United Russia
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United Russia is the dominant political party in the State Duma of Russia, holding 238 of the 450 seats.
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[edit] A Party of Putinarchs
It was initially constructed for the express purpose of getting Vladimir Putin a designated political machine for him to win elections. It happened to cohere, remain a viable force, and develop a platform like an actual party, purely out of a happy accident. United Russia claims to be (depending on the moment) centrist, conservative, or center-right, but they're actually populist - they claim their purpose is to remove the difference between young and old, rich and poor, etcetera, which was what, you know, communism is supposed to do.
As you'd expect, United Russia follows whatever Putin wants it to follow, while hogging votes through aggressive propaganda, underhanded manipulations rather than straight up voter disenfranchisement, and straight up ordering people how to vote (and that's if they allow an election at all, as the Mayor of Moscow is no longer an elected office). It isn't quite the juggernaut of the Communist Party, because they're mostly just bureaucrats who know how to broker deals with the Mafia and Oligarchs, but they're still an unpleasant bunch who are only held together because they want to perks that come with being a member of the Putinarchy.
Currently, it panders to their version of the religious right, most notably with its LGBT discrimination and its blasphemy laws that exempt the Orthodox from taxes and other legal penalties on the basis of "religious freedoms."
It heavily favors neo-Tsarist ideas, where the ruling elites hold most of the power, but it throws a bone to older citizens who want crypto-Soviet era policies. The only thing these camps can agree upon is that liberal "pro-Westernists" should be given the boot and Russia should be de-Americanized.
An Internet campaign started by blogger and corruption fighter Alexey Navalny resulted in United Russia getting the nickname "the party of swindlers and thieves", an expression that has become popular both online and offline and now pops up in Google's suggestions right after the party name in Russia.
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Web of Trust gives the party website low ratings on everything, including child safety.