Our Home Is Russia
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Our Home – Russia
Наш дом – Россия |
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| President | Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Founded | May 12, 1995 |
| Dissolved | May 12, 2006 |
| Merged into | United Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Newspaper | weekly journal "Home and Fatherland" |
| Membership (1999) | 120,000 |
| Ideology |
Fiscal conservatism Neoliberalism Centrism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Dark blue |
| Slogan |
Вера, Сила, Свобода "Faith, Strength, Freedom" |
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Seats in the State Duma 2 convening (1995-2000) |
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Our Home – Russia (Russian: Наш дом – Россия, Nash dom – Rossiya), abbreviated as NDR, was a Russian political party that existed from 1995 to the mid-2000s.
Our Home – Russia was founded in 1995 by then Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. It was a liberal, centrist political movement, founded for the purpose of rallying more technocratic-reformist (right-wing) government supporters. At the time of its founding, Chernomyrdin had the backing of Russian president Boris Yeltsin along with numerous large financial institutions such as Association of Russian Banks, and major companies such as Gazprom, of which he was formerly the chairman. The movement attracted the sympathies and interests of many prominent members of the ruling elite of Russia, and NDR was thus nicknamed "the party of power". It was also known as the party of the Oligarchs, the position previously identified with another political party, Russia's Choice. Two other parties were interested in cooperating with NDR after its foundation: parts of the Agrarian Party of Russia and Democratic Choice of Russia. Together their platform would promote "freedom, property, and legality", and would favor such policies as reducing the state's role in the economy, support for small businesses, privatization of agriculture, and military cutbacks. However, after Chernomyrdin's candidacy for a second term as Prime Minister was in 1998 rejected by the Duma, Our Home – Russia declined the other parties' bid for cooperation.
Although it was critical of the war in Chechnya, Viktor Chernomyrdin and NDR played a central role in supporting Yeltsin in his 1996 bid for re-election as President of the Russian Federation. "To sum up why Our Home – Russia is for Yeltsin, I can say only one thing--because we are for reforms, for the constitution of Russia, for peace in Chechnya, for a normal life in Russia," Chernomyrdin told Itar-Tass news agency in 1996.
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