Baltic Republican Party (1993–2003) The Baltic Republican Party was founded on 1 December 1993 in and lost its official status as a political party on 26 March 2003 due to the new Russian Law on political parties which requires that each party should have regional branches in at least half of the
Russian Federation constituencies and at least 10,000 members in strength. An appeal was lost in February 2005 before the
Constitutional Court of Russia. The main political purpose of the party was the establishment of an autonomous
Baltic Republic instead of the
Kaliningrad region, possibly total independence. It also wanted the old name Königsberg restored. Its leaders are
Sergei Pasko and
Rustam Vasiliev, with Pasko being the former head of the secretariat of the Governor of the Kaliningrad region
Yuri Matochkin. The party had hoped that gaining Republican status in Russia hoping for independent foreign trade and partial redistribution of tax deductions. In 2010 the group demanded the simplification of the visa regime with European countries for residents of the Kaliningrad region. On February 21, 2022, the party's coordinator
Vadim Petrov tore up a copy of the
Russian Constitution during a separatist rally in front of the Russian embassy in
Warsaw, saying that
Vladimir Putin was an illegitimate president for
amending the constitution to rule for life. In the same interview, he declared that an increasing number of the region's residents were supportive of the party, and that a break from Moscow was ultimately inevitable. Vasiliev has repeatedly called for the separation of Kaliningrad as a Europe-leaning republic with Königsberg, the city's former German name, as its capital. The party, alongside other movements affiliated with the
Free Nations of Russia forum, has been designated a terrorist organization by the Russian Supreme Court in November 2024. == Election history ==