Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a Russian politician, who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001 and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1996.
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet politician who served as the first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast. After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, but he also held other lesser posts such as deputy of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
Vasily Ivanovich Shandybin was a Russian politician. He was a member of State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation until 2003. He failed to get re-elected and subsequently joined the Agrarian Party of Russia, intending to run at the next elections.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a communist political party in Russia that adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. It is the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia. The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League.
The Russian Party of Freedom and Justice is a political party in Russia established and registered in 2012 as Communist Party of Social Justice.
The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" or simply Communists of Russia is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Russia. Communists of Russia was founded in May 2009 as a public non-commercial organisation, and officially registered as a political party in April 2012.
Legislative elections were held in Russia from 17 to 19 September 2021. At stake were 450 seats in the State Duma of the 8th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, United Russia was the ruling party after winning the 2016 Russian legislative election with 54.2% of the vote, taking 343 seats, and retaining a supermajority. In March 2020, it was proposed to hold a snap election in September 2020 due to proposed constitutional reforms, but this idea was abandoned. On 18 June 2021, Vladimir Putin signed a decree calling the election for 19 September the same year. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, voting in the election lasted for three days, from 17 to 19 September. Final turnout was reported to be 51.72%.
By-elections to the 7th Russian State Duma were held to fill vacancies in the State Duma between the 2016 election and the 2021 election.
Valery Fyodorovich Rashkin is a Russian politician who is a deputy for the Communist Party in the State Duma. From March 2003 to April 2021, he was a member of the Presidium of the party's Central Committee.
Pavel Nikolayevich Grudinin is a Russian politician and entrepreneur. Previously, he was a Municipal Deputy of the city settlement Vidnoye and Chairman of the Council of Deputies 2017 to 2019.
Andrey Yevgenyevich Klychkov, is a Russian state and political figure, and a lawyer. He is currently serving as the Governor of Oryol Oblast since 5 October 2017. Previously he was a Deputy of the Moscow City Duma.
The Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast is an interregional public organization that was founded on April 12, 2003. Officially to the system of the Rosreestr on November 24, 2003. The basis of the organization "Communists of Petersburg" in 2003, the branch of communist youth St. Petersburg branch of communist youth, as well as members of regional CPRF committees from some districts of St. Petersburg.
Georgy Petrovich Kamnev, Russian politician, Deputy Legislative Assembly of the Penza Region. Head of the Penza regional branch of the CPRF. Since May 27, 2017, he has been a member of the Presidium Central Committee of the CPRF.
Vladimir Stepanovich Nikitin, is a Russian politician, who was a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma from 1995 to 2015, and had been a long time member since the second convocation. He is a member of the member of the Communist Party faction. He had been the First Secretary of the Pskov Regional Committee of the Communist Party from 1990 to 1991, 1995 to 2005, and from 2008 to 2012. He is a chairman of the Central Control and Auditing Commission of the Communist Party from 2000 to 2013, and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party from 2013 to 2017.
The 2021 Ulyanovsk Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 17–19 September 2021, on common election day, coinciding with election to the State Duma. Acting Governor Aleksey Russkikh was elected for his first full term.
The 2021 Russian election protests, also known as the "For Fair Elections" protests, began in September 2021 due to alleged large-scale electoral fraud of the 2021 Russian legislative election.
Vladimir Stepanovich Babichev was a Soviet and Russian politician and former Chief of Staff of the Russian Government (1994-1998).
