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Democratic Union (Russia)

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Leader
  
Vacant

Newspaper
  
Free Word

Headquarters
  
Moscow

Founder
  
Valeriya Novodvorskaya Yevgeniya Debryanskaya

Founded
  
May 8, 1988 (1988-05-08)

Ideology
  
Classical liberalism Anti-Sovietism Anti-communism Anti-fascism Individualism

Democratic Union (Russian: Демократический Союз) is a Soviet and Russian liberal party founded on 8 May, 1988 by Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Yevgeniya Debryanskaya. The party has become known after a series of unsanctioned demonstrations organized and consistently taking place from 1988 to 1991 in Moscow and Leningrad, with the protesters getting arrested. The party charter specifies the main goals of the organization (among others) as follows:

  • popularization of liberal ideas
  • strengthening the rule of law
  • supporting liberal reforms
  • support and protection of private property
  • fighting against occurrence of communism, nazism, fascism, and socialism.

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