[1][2] At a March 2005 press conference Kyiv (Ukraine), the leaders announced their intention to back former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in the 2008 Russian presidential elections as Russia's version of (Orange Revolution winner) Viktor Yushchenko.
[1] The organization held its press conference in Kyiv "because opposition forces cannot operate openly in Russia".
[1] Group leaders admit in March 2005 to having contacts with Boris Berezovsky because they share "similar views about the state of affairs in our country [Russia]".
[3] In December 2007 Sidelnikov (at the time leader of PORA) applied for political asylum in the United Kingdom because he was "very afraid about my life in Russia".
[5] In July 2008 Sidelnikov was granted political asylum by Britain.