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 Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko) is a

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headed by retiredVitali Klitschko: Heavyweight champion swaps boxing for politics

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(67 December 2013) Ukrainian professional

heavyweight boxer Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the Wo ...

and the WBC world heavyweight champion emeritus

Vitali Klitschko Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (; uk, Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily Ch ...

(EPP) since 2013.Європейська народна партія взяла до себе "УДАР" і виключила "Нашу Україну" ''European People's Party took a "hit" and excluded "Our Ukraine"''

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 Ukraini ...

(6 September 2013)
Member Parties
,

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Klitschko goes to the Congress of the European People's Party, Glavcom (19 November 2019)
/ref> Legally the party is the successor of Political Party "European Capital" ( uk, Політична партія "Європейська столиця",

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: Политическая партия "Европейская столица") which was registered in March 2005.Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка"
Центр политической информации "Дата" In its last outing the party was founded on April 24, 2010, on the basis of the

Vitali Klitschko Bloc The Vitali Klitschko Bloc ( uk, Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко) were two local political coalitions in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv who contended in two local elections there. History 2006 Kyiv ...

( uk, Блок Віталія Кличка,

: Блок Виталия Кличко), a local political alliance in

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

(the capital of Ukraine).Віталій Кличко очолив політичну партію «УДАР» (фото)
Vitali Klitschko Bloc (April 24, 2010) The party won 40 seats in the

Ukrainian parliament 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 ...

in the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.2014 parliamentary election, 30% of the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

election list was filled by members of UDAR (as

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) and UDAR leader Klitschko topped that list. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc won the election with 132 seats.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC

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(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC

(8 November 2014) UDAR officially merged into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc on 28 August 2015.Klitschko becomes leader of Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity' party

(28 August 2015) In May 2019 Klitschko announced that UDAR would take part independently in the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

.Klitschko said that UDAR will go to the polls

(May 18, 2019) In this election UDAR did compete as an independent party again, but only in 15 single-mandate constituencies and it failed to win any seats. In the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR won 30 of the 120 seats of the

Kyiv City Council Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The me ...

. In the same election Klitschko was reelected as

Mayor of Kyiv The Head of Kyiv City ( uk, Київський міський голова, translit=Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv ( uk, Мер Києва, translit=Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular ...

with 50.52% of the votes.

History

Political Party "European Capital"

The Political Party "European Capital" was registered in March 2005 (its party-leader was Ukrainian businessman Lev PartshaladzePartshaladze Lev

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Парцхаладзе Лев Ревазович
Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА") and the party gained 0.04% of the votes during the Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2006; the party did not participate in the

2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna ...

s. In February 2009 the party renamed itself Political Party "New Country".Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка"
Poli.in.ua Lev Partshaladze was elected into the

for the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc in 2008, but expelled from the faction, for repeatedly voting differently from the faction, on 2 December 2010.

Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform

On a party congress, held on 24 April 2010, the Political Party "New Country" (founded in 2005 as Political Party "European Capital and renamed into "New Country" 14 months before April 2010) renamed itself into Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer

Vitali Klitschko Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (; uk, Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won about 400 representatives in municipalities and Oblast Councils (regional parliaments).Klitschko To The Rescue?

(12 January 2012) The Bloc of Vitali Klitschko faction in the

changed its name to UDAR of Vitali Klitschko in February 2011. The party has a strong popularity in Kyiv. Ukr elections 2012 multimandate oblasts udar

Ukr elections 2012 multimandate oblasts udar

In September 2011 party leader Klitschko stated that the party was considering the possibility of merging with other political parties before contending in the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Civil Position Civil Position or Civic Position ( uk, Громадянська позиція) is a political party in Ukraine registered in March 2005. It is led by former Minister of Defence Anatoliy Hrytsenko. History Mighty Ukraine The party was registered i ...

where negotiating a unification. But Civil Position eventionally joined

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 Peo ...

during these elections. UDAR became a partner of the Christian Democratic Union of

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in November 2011. Udar is supported by the German government and the

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and received support in particular from

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and also politicians from the conservative

. According to information gained by the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, the target was to "set up Klitschko purposefully as a new strong man in Kiew - in order to counter this way the Kremlin's growing influence". Support consisted in logistics, training and joint performances. Assistance was also promised by

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and

Guido Westerwelle Guido Westerwelle (; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person ...

