The Eurasian Youth Union
Members of the Eurasian Youth Union demonstrate in favor of the policies of Ivan the Terrible. The former Russian tsar is also featured prominently on the group’s website The short…
Read MoreMembers of the Eurasian Youth Union demonstrate in favor of the policies of Ivan the Terrible. The former Russian tsar is also featured prominently on the group’s website The short…
Read MoreA demonstration held by The Leninist Young Communist League of the Russian Federation (Komsomol) on Red Square in conjunction with their 2011 conference. Photo from Moviemedia.ru The Komsomol was founded…
Read MoreRussian archives are an essential resource for anyone seriously studying Russia. Like any tool, however, one must first know how to use it. This brief guide will introduce you to…
Read MoreMost western observers put substantial hope in Yabloko during the 1990s. Yabloko was an early, strongly pro-West, pro-democracy party that also strongly opposed Yeltsin’s administration. It was, thus, seen as…
Read MoreThe Russian liberal democratic organization Solidarity (Солидарность) was founded in December 2008 by a range of opposition activists. These included several members of the political parties Yabloko (Яблоко), the Union…
Read MoreEstablished in November of 2008, Right Cause (Правое Дело) is one of Russia’s youngest political parties. Right Cause formed from a merger of three smaller parties: the Union of Right…
Read More(Continued from Part II) United Russia came under fire after the October 2009 regional elections. Despite the sluggish economy and an uptick in public protests against local and regional governments,…
Read MoreVladimir Putin speaks at the United Russia Party Covention in November, 2009. Although he is the party leader, he is not a member. Photo from UPI.com (Continued from Part I)…
Read MoreUnited Russia was founded in December 2001 primarily as a vehicle to support Vladimir Putin, who had assumed the presidency of Russia after Boris Yeltsin’s suddenly retirement on December 31,…
Read MoreThe People’s Freedom Party, also known as “Parnas,” was founded on September 16, 2010. It is a coalition of four organizations: Russian People’s Democratic Union; Republican Party of Russia; Democratic…
Read MoreThe Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is generally acknowledged as being the successor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), which had ruled the USSR until…
Read MoreVladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR since its foundation in 1991. The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), it is often said, is neither liberal nor particularly democratic. They advocate…
Read MoreA Just Russia was formed in 2006 from a merger between three parties. The first, a nationalist party called “Rodina” (Fatherland) had won 9% of the vote in the 2003…
Read MoreRodina first began as an electoral bloc called “The People’s Patriotic Union of Rodina,” uniting about 30 groups for participation in the 2003 Duma elections. Rodina’s name is often translated…
Read MoreVladimir Putin announced the creation of an “All-Russia People’s Front” at a regional congress of the United Russia party in Volgograd on Friday, May 6, 2011. Since this moment, the…
Read MoreHave you ever wondered how a Communist might write the history of the fall of the Soviet Union? While history is usually written by the victors, as the saying goes,…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Regime: This archive is currently closed and expected to remain so until mid-September or October. The Archive of the Foreign Policy of Imperial Russia [Архив внешней политики Российской империи]…
Read MoreThis month: President of Kazakhstan resigns; Garbage reform in Russia; “Crimean Spring” Day Celebrated This resource looks at Russian news broadcasts and presents each with rhetorical and contextual analysis as…
Read MoreThe information on this page is meant to introduce the reader to the media in Russia and give an idea of its ownership structure. Our purpose in compiling this information…
Read MoreThe Village is a Russian-language publication in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev that seeks to inform locals about their various cities, upcoming events, urban changes, and history. One of the…
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