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' PEOPLE ') was a Russian nationalist political movement that existed in Russia from 2007 to 2011. The movement defined itself as "the first democratic nationalist movement in the modern history of Russia." [1] The co-founders of the movement were Alexei Navalny, Zakhar Prilepin, journalist Sergei Gulyaev and many others. [2]
The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Russian: Комитет освобождения народов России, Komitet osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as Russian: КОНР, KONR) was composed of military and civilian collaborators with Nazi Germany from territories of the Soviet Union, most of them being ethnic Russians, and was the political authority of ...
The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.
After the end of October 1944 the brigade was disbanded and the remaining personnel absorbed into General Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army. After the war, former members of the brigade and supporters of the Lokot Autonomy formed a partisan movement, which slowly degenerated into organized crime groups and was suppressed in 1951. [9] [10]
To that moment, the movement had a regional network throughout Russia, also it had supporters and branches in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, [13] Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Germany. In 2016, members of the movement participated in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
As Vlasov became the undisputed leader of the movement, it became referred to as "the Vlasov Movement", [13] while his Manifesto calls it the "Liberation Movement of the Peoples of Russia", [2] underlying its multinationality. Although at first Vlasov hoped for an open co-operation of his movement and the Nazis, during his tour at the occupied ...
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
In 2007, Navalny co-founded the National Russian Liberation Movement, known as NAROD (The People), which sets immigration policy as a priority. [447] The movement allied itself with two nationalist groups, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration and Great Russia . [ 448 ]