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Russian Party of Freedom and Justice Российская партия свободы и справедливости | |
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| Abbreviation | RPSS |
| Chairman | Konstantin Rykov |
| Founder | Andrei Bogdanov |
| Founded | 8 April 2012 (2012-04-08)(Communist Party of Social Justice) 28 March 2021 (2021-03-28)(Russian Party of Freedom and Justice) |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Ideology | BroadSocialism |
| Political position | Centre-left[1] |
| Colours | Black Red |
| Seats in the State Duma | 0 / 450 |
| Seats in the Regional Parliaments | 1 / 3,928 [2][3] |
| Website | |
| my.rpss.ru | |
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TheRussian Party of Freedom and Justice (RPSS;Russian:Российская партия свободы и справедливости; РПСС,romanized: Rossiyskaya partiya svobody i spravedlivosti; RPSS) is apolitical party inRussia established and registered in 2012 as Communist Party of Social Justice.[4]
The party was created with the participation of the leader of theDemocratic Party of Russia and politicianAndrey Bogdanov.[5]
In the 2013 elections inVolgograd, the party received 5.04% (9055 votes) breaking the five-percentthreshold and received one seat in the city Parliament.[6]
In 2014, Bogdanov became party leader, succeeding Yuri Morozov in this post. Andrei Brezhnev, grandson ofGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionLeonid Brezhnev, was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party. In this year's election, Brezhnev was the candidate for the Parliament ofCrimea andSevastopol,[7] but the party did not win any seats.[8][9]
In April 2021, the party was renamed the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice.Konstantin Rykov became the chairman of the party, andMaksim Shevchenko became the leader.[10]
On September 9, 2022, Maxim Shevchenko stated in his official Telegram channel that he no longer considers himself the leader of the RPSS and does not participate in the activities of a political party.[11]
TheCommunist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has accused the party of being a creation of theKremlin andUnited Russia to siphon votes away from the CPRF.[12][13]
CPRF points out that the CPSJ nominated candidates in single-mandate constituencies who had the same names as candidates from the CPRF, in order to confuse voters. Sergei Obukhov asserts that "it is not the CPSJ who stands behind the nomination of namesakes, but the administrative resource and theruling party".[14]
In 2020, the party nominated Gennady Shchadov in the elections for the governor ofIrkutsk Oblast while Mikhail Shchapov was nominated from the CPRF.[15]
Leader of theLeft FrontSergei Udaltsov said that "the nature of the actions of the new party (RPSS) gives reason to think that they will be aspoiler party". He called Maksim Shevchenko's joining the RPSS "a betrayal of his comrades at a crucial moment" and considered possible his exclusion from Left Front.[16]
