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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

RUSSIA DEMANDS CHANGES! Electoral Program for 2011 Parliamentary Elections.

Key resolutions by the Congress:

On Stalinism and Bolshevism
Resolution. December 21, 2009

On Anti-Ecological Policies of Russia’s Authorities. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009

On the Situation in the Northern Caucasus. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 252, December 24, 2009

YABLOKO's POLITICAL COMMITTEE DECISIONS:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

On Russia's Foreign Policies. Political Committee of hte YABLOKO party. Statement, June 26, 2009

 

On Iran’s Nuclear Problem Resolution by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 6, 2009

 

Anti-Crisis Proposals (Housing-Roads-Land) of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO. Handed to President Medvedev by Sergei Mitrokhin on June 11, 2009

Brief Outline of Sergei Mitrokhin’s Report at the State Council meeting. January 22, 2010

 

Assessment of Russia’s Present Political System and the Principles of Its Development. Brief note for the State Council meeting (January 22, 2010) by Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. January 22, 2010

 

Address of the YABLOKO party to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 9, 2009

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

Moscow Yabloko
Yabloko for Students
St. Petersburg Yabloko
Khabarovsk Yabloko
Irkutsk Yabloko
Kaliningrad Yabloko(eng)
Novosibirsk Yabloko
Rostov Yabloko
Yekaterinburg Yabloko
(Sverdlovsk Region)

Krasnoyarsk Yabloko
Ulyanovsk Yabloko
Tomsk Yabloko
Tver Yabloko(eng)
Penza Yabloko
Stavropol Yabloko

Action of Support

 

Archives

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FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

Grigory Yavlinsky : “If you show the white feather, you will get fascism”

Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals

The Road to Good Governance

Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991

A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

What does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.

Lies and legitimacy
The founder of the Yabloko Party analyses the political situation. Article by Grigory Yavlinsky on radio Svoboda. April 6, 2011

Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience

Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010

Grigory Yavlinsky's interview to Vladimir Pozner. The First Channel, programme "Pozner", April 20, 2010 (video and transcript)

Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Vote for the people you know, people you can turn for help. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, October 8, 2009

Grigory Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009

A Credit for Half a Century. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Natalia Bekhtereva, Radio Russia, June 15, 2009

Sergei Mitrokhin's Speech at the meeting with US Preseident Barack Obama. Key Notes, Moscow, July 7, 2009

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

Alexei Arbatov: What Should We Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
Obschaya Gazeta, May 16, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's speech.
March 11, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's Lecture at the Nobel Institute
Oslo, May 30, 2000

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

By Arseny Roginsky, 16 December 2008

Nuclear Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview With Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997

Would the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991

Grigory Yavlinsky: “Europe wants Ukraine to pay for their fear”

Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 20.04.2025

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Putin and Trump had a “good” conversation. They announced this to the world. Who will actually benefit from this, and who will not, remains to be seen.

No official announcements were made about discussing any draft decisions regarding the practical implementation of a ceasefire. According to Putin’s aide, “the timeframe for reaching a possible agreement on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine”, that is, stopping killing of people and quickly ending the hostilities, was not discussed during the conversation. As follows from official reports, so far the presidents have only talked about developing a “memorandum” — a list or a plan of the key points for future direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, in a brief statement to the press, mentioned the possibility of reaching an agreement on a ceasefire “for a certain period” during direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.

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Voronezh Yabloko will participate in the elections to the Voronezh City Duma and asks its members and supporters for help

Press Release, 21.05.2025

Photo by Wikimedia Commons

On 14 September, elections to the Voronezh City Duma will be held in Voronezh. The regional branch of the Yabloko party intends to participate in these elections. Yabloko is already preparing a democratic list of candidates who will present a real alternative in the city parliament.

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Yabloko in Moscow and Russian regions invites all to participate in its actions of writing letters to political prisoners

Press Release, 20.05.2025

Photo: The action in the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party

With each passing month, the number of political prisoners continues to grow. According to the Memorial human rights organisation, there are currently 952 political prisoners in Russia. In total, the human rights organisation believes more than 3,000 people have been deprived of their freedom for political reasons.

