Homeland (Party, Russia)

September 14, 2003 to participate in the parliamentary elections in December 2003, the constituent congress of the electoral bloc "People's Patriotic Union Rodina" (NPS Rodina) was held.

The founders of the block were:

Initially, the declared political orientation of the Rodina electoral bloc included moderate nationalism , patriotism , control over natural resources, an increase in the influence of the state in the economy, and support for Russia's foreign policy activities. ^[2]

In the 2003 State Duma elections, the bloc received 5,469,556 votes (9.02%), having held 29 deputies on the party list in the parliament and created its own faction. However, conflicts began immediately between the co-founders in the bloc, which led to the formation of three factions, the composition of which was also replenished by single-mandate deputies elected in single-mandate constituencies . The total number of deputy mandates in the three fractions of the Motherland was 49 deputies and, in addition, the status of vice speaker of the State Duma.

Presidential elections

On March 4, 2004, the head of the Rodina faction, Sergey Glazyev, took part in the presidential election , gaining 4.10% of the voters.

Transformation into the party and the departure of Glazyev

On February 10, 2004, the People’s Will party and February 14, the Socialist United Party of Russia, at their congresses, which were co-founders of the Rodin bloc, supported Sergei Glazyev’s participation in the presidential elections, which disagreed with the Congress of Russian Communities and the Party of Russian Regions, which supported the candidacy of Vladimir Putin . On February 14, the Congress of the Party of Russian Regions (PPR) rejected the proposal of Glazyev and Baburin to unite all block-forming parties. By the decision of the congress, the Party of Russian Regions (PPR) was renamed the Rodin political party under the chairmanship of Dmitry Rogozin. Sergei Glazyev, elected chairman of the bloc, resigned, Dmitry Rogozin passed the post of the head of the Rodina faction in the State Duma, and the post of vice quota speaker passed to the head of the breakaway Faction Rodina - Narodnaya Volya - CEPR Sergey Baburin. In the presidential election, the Homeland Party officially supported the candidacy of Vladimir Putin. ^[five]

In June 2005, party chairman Dmitry Rogozin at the congress accused the West of preparing a red revolution in Russia ^[6]

The exit of the "People’s Will"

In 2005, the Narodnaya Volya party, led by its leader Sergey Baburin, for several reasons refused to dissolve itself and join the new political party , Rodina, formalized allied relations with the Movement for a Dignified Life by Sergey Glazyev and the Patriots of Russia Gennady Semigin ^[7] .

Homeland and the newspaper "Tomorrow"

In early 2005, the leader of the Rodina party, Dmitry Rogozin, and the chief editor of Tomorrow , Alexander Prokhanov, established strategic cooperation. A constant heading appeared in the newspaper informing about the news of party life. ^[eight]

In 2005, the party was subjected to harsh pressure from the authorities, in particular, the party’s list was removed from the Moscow City Duma by court order. ^[9]

February 25, 2006 the regional court withdrew "Homeland" from the elections in the Kursk region ^[10]

In February 2006, the regional court withdrew "Motherland" from the elections in the Kaliningrad region ^[11]

The Supreme Court continued the practice of refusing and withdrawing the party from regional elections. In March 2006, the party’s regional list was removed in Khanty-Mansiysk ^{[12] [13] [14]}

In March 2006, the regional party list in Gorno-Altaisk was restored and the party took 2nd place, gaining 10.52% of the electorate ^[15]

On March 25, 2006, at the congress of the Rodin party, Dmitry Rogozin resigned as chairman. He announced that the Kremlin had put forward an ultimatum that the party could exist in the event of a new leader. The congress elected the new party chairman, Alexander Babakov, and abandoned his former leftist national course, taking a social-democratic orientation and changing the flag's red to yellow. ^[sixteen]

In April 2006, Rogozin resigned as head of the Rodin parliamentary faction, handing them over to new chairman Alexander Babakov. ^[17]

According to the results of the audit conducted by the Federal Registration Service (April 2006), the party has 135 thousand members (data as of January 1, 2006) and is the third largest political party in Russia, second only to United Russia and the Communist Party. Her budget, according to the Central Election Commission, is 139 million rubles.

Dissolution

In July 2006, Alexander Babakov at a joint press conference with the leader of the Russian Party of Life (RPG) Sergei Mironov announced their intention to unite their parties. Mironov and Babakov declared their readiness to unite all left forces under their wing - except for the Communist Party and the NBP - and thus go to the State Duma, becoming one of the system parties along with United Russia . The ideological platform of the new association is to support the course of President Putin . ^[18]

The merger of the two parties (and the Russian party of pensioners that joined them) was finalized on October 28, 2006 as the renaming of the Rodina party, with the membership of the RPG and RPP members and the election of new governing bodies on an equal footing. The new party was called “ Fair Russia: Homeland / Pensioners / Life ” (now the name of the united party has become shorter - now it is simply called “Fair Russia”). ^[nineteen]

On September 21, 2011, a congress of the Congress of Russian Communities public association was held, at which the organization was reorganized into Rodina-Congress of Russian Communities, and an organizing committee was set up to restore the Rodina political party . At the congress, Dmitry Rogozin accused the leader of the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov of raiding the capture of the Rodina party. ^{[20] [21]}

In April 2012, the organizing committee "Homeland-Congress of Russian Communities" submitted a notice to the Ministry of Justice about the restoration of a political party ^[22] .

