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The Russian Party (Greek: Ρωσικό Κóμμα), presenting itself as the Napist Party ("Dell Party", Greek: κόμμα των Ναπαίων),[3] one of the early Greek parties, was an informal grouping of Greek political leaders that formed during the brief period of the First Hellenic Republic (1828–1831) and lasted through the reign of King Otto. The parties of that era were named after one of the three Great Powers who had together settled the Greek War of Independence in the Treaty of Constantinople (1832). The three rival powers, the Russian Empire, the United Kingdom and July Monarchy France came together in order to check the power of the other two nations.

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The Russian Party had considerable power, enjoying privileged access to the Orthodox Church, the state machinery, military leaders, and Peloponnesian political families; but it was also popular with a significant section of the common people who wanted a strong centralized government to crush the power of the Greek shipping magnates and the rest of the business class, which followed the English Party.[4]

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The Russian Party was more philosophically-grounded than the other two parties. It represented more conservative elements in Greek society and was viewed as being more supportive of the primacy of the Orthodox church in Greek life. It received generous support from the Church and from several military commanders; but its greatest strength were the Peloponnesian families of notables, that enjoyed privileged access to the state machinery. Ioannis Capodistrias, who had served as Foreign Minister in the Russian government, was selected as governor of the newly independent Greek state in 1827. His support came from the Russian representatives in Greece and those Greeks who wanted closer relations with their sister Orthodox country and this grouping was the first modern party in Greece, called the Russian Party.

Meanwhile, Capodistrias' rule and attempts to centralize the government alienated a number of his fellow Greek leaders, most of whom were born in Greece and had fought to free Greece from Ottoman control. They began to form themselves into a rival French Party and English Party. Eventually, the rivalries led to the assassination of Capodistrias. After a period of renewed civil war, King Otto was selected by the three Great Powers to become King of Greece in 1833. During the early period of the monarchy, the three parties remained active, although Otto was an absolute monarch.

When Otto arrived in Greece, he was a minor and thus a regency council made up of three Bavarians ruled in his name. The chief of the Council, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg was a liberal Bavarian and he was perceived as being hostile to the Russian Party.

Theodoros Kolokotronis, a key political leader in the Russian Party in the 1830s

In 1833, the leaders of the Russian Party, including Theodoros Kolokotronis, his son Gennaios and Kitsos Tzavelas, were implicated in a plot to seek Russian influence to remove von Armansperg and allow Otto to rule without a regent. They were arrested and imprisoned. Although eventually released, the leaders of the Russian Party were out of power and influence compared to the other parties until 1837.

After this period of decline, the mantle of leadership was placed on Gennaios Kolokotronis, Andreas Metaxas and Konstantinos Oikonomos. The younger Kolokotronis served as a trusted aide-de-camp to King Otto, and began to rehabilitate the Russian Party in the Court.

Once Otto was free of the influence of his regents, he began to favor both Kolokotronis and Kitsos Tzavelas and the period 1838-1839 was seen as a period of Russian ascendancy.[5]

In June 1839, Nikitaras, Georgios Kapodistrias and other members of Russian Party founded the Filorthodoxos Eteria secret society. Its aims included the promotion of the Christian Orthodox faith and the annexation of Ottoman controlled Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus into the Greek state.[6][7] In December 1839, Filorthodoxos Eteria's members decided to act upon their plans in anticipation of a rumored Russian army attack on Constantinople.[8] They decided to arrest Otto on 1 January 1840, during the new year's liturgy and force him to either convert to Orthodoxy or abdicate. Soon after the decision to act was taken, one of the plotters Emmanouil Pappas gave the documents revealing the conspiracy's existence. On 23 December having gathered additional evidence, Greek authorities arrested Kapodistrias and Nikitaras.[9] A trial of the plotters began on 11 July 1840, ending in their eventual acquittal. [9] Otto's reaction was limited to replacing Russian Party member and Minister of Internal Affairs Georgios Glarakis with Nikolaos Theocharis [el]. He refused to publicly implicate Russia in the affair or purge Russian Party members from the political scene. Because doing so would reveal his unpopularity and cause animosity in Russia.[10]

