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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

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

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

YABLOKO-ALDE conference 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

Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura

Realeconomik

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

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

Resoulution
On the results of the Conference “Migration: International Experience and Russia’s Problems” conducted by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (the ALDE party)

Moscow, April 6, 2013

International Conference "Youth under Threat of Extremism and Xenophobia. A Liberal Response"
conducted jointly by ELDR and YABLOKO. Moscow, April 21, 2012. Speeches, videos, presentations

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

Building a Liberal Europe - the ALDE Project

By Sir Graham Watson

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

YABLOKO and ELDR joint conference

Moscow, March 12, 2011

Reform or Revolution

by Vladimir Kara-Murza

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

European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky!
Your vote counts!

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!

 

Yabloko: Liberals in Russia

By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009

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

Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions in support of political prisoners

Press Release, 20.11.2024

Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions of writing letters to political prisoners. We are publishing the addresses of the regional branches where the actions are held as well as the dates of the action. The actions will be held in Yabloko’s regional branches all over Russia from 22 November through to 12 December.  The information will be updated.

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Nikolai Rybakov: 1,000 missed chances. How and when did we miss the opportunity for peace?

Nikolai Rybakov special for the Yabloko web-site, 19.11.2024

People think that if they call mass murder “war,” then

mass murder will stop being a murder, a crime.

Leo Tolstoy

Photo: Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Warriors of the Apocalypse” (1887) depicting the four horsemen of the Apocalypse – characters from the Sixth chapter of the Revelation of John the Theologian

The 24th of February, 2022 became a tragic date for many of us, a turning point in life and a day after which no one and nothing will be the same. During the military actions, we have lost a lot and many people. And if good-neighbourly relations with Ukraine and the West, destroyed infrastructure and houses, and a stable economy can be restored, maybe not now, and not immediately, but still it is possible, then we will never be able to bring back those who died in this bloody massacre.

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The government of the Saratov Region supported the Yabloko initiative to expand the list of organisations where alternative civilian substitute service is possible

Press Release, 18.11.2024

Photo: an ID of a citizen undergoing alternative civilian non-military service / Photo from social media

For many years, the Saratov region has been experiencing an acute shortage of specialists in socially significant areas, primarily in healthcare and education. The Saratov branch of Yabloko sent proposals to the Governor of the Saratov Region and the Reception Office of the Chairman of the State Duma that would help reduce the personnel shortage – expanding the list of organisations where alternative civilian (non-military) service is possible. Last week, Yabloko received a letter from the Government of the Saratov Region, which supported the idea of ​​expanding the list of organisations for alternative civilian service.

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Yabloko to hold rally in Yakutia against cancellation of direct mayoral elections

Press Release, 18.11.2024

Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

On 24 November, a rally against the cancellation of the mayoral elections will be held in Yakutsk. Participants will gather at 14:30, the rally will begin at 15:00. The organiser of the event is the Yabloko branch in Yakutia. Yabloko has received a permission for the rally from the city administration.

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Yabloko to hold a discussion “1,000 Days After 24 February, 2022”

Press Release, 15.11.2024

The events after 24 February, 2022, became a turning point in the lives of each of us. For over two years, we have been living in a reality when people die every day.

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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the budget of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. Deputy Emilia Slabunova innumerates the reasons

Press Release, 14.11.2024

Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

On 14 November, the Legislative Assembly of Karelia considered the draft budget of the Republic of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. The Yabloko faction voted against adopting the document. The head of the faction Emilia Slabunova notes that only the concept of the budget was considered in the first reading. Slabunova innumerates the main reasons why Yabloko cannot agree with such a budget.

