runoff of the 2010 presidential election. During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party only won three representatives in the Sevastopol municipality. The party did not participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections. In 2011, the PSPU decided to join the People's Front for Russia. The party did not participate in the 2014 parliamentary elections. The party took part in the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections as part of the umbrella party Left Opposition. In the 2020 local elections the party did not nominate candidates for deputies at all except for a candidate for mayor of Romny. On 20 March 2022 the PSPU was one of several political parties suspended by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with Derzhava, Left Opposition, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Opposition Platform — For Life, Party of Shariy, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Union of Left Forces, and the Volodymyr Saldo Block. In June 2022 various court proceedings tried to ban the parties suspended on 20 March 2022. The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine was one of two parties that actively opposed its banning. (The other party was Opposition Platform — For Life.) On 27 September 2022 the final appeal against the party's ban was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine, meaning that the party was fully banned in Ukraine. Election results Presidential elections Rada electoral results Rada Election results maps Ideology The party favoures Ukraine's full-scale entry in the Eurasian Economic Community (including its Customs Union); the protection of the non-aligned status of Ukraine; abolition of NATO exercises in Ukraine; giving the Russian language status as official language along with Ukrainian; annulment of former President Viktor Yushchenko's decrees on awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. The party has close ties with the Eurasian Youth Union and its leader Aleksandr Dugin. Notes References External links Official party website "People's Opposition" pro-Vitrenko website 1996 establishments in Ukraine Anti-Americanism Banned political parties in Ukraine Eurosceptic parties in Ukraine National Bolshevik parties Pan-Slavism Political parties established in 1996 Political parties disestablished in 2022 Political parties in Ukraine Russian political parties in Ukraine Social conservative parties Socialist Party of Ukraine breakaway groups