Experts said that the patriotic agenda erases the difference between the Duma parties

Since February 2022, the parliamentary parties have been a single entity, there are practically no ideological differences between them, according to a report by Russian Field experts based on a survey of 15 political technologists and political consultants. All of them promote the same patriotic agenda, and the parliamentary opposition (KPRF, LDPR, A Just Russia, New People) in case of criticism of the authorities will become “apostate from the current state course”.

“In order to function, opposition parties have to follow the lead of the party in power, which deprives them of opposition as such,” the Russian Field report says. – Party confrontation [по крайней мере по вопросу военных действий] de facto absent in Russia – this is understood by the leaders of the opposition parties, who often refuse to nominate their own candidates, approving representatives from the authorities.”