After the coup in 1991, the party evolved from liberal anticommunism to centrism (1992–1993) and later to moderate Russian nationalism (1994–1995). His victory was unexpected: Furgal didn’t actively campaign and toed the Kremlin’s line, publicly supporting his rival.

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In the 1990s it was a prominent democratically-oriented party holding seats in the first State Duma and was a member of the Democratic Russia coalition.

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"Furgal became too popular," Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow and chairman of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, tweeted. Search Britannica
Features Nevertheless, despite hostile and even at times inflammatory rhetoric directed toward both Yeltsin and Russian foreign policy, Zhirinovsky’s party generally backed the executive…. Both Degtyaryov and Furgal are members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, which belongs to the so-called systemic opposition — a handful … Sergei Furgal smiled while standing in a detention cabin at Basmanny district court in Moscow on July 10.



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