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Topic: United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine


  
  Ukraine - MSN Encarta
The party was banned from 1991 to 1993, but by 1994 it had rebounded to become Ukraine’s largest party.
Ukraine’s armed forces are the second largest in Europe, after those of Russia, with an estimated strength of 187,600 in 2004.
Because Ukraine is committed to a policy of nonalignment, it does not subscribe to the treaty on collective security of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), nor does it desire to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573617_8/Ukraine.html   (631 words)

  
  United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) or SDPU(U) or SDPU(o) (Ukrainian: Sotsial-Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayiny [Obyednana], Соцiал-демократична партiя України (об`єднана) or СДПУ(О)), is a Ukrainian political party.
During the presidential term of Leonid Kuchma the party portrayed itself as centrist, social-democratic moderate political force that advocated integration with Europe and supported the president.
Despite being one of the most active political parties with a wide range of political activities and a significant number of student and youth members, SDPU tend to lose a significant amount of votes due to the notoriety of its leaders for their business and political practices.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ukraine   (472 words)

  
 Social Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a broader list of parties considered to follow the principles of social democracy, see List of social democratic parties.
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party with its Bolshevik and Menshevik factions
Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988-90) - Continuation by members who had opposed 1988 merger with Liberal Party
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party   (218 words)

  
 Map Zones : Ukraine Map
Ukraine’s four major zones of plant life, from north to south, are forest, forest-steppe, steppe, and Mediterranean.
In the forest zone, beech trees are widespread in the west; linden, oak, and pine are found in the swamps and meadows in the north and northwest; and spruce is prevalent in the northeast.
Ukraine, republic in eastern Europe, bordered on the north by Belarus and Russia; on the east by Russia; on the south by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; on the south-west by Romania and Moldova; and on the west by Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.
kids.mapzones.com /world/ukraine   (3237 words)

  
 Ukraine Political Parties
Regions of Ukraine is the parliamentary wing of the Party of Regions of Ukraine.
Solidarity Party, led by Petro Poroshenko, is a relatively new addition to the realm of Ukrainian politics with its establishment in February 2001.
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) SDPU(U): The SDPU(U) was a small party until it was taken over by the Kyiv oligarchic clan in the mid-1990s and its leader, former Justice Minister Vasyl Onopenko, was pushed out.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/ukraine/parties.htm   (3259 words)

  
 Ukraine Assessment V4
Leonid Hrach, leader of the Communist Party of Crimea, was elected Chairman of the new Supreme Council, and upon the expiry of the Crimean government's mandate in May, a new Council of Ministers was appointed, with Serhiy Kunitsyn as Prime Minister.
The Constitution of the Republic of Ukraine was adopted at the fifth session of its parliament, the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council) of Ukraine, on 28 June 1996.
Ukraine is governed by a directly-elected president and a unicameral parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, which is elected partially according to proportional representation and partially by direct constituency mandate.
www.asylumlaw.org /docs/ukraine/ind99b_ukraine_ca.htm   (17671 words)

  
 Ukraine's Counterfeit Left
Ukraine, an area the size of France, with a populace of just under 50 million, is one of the richest countries in Europe in terms of natural resources, agriculture and minerals.
In Ukraine where memories of the gulag, a genocidal famine and poverty of a pseudo-socialist economy are fresh in the mind of millions retrogression poses a limited attraction.
The relationship of the SDPU(o) to the Ukrainian social democrats of the early 20th Century, who considered themselves Marxists, and their predecessors is a parasitical one no less damaging to genuine socialism than that of the Stalinists, for both would render this tradition harmless to contemporary capitalism.
www.spectrezine.org /resist/Ukraine.htm   (3152 words)

  
 InternationalReports.net : Ukraine 2002
The Communist party is a notable exception, still promoting "bright communist future", although everyone understands that their time has passed and with each new election they lose more supporters.
The Communist party consciously refuses to participate in advertisement methods of election campaign, which it considers to be waste of financial and organization recourses.
Ukraine as social, democratic country, that ensures its citizens a decent level of living.
www.internationalreports.net /europe/ukraine/2002/parliament.html   (1711 words)

  
 Leonid Kravchuk Summary
The party organization sent him to study at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, and in 1970 he obtained the degree of candidate of sciences.
From 1989 to 1990 he served as secretary responsible for ideology in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and in June 1990 he was made a member of the Politburo and briefly served as second secretary of the organization.
Ukraine proclaimed independence, the Communist Party of Ukraine was outlawed, and the first measures aimed at democratization and economic reform were made while Kravchuk headed parliament.
www.bookrags.com /Leonid_Kravchuk   (1736 words)

  
 Build Ukraine
Glavred, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 24 Dec 03
We have a democratic debate at plenums and congresses.
If such a great [Our Ukraine] MP as [Yevhen] Chervonenko, with a Ukrainian family, but essentially a Jew, who is called a "yid" behind his back, if this suits him, then let them be like that.
www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/surkis.htm   (3182 words)

