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Independent Democratic Party of Russia
Leader	Mikhail Gorbachev Alexander Lebedev
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Moscow
Ideology	Social democracy

The Independent Democratic Party of Russia (Russian: Независимая демократическая партия России) is the proposed name of a new liberal party that in late September 2008 was announced to be founded by the former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and the billionaire and State Duma deputy of Fair Russia Alexander Lebedev.^[1] The Union of Social Democrats is said to be its main base, but Lebedev has suggested that members of the just failed Union of Right Forces could join but at the same time also said that there would be "no extremists" among the party's prospective membership.^[2] Lebedev also stressed that the "party will press for legal and economic reform and promote the growth of independent media" as well as "less state capitalism" and a reform of the justice system and a stronger role for the parliament.^[3]

In late March 2009 Lebedev announced that he planned to participate in the mayoral election in Sochi. At the same time he also said that former independent Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov will join the leadership of the Independent Democratic Party of Russia.^[4]

The party is still not registered as a party according to the tough Russian laws but plans for registration is set for the summer of 2009.^[5] It will hold its founding congress in early September 2009.^[6]

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[edit] External links

• http://www.ndpr.alebedev.ru

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