Union of Right Forces

The Union of Right Forces (URF) was a Russian <a href="/facts/Liberal-conservative/LBHdAxvQ">liberal-conservative</a> political public organization and former party, initially founded as an <a href="/facts/Electoral_bloc/3NSm2C29">electoral bloc</a> in 1999 and associated with <a href="/facts/Free_market/KnK7JohY">free market</a> reforms, <a href="/facts/Privatization/TAtreKqK">privatization</a>, and the legacy of the "young reformers" of the 1990s: <a href="/facts/Anatoly_Chubais/Y8kb9s7r">Anatoly Chubais</a>, <a href="/facts/Boris_Nemtsov/pR6wbW5n">Boris Nemtsov</a>, <a href="/facts/Sergey_Kiriyenko/djJKhuLb">Sergey Kiriyenko</a> and <a href="/facts/Yegor_Gaidar/dv0bbfMM">Yegor Gaidar</a>. The party officially self-dissolved in 2008. <a href="/facts/Nikita_Belykh/z5uVfjvD">Nikita Belykh</a> was the party's last leader from 2005 to 2008.
In 2011, the SPS was refounded by some of its former members as the Union of Right Forces Movement. In 2012, it was registered as a political public organization, a type of <a href="/facts/Non-governmental_organization/qxQSsxsI">NGO</a>. In Russia, participation in <a href="/facts/Elections_in_Russia/0C9xUEEe">elections</a> requires being accepted into the <a href="/facts/List_of_political_parties_in_Russia/CvJ5I2B8">list of political parties</a> controlled by the Ministry of Justice.
Both the former SPS and the refounded SPS were accepted as a member of the <a href="/facts/International_Democracy_Union/45G95GaQ">International Democracy Union</a> (IDU).

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