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{{Politics of Russia}} | {{Politics of Russia}} | ||
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==The parties== | ==The parties== | ||
===Major parties=== | ===Major parties=== | ||
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Political parties in Russia lists political parties in Russia. Russia is a one party dominant state with United Russia in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are seen as ineffective and widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. This is due both to the high popularity of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and to the stringent controls placed on the media and opposition figures by the government
The parties
Major parties
- Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii)
- Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii)
- Fair Russia (Справедли́вая Росси́я: Ро́дина/Пенсионе́ры/Жизнь, Spravedlivaya Rossiya: Rodina/Pensionery/Zhizn)
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Либерально-Демократическая Партия России (ЛДПР), Liberal’no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii (LDPR))
- Party of National Revival "Narodnaya Volya" (Партия Национального Возрождения «Народная Воля».)
- Party of Russia's Rebirth (Partiya Vozrozhdeniya Rossii)
- Russian Social Justice Party (Rossiyskaya Partiya Spravedlivosti)
- Union of Right Forces (Союз Правых Сил, Soyuz Pravykh Sil)
- United Russia (Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya)
- United Socialist Party of Russia
- Yabloko (Российская Демократическая Партия "Яблоко", Rossiyskaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Yabloko")
Minor parties
- All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks (Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия большевиков, ВКПБ, Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya bol'shevikov, VKPb)
- All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (Всесоюзной Коммунистической партии (большевиков), ВКП(б))
- Beer Lovers Party (“Партия любителей пива”, “Partiâ lûbitelej piva”)
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992) (Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, KPSS '92)
- For Holy Russia ("За Русь Святую", "Za Rus’ Svyatuyu")
- National Bolshevik Party
- Pamyat
- Peace and Unity (Российская политическая партия Мира и Единства, Rossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya Mira i Edinstva)
- People's National Party (Russia)
- Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия – Революционная Партия Коммунистов, Rossiiskaja Kommunističeskaja Rabočaja Partija – Revolyutsionnaja Partija Kommunistov)
- Russian Libertarian Party
- Russian Maoist Party
- Russian National Socialist Party (previously Russian National Union)
- Russian National Unity
- Social Democratic Party of Russia
Historical parties
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Soujuza). Factions:
- Constitutional Democratic Party (Российская Конституционно-демократическая партия, Rossiyskaya Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya)
- Jewish Bund
- Left Socialist Revolutionaries
- Octobrists
- Our Home is Russia
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Росси́йская Социа́л-Демократи́ческая Рабо́чая Па́ртия, Rossijskaja Social-demokrastičeskaja Rabočaja Partija). Factions:
- Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Партия Социалистов-революционеров, Partija Socialistov-revoljucionerov)
- Trudoviks
- Unity (Yedineniye)
- Merged into Russia of Justice:
- People's Party of the Russian Federation (Народная партия Российской Федерации, Narodnaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii)
- Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union (Rodina - Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz)
- Russian Party of Life (Rossiyskaya Partiya Zhizni)
- Russian Pensioners' Party (Rossiyskaya Partiya Pensionerov)
References
- Digest by Glasnost Defense Foundation
- Index of democracy by Economist Intelligence Unit
- Sergey Kovalev - Interview to Radio Free Europe (Russian)
See also
- Index of political parties to browse parties by name
- List of political parties to browse parties by country
- List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
- Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals