Baltic Republican Party
Baltic Republican Party Балтийская республиканская партия | |
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| Abbreviation | BRP (English) БРП (Russian) |
| Leader | Rustam Vasiliev |
| Founders | Sergei Pasko Rustam Vasiliev |
| Founded | 1 December 1993 (as BRP) 21 February 2005 (as Respublika) |
| Dissolved | 3 December 2003[1] (deregistered) 21 February 2005 (as BRP) |
| Headquarters | 20th Building, Schiller Street, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia |
| Newspaper | Delovaya zhizn (Business life) |
| Membership | 500 |
| Ideology | Kaliningrad independence Kaliningrad autonomism Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | National Democratic Alliance |
| Colours | White Blue Red Yellow |
| Website | |
| enet.ru/~baltia koenigsberg-eu.blogspot.com | |
The Baltic Republican Party (BRP; Russian: Балтийская республиканская партия; БРП; Baltiyskaya respublikanskaya partiya, BRP) was a political party in the Russian Federation. Founded on 1 December 1993 in Kaliningrad Oblast 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 Russian Federation constituencies and at least 10,000 members in strength. An appeal was lost in February 2005 before the Constitutional Court of Russia.[2] The main political purpose of the party was the establishment of an autonomous Baltic Republic instead of the Kaliningrad region, possibly total independence. It also wanted the old name Königsberg restored.[3] 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.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "The constitutional court confirmed the legitimacy of the law on political parties". kommersant. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ David Atkinson and Rudolf Bindig, Honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation, Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee), Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 3 June 2005
- ^ Fred Weir, A Baltic province's story, in one man's life, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2002
- ^ Kaliningrad Flies an Orange Flag, Kommersant, 22 February 2005