Just Russia is a social democratic political party in Russia currently holding 64 of the 450 seats in the State Duma

A Just Russia

Just Russia (Russian: Справедливая Россия, СР, Spravedlivaya Rossiya, SR) is a social democratic political party in Russia currently holding 64 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. 

• It was formed on October 28, 2006, as a merger of Rodina, theRussian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. 
• Later, 6 further minor parties joined. 
• A Just Russia's platform is based on the principles of fairness, freedom and solidarity. 
• It calls for a "New Socialism of the 21st Century", which guarantees the rights and freedoms of the individual and ensures the proper functioning of a welfare state. 
• In 2011, Nikolai Levichev was elected as party chairman, succeedingSergey Mironov who led the party in 2006–2011.

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Creation
1.2 First election successess
1.3 2007 Duma elections
1.4 Post-election
2 Current status
3 Platform
4 International cooperation
5 Electoral results
5.1 Presidential elections
5.2 Legislative elections
6 References
7 External links
8 Literature

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Platform

• A Just Russia's main values are fairness, freedom and solidarity. 
• The party platform calls for a welfare state where all citizens are equal, the cliff between rich and poor is small, and individual rights are guaranteed. 
• The state should be responsible for the well-being of the citizens, while citizens should be responsible for the effectiveness of the state. 
• The party defines its ideology as "New Socialism of the 21st century", but emphasises that it does not wish to return to "Soviet bureaucratic socialism". In the party platform, New Socialism is defined as the antithesis of "barbarous, oligarchic capitalism".
• The ideology does not eliminate the market but transfers power over the market from the oligarchs to the people. For New Socialism, the individual is of central value.
• Improving the socio-economic position of average Russians is the primary aim of A Just Russia. 
• In the State Duma, the party emphasises its role as "constructive opposition" that opposes high-level corruption and supports further democratisation of the political system. 
• In the 2007-2011 Duma, A Just Russia declared absolute opposition to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's government, voting against the government's budgets in 2010 and 2011, while remaining strongly supportive of President Dmitry Medvedev and hismodernisation programme.
• The party wishes to replace Russia's 13% flat income tax with progressive taxation, and demands that spending on employment programs is increased to 1% of GDP.

Although established as a centre-left party, under Sergey Mironov's leadership, the party's ideology became closer to social democracy and it presented itself as a socialist alternative to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

International cooperation

A Just Russia is a full member of the Socialist International, a member of the Forum of Socialists of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and cooperates with several social-democratic and socialist organisations around the world, including the Party of European Socialists and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, a European Parliament group.

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