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Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

has a multi-party system

Multi-party system

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition, e.g.The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the United Kingdom formed in 2010. The effective number of parties in a multi-party system is normally...

with one dominant party (United Russia

United Russia

United Russia is a centrist political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties...

). Presently there are four parties that make up the federal parliament, the State Duma

State Duma

The State Duma , common abbreviation: Госду́ма ) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters is located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to...

Parties represented in the State Duma

	Abbr.	Ideology	Leader	MPs State Duma The State Duma , common abbreviation: Госду́ма ) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters is located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to...
United Russia United Russia United Russia is a centrist political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties... Единая Россия	ER ЕР	Russian Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... conservatism Conservatism Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism... , Pragmatism Pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...	Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...	315
Communist Party of the Russian Federation Communist Party of the Russian Federation The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:... Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации	KPRF КПРФ	Communism Communism Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production... , Marxism-Leninism Marxism-Leninism Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship... , Left-wing nationalism Left-wing nationalism Left-wing nationalism describes a form of nationalism officially based upon equality, popular sovereignty, and national self-determination. It has its origins in the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Left-wing nationalism typically espouses anti-imperialism...	Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union , deputy of the State Duma , and a member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...	57
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Liberal Democratic Party of Russia The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii is a political party in Russia. Since its founding in 1991, it has been led by the charismatic and controversial figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky... Либерально-Демократическая Партия России	LDPR ЛДПР	Nationalism Nationalism Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what... , Pan-Slavism Pan-Slavism Pan-Slavism was a movement in the mid-19th century aimed at unity of all the Slavic peoples. The main focus was in the Balkans where the South Slavs had been ruled for centuries by other empires, Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice...	Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, colonel of the Russian Army, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe....	40
A Just Russia Справедливая Россия	SR СР	Social democracy Social democracy Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism... , Democratic socialism Democratic socialism Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialist movements and organizations to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation...	Nikolai Levichev Nikolai Levichev Nikolai Vladimirovich Levichev is a Russian politician, leader of A Just Russia party, leader of A Just Russia group in the State Duma.He was elected the party leader on April 16, 2011 at the 5th party congress in Moscow.-References:...	38

Other registered parties

Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia is a left-wing nationalist and socialist political party in Russia. It was established in April 2005 by Gennady Semigin, who was expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation after he failed in a power struggle with Gennady Zuganov.-History:In 2006 Gennadiy Semigin...

(Патриоты России, Patrioty Rossii) (socialist
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

, left-wing nationalist
Left-wing nationalism
Left-wing nationalism describes a form of nationalism officially based upon equality, popular sovereignty, and national self-determination. It has its origins in the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Left-wing nationalism typically espouses anti-imperialism...

)
Right Cause
Right Cause
Right Cause is a political party in Russia with representatives in several local legislatures. Founded on 18 February 2009 as a merger of the Union of Right Forces, Civilian Power and the Democratic Party of Russia, the party's main policy stances are liberal free market economy, democracy and...

(Правое дело, Pravoye Delo) (liberal conservative
Liberal conservatism
Liberal conservatism also known as progressive conservatism is a variant of political conservatism which incorporates liberal elements. As "conservatism" and "liberalism" have had different meanings over time and across countries, the term "liberal conservatism" has been used in quite different...

)
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko
Yabloko
The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" (Russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко» Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko"; is a Russian social...

(Российская Объединённая Демократическая Партия "Яблоко", Rossiyskaya Ob'edinyonnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Yabloko") (social liberal
Social liberalism
Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it believes the legitimate role of the state includes addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding...

)

Historical, unregistered or banned parties

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

(Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Soujuza). Factions:
- Anti-Party Group
  Anti-Party Group
  The Anti-Party Group was a group within the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that unsuccessfully attempted to depose Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Party in May 1957. The group, named by that epithet by Khrushchev, was led by former Premiers Georgy Malenkov and...
- Group of Democratic Centralism
  Group of Democratic Centralism
  The Group of Democratic Centralism, sometimes called the Group of 15, the Decists, or the Decemists, was a dissenting faction within the Soviet Communist Party in the early 1920s.The Group was formed in March 1919 at the 8th Party Congress...
- Left Communists
- Left Opposition
  Left Opposition
  The Left Opposition was a faction within the Bolshevik Party from 1923 to 1927, headed de facto by Leon Trotsky. The Left Opposition formed as part of the power struggle within the party leadership that began with the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin's illness and intensified with his death in January...
- Right Opposition
  Right Opposition
  The Right Opposition was the name given to the tendency made up of Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Mikhail Tomsky and their supporters within the Soviet Union in the late 1920s...
- United Opposition
  United Opposition
  The United Opposition was a group formed in the All-Union Communist Party in 1926 by Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev in opposition to Joseph Stalin...
- Workers' Opposition
  Workers' Opposition
  The Workers' Opposition was a faction of the Russian Communist Party that emerged in 1920 as a response to the perceived over-bureaucratisation that was occurring in Soviet Russia.-Membership:...
Constitutional Democratic Party
Constitutional Democratic party
The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

