Political Positions
The party advocates the merging of Ukraine "in an interstate union of Belarus and Russia". Wants Russian to be the state language in Ukraine (currently Ukrainian is the only state language in Ukraine). The party is against Ukraine joining NATO, the rehabilitation of Nazi ideology and its supporters from the UNA-UNSO and against the omnipotence of bureaucrats and corruption".
In October 2009 the Crimean branch of the party asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chief Executive of Gazprom Alexei Miller to consider the issue of possible deliveries of natural gas to Crimea and Sevastopol in 2009-2010 at prices charged to citizens of Russia.
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