  
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Besides these two major parties, the CNDF is composed of a number of smaller center-right political parties; the APMU, the UPDP, the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party and the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party.
The party is a rural counterpart of the SPU and is often regarded as anti-nationalist.
The successor to the former Communist party, the SPU is headed by Oleksander Moroz, who was the leader of the Communist majority in the Parliament before the dissolution of that party in August 1991.
www.brama.com /ua-gov/polorgs.txt   (1834 words)

  
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In 2003, Ukraine's reintegration with Russia appeared to be strengthened with the signing on September 19 of an agreement to create a Common Economic Space that could eventually link the two countries with Belarus and Kazakhstan in a common market and customs union.
Yushchenko's honeymoon ended quickly, however, as the new administration was forced to deal with the legacies inherited from the previous administration, such as mismanagement of the economy, corruption, and the unreformed institutional structure of the state.
The leader of the country's largest national labor federation was forced to withdraw from an opposition parliamentary faction as the result of an orchestrated threat to his union leadership organized by allies of the presidential administration.
www.freedomhouse.org /inc/content/pubs/fiw/inc_country_detail.cfm?country=7081&pf   (3186 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
Last week, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin was quoted as saying that Russia is with those parties and election blocs in Ukraine that call for the development and deepening of relations between the two countries.
Our Ukraine -- with a moderately reformist economic program --may eventually obtain some 100 seats in the Verkhovna Rada as many polls have predicted, but it seems that the pro-presidential For a United Ukraine -- by using administrative levers, intimidation of voters, and massive advertising in the media -- will get no fewer.
What Ukraine primarily and urgently needs is to embrace a positive and efficient economic program, not a civilizational or geostrategic choice between the West and the East, or between Washington and Moscow.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/03/5-NOT/not-280302.asp?po=y   (828 words)

  
 Ukrainian Media Landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
In the Ukraine 831 TV and radio companies are licensed to broadcast: 513 private and 28 state ones, 144 (15%) of them do not work at all, 378 (60%) of others are barely surviving.
The State Information Agency of the Ukraine, Ukrinform, produces and distributes information throughout the Ukraine and abroad, and is available in the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages.
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine is the main professional organisation in the Ukraine (NSJU).
www.ejc.nl /jr/emland/ukraine.html   (4100 words)

  
 Ukrainian Communists rule out election pact with major opposition parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
He said his party had ideological differences with the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine [USDPU] and the Party of Regions and thus their paths would not cross.
Today we cannot agree that the name Social Democratic Party in reality corresponds to the contents of the organization of its work and the problems as they see them in terms of political solutions.
The United Social Democrat leader said that ahead of the [2006] parliamentary elections there will be - I quote - a purge of the political field to get rid of the parties opposing the current authorities.
news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/printer_1022106.php   (378 words)

  
 Ukrainian opposition TV owner dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Pluzhnykov, deputy head of the opposition United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (USDPU), had been undergoing medical treatment in the Czech Republic for a condition diagnosed as toxic hepatitis.
A member of the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine parliamentary faction, Ihor Pluzhnykov, has died, his fellow faction member, MP Nestor Shufrych, has said.
The head of the SBU [Security Service of Ukraine], Oleksandr Turchynov, has said that the SBU was ready to institute a criminal case if doctors proved that Pluzhnykov's illness had resulted from atypical poisoning.
news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/printer_1019092.php   (272 words)

  
 Ukraine
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there were 3,000 Afghanis in Ukraine at the end of 1997 (up on 2,500 at the end of 1996).
Roman Koval, the leader of the Derzhavna Samostiynist Ukrainy (DSU, State Independence of Ukraine), which was founded in Lviv in April 1990, stated in 1995 that the party was changing its image and intended to campaign for parliamentary seats.
Members of the Sotsial-Natsionalna Partiya Ukrainy (SNPU, Social-National Party of Ukraine), based in western Ukraine, must be ‘pure’ Ukrainians: the party’s definition of a nation is a group of people unified not only by language, culture, history and economics, but also by psychology, mentality and biology.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/ukraine/ukraine.htm   (3660 words)

  
 ANALYSIS: Conflict grows between Our Ukraine and Social Democratic Party United (01/04/04)
As the end of the Leonid Kuchma era approaches, the Party of Regions and Labor Ukraine are attempting to evolve from oligarchs, who gained from robber-baron capitalism in the 1990s, to businessmen.
This role is best undertaken by Regions of Ukraine who blocked Our Ukraine from crossing the 4 percent threshold in the 2002 elections in the Donbas region and ensured the ultimate victory for the pro-Kuchma For a United Ukraine bloc.
Our Ukraine accused the SDPU of being behind the arson attack on the home of Pavlo Scherban, the head of the city court, which rejected a Lviv District Court ruling to nullify voting results in 15 of the city's 36 polling precincts.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/010404.shtml   (891 words)

