77-431: Communist Party (2) LDPR (1) Fair Russia (1) The Saratov City Duma ( Russian : Саратовская городская дума , romanized : Saratovskaya gorodskaya duma ) is the city duma of Saratov , Russia . This article about government in Russia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Communist Party of the Russian Federation The Communist Party of
154-562: A delegation to North Korea and signed a "protocol on cooperation" with the Workers' Party of Korea . During the visit, a stone was placed in the Juche Tower . In October 2017 the party hosted the 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in the city of Saint Petersburg, marking the centenary of the October Revolution , with an attendance of over 100 parties from around
231-711: A distant second behind Vladimir Putin in the March 2000 presidential election . Zyuganov has additionally served as the Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001, replacing Oleg Shenin . In November 2001, in an open letter to Putin ahead of the summit between the US and Russian presidents in the United States, Zyuganov said that Russia
308-560: A minor role as a catalyst in the protests. Party rallies on 18 December 2011 in protest of election irregularities in Moscow and Saint Petersburg were attended by only a few thousand, mostly elderly, party supporters. In 2014, the party called for Russia to formally recognise the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic , something that would happen in 2022 preceding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After Russia
385-501: A minor role in the protests, with one of its speakers, who called for restoration of Soviet power, being booed off the stage. Party rallies on 18 December 2011, in protest of election irregularities in Moscow and St. Petersburg were attended by only a few thousand, mostly elderly, party supporters. According to The New York Times , it is questionable that Zyuganov, due to his age and association with Soviet policies, will be able to capitalize on
462-532: A model which should be emulated within Russia. The party supports state ownership over major industries, the renationalization of businesses privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union , giving out subsidies to currently existing state-owned firms and maintaining large welfare benefits. The CPRF has also maintained stable relationships with many businesses, including small and large private companies, worker cooperatives, and organizations which trace their lineage to
539-587: A relative majority in regional parliaments at the expense of deputies-single-mandate holders. Nevertheless, in Irkutsk Oblast, the party received a relative majority and is the largest faction in the Legislative Assembly. Marxist theoretician Boris Kagarlitsky wrote in 2001: "It is enough to recall that within the Communist movement itself, Zyuganov's party was at first neither the sole organisation, nor
616-507: A single court examined the complaint on its merits. In 2004, Zyuganov declined to run against Putin, who secured a landslide reelection victory . In October 2005, Zyuganov indicated that he would run for president in 2008, making him the second person to enter the race for the Kremlin following former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov . According to one report, Zyuganov pledged to quadruple pensions and state salaries, should he be elected. In
693-545: A two-party system, with the NPSR opposing the ruling " party of power ". Yeltsin appointed a Yuri Maslyukov to his Cabinet, improve his testy relations with CPRF-dominated legislature. The party suffered a sharp decline in the 2003 legislative election , going from 113 seats to 52. Zyuganov called the 2003 elections a "revolting spectacle" and accused the Kremlin of setting up a " Potemkin party", Rodina , to steal its votes. The CPRF
770-602: Is considered to depend on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union , having the largest poll of voters among the elderly. In all presidential elections that have been held in the Russian Federation, the CRPF's candidate has finished second. In 2012, several opposition politicians, including Boris Nemtsov , posited that Dmitry Medvedev admitted to them that Zyuganov would actually have won the 1996 Russian presidential election if not for fraud in favor of Boris Yeltsin . According to
847-406: Is planned to reform the management of enterprises through the creation of councils at various levels. The party also plans to transform Russia into a Soviet republic . In the second stage, the role of councils and trade unions will increase even more. A gradual transition in the economy will be made to a socialist form of economic activity , but a small private equity is still retained. Finally,
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#1733094225751924-452: Is to establish a new, modernized form of socialism in Russia through peaceful means. Immediate goals of the party include the nationalisation of natural resources , agriculture , and large industries within the framework of a mixed economy , with socialist relations of production that allow for the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private/non-state sector. Former parties Former parties Former parties The CPRF
1001-494: The "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine . The party officially supported the state-promoted narrative that Ukraine is governed by Ukrainian Banderites and "neo-Nazis", who have been allegedly perpetrating genocide against Russian speakers of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics , and liberating Russian forces. The CPRF also accused the United States and NATO of deploying European fascist sympathizers and Middle Eastern terrorists to Ukraine to fight
