Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019
Memorandum of Political Alternative
YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues
YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008
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:
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
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
Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview
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
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
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
Moscow, April 6, 2013
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
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
Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky
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
By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009
Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations
Moscow, July 7, 2009
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
Press Release, 2.08.2021
Photo: The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. / Photo by Depositphotos
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov will visit Novosibirsk, West Siberia, on August 3 within the framework of his election campaign tour.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 2.08.2021
Photo from the official web-site of the Central Electoral Commission of the RF
On 2 August, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia overturned the decision of the Electoral Commission of the Leningrad Region to remove Yabloko candidates Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin from the elections to the regional parliament.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.07.2021
Photo: Vladimir Putin is looking at the map titled «Russia and neighboring countries». August 11, 2006 // REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN’S PRESS OFFICE
Recently Vladimir Putin published an article entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. President Putin has in the past published in his name policy articles dedicated to history and the national question. For example, in the run-up to his election in 2012. However, the meaning of the policy article penned ten years ago differed substantially from the view expressed in the current article. In the most recent text the ideal vision of Russia is no longer a mono-ethnic state, but instead a territory where historical and cultural boundaries should coincide with political borders.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.08.2021
Photo by Urri/depositphotos
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation accepted the case initiated by lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky in defence of the interests of the Yabloko deputies from the St. Petersburg municipality of Liteiny Okrug.
In 2019, 11 out of 20 mandates in the council of this municipality were taken by representatives of Yabloko, but it turned out that four days before the elections, a provision was made to the charter of the municipality stating that the head of the municipality is elected by a qualified, rather than a simple majority of votes of deputies. As a result, the duties of the head have remained with a pro-government United Russia deputy, elected by the previous convocation.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 1.08.2021
Photo by Alex.S./depositphotos
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will arrive to one of the most protest cities in Russia, Khabarovsk, on August 2. The visit is part of his election tour to the Far East.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 31.07.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with Marina Zheleznyakova and Yabloko acitivists in Vladivostok
On July 30, Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov discussed the environmental problems of the Maritime (Primorsky) Territory at a meeting with environmentalists of the region, Anatoly Lebedev, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecology and Business, and Andrei Belovodsky, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Ecology and Life Safety. The main topic of the meeting was specially protected natural areas, the number of which in the region is more than two hundred.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 30.07.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 30 July, the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission voted unanimously for registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the election to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. The list consists of 46 candidates.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 29.07.2021.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre), Yabloko Chairman and leader of the party list for the 2021 parliamentary elections. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The final version of the election programme of the Yabloko party “Freedom and Law. Hope for the Future” has been published. The programme has five sections. We publish some theses from each of the sections.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Programme documents, Protection of Environment, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 30.07.2021
Hand of a person casting a ballot at a polling station during voting.
Photo by bizoon/depositphotos
The Saratov branch of Yabloko, Golos (a movement engaged in independent elections observation) and other independent observers have joined together to form Civic Control, a coordination centre for election observation and monitoring of violations, which also sets the task of encouraging citizens to become independent observers, and training of observers. The Saratov branch of Yabloko, in turn, promises to send all observers from the Civic Control to polling stations from Yabloko (as only political parties and mass media can send observers).
Posted: July 31st, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 29.07.2021.
Photo by Igor Ivanko/ Kommersant
The Yabloko party refused to sign an agreement proposed by the pro-government United Russia party on holding elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The reason is the fourth paragraph of the document, which provides for the refusal of the political parties participating in the parliamentary elections to discuss the actions of the authorities in combatting the pandemic.
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said that Yabloko would not keep silent about the government’s mistakes in combatting the pandemic. “We think it is absolutely necessary to discuss this vital issue during the election campaign, [this problem] has already cost our country nearly 300,000 lives of Russia’s citizens.
Posted: July 29th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Press Release, 29.07.2021
Photo: the flag of the Omsk reigon. / Photo by shok-design/depositphotos
On the single voting day of 19 September, by-elections to the councils of urban and regional settlements will take place in the Omsk region in addition to the elections to the State Duma.
The Bureau of the Regional Council of the Omsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated four candidates to run in the by-elections to the councils of deputies of urban and regional settlements.
