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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

Lev Shlosberg has been placed under house arrest as part of a criminal case concerning “repeated discrediting of the army”

Press Release, 11.06.2025

Photo: Lev Shlosberg in the court room / Photo by Nikolai Rybakov

The investigation insisted on such a preventive measure for the Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party during a court hearing at Pskov City Court today. The judge also closed the hearing at the request of the investigator and public prosecutor. The preventive measure has been imposed until 8 August. At court, Lev Shlosberg was supported by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov.

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Yabloko marked the 75th anniversary of Yuri Shchekochikhin’s birth

Press Release, 10.06.2025

The legendary Soviet and Russian journalist, investigator, playwright and politician was remembered at the office of the party he represented in the State Duma until his death in 2003.

The evening featured speeches by journalist and writer Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Yuri Shchekochikhin’s widow; Novaya Gazeta editor Sergei Sokolov; director Alexei Simonov; Vladimir Mukusev, journalist and presenter of the popular Vzglyad TV programme; Pavel Zaitsev, lawyer and former investigator with the Investigative Committee under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs; politicians Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky and other. Songs under guitar were performed by Yabloko politician Boris Vishnevsky and composer Sergei Nikitin.

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Applications are being accepted for the international essay competition “Young about Young” named after Yuri Shchekochikhin

Press Release, 10.06.2025


Citizens of Russia and other countries aged 18-35 who write in Russian may participate in the competition.

Requirements for works:

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A criminal case for repeated “discrediting of the army” filed against Lev Shlosberg. Shlosberg arrested, the trial will determine a preventive measure

Press Release, 10.06.2025

Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko

A criminal case has been filed against Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg for repeated “discrediting of the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) due to his debate with historian Yuri Pivovarov, in which the Shlosberg defended the need for a ceasefire as soon as possible.

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“A law laying a mine of extremism”. Maxim Kruglov on the first results of the educational filter for foreign children

Press Release, 9.06.2025

Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant

Only 4% of children of immigrants to Russia have been admitted to comprehensive schools after passing the entrance filter introduced for them – a mandatory exam in the Russian language. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote about this figure with some pride on his Telegram channel. According to Vyacheslav Volodin, as of 22 May, 2,868 applications for migrant children to participate in the Russian language testing were submitted, and 498 children (17%) were admitted to the exam. “In the two months of functioning of the new rules, they have proven their effectiveness,” Volodin writes. Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov writes about what the two months of discriminatory rules actually show, and where this laws and further draft laws “on control over migrants” may lead to.

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Novgorod Yabloko calls its supporters to participate in the local elections together with the Yabloko team

Press Release, 3.06.2025

Photo: The Novgorod Yabloko team / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko

In September, elections will be held to the Dumas of 15 districts of the Novgorod region: Borovichskaya, Valdaiskaya, Volotovskaya, Lyubytinskaya, Malovisherskaya, Marevskaya, Novgorodskaya, Okulovskaya, Parfinskaya, Poddorskaya, Soletskaya, Starorusskaya, Khvoyninskaya, Chudovskaya, and Shimskaya. Novgorod Yabloko calls on its supporters to take part in the election campaigns.

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Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates for municipal and city elections

Press Release, 3.06.2025

In September, elections will be held to the district assemblies of Velikoluksky, Gdovsky, Dedovichsky, Kuninsky, Novosokolnichesky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, Pskovsky, Pustoshkinsky, Pushkinogorsky and Sebezhsky districts, as well as by-elections for a deputy of the Pskov City Duma in single-mandate district No. 3. Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates and invites its supporters to join.

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A search was conducted at the home of Roman Morozov, a member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko and lawyer for political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov

Press Release, 29.05.2025

Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko

The so-called “inspection of the premises” in Roman Morozov’s apartment was conducted by decision of the Chairman of the Regional Court. The ruling, which Morozov was given to read, stated that he was a “partner” of lawyer Maria Bontsler. According to the ruling, Bontsler was “suspected” of treason. Roman Morozov and Maria Bontsler were lawyers for Kaliningrad political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov.

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The court left the leader of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months

Press Release, 29.05.2025

Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The Soviet Court of Ryazan left the journalist and Chairman of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months. Smirnov has been in custody for four months, since 31 January. He does not admit his guilt in the case of “extortion”. Smirnov’s colleagues from Yabloko – the party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and the head of the Yabloko staff Yevgenia Vlasova – came to the court hearing in Ryazan.

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Exchange as a step towards ceasefire

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.05.2025

Photo: The Economist

The largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict has been completed.

Against the backdrop of rising tensions – statements about the lifting of restrictions by several EU countries on the use of weapons supplied to Ukraine for strikes deep into Russia and large-scale attacks on Ukrainian targets – two thousand people have been saved.

This is the largest prisoner exchange in over three years. On Friday, 23 May, on the first day [of the exchange], 390 people from both sides were exchanged on the Belarus territory. On Saturday, a further 307 people were exchanged, and 303 people on Sunday.

