On April 23, 2000 the founding congress of the social and political movement "Liberal Russia" took place.

Some of the DVR members did not join the new party due to the support of the Union of Right Forces for the candidacy of Vladimir Putin for the post of President of the Russian Federation and the ambiguous position of the SPS leadership on the issue of the Second Chechen War.

In May 2001, State Duma deputies from the Democratic Choice of Russia Sergei Yushenkov and Vladimir Golovlyov refused to join the Union of Right Forces party, announcing their desire to create an opposition party on the basis of "Liberal Russia".

In December 2001, Viktor Pokhmelkin and Yuly Rybakov left the Union of Right Forces.

Yuly Rybakov did not join the new party, as he did not agree with Berezovsky's idea of a possible alliance of liberals with national-patriots, which he expressed even before the congress, at a meeting with the initiative group in London.

On October 4, 2002, Yushenkov announced that Liberal Russia was refusing Boris Berezovsky's money and would consider the possibility of his continued stay as co-chairman of the party.

Berezovsky himself released a statement in which he called the interview "Tomorrow" only a pretext for breaking off relations, which had long been planned by the party's political council.

On March 18, 2004, the court found the leader of Berezovsky's supporters Mikhail Kodanev as the organizer of the murder of Sergei Yushenkov.

[8] After the Duma elections, Boris Zolotukhin resigned from the post of co-chairman of Liberal Russia.