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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

 

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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

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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Yabloko is against replacing the memory of the Victory in the WWII with the praise of a tyrant

Statement by the Yabloko party, 1.05.2025

Photo by Kirill Braga, RIA Novosti

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, the topic of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad [commemorating the name of Joseph Stalin] is being proposed again. President Vladimir Putin, who had previously signed a decree on assigning the name Stalingrad to the Volgograd airport, made a statement about the possibility of renaming.

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“A woman is not an incubator”: Yabloko in St. Petersburg voted against the bill on “banning inducement to abortion”

Press Release, 1.05.2025

Photo: Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly

The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not support the bill, which introduces administrative liability for “committing actions with the purpose of forcing a pregnant woman to artificially terminate a pregnancy by persuasion, proposals, bribery, or deception”.

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The Electoral Commission refused to register initiative groups for a local referendum in the Pskov District

Press Release, 1.05.2025

Photo by Wikimedia Commons

This is already the fifth refusal to register initiative groups that residents of the Pskov Region have received from the regional Electoral Commission. Previously, residents of the Gdovsky, Sebezhsky, Ostrovsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts declared their legal right to determine the structure of local government in a referendum. The Electoral Commission did not register any of the groups.

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The Novgorod District Duma rejects residents’ initiative to hold a local referendum

Press Release, 1.05.2025

Photo: The Novgorod District Duma meeting / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko

Residents of the Novgorod District of the Novgorod Region proposed to restore, with the help of referendum, liquidated and preserve existing administrations in large settlements, establish the number of deputies at 40 people for broader representation and feedback, and elect the head of the district in popular elections. The Chairman of the District Duma, Konstantin Kharlamov, proposed to reject the referendum initiative say that it does not comply with federal and regional legislation.

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Yabloko introduces federal initiative to open access to files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR

Press Release, 30.04.2025

Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant

Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have introduced a federal legislative initiative that should open access for relatives and researchers to archival files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR.

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The Pskov Region Electoral Commission denies the right of residents of Sebezhsky and Pushkinogorsky districts to determine the method of electing districts heads in referendums

Press Release, 29.04.2025

Photo: The emblem of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region

The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region refused to register referendum initiative groups in Sebezhsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts considering that direct elections of the head of the municipality do not comply with regional legislation.

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Grigory Yavlinsky answered questions from the viewers of the Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel about the past, present and future of Russia

Press Release, 29.04.2025

Over the past 120 years, Russia has experienced many tragedies and catastrophes: revolutions, coups d’etat, destructive and bloody wars, and large-scale political repressions. Even the state disappeared twice: in 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed, and in 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart.

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Yabloko ready to defend medical workers coerced into joining the pro-government United Russia party through administrative pressure

Press Release, 28.04.2025

Photo: A memo handed to the medical workers how to fill in an application form to become member of  United Russia and where to bring the application

Several employees of medical institutions in St.Petersburg have approached deputies from the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Medical workers reported being forced to submit applications to join the pro-government United Russia party. Yabloko has documentary evidence of this, including instructions sent to medical workers. In this regard, the faction leader Alexander Shishlov has addressed Vice Governor Konstantin Zvonik.

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Kamchatka Yabloko leader Vladimir Yefimov faces unlawful transfer to a penal colony in a different region. Flight poses a deadly threat for him due to his cardio disease

Press Release, 28.04.2025

Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media

The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (UFSIN) for Kamchatka Krai is sending journalist Vladimir Yefimov to serve his sentence for “discrediting the army” in a penal colony in the Primorye region instead of Kamchatka. The Penitentiary Service claims there are no available places in the Kamchatka colony and, in violation of federal law on sentence execution, is sending Yefimov to another region. The politician has medical contraindications for air travel. Before departing for Primorye, Yefimov fell ill and currently remains at home. Vladimir Yefimov’s defence team is challenging the UFSIN directive in court.

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Andrei Talevlin on Chernobyl Tragedy Remembrance Day: Humanity is not ready for full-scale use of nuclear energy

Blog post by Andrei Talevlin, 25.04.2025

Photo: Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant / Photo by Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, RIA Novosti

Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor (uranium-graphite channel type reactor) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 39 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of settlements had to be relocated. Millions of people were exposed to radiation. The affected areas have not been properly rehabilitated to this day. Even today, seven RBMK-1000 power units with an extended service life function in Russia.

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Alexander Shishlov at a conference in the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics: “The main task in human rights now is to conclude a ceasefire and stop killing of people”

Press Release, 25.04.2025

Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko

The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, spoke at the 11th International Conference “Human Rights Activities in Modern Russia: Problems and Their Solutions” at the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics.

He noted the continuing assault on constitutional human rights in Russia. The concept of “political prisoner” returned to the country, and freedom of information was significantly limited by repressive laws threatening criminal prosecution for disagreement with the authorities.

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Last Address plaques commemorating victims of Stalin’s repression need state protection

Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, adopted on 10.04.2025, published on 24.04.2025

Photo: Restoration of the Last Address project plaques removed after an anonymous complaint / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant

In early April, unidentified vandals removed the Last Address plaque installed on the house where famous theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold was arrested in St. Petersburg in 1939 [during Joseph Stalin’s repression].

This is far from the first such incident – there have been dozens such cases in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities. In some cases, unidentified “activists” destroy the plaques; in others, municipal services dismantle them citing “lack of permissions” for installation. At the same time, demands to create an official mechanism for installing Last Address plaques encounter blatant reluctance from authorities.

Yabloko considers the Last Address project an important component in commemorating victims of political repression in our country.

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