Russian Bloc (party)

Russian Bloc (Ukrainian: Руський блок, romanized: Ruskyi blok; Russian: Русский блок, romanized: Russky blok) is a currently (since 13 May 2014) banned political party in Ukraine that was registered in March 2001.

[2] During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party (still called "For One Rus'") was part of the Russian Bloc that got 0.73% of the votes and no seats.

[3] In the 2010 Crimean parliamentary election the Party of Regions and the Russian Bloc run separately.

[9] On 20 March 2014 in Odesa local party leader Valery Kaurov was arrested on suspicion of separatism during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine.

[9] On 13 May 2014 the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the party "in connection with calls to overthrow the constitutional order and the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine".