Ресейдегі ұлтшыл партия: 1994-2009 жылдар

1994–2009 far right political party in Russia

The People's National Party (PNP or NNP; Народная национальная партия; ННП; Narodnaya natsionalnaya partiya, NNP) was a minor far right political party in Russia. Its leader was Aleksandr Ivanov Sukharevsky, who founded the party in 1994 with, it has been alleged, the aid of two veterans of the Black Hundreds Vladimir Osipov and Vyacheslav Demin.

The party grew from an attempt by Ivanov Sukharevsky to get himself elected to the Co ordinating Council of the Russian All People's Union in January 1994. Although a fairly well known figure he was not a member of this party and in a vote he was narrowly defeated in his aspiration. He linked up with Vyacheslav Demin, the editor of the journal Zemshchina and the two set about establishing a party that they claimed would represent the Russian Orthodox Church. The new group adopted the name Movement of Popular Nationalists and Ivanov Sukharevsky was chosen as chairman upon its establishment in October 1994. In December the group merged with a group based around Vladimir Popov's Era Rossii magazine, the National Socialist Movement(a group that fused neo Nazism and monarchism in what was a not uncommon feature of the Russian far right), to form the NNP proper.

In March 1999 Ivanov Sukharevsky was arrested for promoting national hatred and whilst awaiting trial he was held in the same cell as Semyon Tokmakov, the head of the white power skinhead group Russian Goal. The two became allies in prison leading to a close link being forged between Tokmaov's skinheads and the NNP. in December 1997 after that group had split into two separate groups, both claiming the original name, in 1994. The merger, which brought a significant increase in party membership due to Belyaev's well developed network of local cells, proved short lived however and his wing of the NRPR was reconstituted the following year after he quarrelled with Ivanov Sukharevsky.

The NNP has published a number of journals apart from Ya Russky. These have included Zemshchina, based in Moscow, began publishing in 1990 and eventually became the official NNP organ. Its regular features included columns entitled "Holy Russia", "Aryan Unity", "Rightists Old and New", "Church Life" and "Our Culture". A Tomsk based weekly bulletin Cherny korpus (Black Corps), appeared in December 1995 and included local party news. Ivanov Sukharevsky himself edited the political monthly Era Rossii(Era of Russia), which achieved a print run of 25,000. This publication eventually expanded to include a regular section on white power music. Within the pages of Ya Russky articles praising fellow right extremists such as Pamyat and Russian National Unity have appeared, as well as an article marking the hundredth anniversary of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

On 3 October 2003 the headquarters of the NNP were damaged in a bomb attack which resulted in Ivanov Sukharevsky suffering serious injuries and possible blindness. The injuries sustained saw him depart politics and so the NNP fell into decline with its skinhead membership largely departing to other groups.