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News of the server - December 2000
December 27, 2000

Putin meets with Yabloko leader Yavlinsky

Russian Information Agency Novosti, December 26, 2000

Vladimir Putin met with the Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, and several other members of the Yabloko faction in the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin discussed with deputies of the Yabloko faction Russia’s economic development strategy. The next meeting is scheduled for the beginning of February 2001

Press Release, 26.12.00

On December 25, 2000 a meeting was held between the President of the RF Vladimir Putin and the Chairman of the Yabloko Association and the head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Grigory Yavlinsky.

Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) have decided to jointly participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma in December 2001

Press Release, 26.12.00

Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) will jointly participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma in December 2001.

Shishlov Shows Way to Democracy in Duma

St Peterburg Times , DECEMBER 15 - 21 1997

IT HAS become conventional wisdom to write off the State Duma as ineffectual at best and obstructionist at worst. After all, the lower house of parliament is weak vis-a-vis the Kremlin, dominated by Communists and its sessions often resemble a theater of the absurd.

Two Views on Russia

STANDARD & POOR'S CREDITWEEK, MARCH 10, 1999

Commenting on the article, "Russian Banks: Desperately Seeking Solvency," are two prominent Russian politicians, Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Nemtsov, who present their views on the current status of the Russian economy and prospects for the future.

December 26, 2000

Vladimir Putin’s meeting with representatives of Yabloko lasted three and a half hours

NTV channel , December 25, 2000

According to information from the NTV television company, with a reference to the Interfax agency, the President met with representatives of the Yabloko faction of the State Duma tonight.

Yabloko congratulates Anatoli Migulov (Yabloko) on his election as head of Arzamas city

Press Release, 25.12.00

Yabloko sends its congratulations to Anatoli Migulov, member of the Yabloko Association, deputy of the City Duma, on his election (on December 24, 2000) to the post of the head of the Arzamas city (Nizhni Novgorod region). He was elected head of Arzamas in the first round of the elections, gaining 57% of the vote.

The Union of Right-Wing Forces and Yabloko propose forming a single list of candidates for the next parliamentary elections.

Press Release, 25.12.00

The Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and Yabloko are working on the formation of a single list of candidates for the next parliamentary elections. However, the two movements have not discussed the possibility of a merger.

The leadership of Yabloko believes that it is necessary to create a single democratic front in the RF

Press Release, 24.12.00

“Both we and the Union of Right-Wing Forces will do our utmost in the near future to take the first steps in the creation of a single democratic front in Russia,”, said Yavlinsky at a press conference in Yaroslavl on December 23, 2000.

December 20, 2000

Yabloko blames the RF President for the prosecution of the NTV

Press Release,19.12.00

The Bureau of the Central Council of Yabloko circulated a declaration on December 19, 2000, which assesses the actions of the authorities against the NTV television company as "the “implementation of another political order”.

Russia and Europe: Chances and Prospects for European and International Cooperation

Financial Times, November 24-25, 2000

Therefore I would like to request an additional three minutes and twenty seconds for my report about my country, which is so big. I will speak in English, as I would like to reach my European partners here. I want to reach them even more than Russia’s own Minister of Foreign Affairs.

December 19, 2000

Proposed Law Could Eradicate Most Parties

St Peterburg Times , December 15, 2000

MOSCOW - The Central Elections Commission is pushing for a new law on political parties that would slash the number of existing political groups by over 90 percent, leaving only a dozen or so major players and barring the rest from participating in parliamentary elections.

UNION OF RIGHT-WING FORCES WANTS LENIN OUT OF THE MAUSOLEUM

Moskovsky Komsomolets, December 14, 2000

Outraged over the decision to bring back the Soviet national anthem, the Union of Right-Wing Forces Duma faction has raised the issue of burying Lenin's body. An appeal to President Vladimir Putin to create a memorial centre on Red Square in Moscow was proposed at the Duma Council yesterday.

Declaration on the situation around the NTV channel.

The Bureau of the Central Council of the Yabloko Association, December 19, 2000

The Bureau of the Central Council of the Yabloko Association considers the actions of the authorities in respect on the NTV channel and other mass media within the Media-Most holding to be implementation of another political order. These actions are targeted at final liquidation of the mass media that are independent of the state...

Yabloko is satisfied with the results of presidential elections in Mariy El Republic

Press Release,18.12.00

The Yabloko Association is satisfied with the results of gubernatorial elections in Mariy El Republic held on December 17. At the elections the Deputy Director General of the OAO “Rosgosstrakh” Leonid Markelov beat the present head of the Republic Vyacheslav Kislitsyn.

