Rodina (political party)
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| Leader | Aleksey Zhuravlyov |
| Founded | August 2003, founded in 1998 as the Party of Russian Regions 2012 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Membership (2006) | 135,000 |
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Russian nationalism National conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| International affiliation | None |
| State Duma |
1 / 450
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| Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
20 / 3,787
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| Website | |
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Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union (Rodina - Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz, Партия "РОДИНА") is a political party in Russia. It was a coalition of 30 nationalist and left-wing groups that was established by Dmitry Rogozin,Sergey Glazyev,Sergey Baburin,Viktor Gerashchenko, Georgy Shpak, Valentin Varennikov and others in August 2003. The party's ideology combined "patriotism, nationalism, and a greater role for the government in the economy", and is described as "far-right". It has been banned in the past from taking part in elections after complaints that its advertisements incited racial hatred. The most notorious showed people eating watermelon and throwing the rinds to the ground, then called for Russians to clean their cities of rubbish.
Its headquarters were located in Moscow. In the 2003 Duma elections, Rodina won 9.2 percent of the vote and ended up with 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma. Novaya Gazeta liberal journalist Anna Politkovskaya stated that the Rodina Party was a chauvinistic organisation that had been "created by the Kremlin's spin doctors" for the 2003 election; the "aim was to draw moderately nationalist voters away from the more extreme National Bolsheviks." The Guardian claims that Rodina was "set up by President Vladimir Putin's allies" in 2003 "to leach votes from the Communist party."
Following allegations brought by the Communist Party and ousted reform-oriented liberal parties such as the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko that President Vladimir Putin's United Russia had manipulated elections to ensure a favorable outcome, Rodina declined to field its own candidate in the 14 March 2004 presidential elections. This created a schism within Rodina: Glazyev insisted on running for President under the banner of an officially separate Rodina party, but Rogozin was able to consolidate his support and defeat Glazyev.
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