. UDAR did not join the Dictatorship Resistance Committee; but on 22 January 2012 it did sign an agreement on joint actions with that alliance. Starting in March 2010 the party's popularity in opinion polls reached a level almost twice as high as the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections

(17 November 2011)). The election list of the party was a mixture of candidates who used to represent parties from all over the political spectrum of Ukraine. After a successful application the

started on 5 April 2012 the process of making UDAR an ''observer member'' of the organization.EPP accepts UDAR Party’s application to get observer status

(5 April 2012)
Ukraine elections: `unfair play` of government authorities distorts outcome

(30 October 2012) In July 2012 party leader Klychko stated that his party would not cooperate with 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 Uk ...

in a new parliament. Early August 2012 the party complained its candidates for people's deputies (and all other parties not involved in the

first Azarov Government The first Azarov government ( uk, Перший уряд Миколи Азарова, Russian: Первое правительство Николая Азарова) was Ukraine's cabinet from (appointed on) March 11, 2010 till December 3, 2012 ( ...

) suffered "psychological and physical pressure" and this "ten times higher than other parties". Two weeks before the 28 October

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in favour of Batkivshchyna candidates and Batkivshchyna withdrew 26 parliamentary candidates in favor of UDAR in an attempt to maximise votes for the opposition. In the election the party won 13.97% of the national votes and 6

constituencies An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

(it had competed in 183 of the 225 constituencies) and thus 40 parliamentary seats.Proportional votes

,

Central Election Commission of Ukraine The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...

Support for UDAR was the least diversified at the regional level compared with the results of the other leading parties.After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions

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(7 November 2012) Independent candidates

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and Fedir Nehoi joined the UDAR parliamentary faction on 12 December 2012; the same day party leader Klitschko was elected to lead the party's faction. UDAR elects faction's leadership in parliament

(12 December 2012) The party is coordinating its parliamentary activities with Batkivshchyna and Svoboda. Late December 2012 UDAR and the United National Movement from

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signed a cooperation agreement. In May 2013 UDAR, Batkivshchyna and Svoboda vowed to coordinate their actions during the 2015 Ukrainian presidential election. On 6 September 2013 the party was granted "observer status" in the

. Party leader Klitschko confirmed on 28 February 2014 that he would take part in the

2014 Ukrainian presidential election Snap presidential elections held in Ukraine on 25 May 2014 resulted in Petro Poroshenko being elected President of Ukraine.Mayor of Kyiv The Head of Kyiv City ( uk, Київський міський голова, translit=Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv ( uk, Мер Києва, translit=Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular ...

in the 2014 Kyiv local election (including Mayoral elections) set for 25 May 2014.Parliament sets elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council deputies for May 25

(25 February 2014) In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Klitschko endorsed the candidacy of

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

. Klitschko won Kyiv's mayoral elections with almost 57% of the votes.Klitschko officially announced as winner of Kyiv mayor election

(4 June 2014) Poroshenko was elected

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on 25 May 2014. Klitschko was sworn in as Mayor on 5 June 2014.Vitali Klitschko sworn in as Kyiv mayor

(5 June 2014) The same day the Ukrainian parliament had deprived Klitschko of his MP mandate (Ukrainian MPs are not entitled to combine parliamentary activities with any other public employment).Klitschko becomes Kyiv Mayor officially

(5 June 2014)
Klitschko was deprived of parliamentary mandate, NovostiMira (5 June 2014)
/ref> Hence

Vitaliy Kovalchuk Vitali, Vitalii, Vitaly, Vitaliy and may refer to: People Given name * Vitaly Borker (born 1975 or 1976), Ukrainian American Internet fraudster and cyberbully * Vitaly Churkin (1952–2017), Russian politician * Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009), Russ ...

was elected to lead the party's faction in parliament on 7 June 2014.Fraction Klitschko Council headed by his "gray cardinal"

(7 June 2014)

Merge into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc

On 2 September Kovalchuk stated that since his party and

had agreed to "joint participation in parliamentary elections" on 29 March 2014 the two parties were "in discussion" about "the format" for how to do so in the (late) October

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Vitali Klitschko Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (; uk, Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv Mayor of Kyiv The Head of Kyiv City ( uk, Київський міський голова, translit=Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv ( uk, Мер Києва, translit=Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular ...

.Pilots, combat, and journalists. Who goes to the new Verkhovna Rada

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(September 15, 2014)
Klitschko: I lead my team to Parliament

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 ...

official website (14.09.2014)
Deadline for nomination of candidates running in early election to Rada expires

ITAR-TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

(September 15, 2014) Petro Poroshenko Bloc went on to win the

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.People's Front which won 82 seats. However, People's Front did perform better than the Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 0.33% in the nationwide election under party lists (22.14% against 21.81%) but the party did win 69

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seats while People's Front won only 18 constituencies. On 28 August 2015 Petro Poroshenko Bloc and UDAR merged into 1 party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc. At the unifying congress (of 28 August 2015) Klitschko was elected as leader of this party. In 2017 UDAR was still registered as a political party and it employed two persons.In Ukraine, 2/3 of the parties showed zeroes in the financial statements

(8 December 2017) According to former UDAR member and Ukrainian lawmaker Dmytro Belotserkovets it was necessary that "the party performs only the technical functions necessary in terms of Ukrainian legislation."

