Russia of the Future

Russia of the Future (Russian: Россия Будущего, romanized: Rossiya Budushchego, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə ˈbudʊɕːɪvə]), originally known as the People's Alliance (Народный Альянс, Narodnyy Al'yans) and formerly called the Progress Party (Партия Прогресса, Partiya Progressa), is a banned opposition political party in Russia founded on 15 December 2012 by Leonid Volkov and later refounded on 19 May 2018 by Alexei Navalny, who was also the founder of the non-profit organisation Anti-Corruption Foundation. Russia of the Future opposes Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ruling party United Russia. The party's platform stood for the decentralization of power in Russia, cutting the number of government officials, lustration for those responsible for political repressions, the reduction of the president's powers, possibly switching to a parliamentary republic under the rule of law, and ensuring the independence of the judiciary. It also stipulated "drastically reducing" government interference in the economy, ending censorship, prohibiting the government from owning media outlets and abolishing conscription. The foreign policy plan called for introducing visas with Central Asia, stopping support for so-called rogue states and partnering up with Western countries. According to Navalny's ally Lyubov Sobol, the goals of the party include "real changes, real reforms", including increased property protections, a fair criminal-justice system and battling corruption, "so that money from the budget does not flow into offshores and is not spent on yachts and palaces". The founding session of the party was attended by 124 delegates from 60 of Russia's regions. The party has a seven-member central committee instead of a chairman. Russia's Ministry of Justice has repeatedly declined registration of the party on the grounds that another party of the same name already existed or due to alleged paperwork errors.