Will the NDPR become a "party with weapons"?

On December 3, 2005, a congress of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR) was held in Moscow, at which organizational decisions were made and strategic directions for the party’s activities were developed. The congress was attended by 200 delegates from 29 Russian regions (however, only the Omsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Kemerovo regions are named in the report).

In particular, a resolution was adopted according to which party activists should “begin widespread registration of regional branches of the IOU NDPR by March 1, 2006.” (We remind you that the Moscow branch of the NDPR was registered on October 18, 2005, but the St. Petersburg branch could not be registered, since the local registration authority considered that the program documents contained provisions that incited national hatred).

The main areas of activity are “propaganda of the ideas of Russian national patriotism” among women, youth and military personnel. Viktor Korchagin, who has been repeatedly found guilty of inciting national hatred, is responsible for the latter.

Party members declared their intention to legally acquire weapons “for the purpose of self-defense (within the framework of necessary defense) and to prevent pogroms such as occurred in Paris” (cf. DPNI tactics ).

To establish propaganda work, party members intend to “recruit railway employees (conductors, foremen, cooks, etc.) in each region with the aim of free or cheap transportation of printed materials to all regions.”

The leaders of the organization do not hide their intention, when “filling the roster of the NDPR” and registering a sufficient number of regional branches, to transform the NDPR, which is currently considered a public association, into a political party (we recall that in 2002 the NDPR was already registered as a political party, but deregistered on a formal basis after a scandal associated with pogrom speeches by one of its then co-chairs, Boris Mironov).

Based on materials from right-wing radical sites