Leftists and nationalists have formed eclectic alliances in Russia since
perestroika, a clear example being
Alexander Nevzorov's
Nashi movement in the early 1990s. The
National Salvation Front was a coalition of leftists and nationalists formed to oppose
President Yeltsin and directly involved in the side of the
Supreme Soviet during the
1993 constitutional crisis. After the NSF was banned, leftists and nationalists rallied around the
Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In 1996, the
People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR) alliance was created by the CPRF, which united part of the social conservative and left-nationalist movements in order to support Zyuganov's presidential candidacies. After the conflicts between Zyuganov and the leader of the NPSR Gennady Semigin, the latter left the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and founded the
Patriots of Russia party, and the activity of the NPSR was de facto terminated. and the
SRZP into one "left-patriotic" party In July 2022, the leader of the
CPRF Gennady Zyuganov stated he would allow the party to merge with the left-conservative party,
A Just Russia — For Truth, but only if they adopted the Communist program. The day before, the leader of the A Just Russia
Sergey Mironov said that he "does not see any obstacles to the creation in Russia of a large coalition of left-wing patriotic forces". ==PDS NPSR==