|  On
Iran’s Nuclear Problem
Resolution by
the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October
6, 2009
The Russian United Democratic
Party YABLOKO expresses its deep concern in view of
the new aggravation of the situation around Iran’s
nuclear problem.
A secret construction of the second Iran’s uranium
enrichment plant, which the world public has learned
about, shows that Teheran continues its course towards
challenging the UN, as well as regional and global
security. New tests of ballistic missiles, including
medium-range Shahab-3, have shifted the crisis into
a dangerous phase...
Iran’s procession
of nuclear weapons presents considerable threats for
the national interests of Russia, the USA, the EU
countries and the entire civilised world. Russia can
not allow being turned into a target of nuclear blackmail
from another neighbouring state...
The Russian United Democratic
Party YABLOKO thinks that it is high time for Russia
to take a principled position, stop lulling itself
about Iran’s intentions, as well as break Iran’s
tactics of playing on discrepancies between the great
superpowers and using Russia in its own interests
contradicting to the international security goals...
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| Grigory
Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem
Grigory Yavlinsky’s
interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009
Radio Liberty: Many Russian
politicians are enthusiastic about Barack Obama abolishing
the plans of deployment of the elements of the American
ABM system in Central Europe. Do you share such feelings?
Grigory Yavlinsky: No,
I don’t, as these missiles and the decision
of deployment of the ABM system adopted by President
Bush did not threaten Russia in any way. It had a
symbolic meaning. What Barack Obama did, was done
because he was amending an error made by george Bush,
rather than yielding to Russia, as President Bush’
decision was absolutely inefficient - technically,
economically and strategically. He had enough courage
to shelve the erroneous plan created by George Bush.
R.L: How do you assess
the reaction of the Russian politicians who are speaking
about this as of a large diplomatic victory of Moscow
then?
G.Y.: As immature, it
stirs pity. Such a reaction can not serve as a basis
for further development of reasonable, earnest, and,
if we further elaborate on this thought, grownup relationships
with the developed countries. In general this is a
trade-in approach – if you give something to
me, then I give something to you, if you take away
your missiles, we shall help you or will not help
you somewhere in Iran – such an approach to
the world politics is extremely primitive. Such approaches
proved leading to deadlocks and inefficient, but,
unfortunately they have been widely spread not only
in Russia, but in the West too...
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Patching
Things Up at Putin's Picnic
By Grigory Yavlinsky, The Moscow Times, June 6, 2003.
The top-level meetings held in St. Petersburg last
weekend produced positive results for Russia, Europe
and the entire world.
Russia,
U.S. Remain Divided, Despite Healing of War Rifts
By Gregory L. White, Wall Street Journal, May 28,
2003
But as the two presidents meet in St. Petersburg this
weekend for the first time since the war, there's
still little sign they will be able to get the strategic
partnership, stalled by the war, back into high gear
soon.
The
War against Terrorism and the Transformation of the
World Order, three perpesctives
By Alexei G. Arbatov, CEPS Commentary, November 2001
...two months later after the "Black September",
the weaknesses of the coalition and deficiencies of
the operation are becoming more and more evident,
as well as the confusion and inconsistency of the
United States and other major players in adopting
a new security strategy and still less in implementing
it... (Archive)
War
Shows Fragility Of U.S.-Russia Links
By ALAN CULLISION and JEANNE WHALEN, Wall Street Journal,
April 1, 2003
"Even during the Cold War, when Moscow and Washington
hated each other, "ordinary people" really
liked Americans. Now, the sincere feeling on the street
... is taking on a bright anti-American character."
says Alexei
Arbatov
Putin,
Bush ties expected to survive
By Alice Lagnado, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 1, 2003
"The war in Iraq will not be the transition to
a cold war between Russia and the USA, nor will it
ruin the Russian-American strategic relations. This
is not in our interests..."
A
Forum Argues Over Russia's Place
By Gregory Feifer, The Moscow
Times, May. 31, 2002
Experts gathering Thursday on the heels
of three major international summits said the West's
leading policymaking institutions must include Russia
in a broad strategic framework if they want to successfully
tackle the top global priority: terrorism. Despite
that general consensus, there was stark disagreement
on specifics at the two-day conference on Euro-Atlantic
integration, organized by the Washington-based Euro-Atlantic
Institute of International Integration Studies.
Nunn
and Lugar Look To Safeguard Weapons
By Vladimir Isachenkov, The
Associated Press, May 28, 2002.
Worried about the apocalyptic prospect
of international terrorists obtaining nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons, U.S. and Russian officials
and analysts met Monday to help draft possible new
safeguards. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and Richard
Lugar, a U.S. senator from Indiana -- who together
launched the decade-old U.S. effort to help contain
the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the former
Soviet Union -- described the threat of "catastrophic
terrorism" as possibly the gravest challenge
to global security.
Putin's
wager
By Robert Cottrell, The Financial
Times, May 21 2002
Russia and the US will be doing everything
possible to ensure that the May 23-26 summit between
George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin looks good and sounds
good. On the Russian side this will be a relatively
easy task, since the government controls the national
television channels from which the great majority
of Russians will get their information about the meetings
in Moscow and St Petersburg.
The
Door to Europe is in Washington
Grigory Yavlinsky Obschaya
Gazeta, May 16, 2002
After September 11, 200, Russia's foreign
policy abruptly changed. Despite the policy carried
out in summer 2001, symbolised by Kim Chen Ir's travel
by armoured train across Russia, despite the opinion
of the so-called political elite, Vladimir Putin unreservedly
supported the USA in their fight against Ben Laden's
terrorists and the Taliban.
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