepting various other politically oriented members from liberal communists to integralist nationalists. From March to September 1989 numerous constituent party conferences took place across Ukraine. The first Constituent Congress of the "People's Movement of Ukraine for Reconstruction" took place on September 8–10, 1989 in Kiev. Elected as the first leader of the movement was the Ukrainian poet and screenwriter Ivan Drach.
The official Soviet press and government portrayed members as anti-Semites at first.
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