The Baltic Republican Party (BRP; russian: Балтийская республиканская партия; БРП; ''Baltiyskaya respublikanskaya partiya'', ''BRP'') was a
political party
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in the
Russian Federation
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. Founded on 1 December 1993 in
Kaliningrad Oblast
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and lost its official status as a political party on 26 March 2003 due to the new Russian Law on political parties which requires that each party should have regional branches in at least half of the
Russian Federation
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constituencies and at least 10,000 members in strength. An appeal was lost in February 2005 before the
Constitutional Court of Russia
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When these princip ...
. The main political purpose of the party was the establishment of an autonomous
Baltic
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Peoples and languages
* Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
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Republic instead of the
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...
region, possibly total independence. It also wanted the old name Königsberg restored. Its leaders are Sergei Pasko and Rustam Vasiliev.
In February 2005 the constituent congress of the Kaliningrad Public Movement – Respublika took place in Kaliningrad. It has the same objectives as the BRP, its cochairmen are Sergei Pasko and Vitautas Lopata, an
independent deputy of the regional Duma and local chairperson of the opposition
Russian People's Democratic Union
The Russian People's Democratic Union (RNDS; russian: Российский народно-демократический союз; РНДС; ''Rossiyskiy narodno-demokraticheskiy soyuz'', ''RNDS''), initially named as People for Democracy and Jus ...
.
See also
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Secession in Russia
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References
External links
Baltic Republican Party official websiteBlog in English of the Baltic Republican Party
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Politics of Kaliningrad Oblast
Defunct political parties in Russia
Political parties established in 1993
Political parties disestablished in 2003
Regionalist parties
1993 establishments in Russia
Separatism in Russia
Pro-independence parties