32 Opposition to Vladimir Putin

Opposition to the government of President Vladimir Putin in Russia can be divided between the parliamentary opposition parties in the State Duma and the various non-systemic opposition organizations. While the former are largely viewed as being more or less loyal to the government and Putin, the latter oppose the government and are mostly unrepresented in government bodies. Major political parties considered to be part of the non-systemic opposition include Yabloko and the People's Freedom Party, along with the unregistered party Russia of the Future. Other notable opposition groups included the Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012–13) and The Other Russia (2006–11), as well as various non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The 2011–2013 Russian protests began in 2011 and continued into 2012 and 2013. The protests were motivated by claims by Russian and foreign journalists, political activists and members of the public that the election process was flawed. The Central Election Commission of Russia stated that only 11.5% of official reports of fraud could be confirmed as true.

The 2014 anti-war protests in Russia refers to a series of anti-war demonstrations opposing the Russian military intervention in Ukraine that took place in Russia in 2014. Protesters held two anti-war protest rallies on 2 and 15 March 2014. The latter, known as the March of Peace, took place in Moscow a day before the Crimean referendum. The protests have been the largest in Russia since the 2011–13 Russian protests by the Russian opposition against the alleged electoral fraud committed by United Russia during the 2011 Russian legislative election. Reuters reported that around 20,000 people participated in the 15 March demonstrations.

The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, which were primarily concerned with suppressing corruption in the Russian government and abandoning the planned retirement age hike.

The 2018 Russian pension protests were a series of country-wide protests and demonstrations in Russia demanding abandoning of the retirement age hike.

Starting from July 2019 numerous approved and unapproved rallies in Moscow began, caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections. Widespread public protests were triggered by numerous authorities' violations, claimed by the independent opposition candidates, during the registration procedure. Rallies on Sakharov Avenue on 20 July and 10 August 2019 became the largest political rallies in Russia since the 2011–2013 protests. The July 27 rally established a record on number of detainees: 1373 people were detained. The subsequent appeals of the MCEC's decisions to the CEC by the independent candidates didn't lead to any results.

Protests in Russia began on 23 January 2021 in support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his arrest and the release of the film Putin's Palace, which revolves around the connection between President Vladimir Putin and a palace allegedly being built for him. On the first day, protests were held in 198 towns and cities across Russia in what were one of the largest anti-government demonstrations since the 2011–2013 Russian protests.

The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks is a Marxist–Leninist and anti-revisionist political party operating in Russia and other former Soviet states. It was founded in November 1991 and led by Nina Andreyeva, a university teacher who was well known for her 1988 letter "I cannot give up my principles".

The Interregional Social Movement (MOD) «Artpodgotovka» is a Russian socio-political interregional organization of a left-wing nationalist character. Recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The Dissenters' March was a series of Russian opposition protests that took place on December 16, 2006 in Moscow, on March 3, 2007 in Saint Petersburg, on March 24 in Nizhny Novgorod, on April 14 for the second time in Moscow, on April 15 again in Saint Petersburg, on May 18 in Samara, and on May 19 in Chelyabinsk. Some of them were featured in various media outlets.

The Left Bloc is a social movement uniting activists of the Russian left organizations. It was created at the end of November, 2015. It is strongly critical of President Vladimir Putin.

The Left Front is a united front of political organizations in Russia. It is strongly critical of President Vladimir Putin.

The Libertarian Party of Russia is a right-libertarian political party in the Russian Federation founded in 2008 based on "self-ownership and non-aggression". The party has had two members elected to local office, one in Moscow and the other in Moscow Oblast. The first, Vera Kichanova, was elected in 2012 to the municipal council of the Yuzhnoye Tushino District of Moscow. The second, Andrey Shalnev, was elected in 2014 as an independent deputy council for the Pushkino District. The party coordinates the Adam Smith Forum, participates in the organization of the Free People's Forum, and runs other activities and publications, including a monthly newspaper and a podcast series.

The Nation and Freedom Committee is a Russian nationalist socio-political association whose purpose is to ensure the consolidated centralized participation of Russian nationalists in the general civil protest movement and to uphold the rights of the Russian population. KNU is the most active far-right protest organization in the Russian Federation, monthly featured in thematic reviews of human rights defenders who monitor the activities of ultra-right political movements in the Russian Federation. KNS is the core of the right wing of the Russian protest movement, in connection with which the organization's associates are regularly arrested during protests, pressure, less often - searches. Website, YouTube-channel, blog at livejournal.com of KNS were blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation at the request of the authorities. The blocking and removal of the channel on youtube was preceded by the removal of a video criticizing Putin's migration policy. KNS Facebook page was removed by the social network in connection with the propaganda of european nationalism, prohibited by the internal rules of the social network.

