A nationwide political party.
Was set up on the basis of the all-Russian political and public organisation Eurasian Party of Russia (OPOO EPR) established on June 19, 2001.
Transformed into a political party at the organisation's second congress on April 27, 2002.
Registered with the Russian Federation's justice ministry on October 9, 200 (Registration # 5043)..
Membership: 102.000 members in 80 (the party's own estimations) regions of the Russian Federation.
The party's governing bodies are the Political Council and the Executive Committee.
Chairman of the Political Council - Abdul-Vakhed NIYAZOV, State Duma deputy (third convocation).
Chairman of the Executive Committee - Salambek MAIGOV, chairman of the Chechen anti-war congress.
Chairman of the Monitoring council - Pavel BORODIN, secretary of state with the Council of the Russia-Belarus Union.
Chief of the press service - SIZOV Yuri Vladimirovich.
The party's main task is to intensify, by legal political means, the development of multilateral integration processes in Russia and on the whole post-Soviet space and to actively promote the formation on this basis of a Eurasian Confederative Union..The party proceeds from the premise that an economically strong, democratic Russian state acting as a guarantor of social peace, interethnic accord, security and mutually advantageous exchanges must become the centre and core of such Union.
In its activities, the party is seeking to consolidate the Russian socium on the basis of principles common for the country's main traditional religions, i.e., Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, and to fight for the unity of Russian society.
Programme
The party's Programme
(adopted at its second, reorganisation, congress on April 27, 2002)
Economic strategy:
- to promote progressive economic reforms in the Eurasian space;
- to participate in drafting state programmes aimed at creating conditions for an accelerated growth of capital investments in the national economy;
- to support sectors ensuring higher competitiveness of the Russian economy within the world economy;
- to pursue a rational regional, tax, monetary and currency policy, and
- to modernise the existing production capacities and create new ones.
Priorities in the social policy:
- to achieve national accord in society, enhance social orientation of the state, and raise Russians' living standards;
- to make basic social services accessible to all people;
- to reduce unemployment and draft long-term employment programmes for the population;
- to pursue active youth policy;
- to stabilise the country's demographic situation, and
- to protect motherhood and childhood, strengthen the family and show concern for the nation's physical health.
The party's national policy:
- to instil cultural pluralism and tolerance in the Eurasian space;
- to overcome extremism, xenophobia and nationalism, and
- to grant real rights to all peoples of the Russian Federation to take part in political and economic processes, develop their own culture, preserve and develop national traditions, and widely disseminate knowledge about the culture and customs of people belonging to different ethnic groups.
The party's strategy in the sphere of spiritual and cultural relations:
- to assert and disseminate Eurasian values based on the common historical destiny of all peoples of Russia;
- to instil nationwide patriotism;
- to promote the expansion of state support for national culture and improve the life of the Russian intelligentsia;
- to popularise the best examples of multinational Russian culture, spiritual and religious values, and
- to promote the all-round interaction between national cultures and preserve Russia's multinational cultural heritage and cultural traditions.
International strategy:
- to promote multilateral cooperation with the CIS countries;
- to support European integration processes and well-balanced partnership relations with the EU countries, and
- to promote the development of foreign policy contacts with Eastern countries and strengthen the Eastern vector of Russian foreign policy as a major condition for the efficacy of Russia's foreign policy course.
Participation in the 2003 State Duma elections
The Eurasian Party – Russian Patriots’ Union takes part in the 2003 parliamentary elections within the Great Russia-Eurasian Union left-of-centre bloc, which included the EP-SPR, the Russian Party of Peace (with Ruslan Aushev as the leader), and the Civil Party of Russia (with Damir Serazhetdinov as the leader).
At the top of the federal list of candidates to deputies of the fourth State Duma (totalling 159 candidates) were: Pavel BORODIN, executive secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union state, Ruslan AUSHEV, ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, and Leonid IVASHEV, leader of the All-Russian Great-Power Union. The list of candidates to State Duma deputies from single-mandate constituencies numbered 81 candidates. On September 26, 2003, both lists were authenticated by CEC.
