Originally established as the People's Front of Tuva (Russian: Народный фронт Тувы, romanized: Narodnyy front Tuvy), Khostug Tyva led the anti-Russian riots that resulted in the flight of most of the republic's ethnic Russian population, as well as later efforts to achieve independence from Russia.
[4] The party supported measures to increase affordable housing for rural Tuvan migrants to the capital, Kyzyl, and successfully pushed the population to oppose the 1993 Russian constitutional referendum, on the basis of opposition to private ownership of land.
[3] Khostug Tyva was also connected to nationalist groups from Khakassia and the Altai Republic, and united with the Khakas Çon çobį party to form the Association of Peoples of Southern Siberia on 17 June 1993.
The political alliance argued for inhabitants of Russian republics to receive greater rights, as well as for the unification of Turkic peoples into a single state.
The radicals remained within Khostug Tyva, while the moderates formed the People's Party of Sovereign Tuva (Russian: Народная партия суверенной Тувы, romanized: Narodnaya partiya suverrenoy Tuvy).