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Rightists
Continue Discussing Idea of a Democratic Coalition
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 28, 2004
SPS Presidium Secretary Boris Nadezhdin told "Gazeta"
on 25 June that the party is considering closer relations
both with democratic movements such as Yabloko and
Committee-2008 and with "certain people now working
in the government and the Duma who share our worldview
and political practices."
Press
Conference with Serge Ivanenko, Garry Kasparov, Boris
Nemtsov and other Committee-2008 officials
Interfax, May 18, 2004
Today we welcome members of Committee-2008 -- Freedom
of Choice. The topic of the press conference is "Ways
to Unite Democratic Liberal Political Forces."
Taking part in the press conference are Sergei Ivanenko,
Garry Kasparov, Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada.
Sergei
Ivanenko: The economic and political course of the
government will be determined by the President. And
YABLOKO shall create a democratic coalition.
IA Marketing i Consulting, March 2, 2004
It is obvious that President Putin has formed a technical
Cabinet, which will be even more technical than Mikhail
Kasyanov s Cabinet.
Grigory
Yavlinsky: You Cannot Raise Funds for the Campaign
Without the Consent of the Regime
By Mikhail Vinogradov, Izvestia, December 24, 2003
Grigory Yavlinsky - leader of the Yabloko party, which
is not represented in the new Duma - will not take
part in the presidential race. In this interview,
the Yabloko leader explains the reasons for his decision.
Yavlinsky doesn't view this as a disaster; he intends
to try to preserve and strengthen his party, looking
ahead to the next elections.
SPS
and YABLOKO searching for ways of joint revival
RIA "OREANDA", December 25, 2003
The primary task of the Joint Council was to choose
a single candidate to run for RF President from the
democratic forces. Now this task is not in the agenda.
The
Joint Democratic Council Begins Thinking for Two Parties
By Anatoli Yegorov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, December
24, 2003
The Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and Yabloko launched
their new joint project yesterday: the Joint Democratic
Council.
Yabloko
snubs Putin and elections
By Yelena Rudneva, Gazeta.ru, December 22, 2003
According to Yavlinsky's key-note address to the gathering,
Yabloko aims to create a large democratic party ''that
will truly unite the democratic opposition for the
next four years''. ''We will learn to work outside
parliament,'' Yavlinsky told the press after the congress.
The
Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO, The 12th Congress:
Resolution about Democratic Coalition, December
21, 2003
YABLOKO
begins negotiations on a single candidate for the
presidential elections
By Natalia Panshina, ITAR-TASS, December 9, 2003
YABLOKO has begun negotiations with democratic forces
on the nomination of a single candidate for the president
elections in 2004, said the YABLOKO leader Grigory
Yavlinsky at a press conference on Tuesday.
YABLOKO
conducts negotiations with the democratic parties
on proposing a single candidate at the presidential
elections
Interfax, December 9, 2003
"It will be important for our party to participate
in the forthcoming presidential elections," added
Ivanenko.
The
meeting of the Democratic Assembly will focus on housing
and communal sector reform and the problem of cooperation
between the democratic forces at the elections of
2003-2004
Press Release, October 17, 2002
"On
the attitude towards holding a referendum on Constitution
in Chechnya and the necessity to convoke a peace conference."
Statement, The All-Russia Democratic Assembly,
Moscow, March 17, 2003
The situation in Chechnya can only be resolved through
a wide-ranging political process, involving all the
interested parties.
The
Fifth Meeting of the All-Russia Democratic Assembly
adopted a statement on how to resolve the crisis in
Chechnya
Press release, March 17, 2003
...The long-term implications of an ill-timed and
unprepared referendum and the decisions adopted after
this referendum that can aggravate the opposition
inside the Chechen community and play into the hands
of the forces interested in civil war, are especially
dangerous...
Where
all the Democrats Agreed
By Ekaterina Blatova, Novaya Gazeta, March 20,
2003
Explaining at a press conference the position of the
YABLOKO party, Deputy Head of the Party Igor
Artemyev said that: "In general we support
the adopted statement, but we think that a peaceful
conference must be chaired by the President of Russia,
as this is the only way to guarantee that the decisions
adopted at the conference are real and will be implemented".
Grigory
Yavlinsky: "Mop-ups, robberies and violence should
be stopped."
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, "Politbureau"
journal, March 17, 2003
The consequences of an unprepared referendum can also
bring dangers: they can aggravate contradictions inside
the Chechen community: they can play into the hands
of the forces interested in civil war.
Putin
offers Chechens sweeping autonomy under new constitution
AFP, March 17, 2003
The constitution would "give Chechnya a chance
to reconstruct its life and obtain sweeping autonomy
within Russia's borders," Putin said in a televised
address broadcast late Sunday to the few Chechen households
that still have access to television.
