The Baltic Republican Party (BRP; russian: Балтийская республиканская партия; БРП; ''Baltiyskaya respublikanskaya partiya'', ''BRP'') was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. Founded on 1 December 1993 in

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and admin ...

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

constituencies and at least 10,000 members in strength. An appeal was lost in February 2005 before the Constitutional Court of Russia. The main political purpose of the party was the establishment of an autonomous Baltic 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 ...

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Baltic Republican Party official websiteBlog in English of the Baltic Republican Party
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baltic Republican Party 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

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