The Russian Party of Life (RPL)[a] was a political party in Russia, led by Sergey Mironov (Speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament).

S. Volk noted: Under the auspices of the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, the third person in the state, a congress of the Party of Life took place.

So far, neither the program nor the ideology of the new political association has been clearly defined, and therefore its prospects are quite vague.

Mironov and Babakov declared their readiness to unite under their wing all left forces – except the Communist Party of the Russian Federation – and thus enter the State Duma, becoming one of the system parties along with United Russia.

Speaking at the press conference, both Babakov and Mironov did not hide that the main opponent of the new party would be United Russia as "a party of political monopoly, a bureaucracy without borders, a path to nowhere."