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Professor from St. Petersburg State University and Honorary Professor of Ryazan State University requested Konstantin Smirnov’s release from pre-trial detention centre

Internet media VidSboku, 20.05.2025

Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at one of the court hearings / Photo by internet media VidSboku

Professor of the Department of Arabic Philology at St. Petersburg State University and Ryazan native Mikhail Suvorov has sent an appeal vouching for Vidsboku (Side View) editor-in-chief Konstantin Smirnov – he requests changing his preventive measure to house arrest or any other not involving deprivation of liberty. The appeal is addressed to the Head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Ryazan Region, Oleg Vasilyev, investigator Dmitry Zhatkin, and the Soviet District Court of Ryazan. The collective appeal was also signed by representatives of the public, legal community, businesses, and culture.

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Yabloko calls on its members and supporters to become a Yabloko candidate for peace and freedom in the Ivanovo region in September municipal elections

Press Release, 19.05.2025

Photo by the Yabloko Press service

The regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ivanovo region is preparing to participate in election campaigns of different levels and invites candidates and volunteers to cooperate.

Municipal elections in the Ivanovo region will be held in almost all cities and districts of the region. The key municipal elections will be elections of city council deputies in Ivanovo, Kineshma and Shuya. Deputies will be elected in 115 municipalities, including six urban districts and 109 settlements in the Ivanovo region, which means 1,331 deputy mandates.

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Artur Gaiduk re-elected as Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko

Press Release, 19.05.2025

Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team / Photo by the regional branch of the party

On 18 May, delegates of the 27th conference of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko elected its steering bodies.

Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, was re-elected Chairman of the regional branch for two years. Five current deputy chairs retained their positions: Lev Shlosberg, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Sofia Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky district in 2019-2023, Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district in 2019-2022, Alexander Konashenkov, deputy of the Gdov District Assembly, and head of the apparat of the regional branch of the party Yana Ivanova. Savely Mager from Velikiye Luki was elected the sixth deputy chairman.

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Yabloko’s web-site launches collection for dismantling Stalin bas-relief in Moscow metro

Press Release, 17.05.2025

Photo: Historian and human rights defender Yan Rachinsky signs the petition in the Moscow Yabloko office / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Immediately after it was reported on the plans of the Moscow Department of Transport to install a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin with the inscription “Gratitude of the people to the leader-commander” at the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow, the Yabloko party began collecting signatures in its Moscow office under an appeal to the Mayor’s Office demanding that these plans be abandoned.

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Grigory Melkonyants sentenced to five years in prison in the “undesirable” organisation case. Commentaries by Yabloko leaders

Press Release, 14.05.2025

Photo: Grigory Melkonyants in the Basmanny Court, Moscow, at one of the hearings / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

On 14 May, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced electoral expert Grigory Melkonyants, Сo-Сhairman of the Golos independent election observers movement, to five years of imprisonment under the article on the activities of an “undesirable organisation”. Since August 2023, Melkonyants has been in pretrial detention. During the trial, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and the head of the Yabloko’s office Yevgenia Vlasova, who has been training election observers for many years, spoke in court in defence of Melkonyants. Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Yabloko Political Committee and a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, came to the court hearings twice – his reports in the status of the Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, prepared with the participation of Melkonyants, were attached to the case.

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Moscow Yabloko protests against restoration of a bas-relief in a Moscow underground station depicting Joseph Stalin, and announces collection of signatures against this initiative

Press Release, 13.05.2025

Photo: A bas-relief “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow, dismantled in 1965/ Photo by Glavarchiv, Moscow

On 13 May, the Moscow branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to Maxim Liksutov, head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of Moscow. Yabloko demands from the Moscow authorities to abandon the initiative to restore the wall carving “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow. Yabloko has launched a collection of signatures against the restoration of the wall carving glorifying the tyrant.

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Yabloko proposes to perpetuate the memory of Anatoly Marchenko, the last Soviet political prisoner who died in prison

Press Release, 13.05.2025

Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from open sources

Thanks to Anatoly Marchenko, Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile and a state decision was made to release all political prisoners in the Soviet Union. From Marchenko’s book “My Testimony” Soviet and European societies learned about the lives of Soviet political prisoners in the post-Stalin period. The memory of the last deceased prisoner of the Soviet camps Anatoly Marchenko has not been perpetuated in any way in the toponymy of the cities where he was born and died – in Barabinsk and Chistopol. Yabloko proposes to correct this injustice.

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On 9 May, the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II

Press Release, 9.05.2025

Moscow

The leaders and members of the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg, as well as at memorials in other Russian cities.