(Российская Конституционно-демократическая партия, Rossiyskaya Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya)
Jewish Bund
Left Socialist Revolutionaries
Octobrists
Pirate Party
Pirate Party of Russia
The Pirate Party of Russia is a political party in Russia based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet. It was founded in July 2009.- History :...
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party , also known as Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party...

(Росси́йская Социа́л-Демократи́ческая Рабо́чая Па́ртия, Rossijskaja Social-demokrastičeskaja Rabočaja Partija). Factions:
- Bolsheviks
- Mensheviks
- Mezhraiontsy
  Mezhraiontsy
  Mezhraiontsy or Mezhraionka , usually translated as the interdistrictites , officially RSDRP , was a small Petrograd-based group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which existed between 1913 and 1917...
- Yedinstvo
  Yedinstvo
  Yedinstvo or Edinstvo was a faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party between 1914 and 1917 and then a small independent party in 1917 and 1918. It was led by Georgi Plekhanov.-Background:...
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
thumb|right|200px|Socialist-Revolutionary election poster, 1917. The caption in red reads "партия соц-рев" , short for Party of the Socialist Revolutionaries...

(Партия Социалистов-революционеров, Partija Socialistov-revoljucionerov)
Trudoviks
Trudoviks
The Trudoviks were a moderate Labour party in early 20th Century Russia...
Unity
Unity (Russia)
Conceptual party Unity was a political party in Russia from 2000 to 2007, led by retired Major General Konstantin P. Petrov, not to be confused with the Unity Party of Russia , which existed from 1999 to 2001...

(Yedineniye)
Merged into United Russia
United Russia
United Russia is a centrist political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties...

:
- Unity Party of Russia
- Fatherland - All Russia
- Our Home - Russia
- Agrarian Party of Russia
Merged into Just Russia:
- People's Party of the Russian Federation
  People's Party of the Russian Federation
  The People's Party of the Russian Federation was a political party in Russia. The leader of the party was a conservative politician Gennady Raikov....
  
  (Народная партия Российской Федерации, Narodnaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii)
- Rodina
  Rodina
  Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...
  
  or Motherland-National Patriotic Union (Партия "РОДИНА", Rodina - Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz)
- Russian Party of Life
  Russian Party of Life
  The Russian Party of Life was a political party in Russia, led by Sergey Mironov . According to its website, the party was liberal on economic issues and nationalistic on everything else...
  
  (Российская партия жизни, Rossiyskaya Partiya Zhizni)
- Russian Pensioners' Party
  Russian Pensioners' Party
  The Russian Pensioners' Party is a political party in Russia.The party was founded as the Party of Pensioners in 1997...
  
  (Российская партия пенсионеров, Rossiyskaya Partiya Pensionerov)
- United Socialist Party of Russia
  United Socialist Party of Russia
  The United Socialist Party of Russia was a socialist political party in Russia established in 2003, that succeeded the Spiritual Heritage movement. In the 2003 legislative elections it was part of the Rodina coalition that won 9.2 percent of the vote and 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma. In 2008...
  
  (Социалистическая единая партия России, Sotsialisticheskaya yedinaya partiya Rossii)
- Russian Social Justice Party
  Russian Social Justice Party
  The Party of Social Justice was a progressive political party in Russia....
  
  (Партия социальной справедливости, Partiya Sotsial'noy Spravedlivosti)
- Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" (Российская экологическая партия «Зеленые», Rossiiskaya ekologicheskaya partiya "Zyelyonyye")
Merged to form Right Cause
Right Cause
Right Cause is a political party in Russia with representatives in several local legislatures. Founded on 18 February 2009 as a merger of the Union of Right Forces, Civilian Power and the Democratic Party of Russia, the party's main policy stances are liberal free market economy, democracy and...