Posted: July 29th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 29.07.2021
Photo by depositphotos
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, will start his election campaign tour around the country from the Maritime Territory (the Primorsky Territory) in the Far East. The city he will visit first will be Vladivostok. On July 30, 2021, Rybakov will discuss in Vladivostok the problems of developing small and medium-sized businesses in the Far East with the public organisation “Support of Russia”, meet with journalists, and also hold a round table with environmentalists of the region, where he will raise the problems of specially protected natural areas and coal dust in the region.
Posted: July 29th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 28.07.2021
Photo by Viktor Tolochko/Sputnik
The present authorities of the Republic of Belarus have switched to the tactics of total destruction of mass media that are not controlled by the state, civil society organisations and dissidents.
After the refusal to recognise the real results of the elections and the suppression by force of a peaceful mass protest, unprecedented for Europe, the current Belarusian authorities have been repeatedly persecuting and suppressing any free opinion and expression of will. They deliberately come into conflict with the outside world, aiming at the only priority to maintain the monopoly of the political and economic power of Alexander Lukashenko.
Posted: July 28th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 27.07.2021
Photo: candidates Nikolai Solodkov and Dmitry Lysov
The Primorsky District Court of St.Petersburg overturned the decision of the electoral commission to deny registration to candidates from Yabloko. Yabloko candidates must be registered in the municipal elections five days after the court ruling.
Posted: July 28th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.07.2021
Photo from the official website of the Electoral Commission of the Leningrad Region
The Electoral Commission of the Leningrad Region did not believe the two candidates of Yabloko that they were Yabloko party members and excluded them from the list of Yabloko candidates to the regional parliament. The regional branch of the party and the two candidates Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin filed a complaint against this decision to the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation.
Posted: July 27th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 26.07.2021
Photo: Nikolai Kuzmin, Lev Shlosberg and Dmitry Permyakov before submitting documents to the regional Electoral Commission for registration of the Pskov Yabloko list of candidates. Pskov, July 25, 2021 / Photo by Maxim Bartulev
On 25 July, representatives of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, Dmitry Permyakov and Nikolai Kuzmin submitted all the necessary documents to the regional electoral commission for registration of a single party list of candidates in the elections of the Pskov Regional Assembly.
The Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated 42 candidates as part of a single list of candidates to run in the elections of the Pskov Regional Assembly.
Posted: July 27th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 22.07.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Representatives of Yabloko handed over to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission a set of documents required to certify the list of Yabloko candidates for deputies to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
When submitting documents to the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission, the top candidates of the party list were present: Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, Ombudsman in St. Petersburg, Olga Shtannikova, head of the Ombudsman’s Office and member of the Yabloko Arbitration, and ex-head of the St.Petersburg municipal district Grazhdanka, Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St.Peterburg Electoral Commission from Yabloko and Chair of the Party Arbitration, as well as members of the Party’s Federal Bureau Anatoly Golov and Olga Tsepilova.
Posted: July 26th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 23.07.2021
Photo: Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev and Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin. Photo: by Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant
The Supreme Court dismissed the administrative law suit of the Yabloko party against the Central Electoral Commission regarding the cancellation of public video broadcasting from polling stations. The Supreme Court did not assess whether the actions of the Central Electoral Commission were in line with the Constitution of the RF.
Posted: July 26th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.07.2021
Photo by cluckva/depositphotos
In connection with large-scale forest fires and smoke pollution of settlements in Yakutia, the Yabloko party demands to introduce an emergency regime completely throughout the Republic, and not only in the regional forests (which was done by the decree of the head of Yakutia).
We demand from the country’s leadership to allocate additional funds from the federal budget to fight forest fires in the Republic. It is impossible to defeat fires of this magnitude by collecting donations from the population.
Posted: July 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 21.07.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant
Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, labelled Yabloko’s law suit against the Central Electoral Commission in the Supreme Court demanding to provide public broadcasts from polling stations on voting days as “petty and mean”. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov answers the head of the Central Electoral Commission:
– The duty of the Central Electoral Commission is to ensure fair and transparent elections, including the voting and the counting of votes. If there are no resources, there is no need to hold a vote in three days, tripling the costs of the work of members of electoral commissions.
Posted: July 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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