to automatically run in State Duma legislative elections. Ideology The ideology of the RPR-PARNAS is liberalism, federalism and human rights. In his interview, Kasyanov said "there is no higher value for the government than human rights." He defined ideological stance of PRP-PARNAS as right-of-center liberalism. Among the main principles of the PARNAS party program are securing the individual rights of Russian citizens and equality of all before law, and that the government should be democratic, controlled by the public and should serve the interest of the people. The party condemns the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 and the existence of the Soviet Union, which it considers tyrannical, and models itself after the Constitutional Democratic Party that existed during the late Russian Empire. It also promises to declassify all KGB and other Soviet documents as part of a "decommunization" program and ban all promotion of the communist regime. For Russia's form of government it proposes to create a parliamentary republic and increase local self-governance. In addition, PARNAS wants to reform the judiciary to be truly independent, remove government control over the mass media, and promote small business and entrepreneurs over oligarchs. The party considers the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea illegal and has vowed to return control of Crimea back to Ukraine; as such, PARNAS did not campaign in Crimea in the 2016 Russian parliamentary elections. According to its 2015 election platform, it stated that it wants Russia to become a partner of NATO and the European Union, as well as to end military interventions in other countries. Significance to the Russian opposition In Russia, political opposition during Putin's presidency tends to be more visible through protest than in legislatures and executive offices. The main three 'opposition' parties in parliament, often referred to as the 'systemic opposition', do not represent a serious threat to the government and dominant ruling party United Russia. The Communist Party has declined in strength since the 1990s and also supports United Russia on various issues, while the far-right LDPR and socialist A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth parties, both believed to be government creations, largely support President Putin and the government. Most of the major parties fully support the president, and only the liberal Yabloko and PARNAS parties strongly condemn Putin's policies. Thus, the most prominent democratic opposition parties in Russia have been Yabloko and PARNAS. Experts consider these parties to be the