  United Russia's Poor Performance Shows Its Precarious Position
in the North Caucasus  Publisher Jamestown Foundation
Publication Date 10 December 2012 Citation / Document Symbol
Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 225 Cite as Jamestown
Foundation, United Russia's Poor Performance Shows Its
Precarious Position in the North Caucasus, 10 December
2012, Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 225, available
at: [accessed 6 October 2015] Comments Valery Dzutsev  On
November 28, the opposition Patrioty Rossii (Patriots of Russia)
party's faction in the North Ossetian parliament walked out of a
parliamentary session to protest United Russia's unwillingness
to cooperate with the opposition. Earlier, the republican
parliament had decided that a joint commission would distribute
committee seats among the parties represented in the
legislature, but the decision was subsequently shirked by United
Russia (  While conflicts in parliaments are ordinary events in
many countries, they are highly unusual in North Ossetia,