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The Russian Party (Greek: Ρωσικό Κόμμα), also known as the Napist Party, was a conservative political faction in early modern Greece that promoted alignment with the Russian Empire, drawing on shared Orthodox Christian heritage and opposition to Western liberal influences. Emerging in the aftermath of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, it represented landowners, the clergy, and traditionalist elements who viewed Russia as a protector of Greek interests against French and British rivals. The party gained prominence under Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greece's first governor (1827–1831), a former Russian foreign minister whose pro-Russian policies strengthened its base among rural populations and the Orthodox Church. Following Kapodistrias's assassination in 1831, Russian diplomatic support helped consolidate the faction amid political instability, positioning it as a counterweight to the pro-French and pro-British parties during King Otto's reign (1832–1862). Its advocacy for absolutist governance and resistance to constitutional reforms often led to clashes with reformist groups, contributing to events like the 1843 Greek revolution that forced concessions from the monarchy. While the Russian Party's emphasis on pan-Orthodox solidarity advanced Greek territorial ambitions in regions like and through Russian mediation, it faced criticism for prioritizing foreign patronage over national sovereignty, fostering divisions that persisted in Greek politics into the late .

History

Founding and Initial Formation

The Russian Party (Russkaia partiia) was established on May 17, 1991, by Viktor Korchagin as the Russian Party of the RSFSR (Russkaia partiia RSFSR), amid the accelerating . Korchagin, a publisher and nationalist activist, positioned the organization as an anti-Marxist entity advocating for the consolidation of a unified Russian state centered on ethnic Russian territories, explicitly excluding non-Russian republics to counter emerging separatist demands in the USSR's periphery. This formation occurred during the final phases of under , a period marked by economic reforms, glasnost-driven ethnic mobilizations, and the proliferation of independence movements in Soviet republics such as , the Baltics, and the , which threatened the federal structure and Russian-dominated core. The party emerged as part of a broader wave of Russian nationalist groups responding to perceived encroachments on Russian ethnic identity and territorial integrity, including the RSFSR's push for sovereignty declarations that risked further fragmentation without a cohesive ethnic-Russian framework. Korchagin's initiative drew on historical precedents of Russian state-building, emphasizing preservation against the centrifugal forces amplified by Gorbachev's policies since 1985. In its initial phase, the party's activities centered on issuing declarations against policies that could exacerbate ethnic discord, such as unchecked autonomy grants to non-Russian regions, while promoting measures for Russian cultural and demographic cohesion within the RSFSR. These efforts reflected concerns over the uneven of power, where Russian interests were subordinated to union-wide concessions, setting the stage for the party's role in post-Soviet political discourse.

Expansion and Challenges in the 1990s

Following its founding on May 17, 1991, the Russian Party sought to expand its base by recruiting members and forming regional branches during the immediate post-Soviet period, a time marked by severe economic disruption including that reached 2,500% in 1992 and widespread political upheaval from the USSR's dissolution. Organizers reported approximately 5,237 members across by early 1991, focusing recruitment on those advocating for Russian national statehood amid the transition to a and federal restructuring under President . These efforts were hampered by the lack of formal registration, which limited access to state resources and legal protections, as well as competition from established nationalist groups like the (LDPR), which secured 22.8% of the vote in the December 1993 elections by appealing to similar sentiments on a larger scale. The party organized public rallies and issued publications to foster unity and critique perceived threats to Russian interests, such as Yeltsin's pro-Western orientation and rapid policies that exacerbated inequality and regional discontent. For instance, it produced materials through outlets like the Russkie Vedomosti to disseminate calls for national cohesion, though distribution was constrained by financial shortages and censorship remnants from the Soviet era. Expansion stalled amid internal fractures, including a split by late 1992 that led to the formation of a rival Russian Party under Vladimir Miloserdov, fragmenting its nascent organizational structure and diverting limited funds from outreach. Regulatory scrutiny posed additional barriers; in 1991, the Prosecutor General's Office issued a formal warning to party figures regarding activities that risked inciting ethnic tensions, aligning with broader efforts to curb nationalist during Yeltsin's consolidation of power against conservative opposition. This reflected the precarious environment for unregistered groups, where state authorities prioritized stability over pluralistic growth, contributing to the 's marginal status relative to subsidized or parliamentary-aligned entities by the mid-1990s. Despite these obstacles, the party persisted in grassroots networking in urban centers like , though membership growth remained modest, estimated at under 10,000 nationwide, amid pervasive unemployment rates exceeding 10% and the 1993 that further polarized political actors.

