Communist Party of Workers and Villagers

The Communist Party of Workers and Villagers (KPRS) ( ukr. Communist Party Robіtnikіv and Villagers ) is a political party of Ukraine .

Communist Party of Workers and Villagers
ukr Communist Party Robits and Peasants
Leader	First Secretary of the CPSS Central Committee
Founding date	March 30, 2001
Date of dissolution	September 30, 2015
Headquarters	02140, Kiev, st. Vishnyakovskaya, 6-A, apt. 65
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism
Allies and blocks	Socialist Party of Ukraine
Motto	Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Anthem	International
Party print	"KPRS"

Formed on March 30, 2001 ^[1] after the split and exit from the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) . On September 30, 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court banned the party.

On March 17, 2001, the Constituent Congress of the Communist Party of Workers and Villagers was held, at which the Charter and the Manifesto were adopted. At the same time, central organs and the Central Committee were elected. Chairman of the party was elected people's deputy of Ukraine Alexander Yakovenko .

06/01/2001 The delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in a convoy passed along the Red Square in Moscow, laying flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum and the monument on the tomb of Stalin near the Kremlin wall .

On September 7, 2001, the first issue of the print organ of the party, the KPRS newspaper, was published.

In October 2001, a political agreement was signed on the joint actions of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Workers and Villagers.

On December 2, 2001, the II (extraordinary) congress was held. It adopted changes and additions to the Constitution and the Program. The party opposition has been excluded from the party (the so-called “organizers of the split”).

On December 11, 2001, an agreement was signed with SelPU on creating a single electoral bloc. The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, the Union of Communists of Ukraine , the ZUBR Bloc (For Ukraine, Belarus, Russia), the Movement “For the USSR” also expressed their desire to join it.

On December 22 of the same year, the III (extraordinary) congress was held, at which a resolution was adopted on the creation of an electoral bloc of the CPSS and SelPU.

The 1st (extraordinary) congress was held on January 9, 2002. Approved lists of candidates for people's deputies of Ukraine and local councils and the electoral program.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, the CPSS took an independent part. According to the results of the elections, the party received 106,904 votes (0.41%), ranking 18th among 33 participants. In the single-member districts of the 87 candidates - no one elected.

On July 4, 2004, at the VI Party Congress, the chairman of the party, A. Yakovenko, was nominated for the post of President of Ukraine . According to the results of the 1st round, Alexander Yakovenko scored 219,191 votes (0.78%), taking the 7th place out of 24 candidates.

In the parliamentary elections in Ukraine of 2006 and the early parliamentary elections of 2007, the CPSS did not participate.

On February 27, 2011, at the VIII extraordinary congress of the CPSS in Kiev, an un-fractional deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, former head of the Crimean organization of the Communist Party of Ukraine Leonid Grach was elected the head of the party’s council ^[2] .

On September 30, 2015, the Kyiv district administrative court, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, suspended the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) and the Communist Party of Workers and Peasants due to de-communization and a ban on propaganda of relevant ideas in Ukraine ^[3] .