Russian Legislative Election 2016

[Murica!]

Among these A Just Russia, easily, followed by the CPRF if absolutely necessary.

United Russia is Russia's main conservative party. It, as opposed to "Western" conservative parties, is fairly economically interventionist. Social positions of the party are quite right-wing. Basically the Party of the Pro-Putin oligarchs.

The CPRF is at this point nothing more than an old-left social democratic party that happens to be quite nationalist, conservative and authoritarian. Party of the old Soviet komsomol and bureaucrat oligarchs.

A Just Russia is Russia's only "real" social democratic party. It's overall similar to several Latin American leftists and Gorbachev.

the All Russian Union of Fascists and Clowns

Civic Platform is made up of the anti-Putin oligarchs and is supposedly "liberal," but that's about as believable as calling Pinochet a democrat.

Rodina is made up of pro-Putin leftists, I don't think anything more needs to be said.

[Murica!]

No. Just no.

"A Just Russia" is a fake party founded by the Kremlin to simulate "political competition" and give people the impression their concerns are addressed while not at all being a real opposition party in reality. The Kremlin has since abandoned the idea of simulating political competition but still lets A Just Russia run because well, otherwise people (also abroad) are going to complain about a lack of "parties". It is not a real party. And it is not a "real" social democratic party either.

This thread is why people should really look beyond the section "ideology" on Wiki when forming an opinion of parties in countries they don't know much about. In many non-Western countries, ideology either plays a secondary role or no role at all. In such cases, Wiki's cute labels ("social democratic") become utterly meaningless, particularly when the country isn't an actual democracy.

lmao a guy from the Netherlands is trying to explain Russian politics to a Russian