Registration Attempts and Deregistration in the

In the early , the Russian Party, under Viktor Korchagin's , pursued formal registration under Russia's Federal Law on Political Parties, enacted in 2001 and requiring centralized approval from the for nationwide status. Despite its explicit nationalist platform attracting scrutiny for promoting ethnic discord, the party secured provisional registration in 2002, enabling limited legal operations amid a wave of new party formations. This approval occurred against a backdrop of heightened state oversight of groups deemed , with the party's materials and often flagged for inciting toward non-Russian ethnicities. However, the registration proved short-lived. Korchagin faced multiple prosecutions for "kindling nationalist discord," including charges related to publications and speeches advocating Russian ethnic primacy, which authorities viewed as violations of anti-extremism provisions. On May 20, 2003, the revoked the party's status, officially citing a procedural technicality but effectively tied to these ongoing legal actions against its leadership. The decision aligned with broader post-2002 enforcement trends, where the ministry used administrative levers to curb unregistered or ideologically sensitive organizations, as seen in parallel cases like the National Power Party of . The deregistration dismantled the party's formal structure, halting official activities such as congresses and candidate nominations. No subsequent attempts achieved reregistration, marking the cessation of its institutional presence by mid-decade. While splinter elements and Korchagin's personal influence lingered in unofficial nationalist networks, these lacked the party's legal framework and did not coalesce into a revived entity.

Ideology and Political Positions

Nationalist Principles and Russian Statehood

The Russian Party promoted a vision of Russian statehood rooted in ethnic nationalism, positing ethnic Russians as the foundational and sovereign nation entitled to primacy in a reconstituted unitary state. This ideology rejected the multi-ethnic federalism codified in the 1993 Russian Constitution, which perpetuated Soviet-era ethnic republics and autonomies that the party regarded as divisive concessions artificially elevating non-Russian groups and eroding the cohesion of the Russian core. Centralization was framed as imperative to restore historical imperial continuity, where administrative uniformity under Russian dominance had historically sustained territorial integrity against centrifugal forces. Drawing on pre-Bolshevik traditions of autocratic and Orthodox-infused , the party's principles emphasized a "greater " (Velikaya Rossiya) oriented toward ethnic consolidation rather than civic pluralism, arguing that federal asymmetries—such as disproportionate resource allocations to ethnic enclaves—fostered dependency and resentment among comprising over 80% of the population per 1989 data. This stance countered post-1991 , which amplified regionalism amid economic turmoil, by advocating abolition of ethnic-based subunits in favor of gubernatorial provinces administered from to enforce uniform legal and cultural standards. Opposition to underpinned the ideology, with the party contending that supranational norms and migration inflows threatened demographic continuity, as evidenced by early influxes exceeding 1 million ethnic repatriating from former Soviet republics amid ethnic conflicts. Prioritizing Russian identity was presented as a causal safeguard against assimilation and , aligning state institutions with ethno-cultural realism over abstract multinationalism inherited from Leninist nationality policies that had, in the party's view, sown seeds of 1991 dissolution.

Views on Ethnicity, Separatism, and Federalism

The Russian Party positioned ethnic Russians as the core ethnic group entitled to preferential status within the Russian state, asserting that Russian language, culture, and demographic dominance formed the essential basis of national cohesion and sovereignty. Party ideology critiqued federal structures granting autonomy to non-Russian ethnic groups, such as those in Tatarstan and Chechnya, as mechanisms that fragmented the state and encouraged separatism by institutionalizing ethnic privileges over unified Russian identity. Advocates within the party, including leader Viktor Korchagin, argued for dissolving or reabsorbing such autonomous entities into a centralized unitary framework to eliminate perceived threats to territorial integrity and prevent the balkanization observed in post-Soviet conflicts. In policy terms, the party favored measures prioritizing ethnic Russians in residency, land allocation, and resource distribution, viewing affirmative actions for minorities—such as reserved quotas in education or regional governance—as divisive policies that diluted Russian primacy and fostered dependency rather than integration. This stance extended to opposition against multicultural frameworks, which the party dismissed as Western-imposed ideologies incompatible with Russia's historical ethno-cultural homogeneity and likely to erode the dominant role of Russians through unchecked immigration and cultural relativism. To bolster national unity, the Russian Party endorsed conservative and monarchist principles as bulwarks against ethnic fragmentation, promoting a vision of statehood where federalism's asymmetries were replaced by centralized enforcing Russian-centric norms across all territories. Such positions aligned with broader radical nationalist critiques of the federal treaty processes, which the party saw as concessions enabling separatist aspirations in volatile regions like during its independence declarations in 1991 and 1996.

