Democratic Party of Russia

Not to be confused with Democratic Russia or Democratic Choice of Russia.

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Democratic Party of Russia Демократическая партия России
Leader	Timur Bogdanov
Founder	Nikolay Travkin
Founded	May 26, 1990; 28 years ago (1990-05-26) March 12, 2012; 6 years ago (2012-03-12) (restored)
Dissolved	2008-2012
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Youth wing	Youth union of DPR
Membership (2015)	500
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right to Right-wing
European affiliation	European People's Party
Colours	Blue
Seats in the State Duma	0 / 450
Seats in the Regional Parliaments	0 / 3,787
Website
democrats.ru
Politics of Russia Political parties Elections

The identity of the party member
(1992–2006)

The identity of the party member
(2006–08)

The Democratic Party of Russia or DPR (Russian: Демократическая Партия России, Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii) is a conservative Russian political party that was founded in 1990. Under the leadership of Andrey Bogdanov, the party advocated the entry of Russia into the European Union.^[1] In 2008, the party merged with several others to form the Right Cause. It was re-established as a party and officially registered again in 2012.

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  1 History
  


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  2 Electoral history
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

History

The Democratic Party of Russia was founded by Nikolay Travkin. Other early leaders included Stanislav Govorukhin and Sergey Glazyev. In the 1990s it was a prominent democratically-oriented party holding seats in the first State Duma and was a member of the Democratic Russia coalition. After the coup in 1991, the party evolved from liberal anticommunism to centrism (1992–1993) and later to moderate Russian nationalism (1994–1995).^{[citation needed]}

In 1991, the Democratic Party differed from other liberal/democratic organizations with its 'demopatriotic' stance (similar to Aksyuchits' Christian-Democratic Party and Astafyev's Constitutional Democrats). The Democratic Party was opposed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and criticised Latvia's and Estonia's policies towards their Russian-speaking minorities. After the signing of the Belovezhye treaty, the DP organized a number of demonstrations against the treaty.

In the 1993 parliamentary elections in Russia, the party received 5.52% of the Proportional Representation ballot vote (2,969,533 votes) as well as 2.1% (1,094,066 votes) of votes on individual district ballots. This translated into 14 and 7 seats, respectively, for a total of 21 seats in the 450-seat Duma.

The party's stance on Yegor Gaidar's economic reforms was confusing but developed more critical in the course of time. During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, the party did not have a unanimous position. The party called for balloting both for the re-election of the President as well as of the legislative bodies on the referendum in April 1993; however, some of the party's leaders took the pro-Yeltsin side. Similarly, during the October 1993 events in Moscow, Travkin initially supported the so-called zero variants (annulling both Yeltsin's decree nr 1400 and the Supreme Soviet's subsequent decisions). On 4 October, Travkin supported Yeltsin's actions in suppressing the armed rebellion. The party took part in the Russian legislative election, 1993 and won 14 seats. The party split, however, on the issue of support for the Chernomyrdin cabinet. Travkin who took a more conciliatory stand lost the power struggle to Govorukhin and Glazyev, who were determined opponents of the government course, and Travkin consequently left the party and joined the Our Home is Russia movement.

Glazyev was made the leader in 1994 but was disbanded before the following year's legislative election. The rump DRP split further between Govorukhin and Glazyev supporters. In the Russian legislative election, 1995, the Glazyev wing took part within the Congress of Russian Communities list, whilst Govorukhin formed his own list, called the Stanislav Govorukhin Bloc.^[2]

In the 1996 presidential election, the Democratic Party supported Alexander Lebed, though some of its regional leaders supported Yeltsin's campaign. In the 2000 presidential election, the party supported Vladimir Putin.

In 2001 the party was reformed by Mikhail Prusak. In 2005 Mikhail Kasyanov tried to be elected chairman of the party, but lost to Andrei Vladimirovich Bogdanov. In June 2007, the party proposed a referendum on joining the European Union and in December it took part in the legislative election, but it did not win any seats.^[3] The DPR of that time was accused of being a virtual party used to draw away votes from the real opposition parties.

17 September 2007, with the support of the European People's Party in the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, hosted the XXI Congress of the Democratic Party of Russia, which adopted the decision on the accession of Russia to the European Union.^[1]

In the Russian legislative election, 2007 the party won 0.13% of votes, not breaking the 7% barrier, and thus no seats in the Duma. As of 1 January 2007, according to the Federal Registration Service, the party had 82,183 members.

According to the results of the regional elections of 2012, 2013, and 2014, the party failed to win in regional and city parliaments.

In 2014 Andrei Bogdanov head created by the participation of the Communist Party of Social Justice, leader of the Democratic Party of Russia was elected his brother Timur Bogdanov.^[4]

Electoral history

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  Russian legislative election, 1993 – 2 969 533 votes (5.52%) 14 deputies.


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  Russian legislative election, 2003 – 136 294 votes (0.22%)


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  Russian legislative election, 2007 – 89,780 votes (0.13%)


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  Russian presidential election, 2008 – 968,344 votes (1.31%)

References

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   ^ ^ab The democratic Congress Democratic party of Russia in Brussels//17 September 2007
   


2. 
   ^ History and goals of the Democratic party of Russia
   


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   ^ 2007 Russian legislative election results Archived 6 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
   


4. 
   ^ Andrey Bogdanov became the main Communist
   

External links

• Official website (Russian)

v t e Registered political parties in Russia
Represented in State Duma	United Russia (339) Communist Party (42) Liberal Democratic Party (40) A Just Russia (23) Rodina (1) Civic Platform (1)
Only in regional parliaments	Patriots of Russia Communist Party of Social Justice Communists of Russia Green Alliance Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice Yabloko Party of Growth People's Freedom Party
Other registered (in the Justice Ministry's order)	Democratic Party of Russia People's Party for the Women of Russia Union Towns People People's Party of Russia Social Democratic Party of Russia Cities of Russia Young Russia New Russia Party of Free Citizens Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" Agrarian Party of Russia Russian All-People's Union Party for Justice Civilian Power Clever Russia Monarchist Party Home Country Party of Peace and Unity Democratic Choice Will Against All Russian United Labour Front Party Action Civil Position Party of Russia's Rebirth
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