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Yabloko planted thirty young fruit trees and bushes in Ivanovo

Press Release, 27.05.2025

Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko

As part of the traditional spring clean-up day, the regional branch of the Yabloko party planted thirty young fruit trees and bushes in a garden (Skver Energetikov) in Ivanovo. Residents of nearby houses helped plant the seedlings and thanked Yabloko for the initiative.

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Yabloko announces a book collection for the library in Novo-Steklyannoye village, Karelia

Press Release, 27.05.2025

Photo from Adobe Stock

The Yabloko Party announces an annual book collection dedicated to the Day of Libraries. This year, the collection will take place for the library of the village of Novo-Steklyannoye in the Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia. The campaign will last until 11 June inclusive.

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Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko office because of a denunciation

Press Release, 25.05.2025

Photo: The action of writing letters to political prisoners in Yekaterinburg Yabloko in April 2025 / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko

On 25 May, Yabloko held its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners at the office of the party branch in Yekaterinburg. Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko office because of a denunciation. There is no connection with the leaders of the regional branch yet, the circumstances are being clarified. According to some reports, the masked men took ten participants of the action away with them.

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Stalin’s defenders mock those who preserve the memory of his victims. Yabloko on the inclusion of Yan Rachinsky, C-Chair of the Memorial human rights society, in the “foreign agents” register

Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 23.05.2025

Photo: Yan Rachinsky /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The Yabloko party considers the inclusion of Yan Rachinsky, Co-Chairman of the Memorial human rights society and Russian human rights defender, in the so-called “foreign agents” register to be an act of political repression aimed at destroying historical memory in Russia.

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Lev Shlosberg: Commentaries on negotiations have begun to occupy more space in public politics than the negotiations themselves

Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 23.05.2025

Photo: Journalists awaiting the end of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul / Photo by Kirill Zykov, RIA Novosti

Commentary on negotiations has begun to occupy more space in public politics than the negotiations themselves. This destroys the fabric of professional diplomacy and leads to risks of negotiation failure, especially on sensitive issues. Diplomacy conducted through public space, including through media, loses flexibility and finds itself completely dependent on mass stereotypes and phobias.

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Yabloko invites to the celebration of Engelina Tareyeva’s centenary

Press Release, 23.05.2025

Photo: Engelina Borisovna Tareyeva / Photo from the personal archive

On 30 May, Yabloko member Engelina Borisovna Tareyeva will turn 100. It is a great honour for us to hold an evening dedicated to the centenary of our party’s oldest member. For many years, Engelina Borisovna has maintained a personal blog on LiveJournal called “An Intelligentsia Thing”, in which she publishes both her memoirs and reflections on the present and future of our country. Her honest and brave voice, brilliant memory, erudition and expressive style resonate with thousands of readers. In the era of the early development of blogs, Engelina Borisovna became one of the first Russian bloggers who had more than 10,000 subscribers. Engelina Borisovna continues to maintain her blog even now.

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Will they start burning undesirable books soon?

Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 22.05.2025

Photo: The Podpisnye Izdaniya book store in St. Petersburg / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant

Security officials came to search the book publishing houses Eksmo and Individuum, and book stores Falanster, Podpisnye Izdaniya, and Karta Mira.

After the searches at the publishing houses, 11 people were interrogated and later detained. Three were placed under house arrest. According to media reports, the detainees are suspected of participating in the activities of an extremist organisation that allegedly “promoted LGBT ideology”. According to security officials, “LGBT propaganda” is allegedly contained in several books published several years ago by the independent publishing houses Individuum and Popcorn Books, now part of Eksmo.

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Grigory Yavlinsky and other Yabloko leaders stand surety for imprisoned Konstantin Smirnov

Internet media VidSboku, 20.05.2025

Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The sureties to the Soviet District Court of Ryazan with a request to change the preventive measure for Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Dubrovichi rural settlement of the Ryazan district from Yabloko and editor-in-chief of VidSboku Internet media, were sent to the court by the Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov and his deputies; the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky and members of the Federal Political Committee of the party, as well as deputies from the party from several regions.

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Yabloko to host a meeting with writer Natalia Ivanova

Press Release, 22.05.2025

A meeting with Natalia Ivanova, a famous writer and first deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Znamya, will be held on 27 May.

The programme of the evening includes a launch of the writer’s new books “Fate and Role”, “Text and Context” and the author’s reading of a new play.

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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to the head of the Central Electoral Commission with Grigory Melkonyants’ final statement in court

Press Release, 21.05.2025

Photo: Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of Golos independent election observers movement, at a roundtable on organising election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos

Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of the Russian Central Electoral Commission, with the final statement of imprisoned Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of Golos independent election observers movement, and asked her to study Grigory’s proposals affecting the electoral rights of prisoners.

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