Our Home – Russia
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Our Home – Russia Наш дом – Россия | |
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Slogan | "Faith, Strength, Freedom" (Russian: "Вера, Сила, Свобода") |
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Our Home – Russia (NDR; Russian: Наш дом – Россия; НДР; Nash dom – Rossiya, NDR) was a Russian political party that existed from 1995 to the mid-2000s.
History
Our Home – Russia was founded in 1995 by then Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. It was a liberal, centrist political movement, founded for the purpose of rallying more technocratic-reformist (right-wing) government supporters. At the time of its founding, Chernomyrdin had the backing of Russian president Boris Yeltsin along with numerous large financial institutions such as Association of Russian Banks, and major companies such as Gazprom, of which he was formerly the chairman. The movement attracted the sympathies and interests of many prominent members of the ruling elite of Russia, and NDR was thus nicknamed "the party of power". It was also known as the party of the Oligarchs, the position previously identified with another political party, Democratic Choice of Russia. Two other parties were interested in cooperating with NDR after its foundation: parts of the Agrarian Party of Russia and Democratic Choice of Russia. Together their platform would promote "freedom, property, and legality", and would favor such policies as reducing the state's role in the economy, support for small businesses, privatization of agriculture, and military cutbacks. However, after Chernomyrdin's candidacy for a second term as prime minister was in 1998 rejected by the Duma, Our Home – Russia declined the other parties' bid for cooperation.
Although it was critical of
In the spring of 1998, Yeltsin dismissed Chernomyrdin as head of government and in 1999 Yeltsin's administration backed a newly formed party,
Electoral results
State Duma
State Duma | |||||
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Election year | Leader | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
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1995 | Viktor Chernomyrdin | 7,009,291 (#3) | 10.13 | 55 / 450
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1999 | 790,983 (#10) | 1.19 | 7 / 450
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Notable members
See also
- Political parties in Russia
- Politics of Russia
References
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Russia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 20 October 2003.
- ^ Kenneth De Courcy, John De Courcy, ed. (1998). Intelligence Digest. Intelligence International Limited.
- ^ See party Alignments in the Duma, 1995-July 2003 Archived 2005-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- David E. Hoffman. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, New York, Public Affairs, 2002, 2003, ISBN 1-58648-202-5