Social Democratic Party of Russia (2001)

I SDPR Congress

The 1st (Constituent) Congress of the SDPR was held on November 24, 2001 ^[1] in Moscow at the World Trade Center on Krasnaya Presnya ^{[2] The} program and statutes were adopted, the Central Board (134 people) was elected and the Political Council was elected as a permanent governing body (29 people). The leader of the party, according to the results of the secret ballot, was M. S. Gorbachev , the chairman was K. A. Titov . At the end of the congress, V.Mironenko was elected secretary-coordinator of the SDPR at the organizational meeting of the Central Board. The party was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on May 22, 2002 (certificate No. 19).

During the first years of existence, the party was actually divided into “Gorbachev’s” and “Titovtsevs”. The conflict was based primarily on the personal commitment of members to one or another party leader.

SDPR II Congress

The II Congress of the SDPR was held on September 19, 2003 ^[3] . It discussed the issue of the participation of the SDPR in the election of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation IV convocation. The decision on non-participation of the party in the elections was actually delayed. As a result, only single-mandate candidates ran from the SDPR, not one of them went to the Duma.

On October 28, 2003, the SDPR was admitted to the Socialist International as an advisory member with the right to speak and express its views ^[4] .

In May 2004, Gorbachev resigned as party leader as a result of a conflict with Konstantin Titov ^{[5] [6] [7]} . A month before, the SDPR signed a cooperation agreement with the Social Justice Party ^[8] .

In January 2005, Konstantin Titov suspended his membership in the SDPR ^[9] .

In October 2005, an agreement was signed between the SDPR and the People's Party ^[10] .

In 2005, the SDPR list was nominated in the Moscow City Duma elections ^[11] , but the list was not registered, and representatives of the party did not appear at the meeting of the election commission, which made the decision on registration ^[12] .

SDPR III Congress

In September 2004, the III SDPR Congress was held, at which Vladimir Kishenin was elected Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Russia ^[13] , who headed the list of the Social Justice Party at the 2003 State Duma elections.

In June 2005, Vladimir Kishenin announced the creation of a Social Protection Fund, the main task of which was to provide qualified legal assistance to persons who suffered damage as a result of a power outage ^[14] .

SDPR IV Congress

Before the congress, the question of uniting the SDPR with other parties of the left orientation was seriously discussed ^{[15] [16]} .

The period of leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Russia VN Kishenin is estimated ambiguously. Kishenin accused of turning the party into a business project ^[17] . The peak of the conflict of interest within the party was December 2006 , when the 4th (extraordinary) SDPR congress took place. The leaders of the two regional offices (Bryansk and Astrakhan) were not allowed to the congress.

After the congress, a number of prominent functionaries and ideologues left the party. The leader of the SDPR Bryansk branch Nikolay Rudenok together with the head of Bryansk Igor Alekhin and the representative of the regional legislative assembly in the Federation Council Eduard Vasilishin held consultations in the presidential administration regarding the fate of the party ^[18] .

Another extraordinary congress of the SDPR (IV (unofficial) ^[19] , which was not officially recognized as a result) was held on February 17, 2007. At this congress, Nikolai Rudenok of the Bryansk regional branch was elected the party chairman ^[20] .

The SDPR youth organization was originally the Russian Social Democratic Youth Union (RSDSM), inherited from the Russian United Social Democratic Party (RODP) . As a result of the unification of the parties, the youth organization of the RPSD actually joined the RSDSM.

In 2004, after being elected the chairman of the SDPR , V.N. Kishenin , the party decided to create its youth wing, abandoning the RSDSM. For RSDSM, of course, it had disastrous consequences. And this fact allowed the RSDSM to work independently and build its structure anew, without looking at the party. In 2006, at its congress, the RSDSM, in turn, completely refused to cooperate with the SDPR.

The reason for the breakdown of the SDPR and the RSDSM was that the RSDSM was a legal entity and, in accordance with its Charter, had the right to independently participate in the elections, being a public-political organization.

In exchange for the Russian Social Democratic Union of Youth, the SDPR youth organization was created, with Aleksei Karpenko as curator. The youth organization SDPR was represented in the Youth Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of 2007, members of the SDPR youth organization led by Aleksey Karpenko joined the Victory youth organization.

On April 13, 2007, the Supreme Court of Russia decided to liquidate the Social Democratic Party of Russia, satisfying the claim of the Federal Registration Service, which, after checking the number of parties, considered that the SDPR does not meet the requirements of the Law on Political Parties, since it does not have more than half subjects of the Russian Federation regional offices with more than 500 people ^{[21] [22]} . The final decision, after the appeal, was made by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on July 12, 2007 . After the dissolution, part of the members joined the party " Fair Russia" ^[23] .

On October 20, 2007, under the chairmanship of the former party leader Mikhail Gorbachev , the All-Russian public movement Union of Social Democrats was established.

• 2001—2004 Mikhail Gorbachev - Co-Chairman
• 2001—2004 Konstantin Titov - Co-Chairman
• 2004—2007 Vladimir Kishenin - Chairman

March 21, 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev , chairman of the All-Russian Social Movement “Union of Social Democrats”, at a press conference in Interfax , stated that the businessman-politician Alexander Lebedev , who had participated in a number of Gorbachev- projects, was planning to help him in this. Stock . MS Gorbachev himself did not plan to lead the party; according to him, the party should have been headed by a new man ^{[24] [25]} .

In 2012, political consultant Andrei Bogdanov , was ahead of the leader of the Social Union “Union of Social Democrats” and the former co-chairman of the party, Mikhail Gorbachev, and on May 21, 2012, the Russian Ministry of Justice officially registered the same-name Social Democratic Party of Russia (without the participation of M. S. Gorbachev) under the chairmanship of the publicist Viktor Militarev, who was later headed by Sirazhdin Ramazanov. ^[26] . On June 14, 2019 by the Supreme Court, the third party of the same name was liquidated. ^{[27] [28] [29]}

• Social Democratic Party of Russia (1990)
• Socialist International (Socialist International)

• The official site of the movement of the Union of Social Democrats
• Archive of the official website of the SDPR Kishenin sdpr.ru 2007
• SDPR official website archive www.sdprus.ru

Interview

• Interviews of V.N. Kishenin and G.V. Gudkov during a joint visit to the Vologda Oblast, May 2005
• Interview of V.N. Kishenin to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, March 2007
• Interview with SDPR International Secretary B. P. Guseletov “Socialist-SDPR Main Stages of Cooperation and its Prospects”