  
 CER | Ukraine: Premier Yushchenko voted out
The Communists, the United Social Democratic party, the Working Ukraine group, the Democratic Union, the Regions of Ukraine, and the Yabluko factions supported the no-confidence resolution.
The protest was staged by the allied democratic opposition consisting of the National Salvation Forum, the Ukraine without Kuchma committee, the For Truth movement and Ukrainian Pravytsya (block of parties, consisting of the People's Movement of Ukraine and the Reforms-Congress party).
Many in Ukraine were bewildered by the recommendation of the PACE monitoring committee on 5 April to suspend Ukraine's membership to the Council of Europe.
www.ce-review.org /01/15/ukrainenews15.html   (822 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
Aside from the 177 votes from the pro-presidential For a United Ukraine, which has been renamed United Ukraine, and 31 votes from the oligarchic Social Democratic Party of Ukraine-united (SDPU-o), the vote was carried by seven Our Ukraine deputies who were immediately expelled from that faction, and Communists "loaned" for the vote.
Volodymyr Lytvyn, the head of the presidential administration and United Ukraine faction, became Rada chairman followed by Hennadiy Vasyliev, a member of the oligarch Labor Ukraine party, as first deputy chairman and with the post of deputy Rada chairman going to Oleksandr Zinchenko, the deputy head of the SDPU-o.
In a joint statement on 26 April, Our Ukraine, the Communists (which polled 20.4 percent), the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (7.21 percent), and Socialists (6.93 percent) said that they won the elections, which was a defeat for the authorities.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/05/5-NOT/not-300502.asp?po=y   (947 words)

  
 Regulations of Eastern European Social Democratic Forum
The Eastern European Social Democratic Forum (hereinafter called the Forum) was established to strengthen multilateral cooperation between social democratic parties of Eastern Europe and coordinate their actions.
The Eastern European Social Democratic Forum includes its founder members and the parties admitted into it by a simple majority vote at a meeting of the Consultative Council.
Decision to expel parties from membership for violating the Forum's principles or as a result of their decreasing popularity in their home countries may be taken by a majority of two-thirds of parties voting.
www.sdpuo.org.ua /eng/eesdforum/3c725a4e/view_print   (402 words)

  
 BRAMA - Parties Registered for the March 1998 Election in Ukraine
One of the Social Nationalist leaders, Oleh Tyahnybok, insisted "we are nationalists" not fascists and has threatened to sue CPU leader Petro Symonenko for calling them fascists.
Party of Defenders of the Fatherland (Partiya Zakhysnykiv Vitchyzny)
Party of Regional Rebirth of Ukraine (Partiya Rehionalnoho Vidrodzhennya Ukrainy)
www.brama.com /ua-gov/pol-detl.html   (2026 words)

  
 Election statement of IBT (Ukraine)
The Democratic Party in the United States is an example of a party of this type.
The Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), launched in 1993, is the largest political party in Ukraine, and seeks to establish itself as the hegemonic left-wing party.
The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU), which split to the left from the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) in 1996, was initially received with enthusiasm by a significant number of workers because it called for a decisive break with the counterrevolutionary heritage of Stalinism.
www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/UkraineElection.html   (2190 words)

  
 Ukraine
The Ukraine's foreign relations are based on the principle of non-alignment or neutrality.
The different studies in Spillmann's book examine the legislative and institutional foundations of the Ukraine's foreign and security policy, its underlying national interests and the development of the Ukraine's defense sector (750,000 former Soviet troops have been peacefully transformed into the armed forces of the independent Ukraine; currently 420,000 military and civilian personnel).
Russia and the Ukraine are not equal neighbours.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo4/spillmann.htm   (639 words)

  
 NIS Observed
Units of Tajik and CIS (therefore Russian) border guards held a two-day exercise near Dushanbe in mid-May. Tajik officials claim that this was the first time such a maneuver was held.
Although the opposition units did withdraw to their designated training camps, UTO leaders assert that not all government forces were pulled out of Kofarnihon, and the political reform of local administrative organs did not occur.
To instate a new ban on religious parties is to deny Nuri's authority and the legitimacy of the alliance which he represents.
www.bu.edu /iscip/digest/vol3/ed0308.html   (10035 words)

  
 THE MYTH OF UKRAINE'S "THIRD FORCE" IN PARLIAMENT - Eurasia Daily Monitor
United Ukraine (20) and Democratic Ukraine (19) are also composed of third-force members from the Kuchma camp.
Democratic Ukraine is allied to Lytvyn, giving him indirect control over 66 of the 86 third-force deputies.
Instead, the third-force parties are trying to be both in opposition and on good terms with the authorities, a difficult position to maintain.
jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370146   (974 words)

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