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Democratic Union
Демократический союз
AbbreviationDU (English)
ДС (Russian)
LeaderValeriya Novodvorskaya
FounderValeriya Novodvorskaya
Yevgeniya Debryanskaya
Sergei Grigoryants
Founded8 May 1988; 36 years ago (1988-05-08)
DissolvedJuly 2014; 10 years ago (2014-07)
Succeeded byWestern Choice
HeadquartersMoscow
NewspaperFree Word
IdeologyLiberalism
Classical liberalism
Reformism
Anti-communism
Anti-fascism
Atlanticism
Political positionCentre-right
Colours  White
  Blue
  Red
Website
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Democratic Union (Russian: Демократический союз) was the first official political opposition party in the Soviet Union. It was founded on 8 May 1988 by a group of Soviet dissidents including Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Sergei Grigoryants and Yevgeniya Debryanskaya.

Practical preparation for the first constituent congress of the party was carried out in a country house at the Kratovo station near Moscow, where human rights activist Sergei Grigoryants lived. One of the meetings of the constituent congress was held on the platform of this station. The party gained fame thanks to the full-scale party newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, which was distributed throughout the USSR, with a weekly circulation in 1991 of 55,000 copies.

The party has become known after a series of unsanctioned demonstrations organized and consistently taking place from 1988[1] to 1991 in Moscow and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), with the protesters getting arrested. The party charter specifies the main goals of the organization (among others) as follows:

The main statutory task of the party "liquidation of the totalitarian state" was accomplished in 1991, after which the party's program, tested in political battles, was actually copied by all parties officially registered in the territory of the former USSR.

In 2014, after the death of the leader of the movement, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, the movement ceased to exist.

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References

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  1. ^ Keller, Bill (12 June 1988). "Moscow Police Thwart Rally by Opposition Group". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
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