September 29, 2012 in Moscow, the constituent congress of the All - Russian political party "RODINA" and the "Volunteer Special Purpose Movement" (DON) was held, ^[23] the congress delegates announced the full restoration of their organizational and political independence, as well as the recognition of the political strength of all decisions and programmatic Party tasks for the period 2004-2006 A deputy of the State Duma of the 6th convocation , a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Interethnic Relations, chairman of the all-Russian public organization Congress of Russian Communities , a member of the United Russia parliamentary faction Alexey Zhuravlev was elected chairman of the party and the volunteer movement DON. ^{[24] [25]}

The party includes the youth wing of the Tigers of the Fatherland ^[26]

In preparation for the elections to the State Duma in the fall of 2016, the party’s economic program should have been developed by Sergey Glazyev and the Russian Academy of Sciences . Its elements are the acquisition of “economic sovereignty”, which is necessary under the current sanctions regime “and state capitalism with elements of a planned economy”. In addition, blocks were being prepared devoted to the army and the military-industrial complex, as well as to the development of the Arctic region . ^[27] At the same time, Aleksey Zhuravlev himself became a candidate for deputy from the ONF in the 89th Anninsky single-member district of the Voronezh region ^[28]

In July 2017, the Rodina party, at its congress in St. Petersburg, announced that it would not nominate a candidate at the Presidential Elections in Russia (2018) , but would support incumbent President V.V. Putin . The party also merged with the "Russian Socialist Party", which became part of the Motherland. ^{[29] [30]}

In December 2017, the former chairman of the party of pensioners Igor Zotov was elected secretary of the political council of the Rodina party, strengthening the Tula regional branch of the party. ^[31]

On July 9, 2013 , the party nominated its single-mandate members and the party’s party list in the elections to the Togliatti City Duma with the motto for the election banners “Homeland Party - Special Forces of the President” , while the campaign was financed in the amount of 2.2 million rubles by the sponsors of the party’s local branch “ Civil Platform ”, the political technologists of which oversaw three parties at once, including the Agrarian Party of Russia ^[32] . According to the data provided by the election commission, the nominated candidates from the party did not have membership in the party ^{[33] [34] [35]}

September 8, 2013, on a single voting day , the party participated in regional and city elections

• in the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region , receiving 1.24% (4212 votes) ^[36]

• in the Ivanovo Regional Duma , receiving 1.01% (2705 votes) ^[37]

• in the Yaroslavl Regional Duma , receiving 1.71% (5589 votes) ^[38]

• to the Yekaterinburg City Duma , receiving 1.87% (6727 votes) ^[39]

• in the Togliatti City Duma , Samara Region, receiving 1.63% (2582 votes) ^[40] .

• in the parliament of the Republic of Kalmykia , receiving 3.39% (3504 votes) ^[41]

• in the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly , received 6.18% (15534 votes) by running on the lists of one deputy ^[42] , in the "Arkhangelsk City Duma", receiving 6.25% (3499 votes) by running on the lists of one deputy ^[43] , in Koryazhma city ​​council won first place with 33.48% (2409 votes) ^[44]

• to the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region , receiving 0.97% (4611 votes) ^[45]

• in the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies, receiving 0.23% (3579 votes) ^[46]

• to the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region , receiving 0.46% (6296 votes) ^[47]

• in the Smolensk Regional Duma , receiving 1.77% (4151 votes) ^[48]

• to the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Region , receiving 1.94% (7177 votes) ^[49]

• in the Tula region , at the election of deputies in the regional municipal formations of the region received 10 deputy mandates. ^[50]

• to the city meeting of Novomoskovsk , having received 8.32% (2762 votes), having passed from the lists of one to two deputies ^[51]

• in Yakutia to the City Duma, gaining 0.52% (292 votes). ^[52] In the election of the head of the Mirny district, party candidate Oleg Maklashov received 10.65% (1793 votes). ^[53]

• in the Primorsky Territory, the party candidate, Anatoly Novikov, took second place with 23.54% (2293 votes) in the election of the head of the Khasansky municipal district . ^[54]

In the 2016 parliamentary elections , the Rodina party took eighth place, gaining 1.50% of the vote, and could not get to the State Duma from lists of parties, but party chairman Alexei Zhuravlev went to the State Duma of the seventh convocation in elections to single-member constituencies .

In 2018, she did not nominate her candidate in the presidential election , supporting the incumbent president V.V. Putin .

The writer Nikolai Starikov formed and registered the " Great Fatherland Party " (Air Defense Party ), which played on a common political field with the Rodina party. Both parties, which use common goals and colors, were the main opponents of each other in the elections. ^[55] During the 2016 elections , both parties signed an election engagement agreement. ^[56]