Union of Right Forces
Leader	Nikita Belykh
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Moscow
Official ideology/ political position	Conservative
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
Website	www.SPS.ru

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The Union of Right Forces, or SPS (Сою́з Пра́вых Сил, СПС/Soyuz Pravykh Sil), is a Russian democratic opposition party associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the 'Young Reformers' of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. Nikita Belykh is the party's leader. The Party is considered by most western media organs such as The Economist and the BBC to be one of Russia's only parties that support western-style capitalism, and is a conservative party. Its headquarters are located in Moscow. It is affiliated to the International Democrat Union. The President of Russia (ru: Президент России is the highest position within the Government of Russia. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current president of Russia. ... 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The Union of Right Forces was established in 1999, following a merger of several smaller liberal parties, including Democratic Choice of Russia and Democratic Russia. In the 1999 parliamentary elections the Union of Right Forces won 8.6% of the vote and 32 seats in the Russian State Duma (lower house of Parliament). The Democratic Choice of Russia is a Russian political party that was founded by former acting prime minister (1992) Yegor Gaidar. ... Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 19, 1999. ... For other uses, see State Duma (disambiguation). ... A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ...

From 2000 to 2003 the Union of Right Forces was led by former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov. Under Nemtsov's leadership SPS strongly opposed what they saw to be the authoritarian policies of President Vladimir Putin and argued that political and media freedoms in Russia had been curtailed. Boris Nemtsov Boris Efimovich Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов) (born October 9, 1959) is one of the leading members of the liberal Union of Right Forces political party in Russia. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current president of Russia. ...

In the 2003 parliamentary elections the Union of Right Forces, according to official results, received 4% of the vote and failed to cross the 5% threshold necessary for parliamentary representation. A number of SPS candidates came second in single-mandate electoral districts the party had previously held, such as Irina Khakamada in St. Petersburg, Vladimir V. Kara-Murza in Moscow, or Boris Nadezhdin in the Moscow region. Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7, 2003. ... Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada (Ири́на Муцу́овна Хакама́да, also transliterated as Irina Mucuovna Chakamada) (born April 13, 1955) is a democratic female Russian politician of Japanese origin. ... Vladimir V. Kara-Murza Vladimir V. Kara-Murza (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза) was born in Moscow in 1981. ...

Despite allegations of fraud, Boris Nemtsov accepted responsibility for the election defeat and resigned as SPS leader in January 2004. On May 28, 2005 Nikita Belykh was elected as the new leader of the party. Boris Nemtsov Boris Efimovich Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов) (born October 9, 1959) is one of the leading members of the liberal Union of Right Forces political party in Russia. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nikita Belykh (in Russian Никита Юрьевич Белых) is a Russian politician and the leader of the Union of Right Forces party. ...

Plans to merge with Yabloko were shelved in late 2006.^[1] Yabloko (official title: the Russian Democratic Party Yabloko, in Russian: Российская демократическая партия Яблоко, (Russian: — Apple)) is a Russian social-liberal party, led by Grigory Yavlinsky. ...

External link

• Union of Right Forces official site