Leadership and Organization

Viktor Korchagin and Key Figures

Viktor Ivanovich Korchagin established the Russian Party in May 1991 as an anti-Marxist group opposing and advocating for Russian statehood. Born in 1940, he operated as the party's primary leader and a publisher through outlets like the Vityaz house, producing materials that drew legal scrutiny for nationalist content. Korchagin's traced to critiques of Soviet-era policies, evolving into organized efforts against perceived ethnic and ideological threats, resulting in multiple prosecutions for inciting by the early 2000s. An internal party conflict in 1992 led to a split, with Ivanovich Miloserdov, a retired and doctor of technical sciences born in 1936, assuming leadership of a faction. Miloserdov, who had military engineering experience from institutions like the Dzerzhinsky Academy, sustained nationalist organizing under variants of the party name, including registration efforts in 1998 that prolonged its activities despite deregistrations. His emphasized continuity amid factionalism, focusing on patriotic coalitions without supplanting Korchagin's foundational influence.

Internal Structure and Membership

The Russian Party maintained a formal yet modestly scaled organizational framework based on a , featuring fixed membership dues and a led by a central executive body. The highest authority was the Party Congress, assembled at least once annually to set policy directions, with day-to-day operations delegated to a smaller Party Council comprising seven members. This structure reflected the nascent organizational capacities of early 1990s nationalist groups, prioritizing centralized decision-making in while allowing for localized implementation. Membership peaked at 5,237 individuals by spring 1992, encompassing core activists, supporters, and sympathizers, though active participants numbered around 50. The base drew from Soviet-era military officers, retired veterans, entrepreneurs, skilled laborers, and figures, many of whom expressed disillusionment with post-communist national fragmentation and economic upheaval. Recruitment centered on propaganda efforts, including party newspapers and organizational gatherings conducted throughout 1991, fostering informal personal networks over bureaucratic expansion. Regional presence was limited but targeted ethnic Russian populations in peripheral areas, with established branches in , , , and to coordinate local activities among dispersed communities. After the revoked the party's official registration on May 20, 2002, operations transitioned to clandestine modes, relying on self-published materials and affiliations rather than formal dues or congresses to evade regulatory scrutiny and sustain a reduced cadre.

Electoral Participation and Activities

Campaigns and Public Engagements

The Russian Party conducted public engagements primarily through the issuance of statements and pamphlets emphasizing national unity and the preservation of Russian statehood, distributed via Viktor Korchagin's publishing house, Vitiaz'. These materials critiqued federal policies perceived as enabling , particularly during the (1994–1996), where the party argued for stronger central control to safeguard the ethnic Russian core of the federation. Limited by its unregistered status, the party eschewed large-scale formal campaigns in favor of alliances with other nationalist entities, such as the , to co-organize outreach efforts and amplify calls against anti-Russian reforms. In the early 1990s, amid the constitutional crisis of October 1993, it participated in opposition rallies defending parliamentary authority and traditional Russian sovereignty against Yeltsin's dissolution of the , framing the conflict as a threat to the heartland's integrity. A specific public action occurred on March 28, 2001, when the party convened a rally at Moscow's monument, attended by Slavic pagan adherents, to protest religious influences viewed as diluting Russian ethnic cohesion. Speakers demanded policy shifts prioritizing indigenous traditions over imported faiths, highlighting the party's tactic of leveraging symbolic sites for visibility.

