The YABLOKO party presented its publications at the 25th
Moscow International Book Fair, which opened today at the Exhibition
Centre.
Irina Kopkina, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO,
noted that there is no other party which would publish annually
dozens of new books, research papers and useful booklets.
Irina Kopkina
Andrei Babushkin, famous human rights activist and Bureau
member of YABLOKO, presented his booklet "If you met
the police". He stated with regret that most of Russian
policemen did not share the idea that a person can not be
a tool for the police, but should be always its goal, which
was included into the police code of ethics in 2008.
Andrei Babushkin
"We have to daily confront fabrication of criminal cases,
unlawful detention of citizens and use of tortures against
citizens. In order to change the situation, we need to make
great efforts. This brochure is one step towards this. It
explains how to deal with the police, how to apply to the
police, what to do if your child is interrogated by a juvenile
inspector - all these issues are discussed in the booklet,"
Babushkin said.
Galina Mikhalyova, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO,
leader of YABLOKOs gender Faction, Bureau member and Executive
Secretary of the Political Committee of the party, introduced
three publications.
Galina Mikhalyova
One of the books was "The Politics of De-Ecologisation
in Russia and the Tasks of the YABLOKO Party", co-edited
by Mikhalyova and Alexei Yablokov, a renowned environmentalist
and leader of YABLOKOs Green Russia faction.
"The book contains articles from our leading environmentalists
and shows that Russia has been pursuing environmentally unfriendly
policies targeted at destruction of nature. In the book we
have formulated what should be done so that to change this
policy, she said.She also presented "The Lessons of
the Great Reforms". In 2011 Russia marked an anniversary
of the reforms of Tzar Alexander II that moved Russia towards
the development of democratic institutions.
"Later Russia entered a new stage marked by the destruction
of these institutions, it was a new round of authoritarian
development. Certainly, the fact that our country lost all
it had already reached is regrettable," Mikhalyova noted.
She also presented one more book "Overcoming Stalinism".
The book was written jointly with the "Memorial"
human rights organization. Overcoming Stalinism and Bolshevism
as a must for modernisation of Russia. The book also for the
first time published the so-called "death lists".
"Here we can see how Stalin and Beria signed in pencil
the demands to increase the quota for shooting. We are the
only party raising the tough question that we need to understand
whether Stalin was, according to the Communists, an efficient
manager, or an executioner. I must say that the history of
the countries successfully building their democratic institutions
and market economies shows that progress is impossible without
giving an answer to this question, she concluded.
Tatyana Ovcharenko, YABLOKOs expert in the housing and utilities
sector and head of the Party School of the Active Citizen,
presented her booklet "Your Rights in the Housing and
Utilities: How to Run the House and Pay for Utilities".
Ovcharenko stressed that the housing and utilities sector
in Russia is as corrupt and criminal, as the oil and gas sector.
But each of us has to deal with this sector in everyday living.
Tatyana Ovcharenko
"Only YABLOKO has been publishing booklets giving advice
to citizens in this field. We have collected here specific
recommendations and assessment of the current situation with
apartment blocks, recommendations for ordinary people,"
Ovcharenko said.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin presented the programme on
the development of Moscow "A Moscow Breakthrough."
Sergei Mitrokhin
"This is the only programme on the development of Moscow
today. I can state that neither the Moscow government, nor
any other party has developed such a clear and coherent programme
yet," Mitrokhin said.
He also noted that the booklet contained not only a programme
for the future development but also a report what YABLOKO
had already done for Moscow.
Irina Kopkina, Tatyana Ovcharenko, Sergei
Mitrokhin, Galina Mikhalyova and Andrei Babushkin
"We are not simply talking, we are showing that if we
make promises, we set goals, we hit them, and we can do it",
Mitrokhin said.
Visitors of the Fair can get YABLOKOs books at stand E70
Hall "A" any day up to September 10.
YABLOKO's stand
No comments, Vladimir Zhirinovskys LDPR party
stand.
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