Party of Shariy

In the beginning of June 2019, Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy recorded a video in which he announced the establishment of his own political party.{{Cite web |title=В Украине зарегистрирована "Партия Шария" |url=https://ctrana.news/news/205028-mediaekspert-sharij-zarehistriroval-v-ukraine-svoju-partiju.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712095316/https://ctrana.news/news/205028-mediaekspert-sharij-zarehistriroval-v-ukraine-svoju-partiju.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2023 |access-date=19 August 2020 |website=strana.ua |language=ru}}{{Cite web|title=Известный журналист Шарий создал политическую партию|url=http://timer-odessa.net/news/izvestniy_jurnalist_shariy_sozdal_politicheskuyu_partiyu_495.html|access-date=19 August 2020|website=timer-odessa.net|language=ru|archive-date=29 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629072701/http://timer-odessa.net/news/izvestniy_jurnalist_shariy_sozdal_politicheskuyu_partiyu_495.html|url-status=dead}} Shortly thereafter, he published a video splash screen on his pages in social networks, in which he throws a red balloon towards the audience. Shariy did not explain what this means, but on his website there was a message that hinted about creating a party. Later on, the red balloon became a symbol of the party and its pre-election campaign.{{Cite web|title=Блогеры в Раде: на парламентские выборы идут Шарий, Дубинский и Петров|url=https://kp.ua/politics/639410-blohery-v-rade-na-parlamentskye-vybory-ydut-sharyi-dubynskyi-y-petrov|access-date=19 August 2020|website=kp.ua|language=ru-RU}}{{Cite web|title=Парламентские выборы в Украине: что нужно знать избирателю {{!}} "Объектив"|url=https://www.objectiv.tv/important/2019/07/19/parlamentskie-vybory-v-ukraine-chto-nuzhno-znat-izbiratelyu/|access-date=19 August 2020|website=Новости Харькова и Харьковской области. Медиа группа «Объектив»|date=19 July 2019|language=ru-RU}}

The party was created by renaming the political party United Ukraine. United Ukraine had been registered in February 2015.[https://www.chesno.org/party/2010/ Party of Shariy profile and history], Civil movement "Chesno" {{in lang|uk}} On 6 June 2019, the Party of Shariy was officially registered in Ukraine.[https://sharij.net/149201 Блоггер Анатолий Шарий создал в Украине свою политическую партию][https://newsone.ua/news/politics/minjust-zarehistriroval-partiju-sharija.html "МИНЮСТ ЗАРЕГИСТРИРОВАЛ "ПАРТИЮ ШАРИЯ"], NewsOne, 6 June 2019 The party took part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The eponymous leader of the party, Shariy, was denied registration by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine as a candidate for the election. 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.{{Cite web |title=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/07/3/7219953/ |url=ЦВК скасувала реєстрацію Клюєва та Шарія на вибори |date=2019-07-03 |language=uk |website=Ukrainska Pravda}}{{Cite web|title=ЦИК отменила регистрацию Клюева и Шария на выборы|url=https://www.segodnya.ua/politics/cik-otmenila-registraciyu-klyueva-i-shariya-na-vybory-1295182.html|date=2019-07-03|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703202754/https://www.segodnya.ua/politics/cik-otmenila-registraciyu-klyueva-i-shariya-na-vybory-1295182.html|archive-date=2019-07-03|url-status=dead}}

In the 2019 parliamentary election the party gained 327,152 votes (2.23% of total, position #10).[https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp300pt001f01=919.html "Результати По багатомандатному виборчому округу"] (retrieved 11 September 2019) As the party did not receive 5% of the vote, it did not win any parliamentary seats. The party also failed to win a constituency seat.[https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-elections/2748306-cec-counts-100-percent-of-vote-in-ukraines-parliamentary-elections.html CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections], Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
{{in lang|ru}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2019/07/21/7221526/ Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019], Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019) It was most successful in the east and south of Ukraine: according to exit polls, 69% of the party's votes came from these regions.{{Cite web |title=Хто за кого проголосував: демографія Національного екзит-полу на парламентських виборах-2019 |url=https://dif.org.ua/article/khto-za-kogo-progolosuvav-demografiya-natsionalnogo-ekzit-polu-na-parlamentskikh-viborakh-2019 |date=2019-07-30 |website=Фонд «Демократичні ініціативи» ім. Ілька Кучеріва}} "The Party of Shariy" took fourth place in the electoral district abroad with 4.72% of the voters.{{Cite web |title=Центральна виборча комісія - Вибори народних депутатів України 2019 |url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp312pt001f01=919.html}}

As the party won more than 2% of votes, it was originally entitled to funding from the budget for its support. However, on 2 October 2019, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the draft law No. 1029, which deprived parties of state funding that had won less than 5 per cent of the vote. After this law was adopted, Party of Shariy lost about 441,511 thousand euros in state funding.{{Cite web|url=https://24tv.ua/ru/finansirovanie_partij_v_ukraine_2019_posledstvija_zakona_1029_n1214225|title="Партия Шария" и "Оппозиционный блок": какие партии лишились государственного финансирования|last=Полищук|first=Ирина|date=3 October 2019|website=24 Канал|access-date=13 October 2019}}

