Parnassus without RPR

In Moscow, the last congress of the Party of the RPR-Parnas was held

The latter - because the party changes the name and will now be called Parnassus. In addition, it was decided to abandon the institution of co -charter. The only leader of the party was Mikhail Kasyanov

At the beginning of the Congress of the Party of the RPR-Parnas on July 5, 126 delegates from 54 regions stood in honor of Boris Nemtsov’s memory. As explained by Mikhail Kasyanov, the Federal Council was elected in 2012 for four years, but due to the departure of Vladimir Ryzhkov and the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the congress was now held. The current co -chair and future chairman Kasyanov devoted his introductory speech to the description of the situation in the country.

The political regime was criticized from all sides: according to the politician, it is based on corruption and loyalty of special services. The economic decline is determined by both a high raw material dependence of the budget, and by the fact that Russia “hacked the international security system” with its actions in Ukraine. “NATO has never been our enemy. The Cold War began, but it began due to the actions of the Russian regime, ”he summed up.

Kasyanov and the theme of the composition of the democratic coalition created by the opposition on the basis of the RPR-Parnas to participate in the regional elections: he noted the merits of the parties (the party of progress, the “democratic choice”, the “Solidarity” movement, the Liberian Party and the Fifth December party) and made a cherry towards like-minded people. “Our doors are open for apple, Gudkov, Ryzhkov, Nechaev, but we will never work with the Bolsheviks and Stalinists,” he emphasized. At the congress, a video message was shown the head of the alliance of liberals and democrats in Europe in the European Parliament of Guy Verkhofstadt (RPR-Parnas is a member of the alliance). The politician received an invitation, but could not come due to entering the “black list”, Kasyanov explained.

The party appealed to the European Court and in PACE with a request to reward Boris Nemtsov by prizes Andrei Sakharov and Vaclav Gavel, respectively. The lawyer of the Nemtsov family Vadim Prokhorov announced the need for an international investigation into the murder of a politician under the UN, OSCE or European Court. Ilya Yashin's statement was loudly sounding that "the bloody trail from the Big Moskvoretsky bridge was leading directly to the office of Ramzan Kadyrov." Yashin laid the political responsibility for the murder to President Vladimir Putin.

Representatives of the members of the Demo Academy (Vladimir Milov from the “democratic choice”, Leonid Volkov from the “Party of Progress”, Sergey Davidis from the Fifth December party, Alexander Ryklin from the Solidarity movement and Sergey Boyko from the “Liberian Party”) expressed confidence that “the victory will be behind them”. Almost everyone considered it his duty to criticize the position of non -participation in the "unligative controlled elections." Kasyanov himself and the party secretary Konstantin Merzlikin spoke about those who refused to participate in the coalition, sparingly responded: they say, this is their choice. Representatives of members spoke out optimistic about their prospects in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

It also became known that the head of the Kaluga branch Tatyana Kotlyar wrote a statement about the exit from the party. She was excluded from the Parnassus list in local elections in Kaluga after the Kaluga branch voted in the first number in the list. At the same time, Kotlyar took the GA of the Primeomerian democratic coalition after Andrei Zazakin, a physicist, ex-professor of the University of Santiago de compostel and the co-founder of the Dissernet community.

During the congress, amendments were made to the charter of the party - from now on it is called just Parnas. According to Mikhail Kasyanov, the decision to rename is dictated by the desire to simplify the name. If the Ministry of Justice does not register a new name, the party will return to the old one. The Institute of Investigation was also abolished-Mikhail Kasyanov was elected the only chairman, and Ilya Yashin, Konstantin Merzlikin and Vladimir Kara-Murza-Jr., was elected. The latter, according to Vadim Prokhorov, flies to Europe for rehabilitation (Kara-Murza was treated for a long time after poisoning). Compinents hope that by September his health will be restored and he will be able to return to his work in the party.

Photo: Denis Styazhkin/Styazshkin.livejournal.com