List of political parties in Russia

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This article lists political parties in Russia. Russia has a multi-party system with one dominant party (United Russia). Presently there are four parties that make up the federal parliament, the State Duma.

The parties

Parties represented in the State Duma

Name		Abbr.	Ideology	Leader	MPs
	United Russia Единая Россия	ER ЕР	Russian conservatism, Pragmatism	Vladimir Putin	238
	Communist Party of the Russian Federation Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации	KPRF КПРФ	Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Left-wing nationalism	Gennady Zyuganov	92
	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Либерально-Демократическая Партия России	LDPR ЛДПР	Nationalism, Pan-Slavism	Vladimir Zhirinovsky	56
	A Just Russia Справедливая Россия	SR СР	Social democracy, Democratic socialism	Nikolai Levichev	64

Other registered parties

• Patriots of Russia (Патриоты России, Patrioty Rossii) (socialist, left-wing nationalist)
• Right Cause (Правое дело, Pravoye Delo) (liberal conservative)
• The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (Российская Объединённая Демократическая Партия "Яблоко", Rossiyskaya Ob'edinyonnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Yabloko") (social liberal)

Historical, unregistered or banned parties

• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Soujuza). Factions:
  • Anti-Party Group
  • Group of Democratic Centralism
  • Left Communists
  • Left Opposition
  • Right Opposition
  • United Opposition
  • Workers' Opposition
• Constitutional Democratic Party (Российская Конституционно-демократическая партия, Rossiyskaya Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya)
• Jewish Bund
• Left Socialist Revolutionaries
• Octobrists
• Pirate Party
• Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Росси́йская Социа́л-Демократи́ческая Рабо́чая Па́ртия, Rossijskaja Social-demokrastičeskaja Rabočaja Partija). Factions:
  • Bolsheviks
  • Mensheviks
  • Mezhraiontsy
  • Yedinstvo
• Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Партия Социалистов-революционеров, Partija Socialistov-revoljucionerov)
• Trudoviks
• Conceptual Party Unity (Yedineniye)
• Merged into United Russia:
  • Unity Party of Russia
  • Fatherland - All Russia
  • Our Home - Russia
  • Agrarian Party of Russia
• Merged into Just Russia:
  • People's Party of the Russian Federation (Народная партия Российской Федерации, Narodnaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii)
  • Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union (Партия "РОДИНА", Rodina - Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz)
  • Russian Party of Life (Российская партия жизни, Rossiyskaya Partiya Zhizni)
  • Russian Pensioners' Party (Российская партия пенсионеров, Rossiyskaya Partiya Pensionerov)
  • United Socialist Party of Russia (Социалистическая единая партия России, Sotsialisticheskaya yedinaya partiya Rossii)
  • Russian Social Justice Party (Партия социальной справедливости, Partiya Sotsial'noy Spravedlivosti)
  • Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" (Российская экологическая партия «Зеленые», Rossiiskaya ekologicheskaya partiya "Zyelyonyye")
• Merged to form Right Cause:
  • Citizens' Force (Гражданская Сила, Grazhdanskaya Sila)
  • Democratic Party of Russia (Демократическая партия России, Demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii)
  • Union of Right Forces (Союз Правых Сил, Soyuz Pravykh Sil)
• Merged into Communist Party of the Russian Federation:
  • People's Union (Народный Союз, Narodnyi Soyuz)
• Merged into Patriots of Russia:
  • Party of Peace and Unity (Российская политическая партия Мира и Единства, Rossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya Mira i Edinstva)
• Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия – Революционная Партия Коммунистов, Rossiiskaja Kommunističeskaja Rabočaja Partija – Revolyutsionnaja Partija Kommunistov)
• Left Front

• Communists of Russia(Коммунисты России)
• Socialist Resistance (CIS) (Социалистическое Сопротивление)
• Social Democratic Party of Russia (Социал-демократическая партия России, Social-Demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii)
• National Bolshevik Party (Национал-большевистская партия, Natsional-bol'shevitskaya partiya)
• Hizb ut-Tahrir (Хизб ут-Тахрир)

Historical minor parties

• All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks (Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия большевиков, ВКПБ, Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya bol'shevikov, VKPb)
• Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists (Союз революционных социалистов, СРС, Soyuz Revolutsionnykh Sotsialistov, SRS)
• Beer Lovers Party (Партия любителей пива, Partiâ lûbitelej piva)
• Christian Democratic Party of Russia (Российская Христианско-Демократическая партия)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992) (Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, KPSS '92)
• Conservative Party of Russia (Консервативная партия России)
• Democratic Union (Russia) (Демократический Союз, Demokraticheskiy soyuz)
• Eurasia Party (Евразия, Yevraziya)
• For Holy Russia (За Русь Святую, Za Rus’ Svyatuyu)
• Green Alternative (Зелёная Альтернатива)
• Green Russia (Зеленая Россия)
• Great Russia (Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya)
• Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion), a 1906-1928 Zionist socialist political party in Russia
• Pamyat (Память, Pamyat')
• People's Democratic Union (Russia) (Российский народно-демократический союз, Rossiiskyi narodno-demokratichesky soyuz)
• People's National Party (Russia) (Народная национальная партия, Narodnaya natsional'naya partiya)
• Republican Party of Russia (Республиканская партия России, Respublikanskaya partiya Rossii)
• Russian Maoist Party (Российская маоистская партия, Rossiyskaya maoistskaya partiya)
• Russian Movement " Ave Maria "
• Russian National Socialist Party (previously Russian National Union) (Русская Национальная Социалистическая Партия, Russkaya Natsional'naya Socialisticheskaya partiya)
• Russian National Unity (Русское Национальное Единство, Russkoye Natsional'noye Yedinstvo)
• Union of Social-Democrats (Союз социал-демократов)
• Communists of Russia(Коммунисты России)
• Socialist Resistance (CIS) (Социалистическое Сопротивление)

See also

• Politics of Russia
• List of political parties by country