Supporters of the political views of director Nikita Mikhalkov created and registered their own party - For Our Motherland. The program of the new party is based on the Manifesto of Enlightened Conservatism "Law and Truth", which was published in 2010 by Mikhalkov.
The party "For Our Motherland" received a registration certificate on July 11, 2012. Such information is indicated on the official website of the organization. Now the party is actively involved in opening regional branches. The party was founded by its current chairman Mikhail Lermontov. The Presidium of the Political Council includes Aleksandr Vladimirov, Mikhail Rybakov and Oleg Stolyarov. In total, the structure consists of about 50,000 people.
The manifesto "Right and Truth", taken as the basis for the program of the party "For Our Motherland", consists of 63 pages. In the document, Mikhalkov declares that "the euphoria of liberal democracy is over" and the modern social system, consisting of corruption, arbitrariness of the authorities and attempts to catch up with the West, is not supported by the majority of Russian citizens. This Manifesto has been criticized by a number of experts. So MGIMO professor Andrei Zubkov called Mikhalkov's work "a banal application to legitimize an authoritarian regime in the interests of the Soviet elite."
On the other hand, supporters of the For Our Motherland party fully share the views of Nikita Mikhalkov. In their opinion, during the 1917 revolution, our country lost its former spirit and old great ideas that existed before the coup d'état. And what was lost must be restored. Among other famous persons, whose position is supported by the political structure, prominent personalities during the Bolshevik uprising of 1917 are the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, the politician Pyotr Struyev, and the priest Pavel Florensky.
After the new party finishes registering regional branches, it will be able to take part in the elections, but, according to Mikhail Rybakov, a member of the presidium of the political council of the For Our Motherland party, the organization is not going to be elected anywhere in the near future. Their main goal is the revival of traditional values in Russia. Nikita Mikhalkov himself is not yet a member of the For Our Motherland party and, as they say in his press service, is not going to join there.
