MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russian nationalistic groups plan to build a new party based on the Russian Public Movement led by Konstantin Krylov, the Russian Civil Union led by Anton Susov, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration led by Vladimir Tor and some other groups, Izvestia reported on March 20.
"The documents [for registration] will be submitted to the Justice Ministry this week," Izvestia quoted Krylov as saying.
The new party could be called the National-Democratic Party or the Russian National-Democratic Party, Krylov said. "Everything will depend on whether parties with a similar name have also filed registration applications and on the Justice Ministry’s ruling," he said.
Krylov will be the leader of the new party and Tor the chairman of its executive committee, Izvestia said.
The party’s political council will comprise prominent Russian nationalists and nationalism experts, the newspaper said.
The party will also have an independent supervisory board.
"Blogger Alexei Navalny, Democratic Choice leader Vladimir Milov, Sergei Zhavoronkov [a former member of the Solidarity movement expelled from it in 2010 for nationalistic remarks on the Internet], head of the supervisory board of the movement Russians Alexander Belov, and MGIMO [Moscow State Institute of International Relations] Professor Valery Solovei have already been invited to it," Izvestia said.
The new party could build political blocs with all members of the supervisory board if this is allowed by the law, Tor said.
He claimed that the future party will number thousands of members.
"We are not going to become a party of protest or take away votes from [President-elect Vladimir] Putin, but we expect support from people who have achieved something. They believe society has not paid enough for their efforts. They go to polling stations and are discontented with what is going on in the country. Russia should become a more European country. We are not worse than other nations and are well prepared to live the same way," Krylov told Izvestia.
It was reported earlier that Dmitry Dyomushkin, the leader of the movement Russians, had said he planned to set up a party as well.
