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^A: United Russia does not have a coherent ideology but has been described by various sources as centrist,[16]centre-right,[19] or right-wing.[22] While it is generally not considered a far-right party, United Russia is supportive of far-right parties throughout Europe.[26]
The All-Russian Political Party United Russia (Russian: Всероссийская политическая партия «Единая Россия», romanized: Vserossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya "Yedinaya Rossiya", pronounced[(j)ɪˈdʲinəjərɐˈsʲijə]) is the rulingpolitical party of Russia. As the largest party in the Russian Federation,[27] it holds 325 (or 72.22%) of the 450 seats in the State Duma as of 2022[update], having constituted the majority in the chamber since 2007.
The party was formed on 1 December 2001 through a merger of Unity, Fatherland – All Russia, and the Our Home – Russia.[28] Following the 2003 and 2011 election results,[29] United Russia held a parliamentary majority in the State Duma and a constitutional majority in 2007, 2016, and 2021. In the Duma elections of 2011, for the first time, the United Russia electoral list was formed based on the results of the preliminary (primary) elections held jointly with the All-Russia People's Front.[30] According to the decisions of the XII Congress of United Russia, adopted on 24 September 2011, in the Duma elections, the party's pre-election list was headed by the President of the Russian Federation at the time, Dmitry Medvedev,[31][32] and in the 2012 elections, Vladimir Putin became the presidential candidate.[33] The structure of the party is made up of regional, local, and primary branches. Regional branches of United Russia have been created in all subjects of the Russian Federation. In Russia, there are 82,631 primary and 2,595 local branches of the party.[34]
United Russia supports the policies of Putin, who is the incumbent Russian president and served as party leader during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev; despite not currently being the official leader or a member of the party, Putin operates as its de facto leader.[35] United Russia's votes peaked in the 2007 Russian legislative election with 64.3% of the vote, while in recent years, it has seen its popularity decline.[36] The party's ideology is inconsistent and embraces specific officials,[37] all of whom support Putin.[38] Although in 2009 it proclaimed Russian conservatism as its official ideology,[5][39] it appeals mainly to pro-Putin and non-ideological voters,[40][41] and is often classified by political scientists as a "big-tent party",[42][43][44][45] or as a "party of power", rather than an organization that is primarily based upon a political ideology.[46][47][48][49][50][51]
^de Vogel, Sasha (25 October 2012). "New Russian "Patriots"". The Institute of Modern Russia. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^Gönen, Selim (17 January 2020). "Uncertainty looms as Putin carves the future of troubled Russia". Daily Sabah. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020. Meanwhile, the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, is currently dominated by members of the current ruling right-wing political party United Russia.
^Paulo Vicente Alves (2014). Emerging Markets Report (1st ed.). AVEC Editora. ISBN9788567901053. Retrieved 27 March 2018. Here are the two main parties, the 'Right-Wing' United Russia and the 'Statist' CPRF (Communist Party). United Russia was created in 2001 from the union of the Unity and Fatherland parties. Their 'Right-Wing' position in the frontier of 'Leftist' groups shows how hard it is to define United Russia but it is definitely trying to move Russia toward capitalism with stability.
^Shishlin, Vladimir (2011). "Путин: праймериз нужны всем" [Putin: everyone needs primaries]. Interfax (in Russian). Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^"Съезд утвердил список кандидатов в депутаты Госдумы" [The congress approved the list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma]. Official website of the party "United Russia" (in Russian). 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^"Партия сегодня" [The party today]. Official website of the party "United Russia" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
^Way, Lucan (2010), "Resistance to Contagion: Sources of Authoritarian Stability in the Former Soviet Union", Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World, Cambridge University Press, pp. 246–247
^White, Stephen (2011). Understanding Russian Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 362. When United Russia held its 11th Congress at St Petersburg in December 2009, with Putin now party leader, its official ideology became a 'Russian conservatism', although one that would be based on the country's 'own history, culture and spirituality' and which would also seek to strengthen its 'sovereignty'.
^Sakwa, Richard (2011). The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession. Cambridge University Press. pp. 217–218.
^Bodrunova, Svetlana S.; Litvinenko, Anna A. (2013). New media and political protest: The formation of a public counter-sphere in Russia, 2008–12. Routledge. pp. 29–65, at p. 35. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Rose, Richard (2009). Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A bottom up approach. Routledge. p. 131.
^"Предвыборная программа Партии "Единая Россия"" [The election program of the United Russia Party]. Official website of the party "United Russia" (in Russian). 2011. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
^Compare: Remington, Thomas (2013). Patronage and the Party of Power: President—Parliament Relations under Vladimir Putin. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN9781317989943. Retrieved 22 August 2016. The party of power in Russia has not achieved ... single-minded mastery of the power and wealth associated with the control of patronage. The party is united only in its support for and dependence on the Kremlin; it is divided when its principal clients take opposing sides. ... United Russia is not a programmatic party, but a mechanism for extracting rents and distributing patronage. ... In Russia, the party is the creature of the presidency. ... [T]he construction of a lasting party of power such as united Russia requires a sustained commitment on the part of the authorities, one which president Putin has been willing to undertake. ... [T]he concerted effort by President Putin's administration to build up a lasting party of power is a significant development in post-1993 Russian politics ... .{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Moraski, Bryon J. (2013). The Duma's electoral system: Lessons in endogeneity. Routledge. p. 109. ISBN9781136641022. Retrieved 22 August 2016. With the March 2000 election of President Vladimir Putin, ... the suspicion was that ... institutional changes 'could resurrect a system dominated by a single "party of power"' (McFaul 2000, 30). ... Still, Russia's electoral system remained largely unchanged for the 2003 Duma election, although the results certainly fuelled speculation that a dominant-party-state had begun to emerge. ... With the union of Fatherland-All Russia and Unity, Russia's party of power had changed once again, this time emerging as United Russia. The 2003 Duma election provided some evidence that the electoral system was working in the party of power's favour.