| Description | Другая Россия
Drugaya Rossiya
The Other Russia, sometimes cited as Another Russia, is an umbrella coalition that gathers opponents of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The coalition brings together representatives from a wide variety of political and human rights movements, as well as individual citizens.
The group includes both left and right-wing opposition leaders, including right-wing liberal people such as former world chess champion and United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov and former Prime Minister of Russia and People Democratic Union leader Mikhail Kasyanov, as well as the National Bolshevik Party with its leader Eduard Limonov, far-left Vanguard of Red Youth, and far-left Workers' Party of Viktor Anpilov.
The Other Russia was formed during a constitutional meeting on July 11-July 12, 2006, (during the G8 summit) in Moscow. Western diplomats, inlcuding British Ambassador to Russia Anthony Brenton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barry Lowenkron, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, were attending the conference. The two main liberal parties, Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces, were boycotting the event over the participation of what they consider to be nationalist and extremist groups. |
