Regions faction
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Party of Regions
Партія регіонів |
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| Leader | (position liquidated), leadership now in the hands of the Enlarged Bureau |
| Executive secretary | Borys Kolesnikov |
| Parliamentary leader | None |
| Founded | 26 October 1997 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Newspaper | Vremya Regionov |
| Youth wing | Young Regions |
| Ideology |
Catch-all Euroscepticism Centrism Regionalism Russophilia |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue |
| Website | |
| partyofregions.ua | |
The Party of Regions (Ukrainian: Партія регіонів, pronounced [ˈpɑrtijɑ rɛɦiˈɔniu̯]; Russian: Партия регионов) is a pro-Russiapolitical party of Ukraine created in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Ukraine between 2006 and 2014. Since the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the party has not competed in elections and most of its representatives have left the party to continue their careers in other parties. Best known former party members are former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych; both fled to Russia in February 2014.
The party was created on 26 October 1997, just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine and led by Volodymyr Rybak. Throughout its existence the party has contained different political groups with diverging ideological outlooks.
The party was reorganized later in 2001 when it united with several others. According to the party’s leadership in 2002, from the creation of the party to the end of 2001 the number of members jumped from 30,000 to 500,000. The party claims to ideologically defend and uphold the rights of ethnic Russians and speakers of the Russian language in Ukraine. It originally supported president Leonid Kuchma and joined the pro-government For United Ukraine alliance during the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002.
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