:
- Citizens' Force
  Civilian Power
  Civilian Power was a liberal political party in the Russian Federation, which prior to February 2007 was called Free Russia.According to data from Rosregistration, the party has 55,063 members...
  
  (Гражданская Сила, Grazhdanskaya Sila)
- Democratic Party of Russia
  Democratic Party of Russia
  The Democratic Party of Russia or DPR is a former Russian political party that existed between 1990 and 2008. It was founded by Nikolai Travkin. It initially featured Stanislav Govorukhin and Sergey Glazyev, was a prominent democratically-oriented party, member of the Democratic Russia coalition,...
  
  (Демократическая партия России, Demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii)
- Union of Right Forces
  Union of Right Forces
  The Union of Right Forces, or SPS , was a Russian democratic opposition party associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the 'Young Reformers' of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. Nikita Belykh was the last party's leader...
  
  (Союз Правых Сил, Soyuz Pravykh Sil)
Merged into Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:...

:
- People's Union
  People's Union (Russia)
  People's Union , formerly known as Party of National Revival "Narodnaya Volya" , was a Russian nationalist party created in December 2001. It was led by a veteran Russian nationalist politician Sergey Baburin...
  
  (Народный Союз, Narodnyi Soyuz)
Merged into Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia is a left-wing nationalist and socialist political party in Russia. It was established in April 2005 by Gennady Semigin, who was expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation after he failed in a power struggle with Gennady Zuganov.-History:In 2006 Gennadiy Semigin...

:
- Party of Peace and Unity (Российская политическая партия Мира и Единства, Rossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya Mira i Edinstva)
Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
The Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists is a communist party in Russia. It was established in October 2001, through the unification of the Russian Communist Workers' Party and the Russian Party of Communists, with the aim of resurrecting socialism and the USSR.The...

(Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия – Революционная Партия Коммунистов, Rossiiskaja Kommunističeskaja Rabočaja Partija – Revolyutsionnaja Partija Kommunistov)
Left Front
Left Front (Russia)
The Left Front is a revolutionary anti-capitalist united front encompassing a range of far-left and ultra-left political organisations in Russia, as well as other countries of the former Soviet Union...

Communists of Russia(Коммунисты России)
Socialist Resistance (CIS) (Социалистическое Сопротивление)
Social Democratic Party of Russia
Social Democratic Party of Russia
The Social Democratic Party of Russia was a political party founded in Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev on November 26, 2001. First name of party is: Social Democratic Party of Russia . It was a coalition of several social democratic parties, had approximately 12,000 members, but had no seats in the...

(Социал-демократическая партия России, Social-Demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii)
National Bolshevik Party (Национал-большевистская партия, Natsional-bol'shevitskaya partiya)
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...

(Хизб ут-Тахрир)

Historical minor parties

All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks
All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks
The All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks is a Marxist-Leninist and...

(Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия большевиков, ВКПБ, Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya bol'shevikov, VKPb)
Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists
Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists
The Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists is a Russian communist organization with anti-capitalist views. It believes in "a society without private property, classes, states, wage labour, money and commodity production"....

(Союз революционных социалистов, СРС, Soyuz Revolutsionnykh Sotsialistov, SRS)
Beer Lovers Party
Beer Lovers Party (Russia)
The Beer Lovers Party was created in Russia on December 26, 1993 and officially registered on August 9, 1994. By the moment of registration the party listed 1,700 members.- History :...

(Партия любителей пива, Partiâ lûbitelej piva)
Christian Democratic Party of Russia
Christian Democratic Party of Russia
The Christian Democratic Party of Russia is a Christian Democratic political party in the Russian Federation. It was founded in May 1990.It maintains fraternal relations with Christian Democratic parties in Europe and around the world....

(Российская Христианско-Демократическая партия)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a political party led by Sergei Skvortsov, operating in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The party was founded in 1992 at the so-called 29th Restorative CPSU Congress, which, among other actions, excluded Mikhail Gorbachev from the CPSU...

(Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, KPSS '92)
Conservative Party of Russia
Conservative Party of Russia
The Conservative Party of Russia is a conservative political party in Russia, founded by Lev Ubozhko. Its ideology is based on Conservative principles, human rights and the rights of the individual, as well as the strengthening of national traditions....

