Fair Russia Information
A Just Russia,[1][2] (Russian: Справедли́вая Росси́я, Spravedlivaya Rossiya, SR), also translated as Fair Russia[3], is a social democratic political party in Russia. It was formed on October 28, 2006, as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party.[4] Party chairman is Sergey Mironov, the chairman of the Federation Council of Russia.
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History of party
On April 14, 2007, the People's Party of the Russian Federation officially merged into A Just Russia.[5]
In May 2007 Mironov proposed a merger between the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia in order to create a new unified socialist party.[6] Mironov invited all "honest socialists" to join the party. However, his proposal was rejected by Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the CPRF, who claimed that A Just Russia's claim to be a leftist party was a charade.[7]
On April 25, 2008, A Just Russia held its third annual congress, where the party expelled thousands of members who were not aware that they were members. The party's charter was amended at the congress to make mergers easier. The congress also disbanded the party's politburo and transferred its functions to the Central Council. The politburo's chairman, Nikolai Levichev who also heads A Just Russia's faction in the State Duma, was elected as the council's first secretary.
The United Socialist Party of Russia and the Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" merged into the party in 2008.[8][9]
Ideology
The ideology of A Just Russia is social democracy, and it takes centre-left position in the political spectrum.
Criticism
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While it wishes to challenge United Russia, it supported the former President Vladimir Putin and endorsed Dmitry Medvedev during the 2008 presidential election and has been criticised as being an opposition party in name only.[10] Mironov, for his part, has argued that the creation of A Just Russia marks the establishment of a two-party system in Russia, and that his new group will provide a much-needed check on United Russia's current hegemony over the Duma's proceedings.
Following the 2008 elections, the position of the party regarding the presidential elections has changed. In 2011, Mironov stated that A Just Russia will not support any United Russia nominee, whether Medvedev, Putin or another candidate, during the 2012 presidential election.[11] According to Moskovsky Komsomolets, A Just Russia is planning to nominate its own candidate, most likely Oksana Dmitriyeva, currently a member of the Duma for Saint Petersburg.[12]
In 2011, Mironov said that the claim of A Just Russia being "a fake opposition" was a myth launched by United Russia.[13]
The party has been accused by Russian human rights organisations of hosting radical nationalist[14] and antisemitic politicians[15], though the party rejects these claims.
Electoral results
A Just Russia did well in regional elections held in Russia on Sunday March 11, 2007 but didn't manage to become the second most voted party, a place that is still held by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. It scored second place in six of the fourteen regions where elections were taking place, and took first place in Stavropol Krai. Preliminary results showed that the party won an average of 15% across the fourteen regions arriving third after CPRF's 16% and United Russia's 45%[16].
Opinion polls in August found that A Just Russia's popularity had increased from seven percent to eleven percent, assuring it of representation at the 2007 Russian parliamentary election, mainly at the expense of the LDPR. On December 8, 2007, it was announced that the party has obtained 38 seats at the Duma.
International cooperation
A Just Russia is an observer party in the Socialist International, a member of the Forum of Socialists of the Commonwealth of Independent States, cooperates with several social democratic and socialist organisations around the world, including the Party of European Socialists and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, a European Parliament group.
See also
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External links
- Official website (Russian)
- Website of Moscow oblast regional committee (Russian)
References
- ^ http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=931
- ^ http://www.spravedlivo.ru/english/
- ^ http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11623944
- ^ http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10932904&PageNum=0
- ^ People's Daily Online - Two Russian left-leaning parties unite
- ^ http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11579806&PageNum=0
- ^ http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070529/66284043.html
- ^ http://www.sras.org/fair_and_just_russia
- ^ http://greenparty.ru/news_id.php?id=2009062616445229
- ^ http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=19303
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- ^ http://www.mk.ru/politics/article/2011/02/07/563714-spravedlivaya-rossiya-opredelilas-s-kandidatom-v-prezidentyi.html
- ^ http://kp.ru/daily/25643.4/807229/
- ^ http://www.memo.ru/2009/02/13/1ec.doc Основные тенденции развития радикального национализма в России
- ^ http://xeno.sova-center.ru/45A29F2/9DF6F26
- ^ RIA Novosti - Russia - 4-5 parties may win Duma elections in December - analysts
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