Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has made an error once again. He gave the idea to remove the Solovetsky Stone [erected in memory of victims of Soviet political repression] from Lubyanka Square so as not to embarrass the people who work in the building on Lubyanka Square.
It is not the Solovetsky Stone that have to be moved from Lubyanka, but the office of the special services must be removed from the building on the square – to another building that does not carry a dark history. The GULAG museum should be moved to this building on the square. Moreover, it was reported that there were some problems with fire safety in the current building [of the museum]. This would be fair and would truly mean the state’s position on assessing the Great Terror as a crime against its people.
Boris Vishnevsky’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dear colleagues,
The conditions in which we work today are like swimming against the current in sulfuric acid. This is exactly how the party of peace and humanism has to work now.
We are working in a situation where the nature of political struggle has fundamentally changed. Dissent has been criminalised, and disputes with opponents of the government, discussions, programme development, and election competition have been replaced by criminal or administrative cases, searches, arrests, putting [the government’s] opponents on discriminatory lists, and depriving them of their voting rights.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to engage in politics even in such conditions.
Lev Shlosberg’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024
Photo: Lev Shlosberg at a meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov Yabloko
The basis of the political position of the Yabloko party since its foundation has been humanism, that is, an ideology focused around the idea of the individual is the highest value.
We have already gone through more than thirty years as a political force, with humanism in our minds and hearts. Humanism is an essential alternative to populism, ochlocracy, nationalism, cynicism, and hatred. Humanism represents an essential alternative to war.
How to combine humanism with political practices? How to introduce humanism into the foundations of the state system? How to make humanism an understandable and recognised basis for politics in Russia? How to make humanism the basis of public life? We seek answers to these questions every day.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky speaking to the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
At the opening of the Yabloko Federal Council meeting, attended by more than 100 representatives of 68 regional branches of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky stressed that reaching an agreement on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine as the party’s main objective in the current conditions.
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a report at the Federal Council of Yabloko, where he spoke about the state of affairs in the party and the main objectives and areas of work in the recent years.
The party leader noted that even in the situation of pressure, threats and danger in which Yabloko operates, new people come to the party every day, send applications to become candidate members and then members of the party. Recently, the party crossed a significant milestone, considerably increasing the number of its supporters in the electronic party, who expressed their readiness to work with Yabloko and receive information from the party – 1,700,267 people.
On Saturday, 30 November, a meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko, the largest representative body of the party, will be held in Moscow. 162 party members from 68 regions of Russia were elected as members of the Federal Council.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
The political mission and the objective of the Yabloko Party has always been the intention to form a modern, socially-oriented vector of development in Russia, based on human rights and freedoms, and democratic institutions. The party has always been notable for serious scientifically based analysis and strategic understanding of the situation both in Russia and in the world.
The Yabloko Federal Political Committee once again called on the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine to conclude a ceasefire agreement, and the heads of the world’s leading countries to support this initiative. Yabloko also specified its proposals for implementation of the agreement:
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Party Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the eve of the Federal Council of Yabloko, which will convene in Moscow on 30 November, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party was held at the central office of Yabloko on 21 November.
The key report was delivered by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee. Alexei Arbatov, a Political Committee member and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused in his report on the danger of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalating into a world war with the use of nuclear weapons. The Political Committee discussed the situation in Russia and the world and adopted a number of decisions on the political position of the party in present situation.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant
The world is changing irreversibly and qualitatively. A large-scale institutional crisis is beginning, it is manifested in the systematic inoperability of many international institutions, as well as the crisis of political systems in the leading countries of the world, which for decades supported the world order that emerged after World War II and largely determined the development of the world.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo: The Kursk region, August 2024 / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
Even before the start of the “special military operation”, the Yabloko party warned of the catastrophic consequences of a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. From the very beginning of the hostilities, we proposed realistic ways to end them and expressed our readiness to act as organisers and participants in the negotiation process. In April 2022, we first formulated the demand for a ceasefire agreement as the first step towards resolving the conflict.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2021, published on 27.11.2024
Photo: A bronze revolver with a knotted barrel – the sculpture “No to Violence” in front of the UN building in New York / Photo by Igor Mikhalev, RIA Novosti
After World War II, all political thought in post-war Europe aimed at following principles that should not allow a repeat of a major war. These were saving human lives, refusal to expand territories, mandatory negotiation process in any disputes and conflicts, publicity of political processes and the obligation to define specific achievable political goals, public governance on a peaceful pluralistic basis, protection of the rights of the individual through a variety of mechanisms, a balance between the personal freedom and public security, and respect for citizens of other countries, whatever they may be.
Photo: The Gulag History Museum on the day of its closure / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
A letter signed by Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov was sent to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin. Kruglov asks the head of the department to list the violations identified during the inspection of the museum that led to its closure and the deadlines for their elimination.
Photo: Valentina Komkova / Photo from the personal archive
Valentina Komkova was on her way to the Chelyabinsk Regional Court to give evidence on behalf of the defence in the case of a Miass resident who was accused of “demonstrating extremist symbols”. Komkova was stopped on the road by traffic police officers. They said that they had “instructions” to detain the human rights activist “until her identity was established”. Valentina Komkova was taken to the police station, despite having a passport, and was held there for some time, so that she missed the court hearing. Afterwards, the leader of the Miass Yabloko was released. According to some information, they are going to draw up a report on Komkova for her alleged “discrediting the army”.
Grigory Yavlinsky on the role of the United States in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Donald Trump’s second term, and the new world disorder
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 25.11.2024
If some may still think that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine is a regional conflict, then they are mistaken. Europe and, perhaps, the whole world are on the brink of an abyss. The main question now is how not to step into this abyss.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A protocol is being drawn up against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, for “violating the established procedure for organising or holding a rally” (Article 20.2 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The formal basis put forward by the police is as follows: Nogovitsyn, during a symbolic march inside the permitted perimeter in Gagarin Square, went by one meter beyond the perimeter.
Update of 25 November. City Judge Natalya Zhirkova fined Anatoly Nogovitsyn 10,000 roubles.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg was detained at the Pskov airport upon returning from Moscow today, at about 10 a.m. Shlosberg was taken to the linear police department on the airport territory. The police did not allow his wife Zhanna Shlosberg, who came to meet her husband from a business trip, to see him. Shlosberg was later released, with his laptop and telephone confiscated.
Yabloko party leaders on the real threat of nuclear war and the only way to prevent it
Press Release, 23.11.2024
Photo by Global Look Press/MOD Russia
In recent days, the escalation of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has reached a new level. The United States and European countries have allowed Ukraine to use long-range precision weapons deep into Russia’s territory. The first strikes on the territories of the Kursk region and the Bryansk region were recorded on 19 November and 21 November. In response to this, Putin approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, after which the territory of Ukraine was hit by the latest medium-range missile Oreshnik, capable of carrying a nuclear charge. The Kremlin called the launch a demonstration of a possible response to the West. Putin said during his special address that strikes on targets in the countries supplying weapons to Ukraine are possible.
The leaders of the Yabloko party note that the threat of a nuclear war is stronger than ever since the start of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, and that the only way to stop the escalation is to immediately conclude a ceasefire agreement.
Photo: Alexander Iltyakov / Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant
Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to the Ethics Commission of the State Duma demanding them to give a public assessment of the actions of the deputy from the Kurgan region who insulted women. Rybakov noted in his address that such a disdainful attitude towards women, citizens of the Russian Federation, not only violates the requirements for the behaviour of State Duma deputies, but also incites hatred in society and humiliates human dignity.
