The party was registered by the
Ministry of Justice on 5 August 2004. In 2004, some political observers linked Dmytro Korchynskyi's "Brotherhood" with the name of
Viktor Medvedchuk and his then party
SDPU(o).
Oleksiy Arestovych became the deputy chairman of the party. Thus, in "''Medvedchuk's dungeons''" sent out in March 2004, instructions were given to cover in detail the "Brotherhood" action in the mass media and to present angry comments by
Leonid Kuchma and
Viktor Yanukovych, but to ignore opposition speeches and not to show flags with the words "YES Yushchenko". Another time, when an attempt was made in the prisons to accuse
Viktor Yushchenko and
Yulia Tymoshenko of the seizure of the
An-124 "Ruslan" aircraft in Canada, representatives of the "Brotherhood" fought with law enforcement officers near the
Canadian embassy in Ukraine. On March 31, 2004, members of the "Brotherhood" poured glue and water on
George Soros, shouting: "Soros, get out of Ukraine, you will not succeed". Later they tried to throw eggs at his car. In response to this situation, George Soros gave the following assessment: "I am surprised that
1+1 gives the air to a person who controls a group of hooligans" - referring to the head of the "Brotherhood" Dmitry Korchinsky (who hosted the "Prote" program). In July 2004, the "Brotherhood" helped organize a strike at the
Zatoka Shipyard, which was co-owned by the deputy chief of staff of "
Our Ukraine",
Davyd Zhvania. On September 23, 2004, representatives of the "Brotherhood" broke into the building of the
Central Election Commission with the demand to open polling stations in
Transnistria. As a result of the clash with the CEC guards, one of the guards received a head injury, and some windows were left without glass. The next day,
Yurii Karmazin assessed this event as an order by the authorities to destabilize the situation in the country. After the
Orange Revolution, Korchinsky's "Brotherhood" united with the
National Bolshevik Progressive Socialist Party of
Nataliya Vitrenko and opposed the movement of the new government towards
NATO and rapprochement with the USA and the EU. According to Korchynskyi, the
Party of Regions and the
SDPU(o) were to join their newly formed opposition. The day before, Korchynskyi also claimed that, in his opinion, Viktor Medvedchuk "will not lay down his arms" and will become one of the leaders of the united opposition under Viktor Yushchenko's presidency. After the revolution, representatives of the "Brotherhood" also wrote the phrase "
Danilovych, sorry" () on the fences of Kyiv next to the address of their website. The Brotherhood party passed the lottery for participation in the work of district election commissions in the
2012 election to the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. At the end of 2017 and in 2018, the party actively blocked the offices of the TV channels "
NewsOne" and "ZIK". Activists of the "Brotherhood" began a round-the-clock picketing of the ZIK TV channel under the capital's studio in the
International Center of Culture and Arts of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine. Korchynsky stated that his people are starting a 24-hour picketing of ZIK, because he received information that Medvedchuk was going to buy the TV channel. In 2019, the TV channel was bought by Viktor Medvedchuk. In May 2021, "Brotherhood" together with other organizations participated in protests demanding the imprisonment of Medvedchuk and the closure of the TV channels "Akademiya" and "Zdorovya" bought by him. According to media reports, members of the
Bratstvo Battalion, created on the basis of the "Brotherhood" party, participated in sabotage inside Russia after the start of the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine. == References ==