People's Freedom Party

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Партия народной свободы (ПАРНАС)
People's Freedom Party (PARNAS)
PARNAS logo
Party leader Dmitry Medvedev
Party leader Mikhail Kassyanov (2012-)
Boris Nemtsov (2012-2015)
Vladimir Ryschkow (2006-2014)
founding 1990/2010
Place of foundation Moscow , RSFSR
Headquarters Moscow , Russia
Alignment Conservative Liberalism
Economic Liberalism
Liberal Democracy
Federalism
Colours)
  • Bordeaux red
    • Number of members 58,166 (2007)
    European party ALDE
    Website parnasparty.ru

    The Party of People's Freedom (abbreviated to PARNAS ; Russian Партия народной свободы, ПАРНАС ) is a Russian party .

    The party emerged from several parties and alliances in opposition to Vladimir Putin . Its most famous members and at the same time co-founders are or were Mikhail Kassyanov , Vladimir Ryschkow and Boris Nemtsov . The latter was a representative of the Solidarnost Alliance when it was founded , Kassyanov stood for the Russian People's Democratic League (RNDS) and Ryzhkov for the Republican Party of Russia ( RPR ).

    history

    History of the Parnas

    The party of people's freedom "For a Russia without arbitrariness and corruption" (abbreviated to PARNAS; Russian Партия народной свободы "За Россию без произвола и коррупции") was founded in December 2010 and intended to officially register for the upcoming federal elections. however, it was rejected on June 22, 2011. The only parties in Russia that have been newly admitted since 2002 are the Patriots of Russia , the Just Russia Party and the Right Cause , which, according to some observers, all belong to the “puppet opposition” or - as in the case of the Right Cause - from the Russian politician and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov as a “puppet project of the Kremlin ”.

    Merger to form the RPR-Parnas party

    After the party of Vladimir Ryzhkov, which was founded in 1990 as the Republican Party of the Russian Federation , was renamed the Republican Party of Russia in 2002 and was forcibly dissolved in 2007, successfully presented to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that its dissolution was illegal, the Russian Ministry of Justice registered the RPR restored in 2012. In the meantime, however, the RPR had become obsolete through the establishment of Parnas ; but in order to take advantage of the now existing party registration, the leadership of Parnas decided to unite with the RPR. The first party congress of the new united party took place on June 16, 2012. The party was named RPR-Parnas. The question of the exact membership base (question of the former members of RPR) is still unresolved; however, the new party has at least 47,500 members - number of members of Parnas.

    Regional elections in September 2015

    According to the NZZ, the Kostroma region was the only one of 11 regions where the party was allowed to take part in the elections. After a dirty campaign in which their candidates were described as foreign-controlled agents and, according to Kremlin critics, “numerous rule violations”, the party failed with the candidate Ilya Yashin at the five percent hurdle .

    Web links

    Commons : People's Freedom Party  - collection of images, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ ПАРНАС - это не партия , svoboda.org, June 22, 2011 (Russian)
    2. ↑ scandal over Prawoje Delo: oligarch Prokhorov calls to quit "Kremlin puppet party" on sputniknews.com, 15 September, 2011.
    3. ↑ Report on the establishment of the Right Cause , kommersant.ru
    4. ↑ NZZ, September 15, 2015, page 2