People's Union formerly known as Party of National Revival "Narodnaya Volya" , was a Russia

Russia

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n nationalist party created in December 2001. It was led by a veteran Russian nationalist politician Sergey Baburin

Sergey Baburin

Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin is a Russian nationalist politician and is Vice Speaker of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Party of National Revival "Narodnaya Volya". He was elected for the Rodina bloc. He is a member of the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law.Baburin...

. On December 2008, it finished its existence as a political party and was reorganized into political movement Russian All-People's Union

Russian All-People's Union

Russian All-People's Union was a Russian nationalist political party, formed in October 1991, in 2001 it merged into Narodnaya Volya. Its leader was Sergey Baburin....

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It was created by uniting four minor nationalist parties who merged together and its name Narodnaya Volya translates from Russian as People's Will. In September 2003 Narodnaya Volya joined Rodina

Rodina

Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...

 coalition what performed surprisingly well in the 2003 State Duma elections.

Narodnaya Volya was seen by many as the most nationalist and conservative element in mostly leftist Rodina and a number of its members in the past were associated with Russian far right movements. Currently nine members of Narodnaya Volya are deputies of the Russian Duma. In October 2006 Narodnaya Volya, unlike most of Rodina coalition, did not join the Russia of Justice party and remained an independent faction in the Duma.

Narodnaya Volya claims to have international ties with People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko

People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko

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 led by Nataliya Vitrenko

Nataliya Vitrenko

Nataliya Mikhailivna Vitrenko is a Ukrainian politician and scientist. She has a Ph.D in Statistics and Dr. of Social Sciences. She is a mother of three children.-Presidential candidacy:...

, National Front (France) led by Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than...

 and Serbian Radical Party

Serbian Radical Party

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 of Vojislav Šešelj

Vojislav Šešelj

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Prominent Narodnaya Volya party members include Viktors Alksnis, Nikolai Leonov

Nikolai Leonov

Nikolai Sergeyevich Leonov is a Russian nationalist politician and was a senior KGB officer and Latin America expert in the USSR. In 1953, at the age of 25, Leonov was posted to Mexico City, where he learned Spanish at the Autonomous University. In the course of the sea voyage, he met Raúl Castro,...

 and Aleksandr Rutskoy.

In November 2006, the party gained prominence as one of the main organizers of the nationalist "Russian Marsh" during the Unity Day

Unity Day (Russia)

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 celebrations in Moscow

Moscow

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On March 26, 2007 Narodnaya Volya united with 13 small nationalist, Orthodox Christian and conservative organizations and party was renamed "People's Union" (Народный Союз). New party declared its intention to participate in 2007 Russian Duma elections

Russian legislative election, 2007

Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia . Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest party, United Russia, which was supported by...

. Among more prominent politicians who united under leadership of Sergey Baburin was Anna Markova, former vice governor of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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. The party was not be able to take part in the 2007 State Duma election; it decided to endorse the Communist Party of Russian Federation http://www.partinform.ru/new.htm.

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