Interfax-Ukraine
Interfax-Ukraine () is a Ukrainian news agency. Founded in 1992, the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.
The company owns a 50-seat press centre.
The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022)
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(14 September 2009) The party was banned by court order on 17 June 2022. The party was never represented in Ukraine's national parliament.
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In 2019, the party leader became The party failed to register its party list for the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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.Union of Left Forces political party biography Chesno Holdarb at the time was a host of Viktor Medvedchuk owned TV channel NewsOne and the .
At the 7th Party Congress on 18 December 2021, a decision was made to change the name to the political party For a New Socialism. This name change was not officially re-registered. On 18 February 2022, in the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Holdarb appealed through the US and UK embassies to the leadership of these countries "to compensate for the damage caused to our economy due to the military panic inspired by them". Holdarb fled
Kyiv
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at the beginning of the full-scale
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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The party is considered to be left-wing and consists of former members of the
Communist Party of Ukraine
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and Socialist Party of Ukraine. Union of Left Forces is a socialist party, although political observers note the highly left-wing populist character of it.
The main proposal of the party is 'socialization' of the Ukrainian economy. The Union of Left Forces also opposes Ukrainian membership in NATO and instead advocates for neutrality. It is a staunch opponent of decommunization laws implemented by the Ukrainian government, which was used to prohibit and take down all symbols associated with the Soviet Union and communism. One of the party's proposals is also to recognize Russian language as the second official language of Ukraine.
A unique proposal of the party is to create a "common security space" which would include both Russia and the European Union that Ukraine could be a part of. The party also advocates decentralization and believes that Ukraine should become a federalized country, where regions would be given extensive autonomy, especially in the matters of defining cultural policy - according to the party leader, this would allow to accommodate not only Russian-speaking Eastern regions, but also regions with their separate cultures such as
Carpathian Ruthenia
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. The party also argues that Ukraine should implement the European Charter of regional and minority languages.