Dmitry Rogozin will not escape the political bounds placed on him.
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin
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No Comeback for Dmitry Rogozin
The Federal Registration Service refused yesterday to register the Great Russia Party, informal head of which is former Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin. The official Great Russia leader Andrey Savelyev, a member of the State Duma in the Just Russia faction. He intends to appeal that decision in court, noting that the party's charter is “letter for letter” identical to that of Just Russia. He claims that all other formalities are in order as well. The registration service declined to comment on the case.
The party's presidium will meet today to discuss its perspectives and course, should their court actions not succeed in time to participate in the upcoming Duma elections. In spite of rumors that Great Russia was created by a force in the Kremlin to create problems on the left for Just Russia, that party's press secretary Morozov stated that Great Russia was a careful independent trial attempt by Rogozin to return to politics. He added that the inability of the party to receive registration was “obvious from the beginning.”
Rogozin occupied second place on the Rodina party list when the party received 9 percent of votes in the 2003 Duma elections with a moderate nationalistic line. He later became leader of the party. The Kremlin became disillusioned with the party and it was unable to participate in most of the elections to regional parliaments at the end of 2005 and beginning of 2006. Rogozin resigned from the party voluntarily and it formed the basis for the creation of the Just Russia party in October 2006.
Analysts agree that the registration service's decision was political and no court action will reverse it. They note that the party's nationalist leanings would give the Duma elections at the end of the year an unwanted tone.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 25, 2007
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