Together with the Opposition Bloc, the Party of Shariy was considered a competitor to the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections.{{Cite news|title=Зробимо його разом. Як противники Зеленського готуються до реваншу|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2020/05/28/7253476/|website=Украинская Правда|date=28 May 2020}} 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.{{cite tweet|number=1276101542505000960|user=MedvedchukVV|title=Мы не рассматриваем «Партию Шария»...|date=25 June 2020}}{{Cite news|title=Поглощение или ситуативный союз? Почему Медведчук решил поддержать Шария|url=https://vesti.ua/politika/pogloshhenie-ili-situativnyj-soyuz-pochemu-medvedchuk-reshil-podderzhat-shariya|website=vesti.ua|date=1 July 2020}}

The party won 52 seats in local councils in east and south Ukraine.[https://www.chesno.org/post/5227 Sharia Party ban: how to fight the pro-Russian project], Civil movement "Chesno" (16 June 2022) {{in lang|uk}}

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." She remarked that Russian military exercises had already ended.[https://www.048.ua/news/3329502/v-odesse-deputata-ot-saria-razdrazaet-flag-ukrainy-video В Одессе депутата от Шария раздражает флаг Украины,- ВИДЕО]

On 22 March 2022, the Party of Shariy was one of several political parties suspended by the National Security and Defense Council, along with Derzhava, Left Opposition, Nashi, the Opposition Bloc, Opposition Platform — For Life, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Union of Left Forces, and the Volodymyr Saldo Bloc.

The party's faction in the Kharkiv City Council was disbanded due to lack of members.

On 16 June 2022, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party. The property of the party and all its branches were transferred to the state. The decision was open to appeal at the Supreme Court of Ukraine.{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/06/16/7352882/ Court bans Sharia Party], Ukrayinska Pravda (16 June 2022)

At its meeting of 6 September 2022 the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Party of Shariy and thus banned its activities in Ukraine.{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/09/6/7366350/ The Supreme Court finally banned the Sharia Party], Ukrayinska Pravda (6 September 2022) 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.

In January 2023, members of a clandestine cell of the Party of Shariy were arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine in Dnipro. During the search of its premises, documents including instructions to provoke mass riots were discovered.{{Cite web |title=У Дніпрі викрили підпільний осередок "Партії Шарія", який готував масові заворушення |url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/dnipri-vikrili-pidpilniy-oseredok-partiyi-1673261164.html |date=2023-01-09 |website=rbc.ua}}

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. According to the Unified State Register, in June 2020 the party had 16 regional and 1 city (Kyiv) local branches.

Antonina Beloglazova, who was third on the party's list of candidates in 2019 and editor of the Shariy website, collaborated in Russia in 2015–2016 with the National Liberation Movement (NCD), which aims to "restore Russia's sovereignty". This movement has been repeatedly observed at various pro-Putin events. Following these revelations, she lost her position in the party.{{Cite web|title=Блогер разоблачил российскую агентуру среди соратников Шария|url=https://www.obozrevatel.com/crime/bloger-razoblachil-rossijskuyu-agenturu-sredi-soratnikov-shariya.htm|website=Расследования|date=17 February 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Как партию Анатолия Шария возглавила новоросска-сталинистка|url=https://antikor.com.ua/articles/361613-kak_partiju_anatolija_sharija_vozglavila_novorosska-stalinistka|access-date=20 August 2020|website=antikor.com.ua}}

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.[https://zp.depo.ua/ukr/zp/bilya-zaporizkogo-lenina-pov-yazali-vidomogo-separatista-16032016123500 Біля запорізького Леніна «пов'язали» відомого сепаратиста] «Відомий Мамросенко, ще й тим, що брав участь у захопленні Харківської ОДА разом з терористом „Моторолою“. Після чого потрапив на два місяці у СІЗО та згодом вийшов під заставу в 97 тисяч гривень».

Tarasy Plaksiy, the curator of the Shariy party in Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi and Ternopil regions, was at the Alabino military training ground in the Russian Federation in 2017, where Russian special forces are stationed, and took part in the patriotic event "Fight for Russia Day".{{Cite web|title=Син проректора Почаївської семінарії відзначився в антиукраїнських акціях та підтримці Шарія|url=https://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/76586/|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=18 June 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Сина проректора Почаївської семінарії викрили у роботі на Шарія та організації антиукраїнських акцій|url=http://religionpravda.com.ua/2019/07/21/Син-проректора-Почаївської-семінарі/|website=Релігійна правда|date=21 July 2019|access-date=18 June 2020|language=uk|last=|first=|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

On 24 June 2020 in Kharkiv, a supporter of the " Party of Shariy" - Nikita Rozhenko was beaten. 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.{{Cite news|title=Полиция переквалифицировала дело о нападении на представителя партии Шария Роженко в Харькове с хулиганства на покушение на убийство|url=https://censor.net.ua/news/3206454/politsiya_perekvalifitsirovala_delo_o_napadenii_na_predstavitelya_partii_shariya_rojenko_v_harkove_s|access-date=19 August 2020|newspaper=Цензор.нет|language=ru}}{{Cite web|title=Сторонника Шария избили битами в Харькове {{!}} Чрезвычайные новости|url=https://kriminal.ictv.ua/ru/videos/u-harkovi-pobyly-koordynatora-miskogo-oseredku-partiyi-shariya/|access-date=19 August 2020|website=Надзвичайні новини}}{{Cite web|title=В Харькове жестоко избили активиста "Партии Шария"|url=https://news.pn/ru/criminal/237533|access-date=19 August 2020|website=news.pn|language=ru}}{{Cite web|title=Избиение сторонника Шария расследуют как покушение на убийство|url=https://www.sq.com.ua/rus/news/novosti/07.07.2020/izbienie_storonnika_shariya_rassleduyut_kak_pokushenie_na_ubiystvo/|access-date=19 August 2020|website=Status Quo|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=В Харькове жестоко избили члена партии Шария. За два часа до этого он написал заявление об угрозах|url=https://focus.ua/ukraine/457833-chlena_partiia_shariia_zhestoko_izbili_za_dva_chasa_do_etogo_on_napisal_zaiavlenie_ob_ugrozakh_fizicheskoi_raspravy|access-date=19 August 2020|website=ФОКУС|date=25 June 2020|language=ru-UA}} In Kharkiv, on 1 July 2020, the local representative of the Party of Shariy was sprinkled with green paint.{{Cite web|title=Стало известно, кого облили зеленкой в центре Харькова|url=https://www.sq.com.ua/rus/news/novosti/02.07.2020/stalo_izvestno_kogo_oblili_zelenkoy_v_tsentre_harkova/|access-date=19 August 2020|website=Status Quo|language=en}} A "safari" on the Party members was openly announced by the National Corps.{{Cite web|last=Федосенко|first=Павел|date=18 June 2020|title=В Харькове "Нацкорпус" объявил "охоту" на сторонников Шария|url=https://www.newsroom.kh.ua/news/v-harkove-nackorpus-obyavil-ohotu-na-storonnikov-shariya|access-date=28 August 2020|website=www.newsroom.kh.ua|language=ru}}[https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2020/06/29_a_13135195.shtml «Охота на людей»: как расправляются с оппозицией на Украине], Gazeta.Ru

According to the journalist Andriy Kachor ({{langx|uk|Андрій Качор}}) - he received threats from Sharij Party supporters after the publication on his site about the burning of Sharij Party agitation materials by unknown Vinnytsia people.{{Cite web|url=https://imi.org.ua/news/politsiia-vidkryla-spravu-za-faktom-pohroz-holovredu-vezhi/|title=Поліція відкрила справу за фактом погроз головреду "Вежі"|publisher=IMI|language=uk|access-date=13 July 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ2W5sqJq0s|title=Так кто хотел сжечь винничан?|author=Анатолий Шарий|website=YouTube|date=12 July 2019|access-date=13 July 2019}}

The police of Vinnytsia region identified the attacker on the chief editor of the local newspaper Andrey Kachor and found no connection between the attack and Kachor's conflict with video blogger Anatoliy Shariy.{{Cite web|title=Полиция задержала нападавшего на винницкого журналиста, связей с Шарием не обнаружили|url=https://hromadske.ua/ru/posts/policiya-zaderzhala-napadavshego-na-vinnickogo-zhurnalista-svyazej-s-shariem-ne-obnaruzhili|access-date=20 August 2020|website=hromadske.ua|date=2 September 2019 |language=ru}}{{Cite web|title=Поліція розслідує нанесення тілесних ушкоджень журналісту|url=https://vn.npu.gov.ua/news/Informacziya/policziya-rozsliduje-nanesennya-tilesnix-ushkodzhen-zhurnalistu/|access-date=20 August 2020|website=vn.npu.gov.ua}}

"The police said they had found the man who had beaten Kachor. The attacker was a 27-year-old resident of Vinnytsia.

According to him, there was a verbal altercation between him and Kachor in the cafe, which turned into a fight. The man denies any relation with the video blogger Anatolia Shariy, and calls the conflict situational."[https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2019/09/2/7225065/ "Нападение на журналиста в Виннице: связи между нападающим и Шарием пока не нашли"]

The party is accused of russophilia. The leader, Anatoly Shariy, strongly denies the allegations.{{Cite web|url=https://bpb.de/internationales/europa/ukraine/297170/analyse-durchregieren-mit-einer-komfortablen-mehrheit-aus-newcomern-die-ukraine-nach-der-parlamentswahl|title=Analyse: Durchregieren mit einer komfortablen Mehrheit aus Newcomern? Die Ukraine nach der Parlamentswahl|website=Federal Agency for Civic Education|last=Röthig|first=Marcel|date=17 September 2019|access-date=2 April 2022|language=de}}[https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-arrests-ukrainian-blogger-accused-by-kyiv-of-high-treason/ Politico Europe].[https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/volodymyr-zelensky-journalists-accuse-ukrainian-president-purge-critics-6wwx8jwnd The Times].[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-suspected-collaborators-arrests-russia-war-1.6435948 CBC].[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61089039 BBC].

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