Moscow, 10 November: The One Russia party's leaders have admitted that there are ideological disagreements within the party, but categorically denied the possibility of a split.

"Today the party is represented by various platforms," a member of One Russia's general council's presidium and head of the State Duma directorate for public relations, Yuriy Shuvalov, has said at the opening of the joint meeting of the party's main ideological clubs at which One Russia's candidates for the election of the State Duma of the fifth convocation were present.

Shuvalov explained that he was speaking about three main ideological platforms: the social, the liberal and the conservative-patriotic.

The so-called social club is headed by the chairman of the State Duma committee for labour and social policy, Andrey Isayev; the liberal club, The 4th of November, is headed by the head of the Duma committee for constitutional legislation and state construction, Vladimir Pligin and Ekspert magazine's editor Valeriy Fadeyev; the conservative-patriotic club is headed by Yuriy Shuvalov as part of the social-conservative policy, Shuvalov said.

At the same time, Shuvalov stressed that despite differences in views and positions, all the party platforms were united by a single programme.

For his part, Isayev admitted: "We have serious disagreements between the social and liberal centres." However, "they are nothing compared to the abyss that separates us from the left-wing and right-wing populists", he stressed.

Isayev said that the media present at the conference would undoubtedly report, or had already reported, on a possible split within the party. "It won't happen," Isayev said.