1078-522: The Communist Party in 1966. He returned to the teachers' college in 1966. Three years older than most members of his class, he was already a party member and a popular college athlete. On his return, he married his wife, Nadezhda. He completed his degree in 1969. Zyuganov taught mathematics but soon turned to Communist Party of the Soviet Union work in Oryol Oblast, beginning in 1967. He became
1155-531: The First Secretary of the local Komsomol and the regional chief for ideology and propaganda. He emerged as a popular politician in the area. Among many other functions, Zyuganov organized parties and dances as a local Komsomol leader while he was rising through the ranks of the party. Zyuganov rose to be second secretary, or second in command, of the party in Oryol. He enrolled at an elite party school in Moscow ,
1232-695: The Russian Orthodox Church . Gennady Zyuganov Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Incumbent Elections [REDACTED] Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov ( Russian : Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов ; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of
1309-606: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which was established in March 1898. The party split in 1903 into a Menshevik (minority) and Bolshevik (majority) faction; the latter, led by Vladimir Lenin , is the direct ancestor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and is the party that seized power in the October Revolution of 1917. After the CPSU was banned in 1991 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in
1386-603: The Russian gay propaganda law . In September 2011, Zyuganov again became the CPRF's candidate for the 2012 presidential election . According to Zyuganov, "a gang of folks who cannot do anything in life apart from dollars, profits and mumbling, has humiliated the country" and called for a new international alliance to "counter the aggressive policies of imperialist circles." In the 2012 Russian presidential election on 4 March 2012, Zyuganov once again came in second place by receiving 17% of
1463-509: The State Duma for a general mobilization. His wife, Nadezhda Zyuganova (née Amelicheva) graduated from History Department of Oryol Pedagogical Institute . They have two children: Andrey (1968) and Tatyana (1974). They have seven grandsons and one granddaughter. In February 2022, Zyuganov, who voted for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , was placed on the sanctions list by the United States, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia and
1540-614: The State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times , most controversially in 1996 , when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin . Zyuganov was born in Mymrino , a farming village in Oryol Oblast , on 26 June 1944. The son and grandson of schoolteachers, he followed in their footsteps. His father fought at
1617-747: The presidential election on 2 March 2008, Zyuganov garnered 17.76% of the vote and came in second to Medvedev's 70.23%. On Zyuganov's 65th birthday in June 2009, the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presented him with a copy of the first Soviet edition of the Communist Manifesto . On the occasion of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin 's birthday on 21 December 2010, Zyuganov called for the re-Stalinization of Russian society in an open letter to President Medvedev. After Putin's annual address to parliament on 20 April 2011, Zyuganov criticised it as inadequate in dealing with Russia's economic decline and warned that, "If
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#17330942257511694-404: The reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was a leader whose rule brought "absolute sadness, misfortune and problems [for] all the peoples of our country". Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the CPRF published a statement in support of the invasion and accused NATO of planning "to enslave Ukraine" and thus creating "critical threats to the security of Russia". It called for
1771-467: The 13th Party Congress, Zyuganov made these remarks about the state that Russia under Putin was in: Objectively, Russia's position remains complicated, not to say dismal. The population is dying out. Thanks to the "heroic efforts" of the Yeltsinites the country has lost 5 out of the 22 million square kilometers of its historical territory. Russia has lost half of its production capacity and has yet to reach
1848-426: The 1990 level of output. Our country is facing three mortal dangers: de-industrialization, de-population and mental debilitation. The ruling group has neither notable successes to boast of, nor a clear plan of action. All its activities are geared to a single goal: to stay in power at all costs. Until recently it has been able to keep in power due to the "windfall" high world prices for energy. Its social support rests on
1925-413: The 1996 presidential election, but instead employed electoral fraud. Some results, largely from Russia's ethnic republics of Tatarstan , Dagestan and Bashkortostan , showed highly unlikely changes in voting patterns between the two rounds of voting. At a meeting with opposition leaders in 2012, then-president Dmitry Medvedev was reported to have said, "There is hardly any doubt who won [that race]. It
2002-590: The 57 CPRF lawmakers, including Zyuganov, have been sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury , HM Treasury of the United Kingdom, Global Affairs Canada , Japan, Australia and the European Commission . In July 2022, CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov allowed the party to propose a merger with the left-conservative party A Just Russia — For Truth , but only if the new party adopted
