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Ukrainian bloggers and influencers sharing his ideas. The party’s ideology is based on the ideas of classical liberalism, aimed at supporting economic deregulation, strengthening the military and defending human rights (being the only party consistently supporting LGBTQ+
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Demokratychna Sokyra was one of the initiators and organisers for the "No to capitulation!" campaign against implementing the political part of the Minsk agreements and concessions for Russia. Afterwards, the party organised multiple protests against the soft-on-Russia policies of president
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As a political council member, Gudymenko is responsible for PR and public rallies. Thus, he organised and took part in numerous protest campaigns, bringing public attention to the problems in
Ukraine and helped achieve key decisions for the state and the society, such as:
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In late 2022, Hudymenko filed a claim with the Office of
Prosecutor General, which used it to open criminal proceedings for high treason (p. 111 of the Ukraine Criminal Code), passing it onto the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate all MPs from the pro-Russian
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In 2011 he was sentenced to two years in prison (sentence suspended) for defacing the monument to
Dzerzhynsky with a bucket of paint (Dzerzhynski was one of the founders of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) and organizer of the "Red
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Revolution of Dignity, the Zhovtnevy district court of Zaporizhzhia amnestied Gudymenko among with other pro-Ukrainian activists wrongfully judged during the Yanukovych regime per request of Prosecutor General of
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On June 27, 2022, he was heavily wounded in action in
Dementiyivka near Kharkiv. Receiving multiple mine fragments to his left leg, right arm, and lungs, Yurii was evac'd to hospital barely staying alive.
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for their actions in 2021, considered by the party to be dangerously soft on Russia and corruption in the state, with some calling them treasonous.
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decree №627/2022. On September 28, 2022, Yuriy was awarded the Commander-in-Chief's Honor «Steel Cross».
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Human rights campaigns for legalisation of medical cannabis, gun rights, medical and education reform.
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As of March, 2023, Hudymenko's follower count amounts to 340,000 followers across such platforms as
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