The Party of Economic Freedom (, ''Partiya Ekonomicheskoi svobody'') was a political party in

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led by

Konstantin Borovoy Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi (russian: Константи́н Ната́нович Борово́й; born 30 June 1948) is a liberal Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995–2000), former Chair of Party of Econ ...

History

The party was established in May 1992. It joined the "August" bloc for the 1993 parliamentary elections, but the bloc failed to obtain the 100,000 signatures necessary to get on the ballot. However, two party members,

Irina Khakamada Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada ( rus, Ири́на Муцу́овна Хакама́да, p=ɪˈrʲinə mʊˈtsuəvnə xəkɐˈmadə; ja, 袴田イリーナ; born April 13, 1955, in Moscow) is a Russian economist, political activist, journalist, pu ...

and Leonid Nekrasov, were elected after running as independents. The party did manage to run in the 1995 parliamentary elections, but received 0.13% of the proportional representation vote, failing to cross the

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. However, it did win a single constituency seat in the

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, taken by Borovoy. Prior to the 1999 parliamentary elections the party was in negotiations to become part of the

Union of Right Forces )"Liberty, Property, Legality"(russian: "Свобода, Собственность, Законность") , headquarters = Moscow , newspaper = Just Cause , membership_year = 2007 , membership = 57,410 , ideology ...

alliance, which it eventually joined. NDI's final pre-election report on the December 19, 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia
NDI The Union won 29 of the 450 seats. The party was deregistered in January 2003, then registered again on 8 February, and finally deregistered on 17 December.

References

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