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Unity Единство | |
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| Leader | Sergei Shoigu |
| President of Russia | Vladimir Putin |
| Founded | 3 October 1999 |
| Dissolved | 1 December 2001 |
| Split from | Our Home – Russia |
| Merged into | United Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Youth wing | Youth Unity |
| Ideology | Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Putinism Russian nationalism[1] Centrism (officially)[2] |
| Political position | Right-wing[3] |
| Colours | Blue |
| Slogan | "Unity is our strength" |
| Website | |
| edin.ru (archived) | |
Unity (Russian: Еди́нство, romanized: Yedinstvo) was a Russian political party that was created on 3 October 1999, supported by Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and dozens of Russian governors to counter the threat which the Kremlin perceived from the Fatherland-All Russia alliance.[4] It was also unofficially dubbed "Medved’" (the bear) or "Medvedi" (bears), as "MeDvEd" was an acronym of its full name (Mezhregionalnoye Dvizheniye "Edinstvo"; Interregional movement "Unity"). Later the party adopted a brown bear for its symbol.
- ^ Current Politics and Economics of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe. Nova Science Publishers. 2000.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Russia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 20 October 2003.
- ^ Roı̆ Aleksandrovich Medvedev; Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev; George Shriver, eds. (2000). Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era. Columbia University Press.
- ^ "Sudden rise of the Unity party". BBC News. BBC. 20 December 1999. Retrieved 8 September 2015.