Democratic Russia

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Democratic Russia (Russian: Демократическая Россия, romanized: Demokraticheskaya Rossiya; abbreviation: ДемРоссия, DemRossiya; ДР, DR), was the generic name for several political entities that played a transformative role in Russia's in opposition to and transition from Communist rule between 1988 and 1993, as well as in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Its members were often called "radical democrats" (Russian: радикальные демократы, romanized: radikal'nyye demokraty) or simply "Democrats" (Russian: Демократы, romanized: Demokraty) In 1991–1993, the Democratic Russia movement was the largest political organization in the country and Boris Yeltsin's base of political support until the 1993 constitutional crisis and the formation of official political parties that sat in the new State Duma.

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