2079-542: The Academy of Social Sciences in 1978, completing his doctor nauk , a post-doctoral degree, in 1980. He then returned to Oryol to become regional party chief for ideology and propaganda until 1983. In 1983, he was given a high-level position in Moscow as an instructor in the Communist Party propaganda department. Zyuganov emerged as a leading critic of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 's perestroika and glasnost in
2156-569: The CPRF considers it necessary to reform the country in three phases. In the first phase, it is needed to achieve workers' power through representation by a coalition led by the CPRF. Achieving this goal will help eliminate the devastation from the standpoint of the party, the consequences conducted in the past decade of reforms, in particular by the nationalisation of property privatised in the 1990s. However, in this case small producers will remain and moreover will be organised to protect them from robbery by "big business, bureaucrats, and mafia groups". It
2233-418: The CPRF's success in the 1995 legislative election , it emerged as the primary opposition to incumbent President Boris Yeltsin for the 1996 presidential election , whose approval rating was in single digits. In order to oppose Yeltsin, Zyuganov organised a "popular-patriotic bloc" of nationalist organisations to support his candidacy. After the election—which Yeltsin won with 54% of the vote—on 7 August 1996
2310-412: The CPRF, in 2006 the party received ₽127,453,237 rubles (3,998,835 US$ ): In 2006, the party spent 116,823,489 rubles (3,665,328 US$ ): On 19 October 2008, the leader of the party Gennady Zyuganov appealed to the citizens of Russia to financially support the party to implement its policy goals. The CPRF is strong in large cities and major industrial and scientific centers (" naukograds ") as well as in
2387-470: The CPSU, with the party being led by a Central Committee with a commitment to democratic centralism . It has regional offices in 81 federal subjects. Each regional office is controlled by the local (oblast, city, etc.) committee, headed by the First Secretary. The headquarters of the party is in Moscow . The Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation is the youth organisation of the party. In 1993,
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2464-601: The Communist Party declared that the party is guided by Marxism–Leninism , based on the experience and achievements of domestic and world science and culture. According to the party, there comes a "confrontation between the New World Order and the Russian people with its thousand-year history, and with its qualities", "communality and great power, deep faith, undying altruism and decisive rejection of lures mercantile bourgeois liberal-democratic paradise". According to its program,
2541-592: The Russian Federation ( CPRF ; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ , romanized : Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF ) is a communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. It is the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia . The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League . The CPRF can trace its origin to
2618-403: The Russian army. Two members out of 57 of CPRF's Duma caucus, Vyacheslav Markhayev and Mikhail Matveev , have expressed opposition to the war , although they support the "protection of the people of Donbass". Some younger members of the CPRF spoke publicly against the war , condemning it as " imperialist " and contrary to Marxist–Leninist principles. In September 2022, Zyuganov called in
2695-469: The Soviet era. In 2002, it was described as left-wing nationalist . The CPRF's current programme was adapted in 2008, where the CPRF declared that it is the only political organisation that consistently upholds the rights of the workers and national interests. According to the programme, the strategic goal of the party is to build in Russia a "renewed socialism, Socialism of the 21st century ". The program of
2772-727: The Soviet-German front of WWII and returned home with serious injuries. After graduating from a secondary school, his first job was working there for one year as a physics teacher in 1961. In 1962, Gennady enrolled into the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Oryol Pedagogical Institute . From 1963 to 1966, he served in a Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Intelligence unit of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . Zyuganov joined
2849-460: The [parliamentary and presidential] elections are as dirty as before, the situation will develop along the North African scenario ." Zyuganov denounced election irregularities in the Russian legislative election of 2011 but also expressed his opposition to the organizers of the mass demonstrations of December 2011 who he viewed as liberals who exploited unrest. The communist party played only
2926-624: The aftermath of a failed coup attempt , the CPRF was founded at the Second Extraordinary Congress of Russian Communists on 14 February 1993 as the successor organisation of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CPRSFSR). It was the ruling party in the State Duma , the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly from 1998 to 1999. The party's stated goal
3003-507: The ban on the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors", commonly known as the Russian gay propaganda law . During the Russian invasion of Ukraine , the party has taken a pro-war stance. The party leader, Gennady Zyuganov , called in the Duma for a general mobilization. Since its founding the CPRF has had several distinct internal factions: The CPRF is legally registered in Russia. In organisational terms, it largely mirrors
