Press Release, 15.09.2023

On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party hosted a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics. Galina Mikhaleva, head of the Yabloko Party University, who prepared the present collection of lectures, and the authors of the lectures participated in the event.

Speakers at the launch were Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko member Yevgeniy Gontmakher, leading researcher at the Centre for International Security Natalia Bubnova, political and social scientist Olga Popova, Director of the SOVA information and analysis centre Alexander Verkhovsky, President of the Humanitarian and Political Science Centre Strategy Alexander Sungurov, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social and Labour Rights Yulia Ostrovskaya, and Candidate of Juridical Science Arkady Lyubarev. Lectures by these and many other authors are published in the book.

The lectures included in the collection were devoted to Russian and international development in different areas: the historical path of our country, law and legislation, the political system and political process, economics, society, education and culture, foreign and military politics.

“Сertainly, in 2022 our lives changed dramatically, but even in lectures given before the end of February of this year, we find predictions and forecasts of the authors that have come true. The trajectory of development of some of the developments has remained unchanged,” Galina Mikhaleva, Editor of the publication, notes.

In the book Yabloko published authorized transcripts of lectures (in the vast majority of texts) or those newly written by the authors based on their lectures delivered for the Yabloko Party University.

Questions from the audience (Yabloko members and supporters, students and anyone interested) are incorporated into the texts.

These texts are popular science and therefore, as a rule, do not contain footnotes. However, numerous scientific works of the authors can be found on the Internet.

The collection of lectures “Russia: History and the Modern Period” can be downloaded from the Yabloko’s website (https://www.yabloko.ru/node/45239 ). Full recordings of lectures can also be viewed on our website (https://www.yabloko.ru/uni ) or on the Yabloko Party University YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@partuniveryabloko).