Karmazina M. Thirty years of Ukrainian multiparty system (late 1990 – early 2020).

The study analyzes the features and stages of the formation and development process of political parties in Ukraine in the period from late 1990 to early 2020. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of renaming parties (which contributed, among other things, a kind of artificial increase in as well as program goals and proclaimed ideals), the specifics of the emergence in their environment in a period of multi-party "personal", nominal and regional parties, destructive (mostly) phenomenon of the emergence and functioning of parties whose names duplicate the names of chronologically earlier political formations, the activity of which for one reason or another has already come to an end, etc.

In its own way, unique quantitative and qualitative data (on the period of operation, name change, termination / resumption of party formations, features of their status) contains "Catalogue of political parties in Ukraine registered by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in the period from November 1990 to January 1, 2020)», concluded on the basis not only of the information published by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, but also stored in the funds of the current archive of the Ministry regarding all parties registered during 30 years.