(Консервативная партия России)
Democratic Union (Russia)
Democratic Union (Russia)
Democratic Union is a Russian liberal party led by a controversial Russian female politician Valeria Novodvorskaya. The orientation has been radically liberal and pro-reform...

(Демократический Союз, Demokraticheskiy soyuz)
Eurasia Party
Eurasia Party
The Eurasia Party was registered as a political party by the Ministry of Justice of Russia on 21 June 2002, approximately one year after the Pan-Russian Eurasia Movement was established by Aleksandr Dugin...

(Евразия, Yevraziya)
For Holy Russia (За Русь Святую, Za Rus’ Svyatuyu)
Green Alternative
Green Alternative
The Green Alternative is a Russian political party, founded in 1991 as a local party in Leningrad. In 2005, it reorganized in the green political movement "Green Alternative"...

(Зелёная Альтернатива)
Green Russia
Green Russia
Green Russia is a coalition of 18 green political organizations in Russia. However, it is not the most prominent green party.-History:...

(Зеленая Россия)
Great Russia
Great Russia (political party)
Great Russia is a Russian political party established in April 2007 by former Rodina leader and legislator Dmitry Rogozin in conjunction with the nationalist Movement Against Illegal Immigration, the Congress of Russian Communities and former members of the Rodina party which won 9% of the vote at...

(Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya)
Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
The Jewish Communist Labour Party was the new name, from 1922 to its dissolution in 1928, of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party , a Zionist socialist political party founded in 1906, part of the international Poalei Zion movement.The JSDLP had suffered a major split in August 1919, when a...

, a 1906-1928 Zionist socialist political party in Russia
Pamyat
Pamyat
Pamyat is a Russian nationalist organization identifying itself as the "People's National-patriotic Orthodox Christian movement." The group's stated focus is preserving Russian culture.- History :...

(Память, Pamyat)
People's Democratic Union (Russia)
People's Democratic Union (Russia)
The People's Democratic Union is a liberal opposition political party in Russia. Member of opposition coalition The Other Russia. The party was founded by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov after he failed to win the leadership of the Democratic Party of Russia...

(Российский народно-демократический союз, Rossiiskyi narodno-demokratichesky soyuz)
People's National Party (Russia)
People's National Party (Russia)
The Peoples National Party is a minor far right political party in Russia. Its leader is Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky, who founded the party in 1994 with, it has been alleged, the aid of two veterans of the Black Hundreds Vladimir Osipov and Vyacheslav Demin.-Origins:The party grew from an attempt...

(Народная национальная партия, Narodnaya natsional'naya partiya)
Republican Party of Russia (Республиканская партия России, Respublikanskaya partiya Rossii)
Russian Maoist Party
Russian Maoist Party
The Russian Maoism Party is a maoist party in Russia. It was established on June 9, 2000.The RMP accepts the legacy of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party [RSDLP], the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party [RSDLP], the Russian Communist Party [RCP], the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...

(Российская маоистская партия, Rossiyskaya maoistskaya partiya)
Russian Movement " Ave Maria "
Russian National Socialist Party
Russian National Socialist Party
The Russian National Socialist Party is a neo-Nazi party based in Russia. The group achieved international notoriety in 2007 when a video appeared on the internet purportedly showing members decapitating two immigrants.-Development:The party grew out of the followers of Konstantin Kasimovsky, a...

(previously Russian National Union
Russian National Union
The Russian National Union was a Neo-Nazi party in Russia. The party should not be confused with Russian National Unity, a larger group with similar roots, although with no direct connection....

) (Русская Национальная Социалистическая Партия, Russkaya Natsional'naya Socialisticheskaya partiya)
Russian National Unity
Russian National Unity
Russian National Unity or All-Russian civic patriotic movement "Russian National Unity" , is a far right, fascist political party and paramilitary organization based in Russia and operating in states with Russian-speaking populations. It was founded by the ultra-nationalist Alexander Barkashov...

(Русское Национальное Единство, Russkoye Natsional'noye Yedinstvo)
Union of Social-Democrats (Союз социал-демократов)
Communists of Russia(Коммунисты России)
Socialist Resistance (CIS) (Социалистическое Сопротивление)

Parties represented in the State Duma

Other registered parties

Historical, unregistered or banned parties

Historical minor parties

See also