Украинаның «Біздің Украина» партиясы: Тарихы мен қазіргі жағдайы

Core party of the [[Our Ukraine–People's Self Defense Bloc

The Our Ukraine (Наша Україна), formerly known as People's Union "Our Ukraine" (Народний Союз «Наша Україна»), is a centre right political party of Ukraine formed in 2005. The party supported former president Viktor Yushchenko. It has lost much of its support nationwide, yet still has some regional representation in Western Ukraine. Our Ukraine has not participated in national elections since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. However, the same day other sections of the party claimed this congress was illegal and the real party congress would be held on 18 May 2013. Youth Union Our Ukraine is the youth wing of the party.

The party is the continuation of the electoral alliance of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc known as "Our Ukraine". The NSNU was formally launched on March 5, 2005 by the group of politicians appointed by the incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko, but it failed to attract most constituent parties that had been members of the previous bloc, which refused to be absorbed into the newly formed party. The constituent congress, held in the capital Kyiv and attended by 6,000 delegates from all the regions of Ukraine, elected Yushchenko as honorary chairman (who received membership card No.1). Former deputy Prime Minister Roman Bezsmertnyi was elected head of the party's Presidium and Yuriy Yekhanurov as head of the party's Central Executive Committee. During the parliamentary elections on March 26, 2006, the party took part in the newly formed Our Ukraine bloc. However, neither of the events happened. In October 2008, the presidium of People’s Union Our Ukraine party had already decided not to team up with any other party for the proposed snap parliamentary poll then the Our Ukraine–People's Self Defense Bloc and had called the idea of teaming up with United Centre "impossible". The Kyiv branch of the party decided not to take part in the party congress of June 2009 because they found the party "destructive". In October 2009, the party stated it intended to take part in the October 2012 parliamentary elections. A March 2010 poll predicted that the party would get 1.4% of the vote in these elections (on 19 August 2009 Victor Yushchenko's support rating had already slumped to 3.8% and during the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election he won 5.5% of the votes).

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party (political blocs were not permitted to compete in the election) met with total failure when it took only 2.3% of the national vote The party did quite well in the historical regions Volhynia and Galicia receiving minimal 5% of the votes up through 13,2%, but outside these regions it met with complete failure only managing to win 1,7% in Poltava Oblast, 0,9% in Zhytomyr Oblast and 0,7% in Kyiv Oblast. A merging with other parties was discussed in September 2011 but was blocked by the party's council. In a December 2011, poll by Rating the party scored 1%. Since then, the rating in various polls of the party stayed around 1%. The party announced that the Ukrainian People's Party would be merged into the party in December 2011. Both parties were expected to be unified in February 2012. Nevertheless, they both teamed up with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In this election this combination won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies and thus failed to win parliamentary representation. In this election Yushchenko headed the election list of Our Ukraine. The party itself had competed in 25 constituencies and lost in all. The Ukrainian People's Party merged with People's Movement of Ukraine in May 2013.

Parliamentary since 1994(year links to election page)YearBlocVotes%Mandates 2006 Our Ukraine 3,539,140 13.95 81 (0) 2007 Our Ukraine–People's Self Defense Bloc 3,301,282 14.15 72 (0) 2012 226,482 1.11 0 (0)