Democratic Union (Russia)
Democratic Union was the first an openly proclaimed political opposition party in the Soviet Union. It was founded on May 8, 1988 by a group of Soviet dissidents including Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Yevgeniya Debryanskaya. The party has become known after a series of unsanctioned demonstrations organized and consistently taking place from 1988 to 1991 in Moscow and Leningrad, with the protesters getting arrested. The party charter specifies the main goals of the organization as follows:
