Union of Right Forces (SPS) leader Nikita Belykh and Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky said in the memorandum that they believed talks, which started in the fall of 2005, on forming a single political structure aimed at Russia's democratic and pluralistic development were useful and promising.
Analysts have said unification is one solution to the current funk Russia's liberal parties are in. New regulations for next year's parliamentary elections have made it less likely that either Yabloko or the SPS will get any seats in the Duma.
In 2003, Yabloko won only four seats and the SPS three in Russia's 450-seat Duma, and all from single-mandate districts as both parties won less than the 5% of the vote necessary to get deputies elected from party lists.
