Russian National Republican Party
The Russian National Republican Party was a far-right nationalist party in Russia, that was founded in 1991 by Nikolay Lysenko. It was one of the most influential Russian radical nationalist parties of the time. The party supported constructing in Russia a unitary state and a mononational society with an economy of the "Chinese type" with a mandatory suppression of all forms of "cosmopolitism" and "internationalism". Its forerunner was the Republican People's Party that was founded on 8 April 1990 in Leningrad.
The militants of the Russian National Republican Party who formed the Russian National Legion took part in the War in Transnistria on the side of the separatists and the Yugoslav wars on the Serbian side. 6 party members were killed in the war. The party belonged to the united national-communist National Salvation Front. The National Republican Party could not participate in the 1993 State Duma election as it failed to gather the necessary 6 000 signatures of supporters but its leader Lysenko ran in the Saratov single-mandate constituency and was elected to the State Duma. At the 4th party congress on 3 December 1994 the party split into two factions. In 1995 the party run in the State Duma election but disintegrated after the arrest of Nikolay Lysenko in 1996. The Yuri Belyayev faction re-registered in 2000 as the new far-right Freedom Party.
