The Other Russia (coalition)

The Other Russia

15,000 people in St. Petersburg on March 3, 2007. Dissenters' Marches were main events of the Other Russia.
Predecessor	Committee 2008
Successor	National Assembly of the Russian Federation, Solidarnost (2008), Coalition "For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption" (2010), The Other Russia (party) (2010), Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012)
Formation	2006
Extinction	2008/2009/2010
Legal status	Coalition
Purpose	Political
Headquarters	Moscow
Leader	Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Eduard Limonov
Website	www.theotherrussia.ru

The Other Russia (Russian: Другая Россия – Drugaya Rossiya), sometimes cited as Another Russia, was an umbrella coalition (2006–2008/2009/2010) that gathered opponents of President Vladimir Putin and known as organizer of Dissenters' Marches. The coalition brings together representatives from a wide variety of political and human rights movements, liberals, nationalists, socialists and communists (though the CPRF is absent), as well as individual citizens. The last Dissenters' March took place in 2008.

The group includes both far left, centre, and far right opposition leaders as well as mainstream liberals such as former world chess champion and United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov, the radical National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov, and the far-left Vanguard of Red Youth.

The Other Russia was formed during a constitutional meeting in July 2006, (during the G8 summit) in Moscow. Western diplomats, including British Ambassador to Russia Anthony Brenton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barry Lowenkron, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, were attending the conference. The two main liberal parties, Yabloko and the Union of Rightist Forces, were boycotting the event over the participation of what they consider to be nationalist and extremist groups.