It supports stronger ties with both Russia and the European Union, and was the only major political organization to oppose Latvia's membership in NATO.

Jurkāns was a leader of the Popular Front of Latvia and founder of the National Harmony Party; Rubiks and Ždanoka were prominent as leaders of the Interfront movement, the Latvian branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the federalist movement in Latvia in the early 1990s.

The remnant of ForHRUL consisted of Equal Rights and Free Choice in People's Europe [lv; ru].

ForHRUL supported a federal Europe, with a "common economic and political space from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

In 2011, the party launched an unsuccessful popular initiative on amending the law governing Latvian nationality.

The party supported the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and has taken a pro-Russian stance in the subsequent Russo-Ukrainian War.

[8] In July 2018, Ždanoka resigned her mandate in the European Parliament to focus on the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election and was succeeded by Miroslav Mitrofanov.

[9][10] With Andrejs Mamikins as their prime minister candidate[11] Latvian Russian Union gained 3.2% votes, failing to win any seats in Saeima, but qualifying for state funding of almost 20 000 euros a year[12] that the party would not be able to receive since it does not possess an account in a credit institution registered in Latvia as required by the law.

[18] LRU received a warning from the State Security Service for activities "aimed at justifying violations of foreign policy and international law by Russia, as well as the dissemination of propaganda messages".