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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the activities of the United Russia party. The text examines various aspects of this party's political activities, which together characterise it as an authoritarian organisation: coercion of the electorate, its conformisation, violation of constitutional rights, lies and mythologisation, election rigging, tight control of the media, intolerance of dissent and abolition of the opposition. The main message of this study is that United Russia is not a party, but a corporation which does not express the interests of any stratum of society, but its own narrowly corporate interests. The author provides a rather serious evidence base, which consists of numerous literary sources as well as personal experience of observing the phenomena taking place in the political arena of modern Russia.
About the author
Alexei N. Ilyin (nacido en 1983) - Doctor en Filosofía. Es autor de una monografía y más de cincuenta artículos científicos y periodísticos. Se ocupa de los problemas de la globalización, la cultura de masas y la sociedad de consumo. También se interesa por las particularidades de las relaciones de poder en la Rusia moderna.
