Unity (Russian political party)

Unity
Единство
LeaderSergei Shoigu
President of RussiaVladimir Putin
Founded3 October 1999 (1999-10-03)
Dissolved1 December 2001 (2001-12-01)
Split fromOur Home – Russia
Merged intoUnited Russia
HeadquartersMoscow
Youth wingYouth Unity
IdeologyConservatism
Fiscal conservatism
Putinism
Russian nationalism[1]
Centrism (officially)[2]
Political positionRight-wing[3]
Colours  Blue
Slogan"Unity is our strength"
Website
edin.ru

Unity (Russian: Еди́нство, tr. Yedinstvo) was a Russian political party that was created on 3 October 1999, supported by Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and dozens of Russian governors to counter the threat which the Kremlin perceived from the Fatherland-All Russia alliance.[4] It was also unofficially dubbed "Medved’" (the bear) or "Medvedi" (bears), as "MeDvEd" was an acronym of its full name (Mezhregionalnoye Dvizheniye "Edinstvo"; Interregional movement "Unity"). Later the party adopted a brown bear for its symbol.

  1. ^ Current Politics and Economics of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe. Nova Science Publishers. 2000.
  2. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Russia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 20 October 2003.
  3. ^ Roı̆ Aleksandrovich Medvedev; Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev; George Shriver, eds. (2000). Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era. Columbia University Press.
  4. ^ "Sudden rise of the Unity party". BBC News. BBC. 20 December 1999. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

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