Party of Shariy

The reasons given for banning the party were: destabilization of the social and political situation in Ukraine, spread of anti-Ukrainian propaganda regarding the change of the constitutional system by violent means, violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, propaganda of war, violence in conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation.

[3] In the beginning of June 2019, Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy recorded a video in which he announced the establishment of his own political party.

[9][10] Shortly thereafter, he published a video splash screen on his pages in social networks, in which he throws a red balloon towards the audience.

This was on the grounds that he did not meet the requirement of a term of five-year residence in the country immediately preceding the elections, as he left Ukraine in January 2012 and did not come back ever since.

[23] However, the leader of the Opposition Platform — For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk declared that he did not view the Party of Shariy as a competitor, but as allies.

[13] On 15 February 2022, in the run-up to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the local deputy of the Party of Shariy in Odesa spoke out against support for territorial self-defense units, calling them "bandits."

[2] At its meeting of 6 September 2022 the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Party of Shariy and thus banned its activities in Ukraine.

[3] The reasons given for banning the party were: destabilization of the social and political situation in Ukraine, spread of anti-Ukrainian propaganda regarding the change of the constitutional system by violent means, violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, propaganda of war, violence in conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation.

[3] In January 2023, members of a clandestine cell of the Party of Shariy were arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine in Dnipro.

[27] The party's political council consists of two people - it is headed by Olha Shariy and the other member is her first deputy Oleksandr Vyunyk.

[28][29] Konstantin Mamrosenko, Beloglazova's brother, who heads department "B" in the "Shariy Party", together with "Motorola" took part in the seizure of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration during the so-called "Russian Spring" in 2014.

Criminal proceedings on the attack on Nikita Rozhenko, coordinator of the "Party of Shariy" in Kharkiv, are being investigated as an attempt on murder committed by prior conspiracy of a group of people.