The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) is a right-wing populist political party in Russia that was founded in 1989 by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The party opposed both communism and neoliberal capitalism, and it was fiscally leftist and authoritarian, while it supported "imperial reconquest" and social conservatism. The party favored a mixed economy with private ownership but with a strong management role reserved for the state, supported the restoration of Russia's "natural borders" (including all former Soviet republics), supported granting Russian citizenship to ethnic Russians in the Baltics, and regarded the United States and Western civilization as the main external threat to Russia. In 2017, the party held 3/170 Federation Council seats, 40/450 State Duma seats, 1/85 governorships, and 236/3,928 regional parliament seats.
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