[2] The party was founded in 1997 by Lev Mirimsky [uk; ru], one of the richest people of Crimea at the time.

The flag represented by a white field (1x2 m) with a dark-blue circle in the middle where a friendly handshake of two hands is depicted.

[8] Lev Mirimsky won electoral district number 2, located in Simferopol, with 36,45% of the vote.

[9][10] Following the March 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea party leader Lev Mirimsky and his family moved to Kyiv.

Prior to the parliamentary elections of 2002 Lev Myrymsky stated that the party already had two of its representatives in the Verkhovna Rada although officially in proportional representation the party did not win seats in the national parliament[13] and only won a single seat by a single-seat constituency according to the official statistics from the Central Electoral Commission.

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".

[22] 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.