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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

The Constitutional Court to consider Yabloko’s complaint about disqualification from regional elections due to delay with data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities

Press Release, 20.01.2025

Photo: A session of the Constitutional Court / Photo by Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant

On 17 January, the Constitutional Court of Russia reported that at its session on 16 January, the court accepted for consideration the complaint of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party about the violation of its constitutional rights by the provisions of the federal laws “On Non-Commercial Organisations”, “On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs”, “On Political Parties”, “On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation”, as well as the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region in connection with the interpretation by courts of general jurisdiction of the moment of the emergence of the powers of the head of an electoral association to sign documents necessary for registering a list of candidates.

On 17 January, the judge-rapporteur on the case informed the Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Artur Gaiduk about accepting the complaint for consideration.

 

On 24 June, 2023, Artur Gaiduk was elected Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko, after which all the necessary documents were submitted to the Ministry of Justice. The conference of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko on the nomination of candidates for deputies took place on 16 July in the presence of a representative of the Ministry of Justice, and Artur Gaiduk was entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE) on 18 July, and the term of this action did not depend on the party.

 

After the registration of the party’s lists for the elections in seven districts of the region, identical claims were filed in the courts from the same representatives of pro-government parties – the Party of Growth, A Just Russia and the Party of Pensioners – to cancel the registration of the Yabloko lists on the grounds that Artur Gaiduk, elected on 24 June, allegedly could not perform the duties of the head of the electoral association until 18 July, when information about him was entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The Pskov Yabloko called the attack political. The representative of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region supported the claims of pro-government parties against Yabloko in all court hearings.

 

The registration of Yabloko candidates nominated in single-mandate constituencies was not contested.

 

The claims of the pro-government partie, despite the absurdity of the stated position, were satisfied by district courts in the same wordings, upheld by the Pskov Court, the Third Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction and the Supreme Court of Russia.

 

Moreover, the judge of the Supreme Court indicated in her rulings that “the cancellation of court decisions cannot lead to the restoration of the applicant’s rights”, meaning that the elections were over. Accordingly, neither legality nor justice can or should be restored by the court. At the same time, the courts were guided by the Civil Code, not the election legislation, when qualifying electoral legal relations.

 

Disagreeing with this approach of the courts of general jurisdiction, Pskov Yabloko filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court of Russia on 6 October, 2024. After a preliminary study by the judges, the complaint was accepted for consideration. This means that the court, after a collegial discussion at a separate session, will issue a ruling on the complaint. This is the first complaint by Pskov Yabloko accepted for consideration by the Constitutional Court.

 

The representative of Pskov Yabloko, the author of the complaint to the Constitutional Court, lawyer Vitaly Isakov, notes on the case:

 

Jurisprudence should support reality, not distort it. But Pskov courts are legalising absurd practices.

 

Just before the 2023 election campaign, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling stating that if an electoral commission finds any errors in the documents, it is obliged to immediately notify the person who submitted these documents. The electoral commission is prohibited from refusing registration without providing an opportunity to correct the deficiency.

 

It is still unknown whose rights would have been violated by the participation of candidates nominated by Pskov Yabloko in the elections, whose rights were infringed upon by the fact that Artur Gaiduk was elected Chairman, but due to red tape Federal Tax Service and the Ministry of Justice, he was included in the unified state register of legal entities on the last day. Especially in the context of the fact that at the time of submitting the documents to the electoral commission, Artur Gaiduk’s powers were already listed in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

 

We also draw attention of the Constitutional Court to the fact that an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities is not a necessary document for nominating candidates, and electoral commissions do not require such an extract. That is, we are evaluating in the Constitutional Court the fantasy developed by the team of opponents for its adequacy and necessity in a democratic state.