PSKOV, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - United Russia, the majority party in the Russian parliament, plans to join the European Democratic Union in the near future, a senior member of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament said Monday.
"We are making attempts to join the European Democratic Union," Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council's international affairs committees, said after an international seminar, Assistance to the Formation of a New Europe, in Pskov (northwestern Russia).
Margelov said, "United Russia must have its own place in the European political spectrum."
