The modern political system includes many parties and movements. The goals and objectives that they set for themselves are diverse, and understanding them can be difficult. There are also quite exotic parties whose interests go beyond traditional political requirements. This may include various parties of the "green".
The Green Party is a political party with a formal structure, guided in its activities by environmental principles. The program of such a social movement includes not only the demand for social justice, democratic transformations, but also the protection of the environment.
Green movements are calling for social reforms against the misuse of natural resources. The most striking example of a movement practicing such principles is Greenpeace, an international environmental organization founded in 1971 in Canada. Participants in this global green movement periodically attract the attention of the public and authorities with their actions.
Confessing the ideology of nature conservation, the green parties do not leave aside other problems of modern society, supporting the principles of participation in democracy, non-violence, sustainable economic development, and social justice.
Until recently, the only “green” party in Russia was the Russian Ecological Green Party, which has about 60 thousand members in almost all regions of the country. The party adheres to a moderate reform course, considering universal human values and democratic principles as a priority. "green" intend to make augmentation of Russia's natural wealth with a national idea uniting the whole society. One of the organization’s promising goals is to create its own "green" fraction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
At the end of May 2012, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered another batch of environmental orientation, called the “Green Alliance - People’s Party”. The initiator and leader of this political structure was Oleg Mitvol, at one time former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor. As an all-Russian party, the Green Alliance was created on the basis of the Green Initiative environmental movement. According to O. Mitvol, the party already has 44 branches throughout Russia. Thus, another “green” player appeared in the multi-colored Russian political arena.
