The Party of Workers' Self-Government (, ''Partiya samoupravleniya trudyashchikhsya'', PST) was a

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History

The party was established by Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In the 1995 parliamentary elections the party received 4% of the

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vote,

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1651 failing to cross the

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. However, it won a single constituency seat in the

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. Fyodorov contested the

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the following year, finishing sixth out eleven candidates with 0.9% of the vote. The party did not contest any further elections; Fyodorov formed a new alliance, the Andreii Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc, which won one seat.1999 Parliamentary elections
Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe

References

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