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New items - April 2001
April 30, 2001

CAN YAVLINSKY BE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UNITED LIBERALS?

Jamestown Foundation Monitor

Boris Nemtsov, who heads the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) faction in the State Duma, said yesterday that SPS and Yabloko might possibly put forward a single candidate in the 2004 presidential elections and suggested that candidate could be Yabloko's leader, Grigory Yavlinsky.

April 29, 2001

Yabloko and SPS to nominate a single candidate at the presidential elections

Gazeta.ruApril 29, 2001, 22;48
At the presidential elections of 2004 Yabloko and the SPS will probably be represented by a single candidate.

April 27, 2001

Russia Needs a Strong Party and a Right-Wing President

Novye Izvestia, April 27, 2001, pp. 1, 6
Yelena Serenko

Interview with Boris Nemtsov

 

One Half for You...

Does foreign media ownership constitute a threat to Russia's national security?
Izvestia, April 27, 2001, p. 2

Alexander Sadchikov

Yesterday the Duma passed in the first reading a bill which would limit the participation of foreign investors in Russian media. The deputies unexpectedly supported the bill - 332 of them voted in favour, only 22 against, with three abstentions.

April 24, 2001

PACE expresses its concern over the situation with freedom of speech in Russia

Press release
On Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at a discussion of the report on the freedom
of speech and information in the mass media in Europe, the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) supported the amendment where
it expresses concern in connection with recent developments in Russia.

April 23, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky speaks in the USA in connection with the publication of his book on the transformation of the Russian economy
Press release
On April 23 Grigory Yavlinsky, who is now in the USA at the invitation of Stanford University, made a report on the modern problems of the Russian and world economy.

 

The Ambassador of Israel expresses his gratitude to the deputies of theDuma who respected the memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a minuteof silence in the State Duma of the RF
Press release

 

The Liberals group at the PACE session passed a statement in support of the independent mass media in Russia
Press release
The group of liberal deputies in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) made a statement in support of the independent massmedia in Russia.

 

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin: the model of interaction between Russia and the EU should be drafted in Kaliningrad Region

Press release
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin thinks that Kalinigrad Region should become a kind of a model region where interaction between Russia and the European Union is developed.

Vladimir Lukin discussed the problem of the freedom of speech in Russia with representatives of the European parliament

Press release

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma for the Yabloko faction Vladimir Lukin said that recently the federal and the regional authorities had increased their pressure on the mass media.

Members of the Russian delegation from the Yabloko faction in PACE rate positively the decision of the Assembly on the Russian mass media

Press release
Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Sergei Ivanenko expressed his hope that the adoption of the amendments on the Russian mass media by PACE would facilitate improvements to the situation in this area.

April 20, 2001
Sergei Ivanenko: it is unlikely that the number of committees in the Duma will be reduced
Press release
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko said that it was unlikely that the State Duma would support the proposal of the People's Deputy Group to reduce the number of Duma committees.
April 18, 2001

What will a Contract Army Cost the People? '

An interview with Igor Artemyev (Yabloko).

 

Roll-call voting in the State Duma for the adoption of the Federal Law on the Introduction of Amendments to Article 50 of the Law "On the Protection of Environment" (in the part of imports of nuclear waste for temporal storage and recycling).
Second Reading.

 

Yabloko will not stop opposing the transformation of Russia into a radioactive waste dump
Press release
The leader of the Yabloko faction Grigory Yavlinsky said that the adoption by the State Duma at its second reading of draft laws allowing for the import of nuclear waste from abroad represents an "irreparable mistake in the long-term".

 

Grigory Yavlinsky: there was too much politics in Vladimir Gusinsky's case
Press release
The leader of Yabloko and its parliamentary faction in the State Duma, Grigory Yavlinsky, said that the decision of the judiciary of Spain not to extradite Vladimir Gusinsky to Russia was not unexpected.

 

The Youth Organisation of Yabloko plans protest action against imports of nuclear waste to Russia

Press release
The Youth Organisation of Yabloko in Moscow plans a protest action against imports of nuclear waste to Russia, The action is scheduled for April 18, 2001.

April 17, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky proposes seven urgent steps to improve pensioners' well-fare

Press release
The pension reform measures proposed by the government cannot improve
the welfare of Russian pensioners, which is extremely hard, and in some
cases even catastrophic, said the leader of the Yabloko faction in the
State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky at a meeting of the National Council for
Pension Reform under the President of the Russian Federation held on
April 17, 2001 in the Kremlin.

 

Yegor Versus Boris
Obshchaya Gazeta, No. 17, April 2001, p. 7
Elena Dikun, Anatoly Kostyukov

Yegor Gaidar to challenge Boris Nemtsov for party leadership

With a month to go until the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) becomes a party, its leaders still can't decide who's boss.

April 16, 2001

The differences in the positions of the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and Yabloko towards the situation around NTV will not lead to a split between the two right-wing parties
Rosbalt Information Agency, April 16, 2001

 

Sergei Ivanenko: creation of a pro-presidential coalition increases our responsibility for the prospects of a democratic transformation

Press release

The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko said that the creation of a pro-presidential coalition of four factions of the State Duma (the Unity and the Fatherland-All Russia factions and the deputies' groups People's Deputy and the Regions of Russia) had assumed a clear-cut organisational shape.

April 14, 2001
Grigory Yavlinsky: Despite the differences in the assessment of the situation around NTV, Yabloko will aim for a coalition with the Union of Right-Wing Forces
Press release
The leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky said that, despite the differing assessments of the situation around the NTV by his party and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS), this won't affect Yabloko's intention to form a coalition with the SPS.

