is a member of the Russian Catacomb Church, an offshoot of the Russian True Orthodox Church, although his brotherhood retains links to members of both the dissident tendencies and mainstream Russian Orthodox Church. Another extremist Orthodox group, the Soyuz 'Khristianskoe vozrozhdenie' (Union of Christian Rebirth), also held joint meetings with the RNU. Development The party failed to secure the requisite number of signatures to run candidates in the 1993 Duma election and so did not take part. One candidate was elected as an independent however. Vdovin was expelled from the RNU in spring 1997 with Kassimovsky confirmed as sole leader of the party. The party disappeared in late 1998 or early 1999 when Kassimovsky began to move away from the religious trappings associated with the RNU. He soon emerged with a new more secular, but equally neo-Nazi, party known as the Russian National Socialist Party. References 1993 establishments in Russia Eastern Orthodox political parties Far-right political parties in Russia Fascist parties in Russia Neo-Nazi political parties in Europe Neo-Nazism in Russia Political parties established in 1993 Russian nationalist organizations Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politics Neo-fascist parties Russian fascism Defunct nationalist parties in Russia Defunct far-right parties