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The Yabloko Analytical Centre on the ban for migrant children without knowledge of Russian to be admitted to schools: The initiative is even more harmful than foolish

Press Release, 13.11.2024

Photo by Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced the preparation of a bill that would prohibit migrant children who do not know Russian from being admitted to schools. There is no doubt that this bill will be adopted: Vladimir Putin drew attention to the problem of migrant children’s poor knowledge of Russian, and the heads of Rosobrnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science) and the Human Rights Council proposed a “solution” – to ban their admission to schools. The Yabloko Party Analytical Centre decided to comment on this initiative because it is more harmful that foolish, and its implementation will lead to the opposite results.

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Yabloko municipal deputy in the Pskov region, Nikolai Kuzmin, stripped of powers due to “foreign agent” status

Press Release, 14.11.2024

Photo: Nikolai Kuzmin at the building of the Pskov City Court challenging his “foreign agent” status / Photo from social media

On 14 November, the Assembly of Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District considered the early termination of the powers of deputy from Yabloko Nikolai Kuzmin due to the fact that he was included in the register of “foreign agents”. Ten deputies voted for stripping Kuzmin of his mandate, one abstained, and one (Nikolai Kuzmin himself) voted against; 12 out of 14 current deputies took part in the session.

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Lev Shlosberg: All wars are cursed from their inception

Lev Shlosberg ‘s Telegram blog post, 10.11.2024

Photo from social media

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On the morning of 4 September, Ksenia Sobchak called me, saying she’d received a message from Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov saying “every word hits the mark,” along with a link to Oleg Kashin’s interview with me on his YouTube channel. Ksenia had watched the video and told me that my stance represented the views of many people in Russia who are currently forced into silence. She proposed meeting in Pskov to discuss this perspective, the work of Pskov’s Yabloko team, the current state of Russian politics, the “party of foreign blood,” the country, and its future.

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Chelyabinsk Yabloko organised a lecture on political prisoners “The Last Route”

Press Release, 13.11.2024

Photo: the Zolotaya Gora memorial cemetery in the village of Shershni / Source: Chelyabinsk Yabloko

To commemorate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised a lecture on “The Last Route” of Stalin’s political prisoners.  On 3 November, the listeners of the lecture, together with local historian Yuri Latyshev, walked along the “last route” of those sentenced to death during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in Chelyabinsk.

The route began at 45 Rossiyskaya Street. Three people sentenced to death for counterrevolutionary activities in 1937-38 lived in the house at this address:

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St. Petersburg Yabloko honored the memory of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, killed by neo-Nazis 19 years ago

Press Release, 13.11.2024

Photo: Olga Tsepilova, Ivan Levchenko and Dmitry Anisimov on Ligovsky Prospekt, 12 November, 2024. / Photo by the Press Service of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko

On November 12, on the eve of the anniversary of the murder of St. Petersburg anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, the Chair of St. Petersburg Yabloko Olga Tsepilova, Deputy Chair of St.Petersburg Yabloko Dmitry Anisimov, and member of the Regional Council Ivan Levchenko brought flowers and a photograph of the activist to the site of his murder near the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt.

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Moscow Yabloko demands to open a criminal case on the attack on environmental activist Ivan Shchekin in the Moscow region

Press Release, 13.11.2024

Photo: Ivan Shchekin after the attack on him in the Romashkinsky forest / Photo by Sergei Utrishsky

The Regional Bureau of Moscow Yabloko sent an appeal to the chief of the Moscow region police Viktor Ishchenko. The appeal was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow Yabloko.

On 5 November, ” Ivan Shchekin, environmental activist and inspector of the non-profit partnership “National Committee for Environmental Safety”, saw workers cutting down trees in the Romashkinsky forest in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The activist asked the workers to show documents allowing for the cutting of trees. The workers attacked Shchekin and beat him using shovels.

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On Yabloko’s appeals the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered to remove military equipment from the monument to grieving mothers of WWII soldiers

Press Release, 12.11.2024

Photo: The Memory memorial in Chelyabinsk / Photo from open sources

Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, achieved this by sending multiple appeals to the regional public prosecutor’s office. The city authorities will have to remove two decommissioned anti-aircraft missile systems S-75 they installed by the monument of mothers grieving over their sons who died in the World War II. In addition, the city administration promised to repair the memorial cemetery by May 2025.

