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Unity Party of Russia
Unity (In Russian: ЕдинŃтво, Yedinstvo) was a Russian political party that was created as an "interregional group" in September 1999 and registered on October 15, supported by Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, PM Vladimir Putin and some tens of Russian governors to counter the threat which the Kremlin perceived from the the Fatherland-All Russia alliance. It was also unofficilally dubbed "Medved’" (The Bear) or "medvedi" (bears), as the "MeDvEd" acronym of it's full name (Mezhregonalnoye Dvizhenie "Edinstvo"; Interregional movement "Unity").
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