Yury Kostenko

Yury Kostenko, the Chairman of the newly established party greets the participants of the unifying Rukh (The Ukrainian National Movement) Constituent Congress on Saturday, December 18, 1999, in Kyiv. The 740 delegates from the 25 Ukrainian regions took part in the Assembly. It was declared about the establishment of the Ukrainian National Movement in the course of the Congress work. The Congress passed the statute of the new organization, which is based on the statute of the National Rukh of Ukraine before its collapse. Photo by Alexander Lepetukha/ UNIAN