Footage of the 1995 State Duma election campaign in Russia: campaign videos and political advertising from Russian television. Leading figures of the campaign were Zyuganov, Chernomyrdin, Zhirinovsky and Yavlinsky.

1995 election campaign footage

This footage comes from the 1995 State Duma election campaign in Russia. It includes campaign videos and political advertising that Russian television broadcast. Leading figures of the campaign included Gennady Zyuganov of the Communist Party, Viktor Chernomyrdin of Our Home – Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the Liberal Democratic Party and Grigory Yavlinsky of Yabloko. Watch a longer preview in the original archive quality on our YouTube channel: Russia 1995: Election Campaign Videos – Archive TV Footage. We license clips in HD and supply an AI-upscaled 4K version on request. For a shot list or a quote, write to footage@tvdata.tv.

Video chapters

Each time stamp opens the YouTube preview at that campaign segment. The quotes are short lines from the original Russian audio, translated into English.

0:00 Introduction and Trade Unions of Russia (Union of Labor)
“Today everyone promises. They promise to raise pensions and to raise wages.” “Without a strong social policy, without a wealthy population, the producer is not needed.”

3:15 Yabloko (Grigory Yavlinsky)
“Today the Yabloko association, the Power to the People bloc, the Common Cause movement and Bloc 89 are speaking.” “In Soviet times many people had their youth. A huge number of people in our country were communists.”

5:30 Power to the People (Nikolai Ryzhkov and Sergey Baburin)
“The government is obliged to give the people what the people deserve.” “We consider it fair and lawful to keep the southern Kuril Islands as an integral part of Russia.”

8:30 Common Cause (Irina Khakamada)
“Every day you turn on the television, and every day one of the former officials appears there.” “Our number is 15, our symbol is a squirrel.”

11:52 Bloc 89
“Money was not returned.” “With these proposals Bloc 89 is going into the State Duma.”

14:22 Transformation of the Fatherland
“Transformation of the Fatherland is the only movement for independence and a dignified life of the regions.” “We think about every city, every house.”

15:40 Democratic Choice of Russia (Yegor Gaidar)
“The fate of the reforms and the price of the reforms is perhaps one of the main questions in Russia today.” “No reform should ever make life worse.”

19:13 Ivan Rybkin Bloc and outro
“Accord. Order. Peace.” “Vote for Ivan Rybkin’s bloc, number 38.”

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