Soyuz (Russian: Союз, translated as 'Union') was a faction in the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
The faction was critical of Perestroika and liberal reforms; it was opposed to de-centralization of the Soviet Union.
The group managed to oust Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze for 'giving up' Eastern Europe.
That organisation took part in the 1995 legislative election within the bloc Power to the People, led by Baburin and Nikolai Ryzhkov.
[3] In the 1999 legislative election, the Soyuz movement, then led by Georgy Tikhonov, took part within the Stalin Bloc — For the USSR coalition.