From the outset, the idea of the Russian nation as a community of all Russian citizens has met with opposition. [5] In December 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pointed out the lack of an all-Russian unifying idea as a problem during a discussion in the State Council and proposed "all-Russian patriotism" as a replacement for the idea of ...

The All-Russia People's Front (ONF; Russian: Общероссийский народный фронт; ОНФ; Obshcherossiyskiy narodnyy front, ONF), is a political coalition in Russia started in 2011 by then-Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin to provide United Russia with "new ideas, new suggestions and new faces". It is intended to be a formal alliance between the ruling party and ...