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Unity Единство | |
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Leader | Sergei Shoigu |
President of Russia | Vladimir Putin |
Founded | 3 October 1999 |
Dissolved | 1 December 2001 |
Split from | Our Home – Russia |
Merged into | United Russia |
Headquarters | Moscow |
Youth wing | Youth Unity |
Ideology | Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Putinism Russian nationalism[1] Centrism (officially)[2] |
Political position | Right-wing[3] |
Colours | Blue |
Slogan | "Unity is our strength" |
Website | |
edin.ru | |
Unity (Russian: Еди́нство, romanized: 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.