Party of Russia's Rebirth
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in Russia
Russia
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led by Gennady Seleznev, former Duma
Duma
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speaker and then member of Communist Party of Russia
Communist Party of Russia
Communist Party of Russia could reasonably refer to:* Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the first incarnation of the Communist Party* Russian Communist Party , the second incarnation of the Communist Party...
.
At the last legislative elections
Elections in Russia
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, December 7, 2003, the alliance of the Party of Russia's Rebirth and the Russian Party of Life
Russian Party of Life
The Russian Party of Life was a political party in Russia, led by Sergey Mironov . According to its website, the party was liberal on economic issues and nationalistic on everything else...
party won 1.9 % of the popular vote and no seats on the party list ballot, although Seleznev himself narrowly beat liberal candidate Irina Khakamada in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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to win a seat there.
In the 2007 elections
Russian legislative election, 2007
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia . Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest party, United Russia, which was supported by...
Party of Russia's Rebirth blocked up with another socialist party, Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia
Patriots of Russia is a left-wing nationalist and socialist political party in Russia. It was established in April 2005 by Gennady Semigin, who was expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation after he failed in a power struggle with Gennady Zuganov.-History:In 2006 Gennadiy Semigin...
, led by Gennady Semigin
Gennady Semigin
Gennady Yuryevich Semigin is a Russian politician, the leader of socialist Patriots of Russia party.Born March 23, 1961, in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, Soviet Union, he studied in Riga on history faculty, and then in Moscow Institute of Jurisprudence. In the 1990s he ran a successful business...
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On September 9, 2008, the party was officially dissolved.