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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

Court upheld Yabloko’s claim and obliged Territorial Electoral Commission No 37 in St. Petersburg to appoint the party representative member of a precinct electoral commission instead of sending him to the army

Press Release, 15.03.2024

Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant

On 14 March, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg upheld the claim of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party to invalidate the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 37. On 12 March, the commission refused to appoint Yabloko representative Alexander Kirsanov as a member of Precinct Electoral Commission No. 571. The court ordered the Territorial Electoral Commission to reconsider the issue of appointing members of the precinct electoral commission. On 15 March, Territorial Electoral Commission No. 37 appointed Yabloko representative Alexander Kirsanov as a member of the precinct electoral commission with voting rights.

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Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on election violations

Press Release, 15.03.2024

The party is not participating in the elections on 15-17 March, but it is still important for us to continue supporting Yabloko members in electoral commissions and voters, and provide them assistance. For this purpose, Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on voting days, tel: 8 800 777 8725.

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Yabloko to host a lecture by Alexander Verkhovsky on nationalism in post-Soviet Russia

Press Release, 14.03.2024

On 4 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “How Russian nationalism has changed over three post-Soviet decades” by Alexander Verkhovsky, a famous researcher of nationalism and extremism and head of the SOVA Research Centre.

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Yabloko representatives in the electoral commissions of St. Petersburg were handed summonses to the military commissariats

Deputy Boris Vishnevsky addressed head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova.

Press Release, 13.03.2024

Photo: head of Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova / Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant

On 11 March, Andrei Yegorov, a member of St.Petersburg Territorial Electoral Commission No. 29 from the Yabloko party, received a call from the electoral commission secretary who said that the military commissar wanted to meet with him. On 12 March, Yegorov received a call from a representative of the district military commissariat. On the same day, Yabloko representatives in Territorial electoral Commission No. 37, Pavel Khodunov and Alexander Kirsanov, were handed summonses by a representative of the military commissariat at the commission meeting during consideration of the issue of forming precinct electoral commissions. The date that Khodunov and Kirsanov must come to the commissariat is the first day of voting at presidential election, 15 March. In addition, the Territorial Electoral commission refused to appoint Kirsanov to the precinct electoral commission without legal grounds.

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On the position of the Yabloko party regarding 2024 Russian presidential election

Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 11.03.2024, published on 12.03.2024

Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant

The situation in the country during the current election campaign is radically different from all previous elections.

Restrictions on the rights of citizens characteristic of a martial law have been virtually introduced. Political censorship in the media, shutdown of international TV channels, blocking of web-sites, administrative and criminal prosecution of dissent based on laws envisaging punishment for “discrediting”, “fakes”, “extremism”, and “justification of terrorism”, laws on “foreign agents” and “undesirable organisations” – all this makes it impossible to have an open and broad public discussion about the choice of the future for our country. But this is precisely the essence of the campaign for the election of the head of state.

At the same time, the introduction of multi-day, mobile and remote electronic voting and persecution of the community of independent election observers make the vote counting completely opaque.

Four candidates, who are united on all the key issues, including in relation to the special military operation, are registered for the elections. Three of them represent political parties unanimously voting in the State Duma for repressive and militaristic laws, and the fourth candidate is Vladimir Putin. There is no alternative on the ballot to the government’s policy of continuing hostilities and killing people.

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Yabloko will host a lecture by Vladimir Buldakov on the new economic policy of 1921 – 1926 as a path to dictatorship

Press Release, 11.03.2024

On 25 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture  on the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the USSR in 1921 – 1926 as a path to dictatorship. The lecturer is Vladimir Buldakov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and chief researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The Presidential Administration responded to Boris Vishnevsky’s appeal about the end of mobilisation

Press Release, 05.03.2024

Photo by Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant

Dismissal from service of those mobilised “is possible in accordance with the current legislation, as well as after the cessation of the circumstances that served as the basis for the conscription of citizens for military service”.

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Yabloko and the ChelovekPrav group call on deputies and senators to disclose their income declarations. The collection of signatures for the petition is open

Press Release, 05.03.2024

Photo by zebra.tv

Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre Alexei Karnaukhov and the initiative group ChelovekPrav call on deputies of the State Duma, members of the Federation Council, as well as regional and municipal deputies to disclose their income and property declarations for 2023 and make them public. A web-site has been created where Russian citizens can sign the relevant petition.

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Anna Cherepanova asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Commissioner for Human Rights to check reports on violations in women’s colonies

Press Release 7.03.2024

Photo: Prisoners in Women’s Penal Colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Altai Territory / Photo by Andrei Lukovsky, Kommersant

Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Novgorod City Duma, sent complaints to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Commissioner for Human Rights about violations of the rights of women-prisoners in women’s penal colonies in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories. Political prisoner Maria Ponomarenko reported flagrant violations of the law in her letters to civil activists. Maria Ponomarenko is in Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 1 in Barnaul now, as the investigation into her new criminal case is ongoing. Before that, she served her sentence in Penal Colony No 6 in the Altai Territory and Penal Colony No 22 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It was there that Maria Ponomarenko encountered violations of the rights of prisoners.

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Yabloko is organising an online auction of paintings by St. Petersburg artist Yelena Osipova

Press Release, 6.03.2024

Photo: Detention of Yelena Osipova at one of the protests in St. Petersburg / Photo by Yelena Lukyanova, Novaya Gazeta

An online auction of paintings by the famous St. Petersburg artist Yelena Osipova will be held in central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. All proceeds from the sale will go to the author of the works.

