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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

RUSSIA DEMANDS CHANGES! Electoral Program for 2011 Parliamentary Elections.

Key resolutions by the Congress:

On Stalinism and Bolshevism
Resolution. December 21, 2009

On Anti-Ecological Policies of Russia’s Authorities. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009

On the Situation in the Northern Caucasus. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 252, December 24, 2009

YABLOKO's POLITICAL COMMITTEE DECISIONS:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

On Russia's Foreign Policies. Political Committee of hte YABLOKO party. Statement, June 26, 2009

 

On Iran’s Nuclear Problem Resolution by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 6, 2009

 

Anti-Crisis Proposals (Housing-Roads-Land) of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO. Handed to President Medvedev by Sergei Mitrokhin on June 11, 2009

Brief Outline of Sergei Mitrokhin’s Report at the State Council meeting. January 22, 2010

 

Assessment of Russia’s Present Political System and the Principles of Its Development. Brief note for the State Council meeting (January 22, 2010) by Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. January 22, 2010

 

Address of the YABLOKO party to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 9, 2009

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

Moscow Yabloko
Yabloko for Students
St. Petersburg Yabloko
Khabarovsk Yabloko
Irkutsk Yabloko
Kaliningrad Yabloko(eng)
Novosibirsk Yabloko
Rostov Yabloko
Yekaterinburg Yabloko
(Sverdlovsk Region)

Krasnoyarsk Yabloko
Ulyanovsk Yabloko
Tomsk Yabloko
Tver Yabloko(eng)
Penza Yabloko
Stavropol Yabloko

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Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

YABLOKO-ALDE conference 2014

Grigory Yavlinsky : “If you show the white feather, you will get fascism”

Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals

The Road to Good Governance

Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991

A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics

Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

Resoulution
On the results of the Conference “Migration: International Experience and Russia’s Problems” conducted by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (the ALDE party)

Moscow, April 6, 2013

International Conference "Youth under Threat of Extremism and Xenophobia. A Liberal Response"
conducted jointly by ELDR and YABLOKO. Moscow, April 21, 2012. Speeches, videos, presentations

What does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.

Building a Liberal Europe - the ALDE Project

By Sir Graham Watson

Lies and legitimacy
The founder of the Yabloko Party analyses the political situation. Article by Grigory Yavlinsky on radio Svoboda. April 6, 2011

Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience

YABLOKO and ELDR joint conference

Moscow, March 12, 2011

Reform or Revolution

by Vladimir Kara-Murza

Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010

Grigory Yavlinsky's interview to Vladimir Pozner. The First Channel, programme "Pozner", April 20, 2010 (video and transcript)

Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Vote for the people you know, people you can turn for help. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, October 8, 2009

Grigory Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009

A Credit for Half a Century. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Natalia Bekhtereva, Radio Russia, June 15, 2009

Sergei Mitrokhin's Speech at the meeting with US Preseident Barack Obama. Key Notes, Moscow, July 7, 2009

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky!
Your vote counts!

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

Alexei Arbatov: What Should We Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
Obschaya Gazeta, May 16, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's speech.
March 11, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's Lecture at the Nobel Institute
Oslo, May 30, 2000

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Yabloko: Liberals in Russia

By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

By Arseny Roginsky, 16 December 2008

Nuclear Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview With Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997

Would the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991

Operation in Syria and the threats to the national security

imageStatement by YABLOKO Political Committee, 16.11.2015

Russia’s political leaders initiated a one-sided interference into the Syrian armed conflict on one of the sides without coordinating it with the potential allies. This interference is accompanied by tough ideological anti-Americanism, anti-European and self-isolating foreign policy, and a sustainably antidemocratic model within the country, when the propaganda firmly identifies patriotism with chauvinistic veneration of the authorities.

Furthermore, the initiators and commanders of the armed operation in Syria are talking about some indispensability of Russia, hinting at some special awareness and special capabilities of the Russian intelligence service opposing these to the “western” approaches. A strange political and military configuration of the confrontation with both the terrorist ISIS and the West has been chosen, whereas judging by the emphases of the [Russian] propaganda it is unclear who is a bigger enemy [for Russia]. Moreover, a politically bankrupt regime of Bashar Assad has been chosen as the main ally. The political and diplomatic actions of the Russian leaders and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RF have been formal, primitive and non-dynamic as if the collision took place [long ago] in 1960-s, rather than 2015. It seems that professionals do not develop political or military policies but have to follow the course which was “handed down” to them.

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO states the following:

First. The present military and political policies is very dangerous for our country both from the point of view of narrow tactics and its strategic prospects.

