Editing PORA (section)

==OPORA==
Black Pora, functions mainly as a pro-democracy watchdog trying to clean Ukraine of 'Kuchmism' (i.e. the legacy of the former authoritarian President [[Leonid Kuchma]]) and does not see the possibility of exporting its experience to other countries. Black Pora! remains a non-partisan movement and has formally registered as an NGO - All-Ukrainian Civic Organization Pora! Part of its public campaigns – such as the one aimed at pressuring major political parties to clean their electoral lists of notorious personalities – connected to the old regime or having criminal background. Around the [[2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election|March 2006 Parliamentary elections]] Black Pora changed its name to '''OPORA''' (Foundation) ({{langx|uk|ОПОРА}}, [[Russian language|Russian]]: ОПОРА).<ref name="Minnesota">[http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/91521/1/Shyyan_Vitaliy%20Sept%202008.pdf DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE AFTER THE ORANGE REVOLUTION] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716075251/http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/91521/1/Shyyan_Vitaliy%20Sept%202008.pdf|date=2010-07-16}} by [[Vitaliy Shyyan]], [[University of Minnesota]] (September 2008)</ref>