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The Russian All-People's Union (ROS; ; ''Rossiyskiy obshchenarodnyy soyuz'', ''ROS'') is a Russian conservative political party formed in October 1991. In 2001, it merged into the People's Union (). In 2008, it was reorganized when the Narodnaya Volya dissolved itself. Its leader is Sergey Baburin. The organization was founded by
Russian nationalist Russian nationalism () is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity. Russian nationalism first rose to prominence as a Pan-Slavic enterprise during the 19th century Russian Empire, and was repressed during the early ...
-oriented members of the Russian Platform of the
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, and was launched on 26 October 1991 by Russian Supreme Soviet deputies of the faction ''Rossiya''. According to Nikolai Pavlov, one of the ROS leaders, the party was established as a "patriotic and democratic" force with the aim of uniting parties of
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orientation. Pavlov also stated that they had similar positions with more
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organizations like the Cadet Party of Mikhail Astafyev, Viktor Aksiuchits'
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, and the Democratic Party of Russia; one of the ROS member organizations in 1992 was the Russian Party of Communists, which was led by A. Kryuchkov. The ROS was part of the United Opposition and later National Salvation Front, belonging to the FNS right-wing faction. Besides socialist tendencies, the ROS had connections with traditional Russian nationalists and monarchists, and promoted pan-Slavist policies, including support for
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's expansion. The party published newspaper ''Vremya'' (''Time''). The ROS took part in the
1995 Russian legislative election Legislative elections was held in Russia on 17 December 1995 to elect all 450 seats in the 2nd State Duma of the Russian Federation. The anti-government Communist Party won a total of 147 seats, the most deputies of any single bloc in the ch ...
within the bloc Power to the People!, which was led by Baburin and
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. It won 1.6% of votes, failing to pass the 5% barrier; the ROS got nine seats, all from
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districts. The party co-operated with other formations of nationalist-communist orientation, such as the Communist Party of Russian Federation, whose candidate
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(supported by the ROS) was defeated in the
1996 Russian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round being held on 3 July 1996. It resulted in a victory for the incumbent Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated the Co ...
by incumbent
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. In 2001, the ROS joined with three other
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parties to form the People's Union (''Narodnaya Volya''). In 2008, the ROS was reorganized when ''Narodnaya Volya'' dissolved itself. On 22 December 2017, the ROS nominated Sergey Baburin as its candidate for the 2018 Russian presidential election. On 24 December, Baburin filed registration documents with the
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(CEC). The CEC rejected Baburin's bid on 25 December because it identified violations in the information provided regarding 18 of his party's 48 representatives. Baburin resubmitted the documents, and they were approved by the CEC. Baburin was nominated by his party again in December 2023 during the party's congress. He submitted documents to participate in the election on 26 December, which were registered on 29 December. Baburin collected the required number of signatures, but decided to withdraw on the day before the deadline to submit signatures 30 January 2024 and endorsed Putin for the 2024 election.


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Pochvennichestvo ''Pochvennichestvo'' ( ; rus, почвенничество, p=ˈpot͡ɕvʲɪnnʲɪt͡ɕɪstvə, roughly "return to the native soil", from wikt:почва#Russian, почва "soil") was a late 19th-century movement in Russia that tied in close ...
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