The congress voted for the party’s program, one of whose main goals is “decisive democratization of the country.” It also includes the principle of regular turnover of power, nationalization of energy sector, and the cancellation of the obligatory army draft.

The program also stipulates moving Russia’s capital from Moscow to South Siberia, where a new city is to be built from scratch for this purpose.

Limonov, who was the only speaker at the congress, pointed out that the new party combines both left and right principles, and branded it as “centrist.”

Previously, the politician headed so called National-Bolsheviks party, which was closed down by authorities in 2007 after being deemed an extremist organization.

The leader of the Solidarity opposition movement, former Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, said the Other Russia is “Limonov’s personal project, which has neither firm ideological nor personnel grounds.”

Previously an opposition coalition was united under the name Limonov picked for his new party.

“If the new party base is the coalition ‘The Other Russia’, it is too ill-sorted,” Nemtsov told Interfax agency. The coalition gathered “completely different people with diametrically opposite political views.”

“It united national-Bolsheviks, nationalists, liberals, social-democrats, and socialists,” Nemtsov said, adding that there are no parties similar to that one anywhere in the world. “A party should gather people who are at least ideologically not too far from each other. “What do liberals, nationalists and socialists have in common? Nothing, I believe,” he is quoted as saying.