 

Grigory Yavlinsky to initiate a review of the situation at NTV by the State Duma
Press release
The leader of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, said that he would initiate a review of the situation at the NTV at the next meeting of the State Duma.

 

Yabloko to raise the issue of the situation around NTV at the Spring Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Press release
Members of the Russian parliamentary delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from the Yabloko faction plan to raise the situation around the Russian television channel NTV at the Spring session of PACE which will open in Strasbourg next week.

 

TV Station Taken Over. A state-controlled company stopped Russia's only major independent TV station's journalists mid-broadcast

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, April 14, 2001

La nouvelle direction investit NTV

Le Figaro, 14 avril 2001

Media Takeover. Russia's Independent Network Taken Over by Government

ABCNEWS.com, April 14, 2001

I Want My NTV. Battle Continues for Russia's Independent Network

ABCNEWS.com, April 13, 2001

NTV a perdu son independance

TF1, April 14, 2001

Battle for NTV reaches climax

CNN, April 14, 2001

New Managers Take Over Russia's NTV

Associated Press

By Angela Charlton, Associated Press Writer, April 14, 2001

April 12, 2001
Yabloko: Fatherland will dissolve into Unity
Press release
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Sergei Ivanenko, thinks that the Unity party will virtually devour the Fatherland movement in the case of a merger of these two organisations.
April 11, 2001
The leaders of the Yabloko faction consider the adoption by the parliament of the Netherlands of the law allowing for euthanasia to be a serious mistake
Press release
The law allowing doctors under certain circumstances to kill patients whose condition is hopeless at their consent was approved by a majority of the deputies of the upper chamber of the General States (Ed. parliament) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on April 10, 2001.
April 10, 2001
Igor Artemyev: we can expect that the speeches of the "St. Petersburg Dialogue" will be followed by investments
Rosbalt Information Agency
St.Petersburg. We can expect the words uttered during the St.Petersburg Dialogue to be followed by investments, said deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Igor Artemyev in an interview with a correspondent of the"Rosbalt" information agency.
April 9, 2001

The leaders of Yabloko sign their names to the declaration "For NTV and Freedom of Speech in Russia"
”Since Monday April 9, 2001 signatures will be collected on a daily basis (in a move initiated by the Journalists’ Union) under the slogan “For NTV and Freedom of Speech in Russia” from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow(Suvorovskiy bulv., 8A).

 

Grigory Yavlinsky thinks that millions of signatures may be collected in defence of freedom of speech
The leader of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Grigory Yavlinsky, thinks that millions of signatures may be collected in defence of the freedom of speech and NTV. He made this statement on Monday April 9, 2001 at the House of Journalists in Moscow, where the collection of signatures began.

April 7, 2001
Realistic and fantastic projects
By Darya Guseva and Dmitry Chernov
Vremya MN, April 7, 2001, p. 3
April 6, 2001

TV Network Resisting Hostile Moves in Russia

By Michael Wines

The New York Times, April 5, 2001

State-backed group takes control of Russian TV independent

From Giles Whittell in Moscow

The Times, Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Memorandum on cooperation between the Administration of Tomsk Region and the Yabloko faction of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

March 28, 2001

Kremlin Moves In on Independent TV

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Putin Allies Seem to Gain in Battle Over Critical Press Empire

By Michael Wines

The New York Times, January 27, 2001

Putin Critic Puts His Media Empire Under Thumb of the Kremlin

By Sabrina Tavernise

The New York Times, November 14, 2000

April 5, 2001

Yavlinsky takes NTV case to Parliament
Parlamentskaya Gazeta, April 5, 2001, p. 2
Yabloko prepares draft appeal to the Supreme Court in connection with the situation surrounding NTV

Press release, April 4, 2001

Appeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to take legal proceedings regarding the complaints of shareholders of OAO “Telekompaniya NTV” to protect their rights

Draft, Submitted by the deputy of the State Duma G.A.Yavlinsky, April 4, 2001

NTV Managers Ousted in Gazprom Coup

By Andrei Zolotov Jr., Staff Writer

"The Moscow Times", Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2001. Page 1

Kremlin Moves In on Independent TV

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, Wednesday, April 4, 2001; Page A01

April 4, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky believes that the Duma has refused the chance to freely speak to its electorate

Press release, April 4, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky proposes that the State Duma consider a draft resolution of the chamber on the situation surrounding NTV

Press release, April 4, 2001

Democrats Prepare to Unite

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 31, 2001, p. 3

April 3, 2001

Speech of Chairman of the Yabloko Association Grigory Yavlinsky at the meeting to protect NTV and the freedom of speech

Moscow, Pushkin Square, March 31, 2001

Sergei Ivanenko: the new law on parties will not affect Yabloko

Rosbalt Information Agency, March 28, 2001

Large Rally in Moscow Backs Independent TV

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, Sunday, April 1, 2001

Crowd Gathers to Protect Russia's Freedom of Speech

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, Saturday, March 31, 2001; 12:15 PM

Putin Consolidates Power But Wields It Unsteadily

By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser

Washington Post Foreign Service, Monday, March 26, 2001

April 2, 2001

20,000 Turn Out in Support of NTV

Combined Reports

The Moscow Times, Monday, April 2, 2001, p.3

Big Rally Defends Russia's Independent NTV Channel

By Ron Popeski

Reuters, Saturday March 31 8:24 AM ET

Russians Protest for Press Freedom

The Associated Press

Saturday March 31 11:52 AM ET

Thousands Demonstrate in Moscow

The Associated Press

Saturday March 31 7:11 AM ET

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