Nationalist maneuvers before the elections

In the last week of March 2007, a whole series of party and near-party events took place in preparation for the December elections to the State Duma. These events have once again confirmed that the nationalist resource will become one of the most sought-after politicians in the upcoming election campaign. Recall that two "official" parties have already directly or indirectly addressed this topic: "United Russia" - with its "Russian Project", and "Fair Russia" - with a series of scandals related to the exploitation of xenophobic slogans in the past regional elections.

of the Russian Federation, announced his intention to exploit the "Russian question" at the March 24 plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party . In his report, he recalled that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation "put it on the agenda back in 1991" and since then has constantly turned to him (one can recall, for example, the scandal with Zyuganov's anti-Semitic pamphlet "Holy Russia and the Koshcheevo Kingdom", but in general in recent years, the Communist Party has become less likely to resort to xenophobic rhetoric). G. Zyuganov also said in his speech that the party should not allow anyone - from United Russia to the "most reactionary forces" - to ride the "Russian question". Zyuganov proposed to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation itself to defend Russian culture, to develop the concept of "Russian socialism", and in the future to take care of such tasks as " breaking through to the Baltic, collecting Russian lands and access to the Black Sea" , etc.

On March 24, 2007, the VII Congress of the Narodnaya Volya party of Sergei Baburin decided to rename the party into the People's Union (not to be confused with the National Union of Alexei Romanov) and enlarge it at the expense of "13 kindred patriotic organizations." The official slogan of the new party was the motto "Glory to Russia!", and the actual manifesto - "The Act of Unity of the National and People's Patriotic Forces of Russia", the signatories of which joined the new organization.

In addition to the "Narodnaya Volya", the new party included:

• "Slavic Union of Russia" by Anatoly Duvalov (not to be confused with the neo-Nazi "Slavic Union" by Dmitry Demushkin),

• "Union of Orthodox Citizens" Valentin Lebedev,

• movement "Women in Power" by Svetlana Murashko,

• "Union" Georgy Tikhonov,

• Union of Officers by Stanislav Terekhov

• Union of Orthodox banner-bearers Leonid Simonovich,

• Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of L. Simonovich,

• public club "Russian Thought" Oleg Karataev,

• Union "Christian Revival" (SHV) Vladimir Osipov,

• Russian national and cultural center of the city of Moscow Dmitry Merkulov,

• editorial office of the newspaper "Russian Messenger" (Alexey Senin)

• Anna Markova's Regional Policy Foundation,

• St. Sergius Union of the Russian people Nikolai Kuryanovich,

• "Russian National Union" (RONS) Igor Artemov/

However, neither Artemov nor Kuryanovich has yet confirmed their entry into Baburin's party, saying that their membership is subject to negotiations and the fulfillment by S. Baburin of a number of conditions.

The "Act" speaks of "the state-forming role of the Russian people, who created a great power based on the values ​​of Orthodoxy" and the need to "offer Russia its NATIONAL PATH and implement it by legal political means" , and in a speech at the congress, one of the leaders of the organization, Viktor Alksnis, said, that in the "painted by the Kremlin" political spectrum, only the "field of Russian nationalism" remained unoccupied. "It is very promising, but hung with red flags, and snipers with rifles stand around the edges to shoot anyone who steps on it . "

On March 26, 2007, a meeting of the Organizing Committee for the preparation and holding of the founding congress of the "Great Russia" party was held . The intention to create such a party (which, according to Dmitry Rogozin, "will be cooler than Motherland" ) on the basis of the fragments of Motherland, was announced a few days earlier by State Duma deputy Andrei Savelyev, who headed the Organizing Committee. The founding congress is scheduled by the organizers for early May. as a leader, the newly-minted party members intend to attract the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (which, however, is impossible under Russian law).

The last two initiatives in terms of party building do not look promising, not to mention the dubiousness of the prospects for registering new parties (at least one more national-patriotic project that started earlier - MANPADS "Rus" - could not register). But, of course, they will increase activity in the nationalist part of the political spectrum, and, consequently, increase the general level of xenophobic rhetoric in society.

More radical coalitions of nationalists are increasingly mired in squabbles and strife. The split of the Union of the Russian People continues into the "moderate" wing of the leader of the RNC, General Ivashov (his representatives are even included in the "People's Union") and the radicals, headed in St. Petersburg by Konstantin Dushenov, and in Moscow by Mikhail Nazarov (member of the Organizing Committee of the "Russian March"): without leaving the RNC, the radicals create their own regional organizations.

There was a split in the organizing committee of the "Russian March", on which Andrei Savelyev is trying to rely. From there, three groups fell out - ROD, "Russian Order" and "Revenge". DPNI, NPF "Pamyat", Slavic Union, RONS, NDPR, the Moscow branch of the RNC (M. Nazarova), St. Sergius RNC (N. Kuryanovicha) and the National Bolshevik Front (NBF) remain in the Organizing Committee. Noteworthy is not only the presence of the NBF, which is guided by Dugin and defiantly did not take part in the 2006 march, but also the NDPR, part of which (in the form of the "Union of Officers") entered the "People's Union".

For information on organizations and personalities, see "Antikompromat.Ru" .

Based on materials from right-wing radical sites

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• VII Congress of the National Revival Party "Narodnaya Volya" // Official website of the party.
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• Chernega Yuri. "Narodnaya Volya" abandoned the dark past // Kommersant. 2007. March 26.
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• Report of the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G.A. Zyuganov at the IX Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation // Official website of the Communist Party.