Political party LDPR
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LDPR
ЛДПР |
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| Leader | Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| Parliamentary Leader | Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| Founded | 1991: Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union 1992: 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 Pan-Slavism Right-wing nationalism Economic liberalism Euroscepticism Social conservatism Monarchism Anti-corruption Anti-communism |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Gold, blue |
| Slogan | Freedom, Patriotism, Law |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Seats in the Federation Council |
3 / 170
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| Seats in the State Duma |
40 / 450
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| Governors |
1 / 85
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| Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
236 / 3,928
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| www.ldpr.ru | |
The LDPR (Russian: ЛДПР), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Russian: Либерально-Демократическая Партия России – Liberal'no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii), is a far-right political party. The controversial Vladimir Zhirinovsky has led the party since its founding in 1989.
Opposing both communism and 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 rightist 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".
The party is today known as: LDPR (Russian: ЛДПР).
An effectively multi-party system emerged in Soviet Union in the late 1980s in wake of the Gorbachev reforms. A formal law for this purpose was introduced in October 1990. In April 1991, the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSS) became the second officially registered party in the country. According to former CPSU Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, the new party was a joint project of CPSU leadership and the KGB. He described how KGB director Vladimir Kryuchkov presented the project of the puppet party at a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and informed him about his selection of leaders and the mechanism of funding. Former KGB General Philipp Bobkov described the organization as "Zubatov's pseudo-party under KGB control that directs interests and sentiments of certain social groups". The outspoken leader of the party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an effective media performer, gained 8% of votes during the 1991 Presidential elections. He also supported the August 1991 coup attempt. In 1992, the LDPSS broke apart into its regional offsprings and the LDPR was created as its successor in Russia.
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