Future of Russia–New Names

Future of Russia – New Names (Russian: Будущее России — Новые имена, Budushchee Rosii – Novye imena, BRNI) was a political alliance in Russia.

History[]

Electoral bloc "Future of Russia — New Names" was created prior to the 1993 legislative election by several youth organisations of centrist and anti-Yeltsinism orientation. The bloc had three official founders: (RSM), politico-economic association Civic Union (GS) and Youth Movement in Support of the . Regional network of RSM was the core of the bloc, as association Civic Union by autumn 1993 became a "ghost organisation" (several its leaders even created their own electoral bloc) and NPSR's leader Aleksandr Rutskoy was imprisoned.

BRNI founders focused on the necessity of renewal of Russian elite. Main principles of the bloc's platform were:

• priority of human rights, national interests and society over government
• protection of property rights
• decrease and total cessation of subsidies to loss-making enterprises
• investment promotion in national economy
• development assistance to small and medium-sized businesses
• revision of the privatisation mechanism
• increase in social assistance and youth programs^[1]

On 6 November 1993 "Future of Russia — New Names" party list was approved. The list was headed by RSM first secretary , chairman of the council of Youth Movement "Free Russia" Oleg Sokolov and director of Institute of Politics Vladimir Mironov. Party list mainly included RSM activists, the only prominent politician in BRNI list was former people's deputy and coordinator of the parliamentary faction from Novosibirsk Oblast.^[2] Several regional officials were in the party list but later withdrew in favour of more establishment electoral unions, such as Choice of Russia, PRES and Civic Union. Among those candidates were Vice Chairman of the Adygea Government , Karelian Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Prokhorov, Deputy Head of Administration of Krasnodar Krai Ruslan Gunsaruk, Deputy Head of Administration of Belgorod Oblast Mikhail Goykhberg and Deputy Head of Administration of Ulyanovsk Oblast ^[3]

In the general election on 12 December 1993 Future of Russia — New Names received only 1.25% of popular vote and placed 11th among 13 political parties and blocs, filing to cross a 5% threshold. The only candidate to win in the single-mandate constituency was (), who joined Women of Russia faction in the State Duma. However, four candidates, who withdrew from the BRNI list, were elected as Independents: (Syktyvkar), (Adygea), (Leninsky) and Andrey Zakharov (Blagoveshchensk).

After the election the bloc was transformed into Movement "New Names", led by Vladimir Mironov, Oleg Sokolov and Artyom Smolyanoy. In October 1994 Women of Russia State Duma member were elected to the Presidium of Russian Social Democratic Centre from the "New Names" movement. In the 1995 election Russian Union of Youth became a co-founder of Ivan Rybkin Bloc.

Electoral history[]

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