Civilian Power

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Civilian Power

| native_name = Гражданская сила

| logo = 200px

| colorcode = {{party color|Civilian Power}}

| leader = Kirill Bykanin (last)

| founders = Alexander Ryavkin
Mikhail Barshchevsky

| foundation = {{start date |2002|9|20|df=yes}} (1st)https://www.netmarketing.ru/business/rosp/index.php Российская сетевая партия (РоСП)
{{start date|2012|2|25|df=yes}} (2nd)

| dissolution = {{start date|2008|11|15|df=yes}} (1st)
{{start date|2025|1|15|df=yes}} (2nd)

| merged = Right Cause {{small|(2008–2012)}}

| ideology = Liberalism
Green liberalism

| headquarters = 32th building, Studenyy Passage, Moscow, Russia

| position= Centre to centre-right

| country = Russia

| colours = {{color box|{{party color|Civilian Power}}|border=silver}} Green
{{color box|#FFF200|border=silver}} Yellow

| website = [https://gr-sila.ru/ gr-sila.ru]

}}

The Civilian Power or Citizens' Force ({{langx|ru|Гражданская сила|Grazhdanskaya sila}}, abbr. GS) was a green liberal political party in the Russian Federation. The organization was called the Network Party for Support of the Small and Middle Business in 2002, then renamed Free Russia in 2004, and in February 2007 changed to Civilian Power.

Members of the political council include:

The Party's names

Russian Network Party for Support of the Small and Medium Business (RSP, 2002–2004)
Free Russia Party (PSR, 2004—2007)
Civilian Power (GS, 2007—2008)
All-Russian Public Organization "Civilian Forces" (OOO GS, 2008—2012)
Civilian Power (GS, 2012—2025)

History

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The "Free Russia" party was created in 2004, based on small and medium-sized Russian businesses. On October 8, 2006, the party overtook the 7% barrier on the legislative elections in Novgorod District. In November 2006, the 6th party conference was held. On February 27, 2007, Mikhail Barshchevsky, the chairman and plenipotentiary of the High Council of the Russian government, held a press conference. This was in aid of the party principles of Civilian Power. In the middle of April 2007, an organizational conference was held.

The chairman of the High Council is plenipotentiary of the Government of Russia in Constitutional, Supreme and Highest Arbitral Courts Mikhail Barshchevsky (a member since December 2006). The chairman of the Federal Political Council − The founder of the party, businessman Alexander Ryavkin from 2014 - 2015 year was the vice governor of Oryol Oblast.

The party won 1.05% of votes in the 2007 elections, not breaking the 7% barrier, and thus no seats in duma.

Civilian Power supported Dmitry Medvedev as their candidate in the presidential election in 2008.

It merged with Union of Right Forces and the Democratic Party of Russia to form the Right Cause on 16 November 2008.

Civilian Power was again registered as a political party on 7 June 2012.

The party advocates the legalization of prostitution in Russia.

In the elections of 2014, the party won one seat in the regional parliament of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.{{Cite web |url=http://top.rbc.ru/politics/15/09/2014/949198.shtml |title="Civil Force" and "Green" got the right to go into the Duma without signatures |access-date=2015-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524180506/http://top.rbc.ru/politics/15/09/2014/949198.shtml |archive-date=2015-05-24 |url-status=dead }}

At the end of November 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Russia appealed to the Supreme Court, demanding the liquidation of the Civilian Power political party.{{Cite news |title=Верховный суд России просят ликвидировать партию «Гражданская сила» |url=https://realnoevremya.ru/news/322512-verhovnyy-sud-rossii-prosyat-likvidirovat-partiyu-grazhdanskaya-sila |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213002812/https://realnoevremya.ru/news/322512-verhovnyy-sud-rossii-prosyat-likvidirovat-partiyu-grazhdanskaya-sila |archive-date=2024-12-13 |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=Реальное время |language=ru-RU}} The Ministry of Justice argued that the party had not nominated candidates for federal elections for a long time and had hardly participated in local elections.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-15 |title=Верховный суд ликвидировал партию "Гражданская Сила" |url=https://rapsinews.ru/judicial_news/20250115/310560983.html |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=РАПСИ |language=ru}} On 15 January 2025, the Supreme Court upheld the appeal, dissolving the party.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Одной силой меньше: Верховный суд ликвидировал еще одну российскую партию |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7432720 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Коммерсантъ |language=ru}}

Electoral results

In 2017, the Party announced that the only candidate whom the party will support is current president Vladimir Putin. for the 2018 Russian presidential election.

= Presidential elections =

class=wikitable style=text-align:center
rowspan="2" \|Election ! rowspan="2" \|Candidate ! colspan="2" scope="col" \|First round ! colspan="2" \|Second round ! rowspan="2" \|Result
Votes !% !Votes !%
2008 \|{{yes2\|Endorsed Dmitry Medvedev}} \|52,530,712 \|{{Percentage bar\|70.28\|hex=2E4EA4}} \|colspan=2 {{N/A}} \|Elected {{Y}}
2012 \|rowspan=1 colspan=6\|Party was part of Right Cause and did not participate in the elections
2018 \|{{yes2\|Endorsed Vladimir Putin}} \|56,430,712 \|{{Percentage bar\|76.69\|hex=003891}} \|colspan=2 {{N/A}} \|Elected {{Y}}

class=wikitable style=text-align:center

rowspan="2" |Election

! rowspan="2" |Candidate

! colspan="2" scope="col" |First round

! colspan="2" |Second round

! rowspan="2" |Result

Votes

!Votes

2008

|{{yes2|Endorsed Dmitry Medvedev}}

|52,530,712

|{{Percentage bar|70.28|hex=2E4EA4}}

|colspan=2 {{N/A}}

|Elected {{Y}}

2012

|rowspan=1 colspan=6|Party was part of Right Cause and did not participate in the elections

2018

|{{yes2|Endorsed Vladimir Putin}}

|56,430,712

|{{Percentage bar|76.69|hex=003891}}

|colspan=2 {{N/A}}

|Elected {{Y}}

= Legislative elections =

class=wikitable style=text-align:center
rowspan="2" \|Election ! rowspan="2" \|Party leader ! colspan="5" scope="col" \|Performance ! rowspan="2" \|Rank ! rowspan="2" \|Government
Votes !% !± pp !Seats !+/–
2007 \|Mikhail Barshchevsky \|733,604 \|{{Percentage bar\|1.05\|hex=00A650}} \|New \|{{composition bar\|0\|450\|hex=#00A650}} \|New \|7th \|{{no\|Extra-parliamentary}}
2011 \|Valeriy Ivanovsky \|rowspan=1 colspan=8\|Party was part of Right Cause and did not participate in the elections
2016 \|Kirill Bykanin \|73,971 \|{{Percentage bar\|0.14\|hex=00A650}} \|{{increase}} 0.14 \|{{composition bar\|0\|450\|hex=#00A650}} \|{{steady}} 0 \|{{increase}} 14th \|{{no\|Extra-parliamentary}}

class=wikitable style=text-align:center

rowspan="2" |Election

! rowspan="2" |Party leader

! colspan="5" scope="col" |Performance

! rowspan="2" |Rank

! rowspan="2" |Government

Votes

!± pp

!Seats

!+/–

2007

|Mikhail Barshchevsky