On 6 November 2005, Rodina was barred from taking part in the December elections to the Moscow Duma following a complaint filed by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia that Rodina's advertising campaign incited racial hatred.

[1][2][3][4][5] It garnered much controversy and opinion polls predicted that Rodina would come second with close to 25% in the December vote.

Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin appealed the decision, but the ban was upheld on 1 December 2005.

Parties which did not pass 10% threshold: United Russia also won all 15 single-member districts.

The list of United Russia party was headed by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who helped them to improve the results in Moscow compared to the 2003 Russian legislative election (in December 2003 United Russia received 34.43% of the vote).