Freedom. Nation. Progress.
Today, in the early 21st century, Russia is facing a systemic crisis. The economy based around the extraction of natural resources is collapsing, the dated Soviet infrastructure is decaying rapidly, semi-feudal bureaucratic clans and ethnic mafias are flourishing against the background of disintegrating social ties. These are not temporary difficulties, but a historical dead end, to which we were led by a centuries-old imperial, anti-national and anti-democratic public policy.
These problems are primarily connected with the absence of a Russian political nation and a Russian national democratic state, in place of which exists only a surrogate "multinational state" – nothing but meaningless fragment of the USSR. The current Russian state structure is doing all it can to stall the natural process of nation formation, quashing any political and economic initiatives of citizens. Within the established system Russians are deprived of political rights - they do not possess a national state they can call their own. Russian regions serve as donors to the ethnic nation-state entities within the Federation (primarily, the North Caucasus Republics). This unjust redistribution of wealth is rhetorically justified by the needs to preserve "territorial integrity", which is put before and above the welfare of the Russian people.
An incredibly rich resource base, a vast territory, strong historical and geographical ties with Europe - all this gives the Russian people a great opportunity for economic, social and cultural development. But any progress in Russia today faces a brick wall of state corruption and bureaucratic chaos. The only way we can create the conditions for the self-realization and productive interaction of citizens, the foundation of collective success is by forming a nation, developing self-management and eliminating bureaucratic barriers. Economic and social development needs to take into account the specifics of each of Russia’s divers regions, and it can be done only by granting the power to enact economic and social policy to the citizens, acting on their own interests and not on the will of the central administration.
We are convinced that the current course is leading Russia to a catastrophic crisis, which could result in a full territorial, economic and social disintegration of the country. A knot of intractable social problems, knit over the centuries, has now put the very existence of the Russian people at risk. Only coordinated measures, aimed at a fundamental reorganization of the Russian statehood and social life can provide a way out of this predicament.
The National Democratic Alliance aims to create a Russian democratic state, which will break cleanly away from the Eurasian imperial legacy, opting instead for a European cultural and civilizational identity, based on the ideas of freedom and progress. This purpose is inextricably tied with the formation of a Russian political nation as the carrier of sovereignty within the Russian state.
We consider necessary the following policies:
