Strong Ukraine (Ukrainian: Сильна Україна Syl'na Ukrajina); former Labour Party Ukraine (Ukrainian: Трудова партія України), was a political party in Ukraine registered in August 1999 and dissolved in March 2012. It merged with the Party of Regions on 17 March 2012.
The party claimed to have over 80,000 members in mid-May 2010. Since late 2009 the party was main vehicle of billionaire Serhiy Tihipko. Fellow billionaire Oleksandr Kardakov was another influential member of the party. Tihipko became a member of the Party of Regions.
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“Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)