3080-651: The campaign period of the United Russia party. However, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Alexander Veshnyakov , and the Chairman of the Federation Council, Sergey Mironov , objected that they did not see anything illegal in the President's speech. The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation tried to file a complaint with higher authorities, but not
3157-508: The coalition supporting Zyuganov was transformed into an official organisation, the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR), consisting of more than 30 left-wing and nationalist organisations, including the Russian All-People's Union , led by Sergey Baburin . Zyuganov was its chairman. It went on to support Zyuganov in the 2000 presidential election . The NPSR was meant to form the basis of
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3234-478: The communist program. The day before, the leader of the A Just Russia Sergey Mironov said that he "does not see any obstacles to the creation in Russia of a large coalition of left-wing patriotic forces". The party advocates for a socialist transformation of Russia through peaceful means within a pluralistic political framework. The CPRF considers the multi-sector socialist market system as developed in China to be
3311-507: The conflict as that between the Ukrainian Banderites and fascists, who have been perpetrating genocide against Russian speakers, and liberating Russian forces. The CPRF also accused the United States and NATO of deploying European fascist sympathizers and Middle Eastern terrorists to Ukraine to fight the Russian army. Two members out of 57 of CPRF's Duma caucus, Vyacheslav Markhaev and Mikhail Matveev , have expressed opposition to
3388-702: The dissolution of Soviet power to exploit Russia's boundless resources. Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros , along with Russian oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky , Vladimir Gusinsky , Mikhail Khodorkovsky , Anatoly Chubais , and others feared a Communist resurgence in Russia while witnessing Zyuganov present himself as a kinder, gentler Communist while attending the World Economic Forum at Davos in 1996. Chubais recalled, stating "I saw many of my good friends, presidents of major American companies, European companies, who were simply dancing around Zyuganov, trying to catch his eye, peering at him. These were
3465-465: The early 1990s attacking Boris Yeltsin and calling for a return to the socialism of the pre-Gorbachev days. In July 1991, he signed the " A Word to the People " declaration. As the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fell into disarray, Zyuganov helped form the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), and became one of seven secretaries of the new group's Central Committee. In 1993, he became its chairman. Outside observers were surprised by
3542-474: The events that took place in Davos between Chubais and those Russian oligarchs. In the election on 16 June, Zyuganov finished second with 32%, trailing only Yeltsin, who captured 35%. Yeltsin gained from the elimination of the many smaller parties, as well as the support of Alexander Lebed , and eventually won the two-man showdown by 53.8% against 40.7%. It has been alleged that Yeltsin may not have legitimately won
3619-412: The globe. Pravda is the newspaper of the Communist Party; it has 81 regional editions. Left-wing nationalist newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya has also friendly ties with the Communist Party, but is not officially affiliated with it. Ultra-nationalist newspaper Zavtra used to support the Communist Party, but in 2005 it switched its support to Rodina . According to the financial report of
3696-611: The gubernatorial election in Irkutsk Oblast . In the 2018 gubernatorial elections , Communist Party candidates Andrey Klychkov and Valentin Konovalov won the gubernatorial elections in the Oryol Oblast and Khakassia , respectively. In addition, in the election in Primorsky Krai , the party's candidate Andrey Ishchenko could pass in the second round of election in which lost, by official results. The result of those elections
3773-406: The largest. Bit by bit, however, all other Communist organisations were forced out of political life. This occurred not because the organisations in question were weak, but because it was the CPRF that had received the Kremlin's official approval as the sole recognised opposition". Andrei Brezhnev, grandson of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev , has criticised the CPRF's Zyuganov's rapprochement with
3850-537: The membership of the Stalinist Russian Communist Workers Party (although party leader Viktor Anpilov rejected the new party). The CPRF quickly became the largest party in Russia, with 500,000 members soon after its founding, more than double all the other parties membership combined. Gennady Zyuganov , a co-founder of the party along with senior former Soviet politicians Yegor Ligachev , Anatoly Lukyanov , Andrew Konstant and others,
3927-435: The new Russia emerged as Zyuganov's supporters, including a number of workers, clerks, bureaucrats, professionals, and the elderly. As Zyuganov succeeded in combining Communist ideas with Russian nationalism , his new Communist Party of the Russian Federation joined hands with numerous other left-wing and right-wing nationalist forces, forming a common "national-patriotic alliance." In the 1993 and 1995 parliamentary elections,