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Novgorod Yabloko held a conference and elected the leaders of the branch

Press Release, 8.05.2025

Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko

Anna Cherepanova was unanimously elected Chairperson of Novgorod Yabloko. The delegates of the Conference discussed plans for the next two years, participation in the elections in a situation when there are actually no elections and opposition and Yabloko members are pressed by the authorities.

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On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the war at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow

Press Release, 7.05.2025

Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov brought flowers from Yabloko to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

“Millions of people – soldiers and sailors, workers, front-line doctors and nurses, residents of besieged Leningrad, home front workers, concentration camp prisoners, and partisans – fought and gave their lives not only for Victory. They fought so that war would never again take fathers and sons, so that mothers would not receive funeral notices, so that cities would not lie in ruins.

Today, when blood is being shed in the world again, our duty is not only to remember the past, but also to fight for human life as the highest value on Earth.

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Yabloko to honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye and Vvedenskoye cemeteries in Moscow

Press Release, 7.05.2025

On 9 May, members and supporters of Yabloko will honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Eternal Flame at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. We invite all our members and supporters to join the memorial event.

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On the future of Russia

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025

After three years of war, our main task remains to achieve a ceasefire and stop the daily killing of people.

However, when this happens, the situation in the country will remain being extremely difficult, requiring responsible actions and an understanding of perspectives.

Besides serious economic problems accumulating since the beginning of the special military operation, the country will face new acute social problems.

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Memory of Victory over fascism in World War II is the foundation of peace

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025

Victory over fascism is one of the key, meaningful events in the history of our country.

We bow our heads and honour the memory of those who died in the struggle for life, for our country, against the state misanthropic ideology of fascism, and the practices of physical destruction of defenceless people.

Our country paid a terrible price in this struggle. The official figure of losses, 27 million dead, is a scale that causes endless pain and is difficult to comprehend. This is a great tragedy for our people, the consequences of which we continue to feel.

We remember and will never forget our allies in the war against fascism, all the people of the world who were part of the anti-Hitler coalition. Ending the war and creating a new world order, the victors sought to unite humanity and prevent new wars in the future.

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Not to miss the chance for peace after three years of tragedy!

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025

Photo by Maxim Guchek, RIA Novosti

A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, resolving contentious issues through negotiations is the basic position of the Yabloko party.

A cessation of hostilities remains the most urgent task for our country and for our party.

For three years and virtually alone, we have been defending this position which has been attacked from all sides.

In recent weeks, the situation has changed – now everyone is talking about a ceasefire, and high-level negotiations are underway. Recently, both the President of Russia and the President of Ukraine announced their readiness for a ceasefire and negotiations without preconditions.

This is a chance that cannot be missed. However, hostilities and daily killing of people continue.

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80 years of Victory in World War II: prevent another world war

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025

Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant

80 years of Victory in World War II is a special anniversary. Almost all the veterans who survived the war and understood, unlike the current generation of politicians, the full horror of war, have passed away. The international order that emerged after 1945 is over.

The influence of populism and right-wing radicalism, supported by modern information technologies and social networks, is growing in different parts of the world.

Tendencies towards state and national isolation are increasingly becoming an alternative to globalisation and integration, and the aspirations of leading powers for imperial dominance are becoming increasingly evident.

Humanity is facing a real threat of a new world war, as never before in the past 80 years. The world war has not yet begun only because of the restraining factor – the fear of a global nuclear catastrophe. However, if this factor does not work at some point, it will lead to a global catastrophe.

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Yabloko Federal Political Committee on the ceasefire in Ukraine, Russia’s European future, and the political meaning of the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II

Press Release, 6.05.2025

On 29 April, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party was held in Moscow. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, delivered a report on the political situation in the country and the world. The Political Committee discussed the key challenges facing Russia and the international community, and adopted two programme documents: on the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine and on the future of Russia, as well as statements dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II.

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Yabloko activists to clean up Butovo Firing Range, the execution and burial site during Stalin’s period

Press Release, 5.05.2025

Photo: Yabloko members and supporters at Butovo Firing Range on 30 October, 2024

Cleaning up at the Butovo Firing Range in Moscow, the execution and burial site of victims of Joseph Stalin repression, will take place on 14 May, starting at 12:00.

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