Outcomes and Limited Influence

The Russian Party did not qualify as one of the 13 electoral associations permitted to compete in the portion of the 1993 elections, thereby failing to secure any seats through party lists. Electoral barriers, including requirements for nationwide signature collection and organizational registration, further impeded participation in subsequent cycles, such as the 1995 parliamentary vote where a nationalist entity bearing the Russian Party name under leader Miloserdov collected insufficient signatures to appear on ballots for list voting. In single-mandate districts during these early post-Soviet elections, party-affiliated candidates similarly achieved no parliamentary representation, reflecting low voter visibility amid fragmentation among over 100 aspiring groups and blocs. By the 2000s, persistent deregistration challenges and dominance of pro-Kremlin formations like —which captured 49.3% of the proportional vote and 226 seats in the 2003 elections—marginalized smaller nationalist entities, preventing the Russian Party from crossing the 5% threshold required for proportional seats in any federal contest. The party's measurable influence thus remained negligible, with no legislative achievements or enactments attributable to its platform; its efforts contributed minimally to public discourse on ethnic Russian concerns but were eclipsed by mainstream parties that consolidated over 70% of seats collectively in elections from 2007 onward. and preference data from Central reports confirm the absence of significant support, as nationalist fringes polled under 1% in blocs where included, underscoring the party's confinement to niche activism without broader electoral or institutional traction.

Controversies and Criticisms

Accusations of Extremism and Anti-Semitism

The Russian Party has been classified as a far-right organization by Russian authorities and international observers due to its advocacy for ethnic Russian exclusivity in state policies, which critics argue promotes discrimination against non-Russian minorities. In 1991, shortly after the party's founding, Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office issued a formal warning to Viktor Korchagin regarding the party's nationalist platform, citing risks of inciting ethnic hatred. Media outlets and analysts, including those monitoring extremism, have described the party's emphasis on Russian ethnic primacy as extremist, contrasting it with mainstream civic nationalism. Accusations of anti-Semitism center on Korchagin's publications and the party's affiliated outlets, which have critiqued perceived Jewish overrepresentation in Russian media, , and . Korchagin, as chief editor of associated periodicals, faced multiple legal repercussions; in 1995, a Moscow court convicted him of for materials targeting , and in November 2004, he received a one-year for publishing anti-Semitic content deemed to incite ethnic enmity. His publishing house, Russian Patriot's , distributed works including a Russian edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and advocated "solving the Jewish question" via deportation of from , framing such influence as a threat to Russian sovereignty. In July 2002, Russia's Ministry of Press shuttered one of his newspapers explicitly for promoting anti-Semitism. The party has countered these labels by portraying its as patriotic defense against elite and demographic displacement, where ethnic are allegedly disadvantaged by minority privileges and foreign influences. Supporters within nationalist circles view such critiques as factual exposure of power imbalances, citing statistical overrepresentation in certain sectors as evidence of rather than . Opponents, including monitors and Jewish advocacy groups, classify the materials as fostering violence, pointing to tropes like the Khazar myth—employed in party-linked literature to imply Jewish non-nativeness—as veiled anti-Semitic incitement. Russian courts have upheld the latter interpretation through convictions, though party adherents dismiss them as suppression of dissent by a multi-ethnic state apparatus. Viktor Korchagin, founder and leader of the Russian Party of Russia (Russkaia partiia Rossii), faced repeated legal actions beginning in 1991, when the Prosecutor-General's Office issued a warning against him for activities deemed to incite ethnic discord. Subsequent prosecutions under Russian Criminal Code articles prohibiting the incitement of ethnic hatred followed, including court proceedings in 1994–1995 for publishing materials promoting nationalist discord. In 1999, authorities extended the investigation into Korchagin's publications, citing violations related to ethnic agitation. The revoked the party's registration on May 20, 2003, citing procedural non-compliance as the basis, amid a broader governmental campaign to curb organizations perceived as fostering . This action aligned with President Vladimir Putin's efforts to centralize control over political entities, particularly those advancing uncontrolled nationalist agendas that could undermine state stability during heightened counter-terrorism measures post-2001. Further convictions of Korchagin occurred in 2005, when a court sentenced him for inciting inter-ethnic hatred based on his writings and speeches. Korchagin received an additional conditional sentence of two years in 2014 under Article 282 of for similar offenses involving ethnic . Russian authorities classified the party's platform and Korchagin's outputs as risks to public order, leading to denials of re-registration attempts and operational restrictions. Party representatives contended that enforcement was selectively applied, sparing nationalist groups aligned with regime interests while targeting independents.

