Revival ( uk, «Відродження», the name can also be translated as ''Renaissance'') is a

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in Ukraine, established in its current form in June 2015. Its predecessor had been founded by

Heorhiy Kirpa Heorhiy Mykolayovych Kirpa ( uk, Георгій Миколайович Кірпа) (20 July 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – 27 December 2004 in Bortnychi, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known ...

in 2004. On 5 June 2015, Revival, not represented in parliament until then, gained 22 of 450 seats in Parliament through a merger with a parliamentary faction of the same name, which was known as Economic Development between February 2014 and March 2015. In the

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the party joined a united party list with the political parties of

Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development Opposition Bloc ( uk, Опозиційний блок, Russian: Оппозиционный блок), formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development ( uk, Опозиційний блок — Партія миру та роз ...

, Nashi and Trust The Deeds.Parties of Opposition Bloc, Peace and Development, Vidrodzhennia, Ours and Trust Deeds declare unification to participate in Rada snap elections
Interfax-Ukraine (7 June 2019) But this combined force did not win any parliamentary seats.

History

Revival

The party was registered at the Ministry of Justice on 15 June 2004 and its chairman was then Minister of Transportation and Communication and director of

Ukrzaliznytsia Ukrainian Railways ( uk, Укрзалізниця, Ukrzaliznytsia, abbreviated as UZ) is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. I ...

.Party profile

RBC Ukraine The RBC Group, or RosBiznesConsulting (russian: Группа компаний «РБК» РБК, РосБизнесКонсалтинг), is a Russian media group headquartered in Moscow. It was established in 1993. The company holds an infor ...

Party profile
at the Center of Political Information The party supported

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

during the

2004 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

. Kirpa was found dead on 27 December 2004.POLICE CONFIRM GEORGI KIRPA'S DEATH AS SUICIDE

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine ( uk, Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform ( uk, Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of ...

(6 January 2005) Early next month the police concluded he had killed himself. During the

2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

s the party scored 0.96%, finishing 12th out of 45 participants, and did not gain any parliamentary seats. The party did not participate in the

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s and the

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Economic Development was created on 27 February 2014 by MP

Anatoliy Kinakh Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh ( uk, Анатолій Кирилович Кінах) (born August 4, 1954) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian politician and honorary professor at the Mykolaiv Government Humanitarian University. Kinakh is a former (long servi ...

who had recently left the

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

faction.Rada creates Group for Economic Development
,

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(25 February 2014) The co-leader of the group was elected Vitaliy Khomutynnik. Initially accounted for 33 deputies, the group included 41 MPs by the end of the seventh parliamentary convocation. Most of them had shortly before been a member of the Party of Regions faction, and many retained their membership within the Party. Kinakh claimed to have created the faction to restart the negotiations with the

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on the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement and its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. On its second day the faction with 250 other MPs sign up to join the coalition supporting the Yatsenyuk Government with the

Batkivshchyna The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Pe ...

UDAR The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform ( uk, Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR ( uk, УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", en, Ukrainian ...

, Svoboda factions and the Sovereign European Ukraine faction and other MPs.

Revived after 2014 parliamentary election

The parliamentary group was revived after the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine.In Parliament created a faction

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukrai ...

(27 November 2014) The new leader of the parliamentary group is Vitaliy Khomutynnik.

had failed to win a seat in the 2014 parliamentary election. In its reincarnation the group has 19 deputies.

Merger

The Economic Development group was dissolved on 5 March 2015 and re-founded as Revival. On 5 June 2015, Revival's Party Congress decided to make the faction "Revival" in Ukraine's national parliament

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

the parliamentary wing of the party, effectively merging the two. Revival MP

Viktor Bondar Viktor Vasylyovych Bondar ( uk, Ві́ктор Васи́льович Бо́ндар ; russian: Виктор Васильевич Бондарь, Viktor Vasil'evich Bondar) is a Ukrainian politician, a member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna ...

was elected party chairman.Deputy group "Renaissance" is party of the same name and to form a united opposition force

(5 June 2015) The faction Revival has 22 of the parliaments 450 seats.Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання ''Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation''

By the summer of 2015 most representatives of the party in 2014 were members of the

Post-merger history

The party performed badly in the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, but generally won elections in

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhan ...

. In

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Kharkiv ‘never had eastern-western conflicts’
Euronews (23 October 2014)

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Mayor

Hennadiy Kernes Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernesrussian: Генна́дий Адо́льфович Ке́рнес, translit=Gennady Adolfovich Kernes (27 June 1959 – 17 December 2020) was a Ukrainian politician who was the Mayor of Kharkiv from 2010 until his deat ...

was Revival's mayoral candidate in the Kharkiv mayoral election."Revival" will send the mayor of Kharkiv Kernes, and the seat of mayor of Odessa will fight Fabricant

UNIAN The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News ( uk, Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН, translit=Ukrayins'ke Nezalezhne Informatsiyne Ahentstvo Novyn) is a ...

(23 September 2015) Former

Prime Minister of Ukraine The prime minister of Ukraine ( uk, Прем'єр-міністр України, ) is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of th ...

Yuriy Yekhanurov Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov ( uk, Юрій Іванович Єхануров, ; born August 23, 1948) is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009. Background and professi ...

was the party's candidate for

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Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

. In the 2015 Kharkiv mayoral election Kernes was re-elected with 65.8% of the votes. In the Kyiv 2015 local elections Yekhanurov did not survive the first round of Mayoral elections. In the same election was elected Mayor of

Uzhhorod Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the ...

. In total the party won 1,733 seats of the available 158,399 in the local elections. In the

the party joined a united party list with the political parties of

, Nashi and Trust Deeds called Opposition Bloc. In this election this list won 6 single-seat constituencies and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes meaning it did not overcome the 5% election barrier.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

(26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019

(21 July 2019) In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 3 deputies.

References

External links

Official website
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