LDPR (political party)

Political party LDPR Политическая партия ЛДПР
Leader	Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Parliamentary Leader	Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Founded	1989: Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union 1991: Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Newspaper	For the Russian People
Youth wing	Youth Organization of LDPR
Ideology	Russian imperialism Right-wing populism Russian ultranationalism Anticommunism Panslavism Euroscepticism
Political position	Far-right
International affiliation	None
Colours	Gold, blue
Seats in the Federation Council	3 / 170
Seats in the State Duma	39 / 450
Governors	1 / 85
Seats in the Regional Parliaments	212 / 3,787
Party flag
Website
www.ldpr.ru
Politics of Russia Political parties Elections

The LDPR (Russian: Политическая партия ЛДПР), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Russian: Либерально-Демократическая Партия России – Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii), is a far-right political party in the Russian Federation. The controversial Vladimir Zhirinovsky has led the party since its founding in 1989.

Opposing both communism and the neoliberal capitalism of the 1990s, the party scored a major success in the 1993 Russian Duma elections, receiving a plurality of votes. In the elections in 2007, the party received 8.14% of the vote, giving it 40 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. In the 2011 elections, they increased their percentage to 11.4%.

Despite the party's name, it is frequently described as "neither liberal nor democratic." The party has been described as fiscally leftist and authoritarian. Its ideology is based primarily on Zhirinovsky's ideas of "imperial reconquest" (a "renewed Russian Empire") and on an authoritarian vision of a "Greater Russia".

After the XXV Congress (December 2012) the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia adopted its new full name: Political party LDPR (Russian: Политическая партия ЛДПР). Liberal Democratic Party of Russia became the historical name of the party.

...
Wikipedia