Baltic Republican Party
The Baltic Republican Party (BRP; Russian: Балтийская республиканская партия, romanized: Baltiyskaya respublikanskaya partiya), later known as Kaliningrad Public Movement – Respublika (Russian: Калининградское общественное движение – Республика, romanized: Kaliningradskoye obshchestvennoye dvizheniye – Respublika) or simply Respublika, is a movement within the Russian Federation's Kaliningrad Oblast that has used several political parties to promote its position of autonomy, and later separatism, of Kaliningrad as a "Baltic Republic." == History == === 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.