Russian National Unity Русское национальное единство | |
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Abbreviation | RNU (English) РНЕ (Russian) |
President | Alexander Barkashov |
Founded | 1990 |
Dissolved | 2000 |
Split from | NPF "Pamyat" |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Newspaper | Russian order |
Membership (2000) | 20,000–25,000[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-right |
Religion | Russian Orthodoxy |
International affiliation | World Union of National Socialists |
Colours | Maroon |
Slogan | "Russia for Russians" |
Party flag | |
Website | |
soratnik.com (archived 2016) | |
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Russian National Unity (RNU; transcribed Russkoe natsionalnoe edinstvo RNE) or All-Russian civic patriotic movement "Russian National Unity" (Russian: Общероссийское общественное патриотическое движение «Русское национальное единство») was an unregistered neo-Nazi,[2][3][4][5][6] irredentist[7] group based in Russia and formerly operating in states with Russian-speaking populations.[8][9] It was founded in 1990 by the ultra-nationalist Alexander Barkashov.[8] The movement advocated the expulsion of non-Russians and an increased role for traditional Russian institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church. The organization was unregistered federally in Russia, but nonetheless collaborated on a limited basis with the Federal Security Service.[7] The group was banned in Moscow in 1999[10][11] after which the group gradually split up in smaller groups and their webpage became defunct in 2006.[12][13]
the RNE was of substantial organizational strength before its breakup in late 2000 and was estimated to have had, on the eve of its fracture, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 members
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Many ethno-nationalist parties, such as the Russian All-National Union, have also proclaimed that it is necessary to unite Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus into a single state. It was a commonplace among Russian far-right figures that Ukrainians, Belorussians and Russians are in fact one nation. This claim was repeated consistently in the programmes of the Russian National Unity movement.