Electorate
The CPRF has its stronghold in large cities and major industrial and scientific centers ("naukograds") and in small towns and cities around Moscow. For example, one of the few polling stations that CPRF were a success during Russian legislative election, 2007, was one at Moscow State University.
According to Mikhail Remizov, President of the Institute of the National Strategy, "The electorate of the Communist Party of Russia is becoming more variegated. Now they are not only elderly pensioners crying for the USSR. A group of discontented voters is taking shape among potential voters and the lion’s share of their votes goes to the Communist Party, which maintains the reputation of the main oppositional force, and this affects its rating."
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