Dignity and Charity () was an

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History

Dignity and Charity was founded in October 1993 on the basis of the All-Russian Council of War and Labor Veterans, the All-Russian Society of the Disabled, and the Chernobyl Union of Russia. It was registered by the

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on 10 November 1993. Vice-president of the

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Konstantin Frolov was party leader. The party nominated 58 candidates on its federal list for the December 1993 parliamentary elections, including actor Nikolai Gubenko, president of the Russian Chernobyl Union Vyacheslav Grishin, actress

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. The bloc supported

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and proposed to increase spending on social welfare programs. In received 0.7% of the proportional representation vote,

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1650 failing to cross the

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. However, it won three constituency seats in the

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; Kostroma, Preobrazhensky and Zavodskoy. It did not contest any further elections.Nohlen & Stöver, p1645

References

{{Defunct Russian political parties Defunct political parties in Russia 1993 establishments in Russia