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
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
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
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
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, 15.10.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and young Yabloko members / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Young Yabloko supporters and members have held a three-day retreat following the election campaign. Many of the participants had their “baptism of fire” in the recent September elections to the State Duma and regional parliaments.
Posted: October 15th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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YouTube channel Zhivoi Gvozd, 12.10.2026
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There are several key topics today: the situation after the elections; Russia’s prospects, its goals and tasks; and the new generation of politicians, their responsibilities and opportunities. However, the most important and immeasurably painful issue today is the people under arrest and in prison for political reasons.
As of 9 October, there are 1,844 such prisoners in Russia. Over the past month, their number has risen by 40. Since the beginning of this year alone, at least nine people held on politically motivated charges have died in pre-trial detention facilities and penal colonies. These are terrible figures, and behind each of them there is a human life, the fates of people and their families.
Posted: October 15th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 9.10.2026
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin at the first session of the Duma / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
Viktor Shalyakin, head of the Yabloko faction in the Novgorod Regional Duma, has opposed the election of representatives of the ruling United Russia party to all the leadership posts in the regional parliament. At the first session of the Duma he was also nominated as a candidate for Senator (member of the Federation Council of the RF) from the Novgorod Region. However, the Chairman of the Duma did not give the candidates the floor or allow deputies to ask them questions.
Posted: October 15th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, The Yabloko faction in the Novgorod Regional Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 9.10.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a polling station on 20 September 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 9 October, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov 1,000 roubles under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). He was, in effect, penalised for exercising his legal right to spoil his ballot in the September elections, from which Yabloko’s federal list had suddenly been removed despite having been registered.
Posted: October 15th, 2026 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Yelena Perepelitsa sentenced to four years in a penal colony
Press Release, 8.10.2026
Photo: Yelena Perepelitsa during the reading of the sentence / Photo by Slovo Zashchite
Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court has today sentenced Yabloko member Yelena Perepelitsa to four years in a penal colony on charges of financing extremist activity (Article 282.3(1) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The criminal prosecution was prompted by a transfer of 3,500 roubles to FBK*.
Posted: October 14th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.10.2026
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev in court
The Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction has upheld the sentence of ten years’ imprisonment handed down to Vasily Neustroyev, a member of St. Petersburg Yabloko, historian and election observer. The defence regards the ruling as unlawful and is weighing a cassation appeal.
Posted: October 14th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 7.10.2026
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
On the initiative of the Bureau of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, the Yabloko faction in the Novgorod Regional Duma has nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for Senator of the Russian Federation. The Bureau’s decision to support his candidacy was unanimous.
Posted: October 14th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 7.10.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Twenty years ago, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered. To mark the anniversary, Novaya Gazeta has issued a stamp bearing her portrait in the style of its portraits of Nobel laureates. The editorial team is convinced that, had Politkovskaya lived, it is she who would have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking about the essence of her work, Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Prize laureate, founder of Novaya Gazeta and a member of Yabloko, compared it with the work of Yabloko.
Posted: October 14th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 6.10.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, and his lawyers Vladimir Danilov, Vera Kovalchuk and Leila Abdullayeva have filed appeals with the Pskov Regional Court against the sentence handed down by a judge of the Pskov City Court, who sentenced the politician to 11 years and 1 month in a general regime penal colony.
Posted: October 14th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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5.10.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg at the party congress in December 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dear colleagues,
Our party has been through the most difficult election campaign since its founding. The campaign took place with the greatest public support in the party’s history, yet formally it did not bring the results we had hoped for.
Posted: October 5th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.10.2026
Photo: Artur Gaiduk and Yana Ivanova / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On 28 September, Artur Gaiduk, a member of the Legislative Assembly and Chairman of Pskov Yabloko, and his deputy Yana Ivanova submitted the documents to the regional parliament. The bill was drafted in light of the recent election campaign with the aim of simplifying electoral legislation and eliminating the contradictions it contains. It comprises four amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region and proposes the following:
Posted: October 2nd, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.10.2026
Photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo by the Yabloko branch in Primorye
The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the sentence handed down to Marina Zheleznyakova, Chair of the Primorye branch of Yabloko in the Far East: a fine of two million roubles in a case of so-called “rehabilitation of Nazism”. The criminal case was prompted by a Victory Day greeting she published on Telegram on 9 May 2021.
Posted: October 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 30.09.2026
Photo: Alexander Kynev / VK
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an official appeal to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, demanding an urgent inquiry into reports of violence against political scientist Alexander Kynev, who is being held in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention facility, and, should these reports be confirmed, that those responsible be brought to account within the remit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Posted: September 30th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 29.09.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has been charged under Article 20.1(1) of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). The charge was prompted by his vote against all parties at a polling station in St. Petersburg on 20 September.
Posted: September 29th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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Press Release, 29.09.2026
Photo: A memorial stone on Kirov Street in Chelyabinsk / Photo by Chelyabinsk Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko has issued an open appeal to Governor Alexei Teksler, proposing the erection of a memorial to residents of the region affected by radiation. The branch proposes that the initiative be carried out in cooperation with Rosatom (the State Energy Atomic Corporation of Russia) in time for the 70th anniversary of the Kyshtym disaster in 2027. The appeal was signed by Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the regional branch.
Posted: September 29th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, History, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 29.09.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a polling station on 20 September / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Update: The court hearing will resume on 7 October at 2 p.m.
A protocol of violation has been drawn up against Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov under Article 20.1(1) of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). The offence is punishable by a fine of 500 to 1,000 roubles or administrative arrest for up to 15 days.
Posted: September 29th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 29.09.2026
The Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, having considered the results of the recent election campaign, notes the following:
Posted: September 29th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 28.09.2026
Photo: Yuri Dmitriev in the penal colony / Photo by ZPCh on Telegram
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an appeal to Yana Lantratova, the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, demanding that 70-year-old historian and human rights defender Yuri Dmitriev be urgently transferred to a civilian hospital. Dmitriev is serving his sentence in penal colony IK-18 in Mordovia. Following a sharp deterioration in his health, he was rushed to the medical penal facility LIU-3 with a suspected stroke.
Posted: September 29th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Press Release, 24.09.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Pavel Shapchits, a voting member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission representing Yabloko, was the only member of the electoral commission to vote against approving the results of elections in St. Petersburg. He wrote a dissenting opinion in which he explained in detail why the election results could not be considered reliable.
Posted: September 24th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by St. Petersburg Yabloko, 22.09.2026
Photo: A sign reading “Yabloko. St. Petersburg” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission has approved the results of the elections in St. Petersburg, under which not a single Yabloko representative has won a seat in the city parliament.
Posted: September 23rd, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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