JUST RUSSIA PARTY JUST RUSSIA PARTY

JUST RUSSIA PARTY

JUST RUSSIA PARTY is the largest left party in Russia consisting of more than 400 000 members. The party is represented in 82 Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation where we have our regional branches.

The Chairman of JUST RUSSIA PARTY Sergey Mironov holds the post of the Chairman of Federation Council of the Russian Federation.

HISTORY On august 29, 2006 in the press-center of the weekly newspaper Arguments and Facts leaders of three Russian political parties Alexander Babakov, Sergey Mironov, and Igor Zotov signed the first Agreement on Fundamental Principles of Uniting the Party «RODINA» (Motherland), the Party of Life, and the Party of Pensioners. This document laid the foundation of establishing a new political party in Russia.

Two months later on October 28, 2006 JUST RUSSIA PARTY was formed at the Congress which united mentioned above parties. On this Congress Sergey Mironov was elected as the Chairman of the new political party. By the decree of the Party Chairman the 28 of October 2006 was declared as the Day of the Party Birth. In 2007 another four political parties, the People’s Party of Russian Federation, the United Socialist Party of Russia, the Party of Entrepreneurship Development and the Party of Constitutional Democrats joined JUST RUSSIA. On December 2, 2007 JUST RUSSIA crossed the 7 percent threshold for eligibility to win seats in the State Duma of V convection at General Election and became the parliamentary party. On June 30, 2008 XXIII Social International Congress approved the membership of JUST RUSSIA PARTY in the. Social International.

LEADERS Sergey Mironov – Leader of JUST RUSSIA PARTY, Chairman of the Federation Council. «I am sure that guarantee of rights, providing the social safety and accordance of all necessary conditions for self-actualization are the vital today’s task of state functioning» .

LEADERS Nikolai Levichev – the Secretary of the Central Council of JUST RUSSIA PARTY, the Leader of JUST RUSSIA Parliamentary Group, the member of the Committee of the State Duma on Science and High Technologies. «I strongly belief that the choice of the social perspective is the only chance to overcome the scandalous social inequality, to decrease expenses going to the future and to step on the way of self-dependent development» .

LEADERS Alexander Babakov – the First Secretary of Central Council of JUST RUSSIA PARTY, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma, the member of JUST RUSSIA Parliamentary Group, the member of the Committee of the State Duma on Power Engineering. «The new socialism will help to overcome the demographic problems in Russia and to built a fair, solidary and free society governed by the responsible public authority and will increase the role of the Government in the strategic industry sectors»

IDEOLOGY We came in politics to build a fair, free and solidary society in Russia, to provide the social security and to make authorities responsible to the people for real. The strategic aim of our party is to gain the intellectual, cultural, and then economic leadership of our country. In this task we see the guarantee of prosperity, self-sufficiency and security of our people.

IDEOLOGY Human beings with their needs, anxieties and hopes are the central part of our ideology. We strive for the becoming “Human Dimension” the main criterion of every state decision. Increase of wages, protection of vulnerable groups, accessible education and public health service, the support of science and culture are priorities of our party in the social policy. We consider the New Socialism as the project of the future of Russia, which conforms with the worldwide tendencies as well as with the spiritual tradition of people which is the firm basis of national agreement on the way to the future.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE PARTY

Socialist International On June 30, 2008 XXIII Socialist International Congress approved the membership of JUST RUSSIA PARTY in the Socialist International providing our party with the Observer Status. The membership in such prestigious international organization which unites more than 170 socialdemocratic, socialist and labor parties and organizations from 130 countries is an opportunity to be the part of the world-wide socialist movement. Our party shares the principals and goals of the Socialist International and appreciates greatly the possibility to exchange information and experience in the frame of this organization.

Our party leader Sergey Mironov is a member of the Socialist International Commission for Sustainable World Society headed by the ex. President of Chile Ricardo Lagos and the former Prime Minister of Sweden Goren Persson. The composition of the Commission also includes many other famous politicians from different countries. The main objective of the Commission is the developing joint proposals for solving important global problems such as climate change, energy and state administration.

Anatoly Aksakov, member of the Board of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and member of our Parliamentary Group in the State Duma, is a member of the Socialist International Commission on Global Financial Issues which is headed by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. We actively work at the New Socialism theory. JUST RUSSIA PARTY conducted three International Socialist forums: “Socialist Alternative is the Solution of Social Problems of the XXI Century” (November 2007, Moscow), “Socialist Strategy - the Stable Development of the World Community in the XXI Century” (May 2008, Moscow) and “Strategies of Overcoming the Global Economic Crisis. Socialist Viewpoint” (June 2009, Moscow).

The last Forum was attended by representatives of 32 foreign social democratic, social and labor parties and 8 international NGOs from 23 countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Among the representatives were members of Russian and foreign parliaments, scientists and cultural workers. Luis Ayala, Secretary General of the Socialist International also attended the Forum.

International cooperation JUST RUSSIA PARTY has developed good working relations with the leading member parties of the Socialist International. Our party leaders had meetings and negotiations with leaders of social democratic and socialist parties from Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic etc. In January 2008 delegation of JUST RUSSIA PARTY participated in the Congress of SAMAK in Stockholm. This organization unites socialdemocratic parties and trade unions of the Baltic countries.

We also collaborate actively with the Chinese Communist Party. We established good relations with different foundation such as Olaf Palme Center (Sweden), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Alfred Mozer Foundation (German), Kalevi Sorsa Foundation (Finland), the Moscow office of the National. Democratic Institute (USA) and others.

CHAMBER OF JUST RUSSIA DEPUTIES High Executives of the Chamber: Sergey Mironov – the Chairman of the Chamber Council Nicolay Levichev – the first deputy of the Chairman of the Chamber Council Mikhail Bryachak – the deputy of the Chairman of the Chamber Council Contacts: Address: 13, Tverskoy boulevard, Moscow, 100000, Russian Federation. Web site: www. srduma. ru Telephone/Fax: +7 (495) 971 -53 -10, +7 (495) 760 -48 -31 E-mail: palata@srduma. ru