Yelena Osipova is of advanced age and does not feel well; in May 2023 she suffered a stroke after persecution for her actions for peace. The auction will be held to support the artist, as well as to help preserve her creative legacy (part of the funds raised will be used for these purposes).

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Yabloko to host the “Live Forever” theatre piece by the Moscow independent theatre Baggage

Press Release 5.03.2024

On 11 March, the Yabloko party Moscow office will host the “Live Forever” theatre piece. The key idea of the play is as follows: one must remain human always and in any conditions and trials.

The play is staged by the Moscow independent theatre Baggage.

The production is based on one of the most striking passages from the novel “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman, an epic novel about the Second World War. Many compare this work to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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Yabloko supporter Svetlana Marina was found guilty of repeated discrediting of the army and sentenced to forced labour

Press Release, 1.03.2024

Based on the publications in the Telegram channel of the Kirov branch of Yabloko

Photo: Svetlana Marina / Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko

Today, on 1 March, the Pervomaysky District Court of Kirov found Yabloko supporter Svetlana Marina guilty under the article of repeated discrediting of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and sentenced her to 1.5 years of forced labour.

It should be noted that at the previous hearing, on 28 February, the public prosecutor requested two years in a penal colony for Svetlana Marina and insisted on issuing her a three-year ban on administration of web-sites.

Svetlana, 56, has lived all her life in Kirov and has been working as a software engineer. She came to activism in 2014, started by participating in street actions against political repression, in defence of human rights and political prisoners, and then came to organisation of many events. “At first I was an ordinary participant in street actions, but then I began to organise them myself. When the authorities refused to give permission for the actions, I filed lawsuits challenging the refusals,” Svetlana says.

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A court in Tatarstan fined Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko, 25,000 roubles for a single picket demanding that the body of Alexei Navalny be given to his relatives

Press Release, 26.02.2024

Based on the publications in the Telegram channel of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan

Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / A screenshot from the video made by the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan fined Ruslan Zinatullin 25,000 roubles under Article 20.2 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“organisation of mass simultaneous stay and (or) movement of citizens in public places, resulting in a violation of public order”).

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Yabloko to host a launch of a new collection of women’s prose “Memory. The Feminine Gender”

Press Release, 3.03. 2024

On 5 March, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will launch a new collection of women’s prose “Memory. The Feminine Gender”. The book includes the best short stories submitted to the competition of the Union of Russian Writers “New Amazons – 2023”. The Presenters will be the First Secretary of the Union of Russian Writers Svetlana Vasilenko, and journalist and writer Nadezhda Azhgikhina.

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A manifestation of a lulling policy and collective escapism from reality for the entire country.” Yabloko leaders comment on the President Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly.

Press Release, 29.02.2024

Photo by Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant

Yabloko leaders comment on the President Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly

Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov notes that all the main things form Vladimir Putin’s address, have been already promised to some extent, however, “the things are still there”. “We will protect nature reserves, – but, in fact, the protection is getting weaker. We will protect Baikal – and they are preparing a law on clear cuttings of woods on Lake Baikal. In six years, we will sort all solid waste – and they carry out a waste management reform destroying the nascent separate waste collection system. And not a word about the main thing – about peace.”

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Emilia Slabunova: “I am categorically against the abolishing of the social studies course in the secondary school”

Press Release, 28.02.2024

Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

“I categorically object to the plans of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation to abolish the social studies course for grades 6-8 at the level of basic general education and leave only one hour for its study in grade 9!” Emilia Slabunova, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia and honoured teacher of Russia, wrote in her blog post.

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Nine years since the murder of Boris Nemtsov

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 27.02.2024

Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should be a peaceful country. He was a sincere person and a Russian patriot. This determined his political views. Exactly nine years ago, on 27 February, 2015, Nemtsov was shot. In the back. Right next to the Kremlin walls.

The authorities bear political responsibility for his murder.

Let his memory last forever!

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The photo shows Boris’s grave. Today several police squads were on duty near Nemtsov’s grave on Troekurovsky cemetery…

The sentence to human rights defender Oleg Orlov is repressive and must be overturned

Statement by the Yabloko party, 27.02.2024

Photo: Human rights defender Oleg Orlov at the hearings of the Golovinsky Court in Moscow, 27 Febraury, 2024 / Photo by Pavel Bednyakov, RIA Novosti

The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses protest against the conviction and imprisonment of human rights defender and one of the founders of the Memorial human rights society, Oleg Petrovich Orlov.

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TWO YEARS OF WAR. JUST STOP!

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2024

Photo: Fragments of a building in Yubileiny District in Adviivka destroyed during the fighting / Photograph of Stanislav Krasilnikov (RIA NOVOSTI) 22 February 2024

 The intense warfare between Russia and Ukraine has continued relentlessly now for two years – people are dying every day. Continuation of the military actions in any form – offensive or positional warfare — will not deliver any positive outcome for Russia, Ukraine or Western countries. Any continuation implies endless and irreparable tragedy. “The dream of some people – to end the dispute once and for all “on the battle field” – is not possible — I penned these words in my article in Novaya Gazeta Just Stop, published a year ago in February 2023. In the article I called for the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine. This text, which is now a year old,  could simply be reprinted. All I would need to do is replace the assumptions and warnings with assertions and a statement of the facts.

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The Yabloko faction in the Novgorod City Duma passed a no confidence motion against police Colonel Maksimov, head of the city Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Press Release, 26.02.2024

Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

During the annual report of the Novgorod police chief Colonel Sergei Maksimov, in the Novgorod City Duma, the head of the Yabloko faction, Anna Cherepanova, expressed distrust in the actions of the police, listing episodes of pressure on Yabloko candidates and party members.

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