December 14, 2000

Sergei Ivanenko opposed to politicisation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office

Press Release,13.12.00

The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko declared that politicisation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is inadmissible.

Grigory Yavlinsky continues to insist on convening a Democratic Assembly of Russia

Press Release,13.12.00

The leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky considers it necessary to convene the Democratic Assembly of Russia, involving all the democratic forces of Russia.

Yabloko's representative thinks that raising the question of Lenin's burial is ill-timed

Press Release,13.12.00

The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko thinks that the question of burying Lenin's body should be solved in accordance with Christian tradition, but that today is an inopportune moment to do so.

Sergei Popov, Deputy of the Yabloko faction, proposes submitting the draft Labour Code to a referendum

Press Release,13.12.00

Sergei Popov, Deputy of the Yabloko faction plans to introduce a proposal on a national referendum of the draft Labour Code after its adoption at first reading by the lower chamber. He declared this intention on December 13, 2000.

The leaders of Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces call on the head of state to interfere into the situation around Gusinsky

Press Release,13.12.00

On December 13, the leaders of Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) in the State Duma forwarded a request to President of Russia Vladimir Putin to interfere in the situation connected with the criminal prosecution of the head of the Media-Most holding Vladimir concerning Gusinsky.

December 13, 2000

The criminal proceedings in St. Petersburg, involving Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Igor Artemyev, have been stopped

Press Release,09.12.00

Criminal proceedings where Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Igor Artemyev was a witness, have been halted in St. Petersburg due to the absence of a corpus delicti.

Yabloko is satisfied with the results of regional elections held on December 10, 2000

Press Release,11.12.00

The Secretary of the Yabloko Association for Election Campaigns and Interaction with the Heads of Russia’s Regions, Igor Artemyev, said that Yabloko is satisfied with the results of regional elections that took place on December 10, 2000.

The Yabloko faction: "The leadership of Russia is turning the country back to the past, regression and consequently a historic defeat"

Press Release, 08.12.00

The Yabloko faction thinks that: "the leadership of Russia is turning the country back to the past, regression and consequently a historic defeat" , said Grigory Yavlinsky in an interview with journalists after the adoption by the State Duma (in an open vote) of the law on the Russian National Anthem

A Marshall plan for post-communist Europe. This is something that the West should seriously consider.

Grigory Yavlinsky,

Obschaya Gazeta No 48, November 30, 2000

Five years ago one of the leading European politicians asked me about the global goal of the Yabloko party. I replied that our goal is to make Russia a European country in 20-25 years. On hearing my reply, he said, lowering his voice: "Never say this to anyone again - the bureaucrats in Brussels would die from horror, if they heard that Russia plans to become part of the EU." This was when I realised that something was wrong with the integration of Europe.

The speech of Grigory Yavlinsky that the State Duma was afraid to hear

December 8, 2000

The Yabloko faction categorically opposes the adoption of the Stalin-Aleksandrov’s hymn and will vote against it.

First of all we think that the issue of legislative approval of state symbols is inopportune. Alexandr Solzhenizyn wrote about this topic in “Obschaya Gazeta” best of all: “ I think it is absolutely shameless to raise such a fuss about state symbols when the country lies in misery and millions of Russians die annually. The people aren’t raising the fuss about the hymn : it is being raised by the people crowding around power.”

December 10, 2000

Parliament Restores Soviet Anthem

The Moscow Times, December 9, 2000

The State Duma on Friday overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin's request to reinstate the tune of the Stalin-era anthem and a tsarist flag and eagle as the country's state symbols.

Parliament Opens Debate on State Symbols

The Moscow Times, December 8, 2000

Russia's parliament opened debate Friday on President Vladimir Putin's proposal to give the country a mixed bag of state symbols ranging from the tsarist eagle to the Stalin-era Soviet anthem.

"Unbreakable Union" restored

Izvestia,

Alexander Sadchikov, December 9, 2000

State symbols have been adopted, but it doesn't feel like a celebration.On December 8, the Duma passed laws on Russia's national anthem, flag, coat of arms, and symbols for the Armed Forces and the Navy.

Parliament Restores Soviet Anthem.

The Moscow Times

By Ron Popeski and Tara FitzGerald, Reuters. Saturday, Dececmber 09, 2000.

