The Social Democratic Party of Russia (Russian: Социал-демократическая партия России, romanized: Sotsial-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii; SDPR) is a Russian center-left political party founded by political strategist Andrei Bogdanov in 2012.
[2][3] On March 21, 2012, the Chairman of the All-Russian public movement "Union of Social Democrats" Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in Interfax, said that the intention to recreate the Social Democratic Party of Russia was planned by businessman-politician Alexander Lebedev, who participated in a number of projects Gorbachev -Foundation.
Gorbachev himself did not plan to lead the party, according to him, the party should have been headed by a new person[4][5] In 2012, political strategist Andrei Bogdanov, ahead of the leader of the Union of Social Democrats and former co-chairman of the party Mikhail Gorbachev, and on May 21, 2012, the Ministry of Justice of Russia officially registered the eponymous "Social Democratic Party of Russia" (without the participation of Mikhail Gorbachev) under chaired by publicist Viktor Militarev, which was later headed by Sirazhdin Ramazanov.
[6] The party has participated in a number of regional election campaigns.
[8] On June 14, 2019, the Supreme Court liquidated the party.