Legacy and Influence

Impact on Russian Nationalism

The Russian Party, founded by Viktor Korchagin on May 17, 1991, advanced early post-Soviet ethno-nationalism by advocating for a centered on ethnic (russkie), distinct from the multi-ethnic Soviet model or emerging civic rossiiskii identity. Its platform proposed incorporating territories with significant Russian populations, such as northern and , alongside policies like a national legislature, , and laws against "Russophobia," thereby framing the "Russian question" as a matter of ethnic amid federal fragmentation. With approximately 5,000 supporters by spring 1992, the party appealed particularly to military elements disillusioned by perestroika's reforms, helping to elevate discussions of Russian primacy in federal during the transition. This emphasis on ethnic core identity prefigured motifs in subsequent nationalist formations, such as the Rodina party's focus on sovereignty and demographic preservation against perceived dilutions of Russian essence, and elements within National Bolshevik currents that blended anti-Western with assertions of . The party's opposition to Marxism-Leninism and underscored causal links between economic chaos—exemplified by peaking at 2,500% in 1992—and the need for nationalist resurgence to restore order, influencing broader debates on state integrity without achieving electoral breakthroughs. Despite suppression, including prosecutorial warnings in 1991 and eventual registration revocation, the Russian Party preserved intellectual continuity for nationalist thought by sustaining Korchagin's publications and isolationist visions, which endured through the 1990s' political volatility marked by events like the 1993 constitutional crisis. Its marginal scale limited , yet it empirically seeded persistent themes of ethnic , countering narratives of purely civic amid Yeltsin's decentralization policies that exacerbated regional .

Comparisons to Other Nationalist Movements

The Russian Party exhibited parallels with early post-Soviet nationalist organizations such as and (RNE) in its opposition to federal structures that diluted ethnic Russian dominance, favoring instead a centered on the Russian core population. Like these groups, it emerged amid the Soviet Union's dissolution, critiquing multi-ethnic arrangements as detrimental to Russian interests, yet it diverged by emphasizing institutional state-building over 's cultural-Orthodox revivalism or RNE's formations and militancy. , active from the late 1980s, prioritized antisemitic conspiracy narratives and monarchist restoration, while RNE, founded in 1990, organized combat units for against perceived threats; the Russian Party, by contrast, channeled its anti-federalism into advocacy for economic anti-privatization policies and centralized governance without verifiable wings. In contrast to liberal nationalists of the early , who supported market reforms and federal compromises under Yeltsin to stabilize the new , the party rejected such integration, viewing it as a of ethnic priorities—a stance that isolated it from broader democratic coalitions but resonated in fringe circles wary of cosmopolitan influences. This positioned it outside mainstream conservative currents, which by the mid- began accommodating regional autonomies for non-Russians to preserve . Globally, the party's response to multi-ethnic state collapse mirrored ethnic revivalist movements in post-Yugoslav successor states, where parties like Serbia's radicals sought to reconstitute governance around the core Slavic nation after imperial federation failed, prioritizing cultural-linguistic homogeneity over inclusive federalism. In both contexts, the collapse of supranational entities—USSR in 1991 and Yugoslavia by 1992—catalyzed demands for "greater" ethno-states, driven by fears of minority separatism eroding the dominant group's sovereignty, though Russian variants incorporated Orthodox elements less prominently than Balkan counterparts. Serbian nationalists, for instance, framed their post-1980s surge as reclaiming historical primacy amid federation breakdown, akin to the Russian Party's 1991 founding call for a Russia unencumbered by non-Russian republics. Under Putin's consolidation from onward, the party's uncompromising rejection of minority accommodations set it apart from state-endorsed , which emphasized civic and pragmatic to counter ethnic fragmentation, incorporating Tatar and Chechen elites into a multi-ethnic framework while suppressing purist nationalists. This centrist model, blending authoritarian stability with economic , marginalized fringe groups like the Russian Party, whose ethnic absolutism influenced only peripheral ultranationalist discourse rather than policy, as evidenced by the regime's co-optation of milder nationalist for geopolitical aims without endorsing ethno-exclusive reforms.

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