Russia of the Future (Russian: Росси́я Бу́дущего, romanized: Rossíya Búdushchego, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə ˈbudʊɕːɪvə]), originally known as the People's Alliance (Наро́дный Алья́нс, Naródnyy Al'yáns) and formerly called the Progress Party (Па́ртия Прогрéсса, Pártiya Progréssa), 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.
The foreign policy plan called for introducing visas with Central Asia, stopping support for so-called rogue states and partnering up with Western countries.
Initially, Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny declined to join the political party which was formed mostly by his followers.
On 20 January 2014, the Justice Ministry denied registration to the People's Alliance political party, citing the existence of another organization with the same name.
On 8 April 2014, the Justice Ministry rejected the applications to register the branches of the Progress Party due to the "mistake in constituent documents".
[23] As reported by Navalny's live channel on YouTube, the activists will try again with the operative name of Working Title (Russian: Рабочее название, romanized: Rabocheye nazvaniye).
[29] On 29 March, a notification was sent to the Ministry of Justice on the formation of an organizing committee in order to prepare, convene and conduct the founding congress of the Working Title party.
[32][33] On 6 August 2018, Navalny's supporters again submitted documents to the Ministry of Justice to resume the registration of Russia of the Future, announcing the holding of a congress and 55 regional meetings.
For the ninth time, the founding congress, during which a new Central Council of the party and a chairman was also elected, was held on 28 March 2019 in the town of Tarusa in the Kaluga Oblast.
On 16 May, Anti-Corruption Foundation lawyers for the ninth time submitted documents on registration of the party to the Ministry of Justice, having created 56 regional branches.
On 26 April 2021, Navalny's political network, including the Anti-Corruption Foundation, were ordered to suspend their activities by the Moscow prosecutor office as it sought to have them designated as "extremist organizations".
On 29 April, Navalny's team announced that the political network would be dissolved, in advance of a court ruling in May expected to designate it as extremist.
[44] According to Leonid Volkov, the headquarters would be transformed into independent political organizations "which will deal with investigations and elections, public campaigns and rallies".
The party points out that Russia is part of European civilization, in which freedom, self-respect and human responsibility play an important role, and the need for the state to participate in various social relations, including the economy, culture or family, is gradually decreasing.
Therefore, in the future and as it develops, according to the party, the Russian state will have to take on the role of an arbitrator, refusing to actively interfere in public relations, but making sure that no one violates the established rules.