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The parliamentary majority of the St.Petersburg parliament refused to even discuss the amendments to the St. Petersburg budget prepared by Yabloko

Press Release, 12.11.2024

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

On 11 November, Yabloko’s deputy Olga Shtannikova presented Yabloko’s amendments to the 2025 budget at the meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg.

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Yabloko held an expert discussion on the problem of overcoming Stalinism in modern Russia

Press Release 8.11.2024

Based on the discussion in the Yabloko Bureau on 31 October, 2024

On 31 October, Yabloko held an open meeting of the Federal Bureau of the party, timed to coincide with the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. The topic of the large discussion was overcoming Stalinism. The following experts joined the discussion of the problem of studying the crimes of the Soviet state against citizens, as well as developing ways to overcome the growing popularity of Stalinist ideas in our time: lawyers Mikhail Biryukov and Marina Agaltsova, sociologist and Director of the Levada Centre Denis Volkov, co-founder of the Memorial group Viktor Kogan-Yasny, and human rights activist, son of a repressed person Alexei Nesterenko. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky and head of the Yabloko Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov also made speeches.

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Donald Trump has won. What will happen next? Nikolai Rybakov on the prospects of the policies of the 47th US President

Telegram blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 6.11.2024

Photo from social media

Donald Trump has become the 47th President of the United States. Well, such a president, it is ok… Before the 2016 elections, he pays to a porn star for keeping silence about their affair. And where does he pay it from? From the presidential election fund. Simply brilliant… And when he is then tried for it, it is, of course, “fighting against him”. A good example to follow…

And what is there so unexpected? Populism is becoming increasingly more attractive, and institutionalised (i.e., boring) politics, the politics of values ​​and professional approach are out of favour today. Crude, flamboyant phrases continue to gain momentum in the world. If one said or wrote something stupid, but did it in a gaudy manner – one would get a lot of likes. They will discuss him. If one didn’t say it – well, sorry, it’s your own fault. And the fact that politicians, especially those re-elected, should report on the fulfillment of their previous promises – this sounds almost like nonsense, even probably funny to some.

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The Smolensk branch of Yabloko asks the Federal Penitentiary Service to pay attention to the health condition of political prisoner Sergei Komandirov

Press Release, 5.11.2024

Photo: Sergei Komandirov / Photo from social media

The Smolensk branch of Yabloko has contacted the central office of the Federal Penitentiary Service with a request to provide qualified medical care to political prisoner Sergei Komandirov, who is held in Penal Colony No 4 in the city of Torzhok. The mother of the political prisoner says that Komandirov has health problems.

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Lev Shlosberg: A state without memory

What is happening around the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions 

Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 4.11.2024

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18+ THE PRESENT MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG

The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions is being transformed in Russia into a quasi-legal memorial day that has been officially established, officially not banned, but how the authorities mark it either has not been agreed upon under demonstratively wild pretexts or else is being stifled in the swamplike silence of dissemblance.

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Olga Shtannikova will become a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko

Press Release, 31.10.2024

Photo: Olga Shtannikova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The decision to fill the vacant mandate of a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg of the seventh convocation in connection with the early termination of the powers of deputy Boris Vishnevsky was made at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party on 31 October. The documents on the candidacy of Olga Shtannikova will be sent to the Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg soon.

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The 8th All-Russian Conference “Yablokov Readings” in memory of Acad. Alexei Yablokov, scientist, politician and founder of the Yabloko Green Russia faction, was held in St. Petersburg

Press Release, 31.10.2024

The 8th All-Russian Conference “Yablokov Readings” in memory of Acad. Alexei Yablokov, scientist, politician and founder of the Yabloko Green Russia faction, was held in St. Petersburg. Reports were delivered by scientists, journalists, leaders and activists of environmental non-governmental organisations, and leaders and activists of the Yabloko party.

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