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Russia needs new liberal democratic reforms

strana.ru, June 9, 2001

Yabloko advocates the development of a new liberal democratic course of reforms in Russia, Yabloko party and parliamentary faction leader Grigory Yavlinsky told a meeting of party activists representing it in legislative and executive bodies in St. Petersburg on June 9.

In his view, the main principles of the course should be "an uncompromising defense of human rights, subordination of the State to the interests of citizens, creation of the requisite conditions for the development of a real demonopolised market economy, and the creation of an irreversible process of consolidation of democratic forces in this country."

While admitting that democracy was not "the ideal public and political course," he nevertheless expressed his conviction that today "only this path of development an handle the four main problems facing Russia: demography, the development of Siberia, defense of borders and accession with full rights to the European community."

At the same time, there was a real threat that Russia might be saddled with a bureaucratic totalitarian regime, he claimed.

St. Petersburg has been chosen as the venue for the meeting, as it has the biggest Yabloko faction in the legislative assembly and the biggest number of Yabloko deputies in local government.

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http://russia.strana.ru/politics/parties/2001/06/09/992079842.html

strana.ru, June 9, 2001

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