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People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity (NRU for Unity) is a political party of Ukraine, off-shot of the People's Movement of Ukraine that was created on November 25, 2000. The party is led by Bohdan Boyko.
Ukraine, sometimes called the Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kiev. Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religions in the country are Eastern Orthodoxy and Greek Catholicism. Ukraine is currently in a territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world.
The People's Movement of Ukraine is a Ukrainian centre-right political party. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement. The party under the name Rukh was an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) until 2013.
Bohdan Fedorovych Boyko was a candidate in 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. He was nominated by the Movement of Ukrainian Patriots. In 2000 he formed a third Rukh within the Popular Movement of Ukraine aimed at reconciling the differences between the two opposing factions. Before 2002 he was a national deputy of Ukraine. Since 2002 he has been chair of the People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity, which is one of the branches of former People's Movement of Ukraine of Vyacheslav Chornovil. He has never been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The party participated in 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election as part of electoral bloc People's Movement of Ukraine consisting of the People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity and the All-Ukrainian Alliance "Center". The bloc and its parties failed to obtain any seats in parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats.
In the 2004 presidential election the party supported its own candidate Bohdan Boyko who in the first round placed 17th among 24 other candidates.
After the Orange Revolution, NRU for Unity announced itself as Ukrainian patriotic alternative to the new liberal-cosmopolitan government and pro-Moscow opposition.
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud. Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, was the focal point of the movement's campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily. Nationwide, the revolution was highlighted by a series of acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the opposition movement.
During the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party ran independently and unsuccessfully. It received the biggest support in Crimea - 0.57%.
Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop, and west of the Russian region of Kuban, from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch though linked by the Crimean Bridge. The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast, a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to its west is Romania and to its south Turkey.
