|
Russia Bans Party Founded by
Gorbachev
Mos
News
Saturday April 14, 2007
The Social Democratic Party of Russia, re-established in 2002
by former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was banned on
Friday by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the RIA-Novosti
news agency reports.
The party’s incumbent leader Vladimir Kishenin said Friday
he would appeal against the decision in an appeal court.
“I regret that the court has banned Russia’s oldest
party, which turned 109 earlier this year,” Kishenin said
in reference to the party’s precursor which appeared in 1898
before the Bolsheviks seized power. “We will go on with our
struggle.”
He said that the Supreme Court’s decision was “purely
political.”
With the true reasons behind the move still unclear, the Supreme
Court upheld the suit filed by the Russian Registration Service,
which said the party’s activity was unlawful since it had
failed to establish local offices with at least 500 members in the
majority of Russian regions and refused either to dissolve or transform
itself into a public organization by January 1, 2007.
Social Democratic party members said they had established 47 regional
offices with over 500 members, while the law required representation
in at least 45 regions.
Earlier, the Supreme Court upheld the Registration Service’s
suits to ban the Republican Party of Russia, the Russian Party of
Peace and the Freedom and Rule of the People party, which have already
been removed from the state register on account of low membership
figures.
Latest reports said the Supreme Court would soon consider the Registration
Service’s suits to ban three other political parties, Galina
Fokina, the Service’s representative to the court, said Friday,
although refused to name them.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
|
