Party of Regions
Party of Regions Партія регіонів Партия регионов | |
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| Leader | Collective leadership |
| Executive secretary | Borys Kolesnikov |
| Founders | Mykola Azarov Yukhym Zvyahilsky Volodymyr Rybak |
| Founded | 26 October 1997 (28 years, 141 days) |
| Banned | 21 February 2023 (3 years, 23 days) |
| Succeeded by | Opposition Bloc (mainly) |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Newspaper | Vremya Regionov |
| Youth wing | Young Regions |
| Membership (2013) | 450,000 |
| Ideology | Social democracy Regionalism Russophilia Euroscepticism Catch-all party |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | For United Ukraine! (until 2002) |
| European affiliation | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (Cooperation, until 2014) |
| Oligarch association | Donetsk Clan |
| Colours | Blue White |
| Slogan | Strong regions, strong country, rich people! (Russian: «Сильные регионы, крепкая страна, богатые люди!») (Ukrainian: «Сильні регіони, міцна країна, багаті люди!») |
| Verkhovna Rada (2012) | 185 / 450 |
| Regions (2010) | 1,587 / 3,056 |
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| Website | |
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The Party of Regions (Ukrainian: Партія регіонів, romanized: Partiia rehioniv, pronounced [ˈpɑrt⁽ʲ⁾ijɐ reɦiˈɔn⁽ʲ⁾iu̯]; Russian: Партия регионов, romanized: Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that used to be 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. The 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 after Euromaidan.
The Ukrainian Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party on 21 February 2023.