2009 Moscow City Duma Election
The elections for the 5th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on 11 October 2009. Out of the 35 deputies, 18 were elected through party lists using proportional representation, while the remaining 17 were elected from single-member constituencies. In order to secure seats in the City Duma through proportional representation, parties needed to surpass a 7% popular vote threshold. The term of office for the newly elected City Duma members is five years, which was extended from the previous four-year term. Background The Moscow City Duma elections were announced for 11 October, following an announcement made on 8 July 2009. On 4 August 2009, the Government of Moscow issued a Decree outlining the organizational and logistical aspects of the election. Valery Vinogradov Jurevichu, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow, was entrusted with leading this effort. Several parties participated in the elections, including United Russia, the Communist Party, Just Russia, Yabloko, the Libera ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 Moscow City Duma Election
Election to the 6th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on the United Voting Day on September 14, 2014. The elections were held in full by the majority system, 45 deputies were elected in 45 single-member constituencies (previously there were 35 deputies in the Duma) out of 258 candidates. The term of the new Duma will be five years. The elections were held on September 14 on more than 3,500 ballots in the city. The final results were announced on September 16, 2014. 17 deputies from the previous City Duma retained their seats. After processing 100% of the ballots, the leaders of the vote were: 28 people nominated by the United Russia party, 5 by the Communist Party, 1 by the LDPR, 1 by Rodina, and 10 by self-nominees supported by United Russia. Background The elections to the Moscow City Duma in 2014 have a number of innovations in comparison with the previous ones: There was a transition from a mixed to a completely single-mandate system of formation of the Moscow Ci ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Electoral Threshold
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can operate in various ways, e.g. in party-list proportional representation systems where an electoral threshold requires that a party must receive a specified minimum percentage of votes (e.g. 5%), either nationally or in a particular electoral district, to obtain seats in the legislature. In Single transferable voting the election threshold is called the quota and not only the first choice but also the next-indicated choices are used to determine whether or not a party passes the electoral threshold (and it is possible to be elected under STV even if a candidate does not pass the election threshold). In MMP systems the election threshold determines which parties are eligible for the top-up seats. The effect of an electoral threshold is to d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Russian National Union
The Russian National Union (Ру́сский Национа́льний Сою́з, Russky Natsionalny Soyuz) was a Neo-Nazism, Neo-Nazi party in Russia. The party should not be confused with Russian National Unity, a larger group with similar roots, although with no direct connection. Formation The Russian National Union was first formed in 1993 as a hardline splinter group of the nationalism, nationalist Pamyat organisation.Antisemitism and Xenophobia: Russia 1996 Based in Moscow, the party was jointly led by Konstantin Kassimovsky and Aleksei Vdovin. The new group was supported by Aleksandr Shtilmark and his influential far right journal ''Chernaya sotnya'' (Black Hundreds), Shtilmark having quit Panyat in 1992. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kommersant
''Kommersant'' (russian: Коммерсантъ, , ''The Businessman'' or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business. The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000. It is owned by Alisher Usmanov. History In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, ''Kommersant'' was founded under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev. The first issue was released in January 1990. It was modeled after Western business journalism. The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform, in reference to a pre-Soviet newspaper of the same name active between 1909 and 1917. This is played up in the Kommersant logo, which features a script hard sign at the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boris Nadezhdin
Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin (russian: Борис Борисович Надеждин; born April 26, 1963) is a Russian opposition politician and Moscow municipal deputy. He served in the 3rd convocation of the State Duma, from 1999 to 2003. Nadezhdin was close ally of murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Early and personal life Nadezhdin was born in Tashkent, Soviet Uzbekistan. He is of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, and Jewish heritage. He survived the Tashkent earthquake, which occurred on his third birthday. In 1969, he was brought by his parents to the city of Dolgoprudny where his father studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and his mother was a student at the Moscow Conservatory.Дикие кошки Бориса Надеждина. Официальный сайт газ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leonid Gozman
