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Blue |website = (partyofregions.ua ) |country = Ukraine }} The Party of Regions ((ウクライナ語:Партія регіонів), pronounced (:ˈpɑrtijɑ rɛɦiˈɔniu̯); (ロシア語:Партия регионов)) is a Russophone〔(Regionalists principally will speak in Russian - Bondarenko. ("Регіонали" принципово будуть виступати російською - Бондаренко) ). Ukrayinska Pravda. 2012-12-14〕〔Kuzio, T. ''(Populism in Ukraine )''. Problems of Post-Communism. Vol.57. "M. E. Sharpe". 2010. p.15〕 political party of Ukraine created in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Ukraine. But since the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution the party has not competed in elections and since 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.〔(Ex-PM Azarov, In Moscow, Proclaims 'Salvation Committee' For Ukraine ), Radio Free Europe (3 August 2015) (Ukraine accuses Russia of breaking CIS agreements over Yanukovych extradition ), Interfax-Ukraine (12 January 2015)〕 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.〔(Against All Odds:Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine ) by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN 978-9056296315 (page 82)〕〔(Strange Familiar Faces ), The Ukrainian Week (15 September 2012)〕〔(Ideological Splits ), The Ukrainian Week (10 March 2011)〕 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.〔(Whose Ukraine Is It Anyway? ), ''TIME Magazine/Transitions online'', April 4, 2002〕 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. Its electoral and financial base has always been located primarily in the east and south-east of Ukraine, where it got wide popular electoral support.〔(Poll: Political forces of Tigipko, Yatseniuk, Communist Party in Top 5 of April rating of parties ), Kyiv Post (12 May 2010)〕 In the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast the party claimed in 2010 to have over 700,000 members. The party was always supported mostly by people older than 45 years.〔 The party won 185 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.〔(Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC ), Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)〕 On 12 December 2012 it formed a parliamentary faction of 210 deputies.〔(It was announced about creation of 5 factions in VRU – Party of Regions, Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda and CPU ), Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (12 December 2012)〕 During the 2014 Ukrainian revolution on February 20, 2014, several party members called for the disintegration of Ukraine and a union with the Russian Federation. Oleksandr Yefremov, leader of the Ukrainian parliamentary faction in full support of these proposed actions,〔(Yefremov travels to Luhansk to discuss possibility of the separation of the South-East - source ). LB. February 20, 2014〕 and Vladimir Konstantinov, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea went to Luhansk to support these decisive actons.〔(The Crimean speaker in Moscow threatens of the Crimea's secession to Russia ). The Crimean Tatar question. February 21, 2014〕 On 23 February 2014 the Party of Regions condemned and disassociated itself from Victor Yanukovych for corruption, "criminal orders", his escape, and "cowardice".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Address of the PARTY OF REGIONS faction to compatriots )〕 The following months more than 120 MPs left the party's parliamentary faction.〔〔(Party of Regions keeps losing members, voters ), Kyiv Post (8 April 2014)〕〔 In 2014 the party's symbol and activities were banned in the Chernivtsi, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The Party of Regions faction in Zhytomyr announced its dissolution on 19 February 2014, in connection with the crisis of the preceding three months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Житомирские регионалы самораспустились )〕 The party did not participate in the 2014 parliamentary elections.〔(Ukraine's Party of Regions Refuses to Participate in Rada Elections ), RIA Novosti (23 September 2014)〕〔 (What distinguishes the "opposition bloc" of the Party of Regions? ), BBC Ukrainian (23 September 2014)〕 In the following months, the majority of its representatives continued their political careers predominantly with Opposition Bloc, Revival or Our Land.〔 ("Revival" "our land": Who picks up the legacy of "regionals" ), BBC Ukrainian (16 September 2015) (Party of Regions: Snake return ), The Ukrainian Week (2 October 2015)〕〔 (Activists noticed that most ex-Regions are on lists of Poroshenko ), Ukrayinska Pravda (22 October 2015)〕 ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Party of Regions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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