Return as a political party

On 18 May 2019 party leader Klitschko announced that the party would take part in the

. On 4 June Klitschko offered former

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Mikheil Saakashvili Mikheil Saakashvili ( ka, მიხეილ სააკაშვილი ; uk, Міхеіл Саакашвілі ; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.

to join the leadership of his party and to take part in the July 2019 early parliamentary elections with UDAR, Saakashvili turned down the offer. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party only competed in 15 single-mandate constituencies. It failed to win any seats.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) The party's most successful candidate was who won 14.83% of the votes in constituency 89 located in

Sniatyn Sniatyn ( uk, Сня́тин, translit=Sniatyn; pl, Śniatyn; ro, Sneatîn, older ; yi, שניאַטין) is a town located in Kolomyia Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine along the Prut river. It is located at around . Sniaty ...

(

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

). Its second most successful candidate, Valentyn Mondryivskyi, gained 4.84% of the votes in

Podilskyi District The Podilskyi District ( uk, Подільський район) is an urban district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Its population was 177,563 at the 2001 census. The district takes its name from the historic Podil neighborhood which it inclu ...

. In the election for

of the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR nominated incumbent mayor Klitschko as their candidate.Klitschko reacted to support from Poroshenko's party: We are not bargaining

(16 September 2020)
"Eurosolidarity" will support Klitschko in the elections in Kyiv

(16 September 2020) Klitschko was last reelected in the election with 50.52% of the votes, in the first round of the election.Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election

(6 November 2020) UDAR won 30

seats in the 2020 Kyiv local election.Results of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council

In total in the whole of Ukraine the party gained 187 deputies (0.43% of all available mandates). In the elections for the Kyiv Oblast Council the party did not win any seats after finishing 9th place in the election.

Ideology and political positions

UDAR tends to avoid sensitive and polarising subjects and focuses instead on popular topics, such as more empowerment to ordinary Ukrainians and a ruthless campaign against

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, the indifference of the authorities, the lack of local governance, inequality, and poverty.Q&A:Ukrainian parliamentary election

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(23 October 2012)Ukraine election:President Yanukovych party claims win

(29 October 2012). The party wants to "unleash the power of the state and provide conditions for welfare". The party is in favor of the

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between Ukraine and the

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(EU). It has made no stance on a possible NATO membership of Ukraine. UDAR wants to overcome social inequality with "the abandonment of the idea of cheap labor". In education, the party wants to bring education in Ukraine to "European standards" by "development of external testing and monitoring the quality of education". UDAR wants to return to a 12-year

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secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final pha ...

with specialized training in the last two classes and three cycles of learning in

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–

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and

postgraduate Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree. The organization and stru ...

. It also wants to guarantee autonomy of educational institutions by legislation. The party wants to combat

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with more transparency and the creation of an independent anti-corruption agency.Klitschko: We'll leave only seven nationwide taxes, root out government corruption
''

'' (1 April 2012) UDAR wants to reduce the number of state agencies in order "to minimize the interaction of the citizen with an official". And it wants to simplify procedures for registering property. It wants to reduce the number of taxes from 23 to 7 and to generally simplify the taxing system. "Owners of the land for agricultural purposes" should only be citizens of Ukraine. UDAR wants to abolish the privileges of the

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Голова Верховної Ради України, Holova Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy) is the presiding officer of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The chairman presides ...

(Ukraine's parliament) and former Presidents of Ukraine and to reduce benefits for current parliamentarians. The party has pledged to "reboot" the

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, and "reinforce the control of the public over elections". The party is in favor of holding Citizens' initiatives after 150,000 signatures are collected. The party is in favor of elections with regional

open list Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, which allows only active members, par ...

s and mayoral elections in two rounds. In

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, it favors a voting age of 16 (currently 18). It also wants to introduce in Ukraine a law on

impeachment Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements. In ...

of the

. The party wants to simplify procedures for the establishment and registration of public and charitable organizations. In June 2013, the party's parliamentary faction voted for the denunciation of the

2010 Ukrainian–Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact ( ua, Харківський пакт) or Kharkov Accords (russian: Харьковские соглашения), was a treaty betw ...

.Rada fails to support bill on denunciation of Kharkiv accords on Black Sea Fleet basing in Ukraine

(19 June 2013)

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Kyiv City Council

Leaders

Notes

References

External links

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(Official) website with UDAR candidates for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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