The Social Democratic Party of Russia is a political party founded in Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev on November 26, 2001. It is a union of several social democratic parties, has approximately 12,000 members, but has no seats in the Russian Duma. Gorbachev resigned as party leader in May 2004 over a disagreement with party chairman Konstantin Titov who had insisted, over Gorbachev's opposition, on a deal with the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party in the previous year's general election.
Konstantin Titov , in turn, announced his resignation at the 3rd convention of the party held September 4, 2004. The convention elected the new chairman, Vladimir Kishenin , leader of the Party of Social Justice , who was favoured by Titov.
Presenting himself, Kishenin mentioned that he studied in a KGB college in 1972-1975. When asked why he was a trusted representative for Vladimir Putin during the last presidential election, Kishenin explained that this was done at the request of Vladislav Surkov , deputy director of the President's Administration.
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