POLITICAL PARTIES

POLITICAL PARTIES, public associations with the purpose of participation in the political life. Political parties also determine the political course of the state. P.p. express their members and supporters political will, participate in political actions, elections, referendums, exercise of power through their representatives elected to state authorities and local self-government bodies. In 2018, there were 50 regional offices and other structural subdivisions of P.p. in the RB. The largest P.p. (with the number of their members above 1 thousand people) include the regional branches of the United Russia, Fair Russia, Liberal and Democratic Political Party of Russia, Communist Party of the RF, the Yabloko (Apple), the Patriots of Russia, and the Russian National Union political parties.