The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov

The party's founding congress took place on 10 July 2010, in Moscow, attended primarily by former activists of the banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP). The party was named after Eduard Limonov's book "The Other Russia: Outlines of the Future," which he wrote while in prison. The party's name is also associated with the socio-political coalition The Other Russia, which united a wide range of opposition organizations, from left-wing radicals and National Bolsheviks to liberals. Eduard Limonov was elected chairman of the party's executive committee unopposed.

On 20 December 2010, party leaders Alexander Averin and Eduard Limonov submitted documents to the Ministry of Justice. More than a month later, they were denied registration due to the party's charter not complying with the federal law "On Political Parties." The party considers the registration denial to be purely political.

Since 2010, the party has been repeatedly denied official registration (most recently in 2024). Criminal cases have been brought against party members for their political activities.

Activists from The Other Russia party participated in numerous Russian opposition protests, such as Strategy-31, the Bolotnaya Square protests of 2011-12, and others.

In 2014, The Other Russia supported the reunification of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol with the Russian Federation and opponents of the Maidan protests in the conflict in southeastern Ukraine. In particular, it founded the "Interbrigades" movement, whose ranks included approximately 2,000 volunteers from Russia and other countries who participated in military operations in Donbas.

On 26 March 2016, Eduard Limonov handed over leadership of the party to members of the DR Executive Committee (Alexei Volynets, Alexander Averin, and Andrei Dmitriev), while nominally remaining chairman of this body. At the 6th DR Congress on 24 September 2016, a triumvirate (Volynets, Averin, and Dmitriev) was elected, governing the party while Limonov retained political leadership.

In 2016, the party held a series of protests against the installation of a memorial plaque to Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Mannerheim in Saint Petersburg. In 2017, the DR launched the "Seize and Divide" campaign under the slogans of revising the results of voucher privatization and loans-for-shares auctions; nationalizing the gas, oil, and other extractive industries; and "returning to the people stolen capital held in Cypriot and other offshore zones."

At the 7th DR Congress on 22 September 2018, party leadership transitioned from the triumvirate to the executive committee, while Eduard Limonov retained his political leadership. Declarations were adopted on foreign policy, proposing the division of part of Ukraine's territory between neighboring states (Russia, Poland, and Hungary), and on domestic policy, proposing to lower the age of citizenship in the Russian Federation to 14.

The leader of the Russian Nazbols, Eduard Limonov died on 17 March 2020 in Moscow. Following the decision of the DR congress held on 26 September 2020, the party dissolved itself, and on the same congress, participants created a new party called "The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov" (DRL).

The party supported Russia's war in Ukraine, but criticized the Russian government for half-measures and concessions during the operation. DRL members participated in raising aid for the Donbas population and military personnel, and also directly participated in the conflict on Russia's side. Authorities conducted searches of Russian Nazbols since 2023. DRL have participated in conferences of the Club of Angry Patriots.

The Other Russia program adopted at the founding congress contained demands of both general democratic nature (democratization of the country, debureaucratization of the state, repeal of the Law on Political Parties and the "police procedures" for party registration, restoration of "genuine independence of the judiciary," "genuine adherence to the principles of federalism," abolition of conscription and media censorship, and disbandment of anti-extremism units) and leftist nature (nationalization of the raw materials industry, prioritization of domestic producers, introduction of a progressive tax scale and a luxury tax).

The party program adopted in 2016 saw a shift toward a leftist and pro-imperialist agenda. Russia's strategic interest was declared to be "the return of territories lost in 1991": "Donbass and all of Novorossiya from Kharkov to Odessa, Transnistria, and Northern Kazakhstan must inevitably become part of Russia. In the long term, the unification of friendly peoples formerly part of the USSR." According to DR ideologists, Russia's goal as an "independent civilization, not an appendage of Europe or Asia," is to "form a geopolitical pole capable of resisting American hegemony in the world." In the socio-economic sphere, the party's priorities were "People's Socialism instead of liberal capitalism," "reviewing the results of the privatization of state property carried out in the 1990s and returning what was stolen," "Russia's economic self-sufficiency," which implied renunciation of WTO membership, and others. The DR program declared it a National Bolshevik organization. The document also called for moving the Russian capital to southern Siberia.

Chairman of the Execuritive Committee: Eduard Limonov (until 26 March 2016), Triumvirate: Alexei Volynets, Alexander Averin, Andrei Dmitriev (24 September 2016 – 22 September 2018) Executive Committee (since 2 September 2018)