Leonid Yakovlevich Gozman (13 July 1950, Leningrad) is a Russian politician and president of the all-Russian public movement Union of Right Forces. Biography He was born on 13 July 1950 in Leningrad. In 1976, he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University with a PhD and started teaching there the same year. He was the co-chair of the party Just Cause from 2008 to June 2011. In September 2014, he signed a statement to "Stop the aggressive adventure: To withdraw from the territory of Ukraine, Russian troops and stop the propaganda, financial and military support to the separatists in the South-East of Ukraine." He again signed an anti-war petition in January 2022 during the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis. On 25 July 2022, he was detained by Russian police in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boris Titov
Boris Yuryevich Titov (russian: Борис Юрьевич Титов; born 24 December 1960, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian politician and businessman serving as the presidential commissioner for entrepreneurs' rights since 2012. He has led the Party of Growth, previously known as Right Cause, since February 2016. In the 2018 presidential election, Titov ran as a candidate, finishing sixth place with 0.76% of the vote. Life and career Boris Titov was born in Moscow on Christmas Eve, 1960. In 1983, he graduated from the Department of Economics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Business In 1989, Titov resigned from a state-owned company and was appointed Head of the Department of Chemistry of the joint Soviet-Dutch enterprise Urals. In 1991, he and his partners created their own company, Solvalub. They bought London-based solvents and lubricants, with which they collaborated for a project involving Urals and the VO Soviet Oil Export (). He became executiv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Right Cause
The All-Russian Political Party «Right Cause» (PD; russian: Всероссийская политическая партия «Правое дело»; ПД; ''Vserossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya «Pravoye delo»'', ''PD'') was an officially registered centre-right Russian political party that existed in 2008–2016, created on the basis of three parties (Civilian Power, the Democratic Party of Russia, the Union of Right Forces), which declared a liberal orientation. On March 26, 2016 it was renamed into Party of Growth under the chairmanship of Boris Titov. After the reorganization and change of the name by the former chairman of the party Vyacheslav Maratkanov, the public movement "Right Cause" was created. Formation The "Right Cause" party emerged on November 16, 2008 as a result of the unification of three parties that declared a liberal orientation: the Democratic Party of Russia, Civilian Power and the Union of Right Forces, for this self-disbanded. On February 11, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liberal Democratic Party Of Russia
) , abbreviation = LDPR (English)ЛДПР (Russian) , native_name = , newspaper = ''For the Russian People'' , youth_wing = , seats1_title = Seats in the Federation Council , seats1 = , seats2_title = Seats in the State Duma , seats2 = , seats3_title = Governors , seats3 = , seats4_title = Seats in the Regional Parliaments , seats4 = , seats5_title = Ministers , seats5 = , colours = Gold and blue (official) Light blue (customary) , flag = , website = , country = Russia LDPR — Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (russian: ЛДПР — Либерально-демократическая партия России, LDPR — Liberal'no-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii) is a right-wing populist and ultranationalist political party in Russia. It succeeded the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU) in Russia afte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yabloko
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko) (russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко», Rossíyskaya obyedinyónnaya demokratícheskaya pártiya "Yábloko", apple, ru-яблоко.ogg, links=yes) is a social-liberal political party in Russia. The party consequently participated in the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of all eight convocations. Until 2003, Yabloko was represented by a faction in the State Duma and later until 2007 by individual deputies. In March 2002, the party became a full member of the Liberal International, and since November 1998, it had been in observer status. The founder of the party Grigory Yavlinsky is an honorary vice-president of the Liberal International and winner of its Prize for Freedom. Since 2006, Yabloko has been a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). As of 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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A Just Russia — For Truth
A Just Russia — For Truth (SRZP; russian: Справедливая Россия — За правду; СРЗП, Spravedlivaya Rossiya — Za pravdu; SRZP), formerly A Just Russia (SR), is a social conservative and social-democratic political party in Russia. The party, part of the "systemic opposition", is considered to be pro-Kremlin. The party was formed on 28 October 2006 as a merger of the left-wing factions of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. Later, six further minor parties joined. It then called for a " New Socialism of the 21st Century" which guarantees the rights and freedoms of the individual and ensures the proper functioning of a welfare state. In 2011, Nikolai Levichev was elected as party chairman, succeeding Sergey Mironov who led the party in 2006–2011. On 27 October 2013, Mironov was re-elected as party chairman, and again on 28 October 2018. On 28 January 2021, the party merged with the For Truth and Patriots of Russia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |