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Template:Politics of Russia Rodina or Motherland-National Patriottic Union (Rodina - Narodno-Patriotičeskij Sojuz, Партия "РОДИНА") is one of the four parties that controls seats in the Russian legislature. It is a coalition of 30 nationalist and left-wing groups that was established by Dmitry Rogozin, Sergey Glazyev, Sergey Baburin and others in August of 2003. Many accuse Rogozin and Glazyev of establishing the party on behalf of the Kremlin to siphon power from the Communist Party. In the 2003 Duma elections, Rodina managed to win 9.2 percent of the vote or 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma. Analysts contend that most of these voters had become disillusioned with the Communist Party after it accepted bribes from leading Russian oligarchs. However, following allegations brought by the Communist Party and ousted reform-oriented liberal parties such as the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko that Putin's United Russia coalition had manipulated elections to insure a favorable outcome, Rodina declined to officially choose its own presidential candidate for the 14 March, 2004 elections. This created a schizm in Rodina; Glazyev insisted on running for President under the banner of an officially separate Rodina party. Rogozin managed to consolidate the support and defeat Glazyev.
Party name
"Rodina" (Russian родина) is a generic Russian word meaning land of birth. When capitalized, the term refers to the whole country, particularly in political speech.
Rodina is a powerful and emotive word for Russians and has always been capitalized on by propaganda. It is mixed up with mysticism and nationalism. This is a theme that many Russian poets, for example Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok and novelists, like Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, have explored.
See also
External link
- Official web site (http://www.rodina-nps.ru/)
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