Gathering your strength

In 2005, the United People's Party of Soldiers' Mothers and the Republican Party of Russia entered the "Committee 2008" and now the organizations intend to unite their political forces even more closely. True, the parties admitted that they were largely pushed to take this step by pragmatic considerations. To confirm the status of an official political party, according to the law, an organization must prove that it has at least 50 thousand members (the RPR now has 30 thousand members, and the ENPSM has about 20 thousand).