The State Duma on Friday overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin's request to reinstate the tune of the Stalin-era anthem and a tsarist flag and eagle as the country's state symbols. The Duma pushed through the legislation in less than three hours.

December 09, 2000

Declaration on the State Hymn

The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, The State Duma, The Yabloko faction, December 7, 2000

The whole of the Yabloko faction will vote against the law to approve the music of the USSR hymn as the hymn of Russia.

The deputies of the faction think that the issue of legislative approval

of state symbols is inopportune. It would only be timely, after resolving the most acute economic and political problems of the country. The extremely

low living standards of most Russian citizens, the energy crisis in Maritime

Territory and the ongoing war in Chechnya demonstrate that today we are far from this.

December 07, 2000

At a meeting with President Putin, Grigory Yavlinsky again raised the issue of the urgent need for military reform

Press Release, December 05, 2000

The leader of the Yabloko association Grigory Yavlinsky discussed with RF President Vladimir Putin Yabloko’s proposals on the transfer to a voluntary contract-based principle of formation of the army during the meeting in Kremlin on December 5, 2000.

Grigory Yavlinsky: approval of the music by Aleksandrov as the hymn for Russia represents a step towards a split in society

Press Release, December 04, 2000

The Yabloko faction in the State Duma will vote against the adoption of the music of the USSR hymn as the new hymn of Russia. This declaration was made by Grigory Yavlinsky at the meeting of the President of the RF with the heads of the Duma factions and members of the State Council held in the Kremlin on December 4, 2000.

Yuri Trutnev, supported by Yabloko, won the gubernatorial elections in the Perm region. Other members of Yabloko were elected mayors of cities in Stavropol and Krasnodar Areas.

Press Release, December 04, 2000

The present Mayor of Perm, Yuri Trutnev, supported by Yabloko won in the first round of gubernatorial elections in Perm region (December 3, 2000) obtained 51.48% of the votes.

Yabloko accuses the Administration of the RF President of “sounding out” the attitude of the deputies to a third term for the President of the RF

Press Release, December 01, 2000

The Yabloko faction thinks that the submission of the draft law “On the General Principles of Organisation of Legislative (Representative) and Executive State Authorities in Russian Federation Subjects” by the Presidential Administration to the State Duma represents an attempt to “sound out” the attitude of the deputies to the prospects of allowing the President of the RF to stand for a third term.

Soviet anthem unacceptable for Russia

The Times of India, Sunday, December 3, 2000

Moscow - The old Soviet hymn is unacceptable for today's Russia, a prominent reformist leader and lawmaker has warned, deepening the public controversy over Russia's future anthem.

"Russia is a very different state now, based on different principles and traditions, and it's wrong to repeat another regime's anthem, it will rip the society apart," Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the liberal party Yabloko, said in a radio interview Saturday.

Declaration of the Yabloko faction

The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation The State Duma

November 30, 2000

December 04, 2000

Igor Artemyev is convinced that the subpoena for Kudrin to the Public Prosecutor’s Office is related to the struggle for power in the present Russian government

Press Release, 29.11.00

Deputy of the State Duma of the RF Igor Artemyev (Yabloko) is convinced that the subpoena for Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St. Petersburg is related to the struggle for power in the present Russian government. Artemyev made this declaration on November 29 at a press conference in St. Petersburg.

Address to the President of the RF Vladimir Putin on the energy crisis in Maritime Territory and other regions of the Russian Federation

The Yabloko Association

The Bureau of the Central Council of the Yabloko Association

November 28, 2000

Respected Vladimir Vladimirovich,

The Bureau of the Central Council of the Yabloko Association notes that the Government of the Russian Federation has expeditiously reacted to the proposal of the Yabloko faction of November 22, 2000 on budget loans to resolve the energy crisis in Maritime Territory

December 01, 2000

Address On Urgent Measures to Overcome the Energy Crisis in Maritime Territory

November 22, 2000

To the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation M.M. Kasyanov.

On Urgent Measures to Overcome the Energy Crisis in Maritime Territory

Today it is obvious to everybody that the situation in Maritime Territory is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. Virtually all the main life support systems of the Territory are in a critical condition.

Yabloko proposes that the President of the RF and the Prime Minister introduce federal controls over preparations for the heating season

Press Release, 29.11.00

On November 28, 2000, the Bureau of the Central Council of the Yabloko Association proposed that the President of the RF and the Chairman of the Government introduce federal controls over preparations for the heating season.

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