Russian Party of Life

The Russian Party of Life (Russian: Российская партия жизни ) was an officially left Democratic Party in Russia. However, observers of Russian politics, it was seen as an environment created by Vladimir Putin's artificial competition with dissident left-wing parties and counterpart to officially conservative Putin 's United Russia party. The Chairman Sergei Mironov also comes from the environment Putin. In the Duma elections in 2003 the party of a lifetime reached 1.9%.

On 28 October 2006, the party united with the equally close to the government and officially left national groupings Rodina and the Russian Pensioners' Party for the Just Russia party: home, retirees, life (Russian Справедливая Россия: родина, пенсионеры, жизнь ) to the left for a great new the Government to create a related party. This is seen as an attempt by the government to strengthen the competition left the Communist Party.