United Democratic Movement "Solidarnost" (russian: Объединённое демократическое движение «Солидарность»; ОДД «Солидарность»; ''Obyedinonnoye demokraticheskoye dvizheniye «Solidarnost»'', ''ODD "Solidarnost"''), abbreviated ODD "Solidarnost" ( Russian for "Solidarity", named after the Polish

Solidarność Solidarity ( pl, „Solidarność”, ), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (, abbreviated ''NSZZ „Solidarność”'' ), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subseq ...

), is a Russian

liberal democratic Liberal democracy is the combination of a liberal political ideology that operates under an indirect democratic form of government. It is characterized by elections between multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers into di ...

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founded on 13 December 2008 by a number of well-known members of the liberal democratic opposition, including

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Boris Nemtsov Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov ( rus, Бори́с Ефи́мович Немцо́в, p=bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈtsof; 9 October 195927 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. He was involved in the introduction ...

and others from the

Yabloko The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko) (russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко», Rossíyskaya obyedinyónnaya demokratícheskaya pártiya "Y ...

and Union of Right Forces (which had just merged with two pro-Kremlin parties, the

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and

Civilian Power The Civilian Power or Citizens' Force (GS; russian: Гражданская сила; ГС; ''Grazhdanskaya sila'', ''GS'') is a green-liberal political party in the Russian Federation. The organization was called the Network Party for Support o ...

, to form the pro-Kremlin liberal democratic

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) parties, leaders of the

Dissenters March The Dissenters' March (russian: Марш несогласных) was a series of Russian opposition protests that took place on December 16, 2006 in Moscow, on March 3, 2007 in Saint Petersburg, on March 24 in Nizhny Novgorod, on April 14 for ...

events, the

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, the People's Democratic Union, the United Civil Front, The Other Russia and other politicians and political groups. In an apparent attempt to weaken the movement immediately before its foundation,

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Dmitri Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

nominated former leader of the Union of Right Forces Nikita Belykh to become governor of the

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. (Belykh agreed to take the position.) As reported by the

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Belykh "sought to explain his decision by arguing that he could do more good by working with the Kremlin. He said he would prove that someone with progressive ideas could succeed in the government", while saying that "When you have nothing at all, when you cannot even get close in the elections, when all your paths are being cut off, then you just can't have a political party."

History

Previously, attempts to unite the opposition were undertaken by the organizations of the

, the United Civil Front, the Other Russia, the National Assembly of the Russian Federation, and many years of attempts to establish a dialogue between the

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and Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko".

Participants

Solidarnost movement includes the following forces: * Anti-war club, unifying protesters against war and torture at the

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*Former members of the Union of Right Forces *

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libertarian movement ( * Oborona movement *Union of solidarity with political prisoners *"For human rights" movement *other democratic and human rights organizations. * United Civil Front led by

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History

Participants

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