The Independent Democratic Party of Russia (НДПР, IDPR or NDPR; russian: Независимая демократическая партия России, translit=Nezavisimaya demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii) was the proposed name of a liberal party that was announced in late September 2008 to be founded by the former General Secretary of the

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. The

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, led by Mikhail Gorbachev, is said to be its main base. Lebedev also stressed that the "party will press for legal and economic reform and promote the growth of

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" as well as "less

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", a reform of the justice system, and a stronger role of the parliament. At some point between 2014 and 2016, the website associated with the proposed party went offline.

References

External links

Official website of the proposed party
Liberal parties in Russia Mikhail Gorbachev Political parties established in 2008 {{Russia-politics-stub