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All-Russian Political Party "Rodina" Всероссийская политическая партия «Родина» | |
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| Leader | Aleksey Zhuravlyov |
| Founders | |
| Founded | 14 August 2003; 22 years ago (2003-08-14) (as National Patriotic Union "Rodina") 29 September 2012; 13 years ago (2012-09-29) (refoundation) |
| Dissolved | 28 October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10-28) |
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| Merged into | A Just Russia (2006–2012) |
| Headquarters | Moscow,Russia |
| Youth wing | Tigers of Rodina |
| Membership(2006) | 135,000[needs update] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right[10] |
| National affiliation | All-Russia People's Front |
| International affiliation | World National-Conservative Movement (2015) |
| Colours | Red |
| State Duma | 1 / 450 |
| Seats in the Regional Parliaments | 6 / 3,994 |
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TheAll-Russian Political Party "Rodina"[a] is anationalist[1]political party inRussia. It is a coalition of thirty nationalist groups[11] that was established byDmitry Rogozin,[11]Sergey Glazyev,[11]Sergey Baburin,[11]Viktor Gerashchenko,Georgy Shpak,Valentin Varennikov and others in August 2003. The party's ideology combines "patriotism, nationalism, and a greater role for the government in the economy",[11] and is described as pro-Kremlin.[12] Its headquarters is located inMoscow.
In the2003 legislative elections, Rodina won 9.02% of the vote and ended up with 37 of the 450 seats in theState Duma. In the2016 elections, it won 1.51% of the vote and ended up with one seat. In the2021 elections, it won 0.80% of the vote and ended up with one seat. The party supports PresidentVladimir Putin.[13]
The termrodina (Russian: родина) means "motherland".[11] It is one of three words in the Russian language that express the concept of "native land".Otechestvo (отечество) andоtchizna (oтчизна) both translate into English as "fatherland" and "relate to the country in which one is a citizen".Rodina means one's birthplace and is identified with the nation's soul.[14]
Following allegations brought by the Communist Party and oustedreform-orientedliberal parties such as theUnion of Right Forces andYabloko that President Vladimir Putin'sUnited Russia had manipulated elections to ensure a favorable outcome, Rodina declined to field its own candidate in the2004 presidential elections. This created a schism within Rodina as Sergey Glazyev insisted on running for President under the banner of an officially separate Rodina party, but Dmitry Rogozin was able to consolidate his support and defeat Glazyev.
In the aftermath of the 2003 legislative elections, the party mostly supported the policies of President Putin. However, four Rodina deputies, including Dmitry Rogozin, went on a publichunger strike and locked themselves in their offices at the State Duma to protest thewelfare reforms being pushed through by Putin's government in February 2005. The bloc since increasingly adopted the sloganZa Putina, Protiv Pravitel'stva ("For Putin, Against the Government") and stated that its immediate goal was to win a parliamentary majority in the2007 legislative elections.
On 27 January 2005, nineteen members of the State Duma, including members of Rodina and the Communist Party, signed a petition to the prosecutor-general demanding that Jewish organisations be banned in the Russian Federation.[10] This caused a political scandal, with President Putin (who was participating in commemorations for the anniversary of the liberation ofAuschwitz on the day that the petition was issued) expressing shame over the petition's content and theUnion of Councils for Soviet Jews issuing a statement roundly criticising the petition and its signers. The prosecutor-general in a later investigation declined to charge the signatories of the petition with fomenting racial hatred. In July 2005, the party's co-leader Sergey Baburin left the bloc, taking nine Duma deputies with him and forming an alternative group in the State Duma, which also calls itself Motherland. The split led to a reunification of Dmitry Rogozin's and Sergey Glazyev's supporters. Rogozin accused theKremlin of waging a dirty war against his bloc, which he claims is feared by the United Russia party because of its potential electoral support. Rogozin had also announced intentions to take legal action against the State Duma for allowing Baburin to register his bloc in the Duma as Motherland, creating a potential for confusion within theelectorate.
On 6 November 2005, Rodina was barred from taking part in theDecember elections to the Moscow Duma following a complaint filed by theLiberal Democratic Party of Russia that Rodina's advertising campaign incited racial hatred.[10] The advertisement in question showedCaucasian immigrants tossing watermelon rinds to the ground and ended with the slogan "Let's clear our city of trash", calling for Russians to clean their cities of rubbish.[10][15][16][17][18] It garnered much controversy and opinion polls predicted that Rodina would come second with close to 25% in the December vote. Rogozin appealed the decision, but the ban was upheld on 1 December 2005.[19][18]
Rodina's difficulties continued into 2006, when it failed to obtain permission to contest local elections in a number of regions.[15] However, the party did come third in the regional elections inAltai Republic. Rogozin unexpectedly stepped down as party leader in March 2006 and was replaced by the less known businessmanAlexander Babakov. Many suspected this was a tactical decision on Rodina's part to ease pressure from the Kremlin, although a small number of party members in Moscow had been vocal in their criticism of Rogozin's more outlandish nationalist rhetoric. On 28 October 2006, Rodina merged with theRussian Party of Life and theRussian Pensioners' Party into a new party calledA Just Russia. Many of Rodina's parliamentary faction joined the new party, except for Rogozin,Andrey Savelyev and Glazyev, who at present does not belong to any party. In 2007, Rogozin was appointed Russian Ambassador toNATO.
Rodina was reinstated on 29 September 2012 andAleksey Zhuravlyov, formally a member of the ruling United Russia, was unanimously voted to lead the party.[citation needed] Rodina endorsed PresidentVladimir Putin in the2018 Russian presidential election.[20]
In July 2017, the chairman of Rodina announced that the only candidate whom the party will support is current President Vladimir Putin for the2018 presidential election.[21]
In December 2023, Rodina announced that the party will support current President Vladimir Putin for the2024 presidential election.[22]
The party was described as "far-right" byTimothy Snyder inThe New York Review of Books in March 2014.[10]
Novaya Gazeta journalistAnna Politkovskaya stated that Rodina was achauvinistic organisation that had been "created by the Kremlin's spin doctors" for the 2003 election and the "aim was to draw moderately nationalist voters away from the more extremeNational Bolsheviks".[23]The Guardian claims that Rodina was "set up byPresidentVladimir Putin's allies" in 2003 "to leach votes from theCommunist party".[17]
Rodina and its leaderDmitry Rogozin has made illegal immigration and a "Moscow for Muscovites!" platform a centerpiece of their election campaign.[24]
| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2004 | EndorsedSergey Glazyev | 2,850,063 | 4.10 | — | Lost | |
| 2008 | Party was part ofA Just Russia and did not participate in the elections | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2018 | EndorsedVladimir Putin | 56,430,712 | 76.69 | — | Won | |
| 2024 | EndorsedVladimir Putin | 76,277,708 | 88.48 | — | Won | |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Rank | Government | |
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| 2003 | Sergey Glazyev | 5,470,429 | 9.02 | 38 / 450 |  4th | Opposition | ||
| 2007 | Party was part ofA Just Russia and did not participate in the elections | |||||||
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| 2016 | Aleksey Zhuravlyov | 792,226 | 1.51 | 1 / 450 | 1 | 8th | Support | |
| 2021 | 450,437 | 0.80 | 1 / 450 |  1 |  10th | Support | ||
Motherland, the party that played the role of foil this year, staked out a more nationalist, more socially conservative position than the official political mainstream.
Rodina (Motherland) party that espoused national Bolshevism (a curious blend of Russian nationalism and Soviet communism), Stalinism, anti-Semitism (anti-Zionism), and even racism
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