[4] On March 11, 2000 M. Gorbachev headed the Russian United Social Democratic Party (ROSDP), which managed to unite in its ranks representatives of about twelve social democratic parties and organizations.

[5] The leadership of the ROSDP includes representatives of the former SDPR (B. Orlov), the RSDS (B. Guseletov, A. Lukichev), the Social Democrats movement (G. Popov), the International Union (A. Mikitaev) and others.

The ROSDP came out against "liberal fundamentalism, the implementation of which has led the country to decline in the last ten years," and against the strategy of catch-up modernization for Russia.

But with the arrival of K. Titov in the party, the PSD began to evolve towards the "new" European Social Democracy, standing on the positions of the Manifesto of T. Blair and G. Schroeder "Europe: The Third Way."

After a series of consultations, an agreement was reached on the creation of a united social democratic party on the basis of the ROSDP and the PSD.