Russian Unity (Ukrainian: Руська Єдність, romanized: Ruska Yednist; Russian: Русское Единство, romanized: Russkoye Yedinstvo) was a political party in Crimea, registered in October 2008.
[1] A Kyiv Court banned the party "from activity on the territory of Ukraine" on 30 April 2014.
[2] Party leader Sergey Aksyonov was instrumental in making possible the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.
[6] It won 3 seats (of the 100 in total) during the 2010 Crimean parliamentary election in the Supreme Council of Crimea.
[2] The Court stated that the signing of Aksenov of the treaty that formally sealed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation was evidence of "encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine".