The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a communist party in the Russian Federation. The party is usually seen as the successor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was banned in 1991 by Boris Yeltsin.
The founding took place at the II Extraordinary Congress of Russian Communists on 14 February 1993, as successor of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. As of 1 January 2012, the party has 81 regional divisions and had 156,528 members. The areas where the party has many supporters is referred to as the "Red Belt" (Красный пояс).
The party's goal is to build a "new socialism" in Russia. Short-term goals of the party include the bringing of "patriotic forces" to power and the nationalisation of mineral resources and of strategic sectors of the economy while preserving the small and medium enterprises and social public policy. Since its inception, the party positioned itself in opposition to the authorities.
It is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation, next to United Russia which it calls the "party of crooks and thieves." The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation. The party is controlled by the Central Committee.
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