Dignity and Charity () was an electoral bloc in

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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 Central Election Commission 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

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, president of the Russian Chernobyl Union Vyacheslav Grishin, actress Tatiana Doronina. 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, Dieter Nohlen & 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 State Duma;

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, 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