Monarchist Party
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Monarchist Party of the Russian Federation
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| Leader | Prince Anton Bakov |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Kosulino (village), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia |
| Ideology | Monarchism |
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| www.monpartya.ru | |
The Monarchist Party of the Russian Federation is the only legal monarchist political party in Russia since the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was created in 2012 by prominent politician and businessman Prince Anton Bakov, a former Member of Parliament. It declares its aim as restoration of monarchy in the country, while transforming it into a modern constitutional one "with full accordance to democratic procedures and current laws" as well as promoting the monarchist conception among Russians and other people of the world.
The Monarchist Party's founding convention took place on April 7, 2012. Kommersant stated that 1000 members joined up. The Russian Ministry of Justice registered and licensed the party in 2012. By February 2013 members had organized 47 regional offices, exceeding the necessary limit to participate in regional elections. The legal address of the party is in Kosulino settlement near Ekaterinburg city. (The execution of the Romanov family took place in Ekaterinburg, where Bakov lives.) Bakov established the Monarchist Party as a part of his project of "Russian Empire"—a micronation claiming to be a successor of the former Russian Empire founded by Peter the Great, and pretending to the overseas territories discovered by Russian sailors but not included in the original empire's successor states—such as Suwarrow atoll in the South Pacific, Antarctica and others.
The main declared goals for the party are the promotion of the monarchical idea and the union of Russian monarchists in Russia and abroad. Bakov lists the party's goals as "proposing a successor to [the] Throne; proclaiming a political program affordable for Monarchism in the 21st century; and maintaining a proper propaganda to outline the benefits of [a] monarchy, in particular, we have to carefully explain people why Vladimir Putin is not a monarch." He describes the need for a constitutional monarchy: "We cannot restore monarchic Autocracy, as it was with the Romanovs, and don't need to. We can only have Constitutional Monarchy. This way we can separate the irrational from the rational. On the one side, we will have a Monarch, who won't have absolute power. On the other, we will have responsible Government, reporting to society; and a Parliament. This way we can keep ourselves from a dictatorship."
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