The party was formed in May 2007 by former
Rodina leader
Dmitry Rogozin at its founding congress, which included delegates from the Rodina bloc, the
Congress of Russian Communities, as well as
Alexander Belov, the leader of the anti-immigrant
Movement Against Illegal Immigration. Rogozin stated that the party would contest seats in the
2007 State Duma elections. Rogozin estimated that the party would obtain twenty five percent of the vote in the election, and opinion polls suggested the party had a good chance of crossing the seven percent threshold for representation in the State Duma. On 24 July 2007, Great Russia was denied registration by the Federal Registration Service. The secretary of the party's ruling council,
Sergei Pykhtin, said the party would either appeal the decision or submit new paperwork in an attempt to be registered. ==References==