MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti) - At a conference of the Republican Party of Russia, Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov, a member of the party's political council, proposed a congress of all democratic parties later this year to elect leaders of a common movement. The leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS), Nikita Belykh, and Our Choice, Irina Khakamada, supported the idea, but the Yabloko party rejected it, the Kommersant daily wrote.

Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky on Saturday spoke at a meeting of his party's federal political council and said that the only acceptable way of uniting was for members of other parties to join Yabloko.

Ryzhkov announced Monday that democratic parties had agreed to create a single electoral list under the RPR banner for the fall elections to the Chechen parliament. He believes that the same scheme should be used in other regional elections as well.

If a party refuses to join the coalition, this will not prevent it from passing the 7% threshold, he said. "In the last few months I have traveled to 15 regions," he said. "There it is hard to see differences between SPS and Yabloko, everyone works together. There are disagreements only at the federal level." Fellow political-council member Vladimir Lysenko agreed that "Yabloko and SPS will not join each other, so a neutral site for uniting is necessary."

At the same time, United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov called Monday for another scheme of uniting. Kasparov is positive that a coalition is necessary "regardless of political views." "Real opposition to the Putin regime can be formed out of different people from left to right, and attempts to have it in the left wing and the right wing separately move us away from our main task, which is to fight against the regime," he said. Any party is "the Kremlin's hostage", he explained, as their real memberships do not reach the obligatory minimum of 50,000 people set by the law on political parties.

Kasparov has decided to register this UCF as an inter-regional public union, which will later be transformed in a party.