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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“He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.”
—Bible: Hebrew Numbers 6:3.