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#17330942257514004-564: The newly revitalized Communist Party of the Russian Federation made a strong showing, and Zyuganov emerged as a serious challenger to President Yeltsin. Zyuganov entered the 1996 presidential election , as the standard-bearer of the Russian Communist Party. Co-opting Russian nationalism, he attacked the infiltration of Western ideals into Russian society and portrayed Russia as a great nation that had been dismantled from within by traitors in cahoots with Western capitalists, who sought
4081-477: The notorious "vertical power structure" which is another way of saying intimidation and blackmail of the broad social strata and the handouts that power chips off the oil and gas pie and throws out to the population in crumbs, especially on the eve of elections. The CPRF cherishes the rule of Joseph Stalin. Zyuganov and the party support social conservatism and voted in favor of the ban on the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors", commonly known as
4158-458: The official results, Zyuganov received 17.18% of the votes in the 2012 Russian presidential election . According to independent observers, there was large-scale fraud in favor of Vladimir Putin . Zyuganov called the election "one of thieves, and absolutely dishonest and unworthy". In February 2005, the CPRF defeated the ruling pro-Kremlin party United Russia in elections to the regional legislature of Nenets Autonomous Okrug , obtaining 27% of
4235-516: The opportunity presented by popular disgust with the Putin regime, or mobilize mass popular support for his party. Zyuganov is a harsh critic of President Vladimir Putin , but states that his recipes for Russia's future are true to his Soviet roots. Zyuganov hopes to renationalise all major industries and he believes the USSR was "the most humane state in human history". On 29 November 2008, in his speech before
4312-579: The party founded the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Since 2001, the organisation has been led by Gennady Zyuganov and it became part of the Central Committee. The party has friendly relations with the Party of the European Left , but it is not a member of it. The party also has friendly relations with the Chinese Communist Party . On 24 March 2017, the party sent
4389-497: The party's Agitation and Propaganda division (later the Ideological division), a hotbed of opposition to reform. As the party began to crumble in the late 1980s, Zyuganov took the side of hard-liners against reforms that would ultimately culminate in the end of CPSU rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union . In May 1991, he published a fiercely critical piece on Alexander Yakovlev . Zyuganov wrote several influential papers in
4466-471: The perceived Zyuganov threat. The result was the "Davos pact", an agreement between Chubais and the oligarchs that he would lead an anti-Communist campaign against Zyuganov, that they agreed to fund. The subsequent months saw a massive media offensive as "money poured into advertising campaigns, into regional tours, into bribing journalists", all supported by the oligarchs who owned the major media. Yeltsin's subsequent victory in that election can be traced back to
4543-563: The popular vote. In the Moscow Duma election held on 4 December 2005, the party won 16.75% and 4 seats, the best ever result for the CPRF in Moscow. In the opinion of some observers, the absence of the Rodina party contributed to the Communists' success. On 11 March 2007, elections took place for 14 regional and local legislatures. The CPRF performed very well and increased its votes in most of
4620-455: The present conditions in the Russian Federation, the CPRF calls for the following proposals: The party is in favour of cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church . According to the words of Zyuganov , the CPRF is a party of scientific, but not militant atheism . Propaganda of any religion is banned inside the party. The CPRF celebrates the rule of Joseph Stalin . Zyuganov and the party support social conservatism and voted in favor of
4697-417: The results of an online parliamentary election vote and attempting to file a lawsuit against the results. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the CPRF published a statement in support of the invasion and accused NATO of planning "to enslave Ukraine" and thus creating "critical threats to the security of Russia". It called for the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine. The party framed
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#17330942257514774-497: The small towns and cities around Moscow . One of the few polling stations that gave a success to the CPRF during the 2007 Russian legislative election was at Moscow State University . The CPRF is also strong in the far east of Russia , in Siberia , and the Ural . Supporters of the CPRF include those who suffered economically and politically from the collapse of the Soviet Union. The party
4851-512: The survival of Zyuganov's Communist Party into the post-Soviet era. Zyuganov emerged as post-communist Russia's leading opposition leader. He argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a decline in living standards, that economic power was left concentrated in the hands of a tiny share of the population, that violent crime increased, and that the Soviet collapse allowed ethnic groups throughout Russia to embark on campaigns, sometimes violent, to win autonomy. Russians who felt left behind in
4928-532: The territories; it came second in Oryol Oblast (23.78%), Omsk Oblast (22.58%), Pskov Oblast (19.21%) and Samara Oblast (18.87%), Moscow Oblast (18.80%), Murmansk Oblast (17.51%) and Tomsk Oblast (13.37%). These results testify that the CPRF is the most significant opposition party in Russia. On 21 May 2007, the CPRF obtained an important success in the Volgograd 's mayoral election. Communist candidate Roman Grebennikov won election as mayor with 32.47% of
