Our Home – Russia (NDR; russian: Наш дом – Россия; НДР; ''Nash dom – Rossiya'', ''NDR'') was a Russian

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that existed from 1995 to the mid-2000s.

History

Our Home – Russia was founded in 1995 by then Russian

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Viktor Chernomyrdin Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, ; 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Unio ...

. It was a

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, centrist political movement, founded for the purpose of rallying more technocratic-reformist (right-wing) government supporters. At the time of its founding, Chernomyrdin had the backing of Russian

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Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

along with numerous large financial institutions such as Association of Russian Banks, and major companies such as

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, of which he was formerly the chairman. The movement attracted the sympathies and interests of many prominent members of the ruling elite of Russia, and NDR was thus nicknamed "the

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". It was also known as the party of the

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, the position previously identified with another political party, Democratic Choice of Russia. Two other parties were interested in cooperating with NDR after its foundation: parts of the

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and Democratic Choice of Russia. Together their platform would promote "freedom, property, and legality", and would favor such policies as reducing the state's role in the economy, support for small businesses, privatization of agriculture, and military cutbacks. However, after Chernomyrdin's candidacy for a second term as Prime Minister was in 1998 rejected by the

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, Our Home – Russia declined the other parties' bid for cooperation. 200px, Party card member, 1995 Although it was critical of the war in Chechnya, Viktor Chernomyrdin and NDR played a central role in supporting Yeltsin in his 1996 bid for re-election as President of the

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. "To sum up why Our Home – Russia is for Yeltsin, I can say only one thing--because we are for reforms, for the constitution of Russia, for peace in Chechnya, for a normal life in Russia," Chernomyrdin told ITAR-TASS news agency in 1996. In the spring of 1998, Yeltsin dismissed Chernomyrdin as head of government and in 1999 Yeltsin's administration backed a newly formed party,

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, instead of Our Home – Russia. As a result, Our Home – Russia, which had 55 seats in the Russian

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in 1995-1999, won only 8 seats in the December 1999 election.Se
party Alignments in the Duma, 1995-July 2003
It did not form a separate faction in the next Duma and merged with

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instead.

Electoral results

Notable members

* Anatoly Sobchak *

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References

External links

Chernomyrdin's biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Home - Russia Defunct political parties in Russia Political parties established in 1995 Political parties disestablished in 2000 United Russia 1995 establishments in Russia Liberal parties in Russia Centrist parties in Russia Conservative parties in Russia 2000 disestablishments in Russia

History

Electoral results

Notable members

See also

References

Further reading

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