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The Congress of Russian Communities (CRC, russian: Конгресс русских общин, КРО, 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
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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
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politician Dmitry Rogozin following the merger of his Rodina party into a new
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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
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, in conjunction with the nationalist
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. 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. 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. At the congress, Dmitry Rogozin called the Russian Communities Congress to become part of the
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, created in support of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. In 2011, the Ministry of Justice officially registered the Congress of Russian Communities. In April 2012, the organizing committee "Rodina Congress of Russian Communities" submitted to the
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a note on the restoration of the political party "Rodina".Партия Рогозина встала в очередь на бренд Родина
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