5005-406: The third phase is to build socialism . The First Secretary Gennady Zyuganov also expressed that they should learn from China's successful example and build Russian socialism. He also encouraged all party members to read "Selected works of Deng Xiaoping". He said during his visit to China in 2008: "Had we learned from the success of China earlier, the Soviet Union would not have dissolved". Under
5082-492: The upcoming summit between Putin and US President George W. Bush , Zyuganov warned. On 23 September 2003, Zyuganov sent a deputy request to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, in which he demanded to initiate an administrative case against Putin as an official of category "A" and to fine him in the amount of 22,500 rubles for conducting election campaigning outside
5159-510: The vote and became the youngest mayor of a regional capital. In 2008, Roman Grebennikov switched his allegiance to United Russia, angering many Communists who accused him of using the CPRF as a tool to become elected. On 7 April 2011, the CPRF candidate Ilya Potapov won the mayoral election in the town of Berdsk with a landslide victory over the United Russia candidates. In 2015 gubernatorial elections, party's nominee Sergey Levchenko won
5236-532: The vote. According to Zyuganov, Jesus Christ was the first communist , claiming that the Bible may be read through a socialist perspective . After Russia was sanctioned for systematic doping in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics , Zyuganov proposed sending Russian fans to the Games with a Soviet Victory Banner . He is considered by Russian scholars as a neo-Eurasianist . In August 2022, Zyuganov declared that
5313-452: The war, although they support the "protection of the people of Donbass". A few younger members of the CPRF spoke publicly against the war in Ukraine, although their criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbass, while they fully support the narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis". As a result of the party's actions of endorsing the invasion of Ukraine, 55 of
5390-486: The world's most powerful businessmen, with world famous names, who with their entire appearance demonstrated that they were seeking support of the future president of Russia, because it was clear to everyone that Zyuganov was going to be the future president of Russia, and now they needed to build a relationship with him. So, this shook me up!". The oligarchs set aside their differences and held several private meetings in Davos hotel rooms, where they strategized how to defeat
5467-542: Was betraying its national interests. "It is blindly following US policy which has been characterized recently by open aggression". Zyuganov criticized Putin for his decision the previous month to close a Cuban listening post that eavesdropped on US communications and a key naval base in Vietnam, as well as Russian support for Washington using bases in former Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan for its Afghan strikes. "Russia's national state and national interests may be betrayed" at
5544-415: Was declared invalid due to a large number of violations in connection with which recall election were scheduled for December 2018, but the Communist Party decided not to nominate its candidate for the new election. In the 2018 elections to the regional parliaments, the Communist Party took first place in the voting on party lists in three regions. However, in two regions, United Russia still managed to get
5621-607: Was elected to be party leader at the Second Extraordinary Congress. Zyuganov had been a harsh critic of Alexander Yakovlev , the so-called "godfather of glasnost ", on the CPSU Central Committee . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he became active in the Russian "national-patriotic" movement, being the chairman of the National Salvation Front (some authors call him a nationalist ). Following
5698-411: Was endorsed by Sergey Baburin 's People's Union for the 2007 Russian parliamentary elections . In the 2012 presidential election , Zyuganov denounced election irregularities in the 2011 legislative election , but he also expressed his opposition to the organisers of the mass demonstrations of December 2011 , which he viewed as orchestrated by ultra-liberals exploiting unrest. The party played only
5775-533: Was founded on 14 February 1993 at the Second Extraordinary Congress of Russian Communists, where it declared itself to be the successor of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CPRSFSR). It formed through the merger of successor groups to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), including Roy Medvedev 's Socialist Party of the Working People (of left-socialist orientation), Alexei Prigarin's Union of Communists; and much of
5852-533: Was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin." After the December 1999 parliamentary elections , the number of Communist seats in the Duma was reduced. Communist support started to decline, given the widespread electoral support at the time for the government's invasion of Chechnya in September 1999 and the popularity of Yeltsin's new prime minister, Vladimir Putin , who was widely seen as Yeltsin's heir apparent. Zyuganov placed
5929-409: Was sanctioned for systematic doping in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics , Gennady Zyuganov , leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, proposed sending Russian fans to the Games with a Soviet Victory Banner . In 2021, the party's headquarters were raided by Russian authorities and a party official was barred from entering his office in the State Duma after it refused to accept
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