Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party
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People's Freedom Party
Партия народной свободы |
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| President | Mikhail Kasyanov |
| Founded | March 14, 1991 |
| Merger of | People's Freedom Party, United People's Party of Soldiers' Mothers, Peasant Party of Russia, Forward, Russia! |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Youth wing | Youth committee of Solidarnost People's Democratic Union of Youth |
| Membership (2011) | 46,158 |
| Ideology |
Federalism Liberal democracy Economic liberalism Conservative liberalism Pro-Europeanism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (associate) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Dark violet |
| Slogan | "For Russia, with free will and without corruption" |
| Seats in the State Duma |
0 / 450
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| Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
1 / 3,787
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The People's Freedom Party (Russian: Партия народной свободы, Partiya narodnoy svobody), or PARNAS (Russian: ПАРНАС), is a Russian liberal democratic political party.
Founded in November 1990 in the Russian SFSR as a pro-reform and pro-democracy party, the later Republican Party of Russia (RPR) became one of Russia’s oldest political parties. In 2007 the party was denied re-registration and declared to be dissolved by the Russian Supreme Court. It was only after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the denial of registration was unlawful that it could restore its official registration in May 2012. Today, PARNAS is led by Mikhail Kasyanov and is an associate member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
The Republican Party of the Russian Federation was founded in 1990 by members of the Democratic Platform of the CPSU, who had become disillusioned with the party's unwillingness to reform. The foundation of the new party took place in November 1990. Nikolay Lysenko, Stepan Sulakshin and Vyacheslav Shostakovsky were elected as the three co-chairman. The Republican Party joined the Democratic Russia bloc, an umbrella organisation of pro-democracy movements. The Republican Party was close to the Social Democratic Party of Russia, that was founded earlier in 1990. The two parties shared similar program and there were attempts to merge. The Republican Party's program has been characterised as liberal and ; similarly to the Social Democratic Party, however, the Republican Party had internal factions: ranging from democratic socialist to social liberal to liberal conservative.
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