Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)

Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)
FoundedNovember 2000
Banned30 September 2015
Split fromCommunist Party of Ukraine
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionFar-left
KPU(o) election poster

The Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) (Ukrainian: Комуністична партія України (оновлена), romanizedKomunistychna Partiia Ukrainy (onovlena), KPU(o)) was a political party in Ukraine, formed in November 2000[1] following a split from the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU). KPU(o) was led by Mykhaylo Savenko, previously a member of Parliament of the pro-president Kuchma[2] Labour Ukraine.[3] On 30 September 2015, the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the party.[4]

  1. ^ (in Ukrainian) Комуністична партія України (оновлена), sd.net
  2. ^ The European Union and Democratization: Reluctant States (Europe and the Nation State) by Paul Kubicek, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-31136-6, page 171
  3. ^ Ukraine Political Parties, GlobalSecurity.org
  4. ^ (in Ukrainian) The court banned the two Communist parties, Ukrayinska Pravda (1 October 2015)
    Kyiv’s Court terminates two Communist parties, Ukrinform (1 October 2015)