Commission on the Unification of Democratic Forces
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The Commission on the Unification of Democratic Forces (in Russian: Комиссия по объединению демократических сил) was established on February 16, 2006 by the federal political council of the Union of Right Forces party with a mandate to achieve, by December 2006, the unification of all democratic opposition forces in Russia and to lead to the creation of a United Democratic Party in time for the 2007 parliamentary elections.
The Commission is chaired by Boris Nemtsov, who was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 1997 to 1998 and led the Union of Right Forces from 2000 to 2003. The Commission members are Leonid Gozman, Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, Sergei Kolesov, Boris Nadezhdin, Oleg Naumov, Viktor Nekrutenko, Oleg Permyakov and Yevgeny Yasin.