Second. Russia can not alone (together with Bashar al-Assad) stop and crush the ISIS. At the same time, the actions taken [by Russia] cause serious alarm and misunderstanding in the world and bring about the prospects of such confrontation which our country will not be able to stand, rather than respect for Russia. Russia has started a long-term and wasteful operation with the goals that are vague and unclear to the people and their completion date is open. By clearly joining one of the sides, we have also become a part of a complicated nation-communities and religious conflict.

The actions of this kind represent a dramatic rise of different security threats of our country, rather than Russia’s success. The foreign policy conducted by the Russian authorities has been turning into a real threat to the national security of Russia.

Third. The territorial integrity of Russia in its internationally recognized borders, the success of our people and the sustainability of state institutions are the goals we are unreservedly devoted to, therefore we cannot accept the forcible and merely provocative political course.

The present Russia’s political regime identifies the country with itself, which represents its protective reaction and, at the same time, its fundamental philosophy. The regime virtually admits that in case today’s nomenclature leaves due to the factor of time or its breakdown for one reason or another, the country will parish. The regime is ready to throw the country into military and political adventures, involve it into the arms race increasingly gambling on a possible use of nuclear weapons, so that to delay or relieve its leave.

The aggressive complacency of people, who appreciate neither themselves nor others and who are solving a tactical and opportunistic scheme for protection of themselves and their interests, has become the norm of the state administration, the norm of the peripheral economy and aggressive peripheral authoritarianism rooted in the nomenclature of the Stalin’s era.

The development of all the major decisions in foreign and domestic policies by one person is rooted in that period too. This is the evidence of the institutional degradation of the state. Its most striking manifestation are the decisions made by the Federation Council, the body formed so that to limit and control the authorities in such important matters as use of the armed forces outside Russia. An instantaneous decision-making without any discussion, satisfaction of any desire of the authorities, absence of any attention to the public opinion have become a norm. Meanwhile, Russians pay for these decisions with their lives. As a result, people do not feel themselves the citizens of the country, responsible for their and the country’s fate, but the pawns, hostages of somebody’s games.

At the same time, the actions of the Russian authorities, accompanied by the propaganda support, the behaviour and statements of the officials and pro-government campaigners look like a consistent (no matter if it is conscious or unconscious in each particular case) preparation for a big war. The actions of the Russian in Syria are ranged together with the adventure in South-East of Ukraine and fit into the context of the confrontation with the West as the main enemy of Russia. It is more than just words and propaganda. The context of war becomes a natural habitat for Russia’s specific hysterical and nervous “elite”. The authorities and their close associates are unable to develop the country, implement the vital and obvious tasks (economic, socio-political, social, security tasks), consequently, they “save themselves in a war” so that to avoid responsibility for the situation with Russia and the citizens. We consider the increasing number of hints and statements on the possibility of Russia’s using nuclear weapons be especially dangerous. YABLOKO undoubtedly considers the fight against terrorism, and especially now – against the inhumane practices and ideology represented by ISIS – be the greatest challenge for the entire world. We talked about the necessity of Russia’s participation in this fight a year ago, referring to the participation in the formation and direct involvement of our country in the actions of the global coalition against international terrorism. We proceeded from the fact that it was a very difficult task that had to be approached without voluntary attacks and arrogance.

There are people in Russia who are able and willing to work together with the specialists from other countries along with civil institutions so that to responsibly develop solutions for this problem. However, the present military and political course does not encourage, but blocks the realisation of this potential. Moreover, it enhances the threats to the national security on behalf of the most terrible and destructive forces. Furthermore, the increased threats will inevitably cause a wave of domestic security operations and provocations against the dissenting. Consequently, the senseless loyalty will completely substitute professionalism and true patriotism.

Russia’s national security requires quick and radical political changes: an active course towards transparency, reasonable demilitarisation, rejection of territorial claims to [Russia’s] neighbours, economic modernisation within the global processes and domestic democratisation.

The personal problems, which the bureaucratic elite will have to face, can not be an obstacle to the realisation of Russia’s national interests, formation of the national security strategy which would be adequate to the threats of the modern world.

We are addressing our society, the citizens of Russia, including those who are not our political and ideological supporters. Today the question is not about choosing allies and foreign policy concepts in the usual, traditional sense.

For the sake of our country, we must unite in an effort to give a nation-wide dimension to Russia’s foreign policy – both in terms of public participation (either directly or through their representatives from different political forces) in its formation and in terms of the interests implemented by this policy.