Commission. At the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party was part of the Russian Bloc that got 0.73% of the votes and no seats. 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party was a member of the bloc "For Union"; the bloc won 0.20% of the votes. In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party again failed as part of the Electoral Bloc of Political Parties "KUCHMA" to win parliamentary representation. During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won representatives in municipalities in Crimea and 5 seats (out of 100 total seats) in the Supreme Council of Crimea. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party won 1 constituency seat (in constituency 2 located in Simferopol; it had competed in 13 constituencies) and thus parliamentary representation by Lev Myrymsky who had scored 36.45% of the votes. The parties second best results was in constituency 35 (located in Pavlohrad) with 4.32%. In the other constituencies it did not score better than 3%, and in most cases scored below 1%. Myrymsky did not join a faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) till he joined the then newly created faction For Peace and Stability on 2 July 2014. In the 2014 parliamentary election the party did not compete on the nationwide party list and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats. Political positions The party wants Ukraine to join the Eurasian Economic Union. It advocates for the restoration of the Russian language to state language status (previously both Ukrainian and Russian were state languages). The party is against Ukraine joining NATO, the rehabilitation of Nazi ideology and its supporters from the UNA-UNSO and "against the omnipotence of bureaucrats and corruption". In October 2009, the Crimean branch of the party asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chief Executive of Gazprom Alexei Miller to consider the issue of possible deliveries of natural gas to Crimea and Sevastopol in 2009–2010 at prices charged to citizens of Russia. However, Party leader Lev Mirimsky also spoke publicly against the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, and in the wake of the annexation the party adopted an anti-annexation perspective. See also Soyuz (faction) Notes References External links Personal website of Lev Mirimsky Political parties in Crimea Regionalist parties in Ukraine Russian political parties in Ukraine Political parties established in 1997