Russian National Unity (2000)
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ВОПД РНЕ (Russian)
New Russian National Unity Новое Русское национальное единство | |
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| Abbreviation | VOPD RNU (English) ВОПД РНЕ (Russian) |
| Leader | Board of Regional Commanders |
| Founders | Mikhail Lalochkin Yevgeny Lalochkin |
| Founded | 21 September 2000 |
| Dissolved | 2013 |
| Split from | Russian National Unity |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg |
| Newspaper | Evpaty Kolovrat, Nation |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism Russian ultranationalism Monarchism Orthodox nationalism Xenophobia |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Russian Orthodoxy |
| International affiliation | World Union of National Socialists |
| Colours | Maroon |
| Slogan | "Russia for Russians" |
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The All-Russian Public Patriotic Movement «Russian National Unity» (VOPD RNU; Russian: Всероссийское общественное патриотическое движение «Русское национальное единство»; ВОПД РНЕ; Vserossiyskoye obshchestvennoye patrioticheskoye dvizheniye «Russkoye natsional'noye yedinstvo», VOPD RNE) was a Russian unregistered nationalist paramilitary organization that existed in 2000–2013 as a result of the split of the previously united organization Russian National Unity (1990). It was managed by a council of regional commanders. The organization was a member of the World Union of National Socialists.[1]
In the fall of 2000, a conflict occurred in the leadership of the RNU, as a result of which on September 21, 2000, at a closed plenum of the commanders of 16 regional branches, it was announced that the founder and leader of the movement, Alexander Barkashov, was expelled from the ranks of RNU.[2] According to another version, the organization split into the "Barkashov's Guard"[3] and the RNU of the Lalochkin brothers (leaders of the Saint Petersburg and Voronezh cells).[4] In October of the same year, on the basis of the Moscow and Stavropol branches of RNU, a moderate patriotic movement "Russian Revival" by O. Kassin was created.[5] Dmitry Demushkin, who founded his own movement Slavic Union, also separated from RNU.
The few regional organizations that expressed their distrust of Alexander Barkashov and set themselves the goal of "preserving" RNU, united into a "network" leaderless structure, where the Council of (Unknown Fathers) commanders became the highest governing body. And the Orthodox ideology has finally taken root as the main one.
In 2013, the organization was disbanded due to a lack of precise guidance.
