Congress of Russian Communities

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Political party in Russia
Logo of the CRC before 2004

The Congress of Russian Communities (CRC, Russian: Конгресс русских общин, КРО, romanized: Kongress russkikh obschin, KRO) is a political organization in Russia. It was created in the early 1990s initially to promote the rights of ethnic Russians living in the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union.

The group contested a number of elections to the Duma in the 1990s. In the 1995 Duma election, the group took 4.3% of the vote, just missing the 5% threshold to gain seats. In 1999 it again failed to pass the 5% threshold, although KRO candidates did win a small number of single-mandate district seats.

In 1996 Alexander Lebed used the KRO as the organisational vehicle for his campaign for the presidency. Lebed was surprisingly successful, taking 15% of the popular vote and later going on to become governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai.

In 2006 the KRO was revived by Russian nationalist politician Dmitry Rogozin following the merger of his Rodina party into a new Fair Russia coalition. Rogozin initially stated that he would turn the KRO into a political party to contest the Duma elections in December 2007.

In April 2007 Rogozin announced that he had formed a new party, the Great Russia Party, in conjunction with the nationalist Movement Against Illegal Immigration. The party would campaign for seats in the Duma and initially stated its support for Alexander Lukashenko's candidacy for the Russian Presidency, a campaign which is impossible as Lukashenko is not a Russian citizen.

Restoration

On December 9, 2006, the restoration congress of the Russian communities under the new name “ Rodina (“Motherland”): Congress of Russian Communities” was held; Dmitry Rogozin is not officially included in its leadership, but he is an informal leader.[1]

On September 21, 2011, with the participation of Dmitry Rogozin, the constituent congress of the Motherland-Congress of Russian Communities movement was held, at which the organizing committee for the restoration of the Rodina party was established. Dmitry Rogozin accused the leader of the party A Just Russia Sergey Mironov on raider seizure of the Rodina party.[2] At the congress, Dmitry Rogozin called the Russian Communities Congress to become part of the All-Russian People's Front, created in support of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.[3]

In 2011, the Ministry of Justice officially registered the Congress of Russian Communities.[4]

In April 2012, the organizing committee "Rodina Congress of Russian Communities" submitted to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation a note on the restoration of the political party "Rodina".[5]

Electoral results

Presidential elections

Election Candidate First round Second round Result
Votes % Votes %
1996 Alexander Lebed 10,974,736
14.52%
 Lost Red XN
2000 Endorsed Vladimir Putin[6] 39,740,434
52.94%
 Elected Green tickY
2004 Party was part of Rodina/A Just Russia and did not participate in the elections
2008
2012
2018 Endorsed Vladimir Putin 56,430,712
76.69%
 Elected Green tickY

Legislative elections

Election Party leader Performance Rank Government
Votes % ± pp Seats +/–
1995 Yury Skokov 7,737,431
4.31%
 New
5 / 450
 New 8th Minority
1999 Dmitry Rogozin 405,298
0.61%
 Decrease 5.20
0 / 450
 Decrease 5 Decrease 12th Minority
2003 Sergey Glazyev
(NPS Rodina) 		5,470,429
9.02%
 New
38 / 450
 New Increase 4th Minority
2007 Dmitry Rogozin Did not participate
2011
2016 Aleksey Zhuravlyov
(Rodina) 		792,226
1.51%
 Increase 1.51
1 / 450
 Increase 1 Increase 8th Support

References

  1. ^ "Восстановительный съезд КРО". Archived from the original on 2006-12-15. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. ^ Рогозин намерен вернуть себе партию Родина
  3. ^ Родина вошла во фронт
  4. ^ Рогозин может поменять ПРО на КРО — Московский комсомолец, 13.05.2011.
  5. ^ Партия Рогозина встала в очередь на бренд Родина
  6. ^ http://anticompromat.panchul.com/kro/spr_kro.html КОНГРЕСС РУССКИХ ОБЩИН (КРО)
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