Политические стратегии демократической оппозиции в борьбе за власть в современной России

Abstract

The research deals with the strategy of democratic opposition parties as an actor of the political pro-cess in modern Russia based on the concepts of hybrid regimes, electoral authoritarianism, and de-fective democracy. The system-based, institutional approaches and the analysis of relevant literature are employed. In the author’s opinion, Russian demo-cratic opposition parties and movements can be classified as parliamentary parties (Fair Russia, Lib-eral Democratic Party of Russia, Communist Party of the Russian Federation), non-parliamentary regis-tered (Yabloko (Russian United Democratic Party), Civic Platform) and non-parliamentary unregistered parties (Russia of the Future). The research looks at their priorities for the development of society and the state being of particular relevance to modern political science and practice. The author concludes that, firstly, the strategies of democratic opposition parties depend, as a rule, on whether they are em-bedded in the system of power or not, whether they are parliamentary or not. Secondly, today, the main Russian political strategy of the democratic opposi-tion in a power struggle is to support Western politi-cal values and strategies, criticize the current gov-ernment, focus on decommunization, and strive to build a parliamentary state.