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The party (from 1925 the All-Union Communistparty), was strongly urban.
The CommunistParty of Russia, the largest and most well-financed of the new parties, won the largest bloc of seats in the 1995 parliamentary elections, and in the first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election, Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov received almost as many votes as Yeltsin.
In what was seen as a pragmatic alliance, the parties supporting with President Putin joined in coalition with the Communists in the Duma, but in Apr., 2002, that alliance collapsed, and most Communistparty members were stripped of their leadership positions in the Duma.
Russia was defeated in the unpopular Russo-Japanese war in 1905.
Russia is a federation, but the precise distribution of powers between the central government and the regional and local authorities is still evolving.
Russia's overall trade surplus in 2007 was $132 billion, roughly equal to the $139 billion surplus in 2006.
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