The National Bolshevik Party operated from 1993 to 2007 as a Russian political party with a political program of National Bolshevism. The NBP became a prominent member of The Other Russia coalition of opposition parties. Russian courts banned the organization and it never officially registered as a political party. In 2010, its leader Eduard Limonov founded a new political party, called The Other Russia. There have been smaller NBP groups in other countries.

The National Democratic Alliance is a social and political movement in the Russian Federation. It supports the creation of several Russian republics, the re-establishment of the Federation, and the establishment of a single federal agreement between the subjects of the Russian Federation. The NDA is co-chaired by Alexey Shiropaev, Ilya Lazarenko, and Mikhail Pozharsky.

Russian Youth Movement "Oborona" is a non-partisan civic youth movement in Russia. Its name means "Defense [from]" in Russian and others. The movement was established in 2005 and has no leader or centralized structure. Instead, it is based on the network principle and mostly horizontal relations.

Open Russia is a name shared by two political organisations in Russia founded by the exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky with the shareholders of his firm, Yukos. Khodorkovsky states that his organisation advocates democracy and human rights. The first initiative took the form of a foundation whose stated purpose was to "build and strengthen civil society in Russia", established in 2001. Khodorkovsky relaunched Open Russia in September 2014 as a nationwide community platform as part of a group of activities called "Open Media".

The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov, formerly The Other Russia, is a non-registered Russian political party founded on July 10, 2010 by Eduard Limonov. The Other Russia was reorganized in September 2020, and The Other Russia changed the party's name to "The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov", to honor their deceased founder, who had died the same year.

The Popular Resistance Association is a Russian national anarchist political organization. Founded in 2016 by a number of former activists of People's Will, NBP, Volnitsa and other movements

"Putin – khuylo!" is a Ukrainian- and Russian-language slogan deriding Russian President Vladimir Putin. It originated in Ukraine in 2014 having grown from a football chant first performed by FC Metalist Kharkiv ultras and Shaktar Donetsk ultras in March 2014 on the onset of the Russian annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine. The phrase has become very widespread throughout Ukraine among supporters of the Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and, more generally, those who do not like Vladimir Putin in both Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking areas of Ukraine.

"Putin Must Go" is a Russian website and public campaign organised for the collection of signatures to an open letter demanding the resignation of President Vladimir Putin. The campaign was started on the Internet on 10 March 2010 by Russian opposition activists, including several Russian artists.

Putin. Corruption. is an independent report on alleged corruption in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle published by the leaders of opposition liberal democratic People's Freedom Party in Russia. The report was presented by them at the press conference on 28 March 2011. This is the first large-scale project of the People’s Freedom Party.

The Third Alternative. Right Bloc — an all-Russian democratic movement uniting people of right-wing and nationalist convictions, based on the ideas of national democracy. Formed in February 2018.

Russia of the Future, originally known as the People's Alliance and formerly called the Progress Party, is an unregistered opposition political party in Russia founded on 15 December 2012 by a member of the Russian opposition Leonid Volkov and later refounded on 19 May 2018 by Alexei Navalny, who is also the founder of the non-profit organisation Anti-Corruption Foundation.

The Russian Maoist Party is a Maoist party in Russia. It was established on June 9, 2000.

The Russian People's Democratic Union, initially named as People for Democracy and Justice was a liberal opposition political party in Russia, founded in 2006. The party was a member of the opposition coalition The Other Russia and was founded by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov after he failed to win the leadership of the Democratic Party of Russia. The Union was one of the founding parties of the People's Freedom Party, in which the RNDS merged into in 2012.

United Democratic Movement «Solidarnost» is a Russian liberal democratic political movement founded on 13 December 2008 by a number of well-known members of the liberal democratic opposition, including Garry Kasparov, Boris Nemtsov and others from the Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties, leaders of the Dissenters March events, the Committee 2008, the People's Democratic Union, the United Civil Front, The Other Russia and other politicians and political groups.

Strategy-31 is a series of civic protests in support of the right to peaceful assembly in Russia guaranteed by Article 31 of the Russian constitution. Since July 31, 2009, the protests were held in Moscow on Triumfalnaya Square on the 31st of every month with 31 days.

The Termless protest or Bessrochka, — is the name used by the organizers of the telegram channel Union of Protest Groups to designate the format of street actions. For the first time this format was announced in June 2018 by the Union of Protest Groups in its telegram channel

United Civil Front is a social movement in Russia founded and led by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. It is part of The Other Russia, an opposition coalition active in Moscow.

The Vanguard of Red Youth, acronymed after an AK-47 variant) is a radical Russian socialist youth group. Its website describes it as an "independent youth organization, entering the all-Russian public political motion." Its "territory of action" is Russia, which it insists is still the heart and soul of "the republic of the USSR." The AKM's ideology is Marxism-Leninism and it forms part of the Left Front, an all alliance of far-left parties. The unofficial leader of the AKM is Sergei Udaltsov, who has been arrested several times for protesting against Vladimir Putin's regime.