Motherland - Freedom and Justice (New Union)

Socialist Political Party "Motherland - Freedom and Justice" Социалистическая политическая партия «Родина — Свобода и Справедливость»
Founder	Andrei Bogdanov Yury Skokov Alexander Lebed Igor Ashmanov
Abbreviation	RSES
Chairman	Konstantin Rykov
Honorary Chairman	Alexander Lebed
Parliamentary Leader	Konstantin Rykov
Founded	9 February 1994 (1994-02-09)
Headquarters	Moscow
Membership  (2019)	476,721
Ideology	Anti-Americanism Patriotism Populism Social democracy Social conservatism Economic nationalism Soviet Nationalism Federalism Anti-Zionism
Political position	Syncretic
National affiliation	BCS
Official colours	Red
Soviet of The Union	19 / 450
Regional Councils	932 / 18,939
Local Councils	0 / 38
Presidents of Republics	0 / 38
Oblast Governors	6 / 120
Ministers	5 / 39
Party flag

Party Name

The term rodina (Russian: родина) means "motherland". It is one of three words in the Russian language that express the concept of "native land". Otechestvo(отечество) and оtchizna (oтчизна) both translate into English as "fatherland" and "relate to the country in which one is a citizen". Rodina means one's birthplace and is identified with the nation's soul

Ideology and stances

Party programme

• Conservation of traditions and values of the People’s of the Soviet Union
• Ensure interethnic unity within the Soviet Union.
• Lower the retirement age for men (women) to 55(50) years from the current 60 (55).
• Expand the Soviet and further modernize the Soviets armed forces. Increase the size of the armed forces by 500,000 personal and raise defense spending to 5% of the Soviet GDP. Expand the inventory of the armed forces and acquire more modern weapons.
• Introduce higher taxes on the wealthy progressive taxation; low-income citizens will be exempt from paying taxes.
• Introduce subsidies to support the further development of the regions, most notably the North Caucasus.
• Ensure the security of the Soviet Union against foreign incursion from both the “collective west” and the People’s Republic of China.
• Improve relations with former Republics and satellite states, most notably Poland and Lativa.
• Increase state subsidies for education, healthcare, housing and transportation.
• Outlaw private schools within Soviet Union.
• Ensure the territorial integrity of then USSR and the protection of compatriots abroad.
• Ensure the principles of federalism are upheld within the Soviet Union.
• Increase founding for scientific innovation and cultural development by 30%
• Outlaw social media platforms that are deemed harmful to function of society and expand existing regulations on digital media.
• Strengthen national defense and expand social guarantees to servicemen and law enforcement officials.
• Introduce new regulations on child entertainment and digital media aimed at children.
• Limit access to pornographic material and introduce a ban on pornographic websites, require the pornographic material is sold at special governmental stores. Take measures to pervert minors from accessing pornographic material.
• Raise the drinking age from 18 to 21 and introduce a 10% tax on the sale of alcohol, limit the sale of alcohol to special governmental stores.
• Introduce patriotic education in soviet schools and instill patriotic values in the youth population.
• Reintroduce military secondary schools and pre-conscription preparatory courses.
• Expand mandatory military service and end waiver and alternative service programs.
• End reliance on foreign imports by introducing heavy tariffs on foreign imports and subsidize competing local industry.
• Oppose Zionism and Israeli influence in the Soviet Union, ban duel citizenship with Israel.
• Expand access and quality of healthcare.
• Ensure the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union and the protection of compatriots abroad.
• Strength ties with allied countries, most notably the states of the CSTO, G12, and EEU.
• Facilitate economic growth, reach and surpass the United States in Nominal GDP.
• Create conditions for development of small and medium enterprises.
• Vigorously develop high-tech manufacturing.
• Raise the median income of Soviet citizens to 3,200₽.
• Introduce tough measures against corruption and seize all property of officials found guilty of corruption.
• Ensure the accessibility of cultural goods, stop the commercialisation of culture, defend Russian culture, as well as the cultures of various peoples of the USSR and ensure spiritual unity of multinational federation.
• Heavily subsidize childcare and introduce benefits for raising a child.
• Oppose the expansion of Nato and Western imperialism.

Electoral History

Presidential

Election	Candidate	First round		Second round		Result
		Votes	%	Votes	%
1995	Alexander Lebed	57,916,027	50.76%	N/A		won
2000	Alexander Lebed	34,071,926	21.53%	N/A		lost
2005	Alexander Lebed	38,534,310	37.52%	61,061,861	47.10%	Lost
2010	Endorsed Viktor Yanukovych	27,868,897	33.11%	70,740,756	53.44%	Won
2015	Viktor Sobolev	2,850,063	4.10%	N/A		Lost
2020	Endorsed Leonid Kalashnikov	32,085,919	23.15%	65,767,864	48.45%	Lost

Legislative

Soviet of The Union

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Rank	Government
1996	Alexander Lebed			29 / 450		6th	Government
2001				24 / 450	5	9th	Opposition
2006	Viktor Sobolev			37 / 450	13	7th	Opposition
2011	Konstantin Rykov			19 / 450	18	10th	Opposition
2016				32 / 450	13	11th	Support
2021				19 / 450	12	9th	Government

Party Structure

Central Committee

Chairman

• Konstantin Rykov

Honorary Chairman

• Alexander Lebed

Deputy Chairman:

• Oleh Liashko
• Viktor Sobolev
• Konstantin Rykov
• Yury Skokov
• Andrei Troshev
• Ivan Rybkin
• Nikolai Starikov
• Alexander Khizhnyak

Treasurer:

• Vyacheslav Maltsev

Secretary :

• Aleksey Zhuravlyov

Leadership

Chairman

No.	Image	Name	Tenure
1.		Alexander Lebed	13 March 1992 – 18 January 2003
2.		Viktor Sobolev	18 January 2003 - 12 February 2008
3.		Konstantin Rykov	16 February 2008 - Present Incumbent

Horary Chairman

No.	Image	Name	Tenure
1.		Alexander Lebed	18 January 2003 – Present Incumbent

Notable Members

• Vladimir Bryntsalov
• Nikolai Starikov
• Igor Ashmanov
• Alexander Lebed
• Viktor Sobolev
• Alexey Podberezkin
• Vyacheslav Maltsev
• Igor Luchenok
• Alexander Rutskoy
• Sazhi Umalatova
• Vladimir Gostyukhin
• Konstantin Rykov
• Ivan Antanovich
• Ivan Rybkin