Independent Democratic Party of Russia

The Independent Democratic Party of Russia (НДПР, IDPR or NDPR; Russian: Независимая демократическая партия России, romanized: Nezavisimaya demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii) was the proposed name of a liberal party that was announced in late September 2008 to be founded by the former General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and State Duma deputy of Fair Russia, Alexander Lebedev.^[1] The Union of Social Democrats, led by Mikhail Gorbachev, is said to be its main base.^[2] Lebedev also stressed that the "party will press for legal and economic reform and promote the growth of independent media" as well as "less state capitalism", a reform of the justice system, and a stronger role of the parliament.^[3] At some point between 2014 and 2016, the website associated with the proposed party went offline.

Independent Democratic Party of Russia Независимая демократическая партия России
Abbreviation	NDPR (English) НДПР (Russian)
Leader	Mikhail Gorbachev Alexander Lebedev
Founded	September 29, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-09-29)
Dissolved	2014–2016
Split from	A Just Russia
Preceded by	Union of Social Democrats
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Liberalism Social liberalism
Political position	Centre to Centre-left
Colours	Dark blue   Light blue
Website
www.ndpr.alebedev.ru
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