YABLOKO
proposes that all the democratic forces discuss the
draft platform for the democratic forces "Charter-20"
Press Release, January 27, 2003
Broad-scale discussion of the draft platform for the
democratic forces "The Charter of the New Democratic
Coalition - the 20 Principle Platform for the Democratic
Coalition" is the goal of the Internet resource
launched on Monday, January 27, 2003 at the www.hartia.ru
domain..
To:
Boris Nemtsov, Irina Khakamada
Letter from Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Ivanenko
on SPS' proposals, January 28, 2003
As numerous media, including web-based publications,
have already described your proposals in detail, thereby
enabling us to learn about them, we no longer see
any point in the meeting scheduled at your initiative
for January 29, 2003.
Yabloko
and the SPS are of each other as Maskhadov and Putin
By Anastasiya Matveeva, Gazeta, January 24, 2003
Everybody can forget the idea of a merger between
Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS).
Yabloko, led by Grigory Yavlinsky, has issued a firm
"no" to an offer from the SPS, delivered
via some business leaders. In other words, next week's
meeting between Yavlinsky and SPS leader Boris Nemtsov,
dedicated to the merger issue, will probably be pointless.
On
cooperation between the democratic forces
All-Russia Democratic Assembly
Fourth Meeting
Statement
October 21, 2002, Moscow
The YABLOKO faction in the State Duma will
not support the package of draft laws on reform of
the electricity sector submitted by the Government
to the State Duma.
On
housing and communal services sector reform
All-Russia Democratic Assembly
Fourth Meeting
Statement
October 21, 2002, Moscow
The YABLOKO faction in the State Duma will
not support the package of draft laws on reform of
the electricity sector submitted by the Government
to the State Duma.
Address
of the All-Russia Democratic Assembly to the Chairman
of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav
Lebedyev on the Pasko case
To: The Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian
Federation
V.M. Lebedyev
All-Russia Democratic Assembly 3rd
meeting
Declaration on Freedom of Speech,
February 18, 2002
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly states absence
of freedom of speech in Russia.
Statement
on the trial against Novaya Gazeta newspaper
All-Russia Democratic Assembly and
the Guild of Court Reporters. April 8, 2002
Russian politics for an outsider looks
like a panopticum, where you can see all types of
monsters. There are monsters that can devour a whole
economic sector in an instant, people who like weather-vanes
start rotating speedily at the smallest breeze Basmanny
Intermunicipal Court in Moscow adopted two unprecedented
decisions, obliging the editing house of Novaya Gazeta
to pay compensation for moral damage of THIRTY and
FIFTEEN MILLION ROUBLES. Clearly, if these decisions
come into force, the readers will never see Novaya
Gazeta again.
The Democratic Assembly will discuss
freedom of speech in Russia in January 2002
Press release, December
03, 2001
The discussion of freedom of speech
in Russia will be the main topic of the All-Russia
Democratic Assembly that will meet in Moscow in the
second half of January 2002.
The
Democratic Assembly opposes the forced return of refugees
to Chechnya
Press release, June 22, 2001
Late on June 22 2001, the Administration of the President
of the RF received a statement from the Democratic
Assembly on the inadmissibility of the forced return
of refugees to Chechnya.
To the first meeting of the All-Russia
Democratic Assembly
Press release,
June 19, 2001
The Yabloko party welcomes the beginning
of the work of the All-Russia Democratic Assembly,
which opened on June 19, 2001 in Moscow. Yabloko sees
the All-Russia Democratic Assembly as a permanent
forum of democratically-oriented political and civil
organisations, whose representatives will have an
opportunity to discuss without intermediaries the
vital problems of Russia and develop, on the basis
of mutual accord, a general approach to their resolution.
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly.
Memorandum on Mutual Understanding adopted at the
first meeting
Moscow, June 19, 2001
We, the participants of the All-Russia Democratic
Assembly, sharing the principles of strict observation
of the rights and legal interests of all the citizens
of the country, as well as the priority of the rights
of an individual over the rights of the state, consolidation
of civil society and development of democratic institutions
in the country, believe in the expedience ofš founding
the All-Russia permanent Democratic Assembly to exchange
opinions on the key issues of our country’s development.
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly.
Statement
Moscow, June 19, 2001
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly unanimously expresses
its deepest concern over the situation with the residents
of the Chechen republic who had to leave its territory.
Information on the All-Russia
Democratic Assembly
The
All-Russia Democratic Assembly represents dialogue
on the most important issues of the development of
the country, and includes as equal members political
parties, associations, non-political civil organisations
and public figures.
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly.The
participants at the first meeting
Moscow, June 19, 2001
The All-Russia Democratic Assembly
to schedule the actions of the democratic forces
Press release,
June 19, 2001
The participants of the
All-Russia Democratic Assembly which took place in
Moscow on June 19, 2001, demanded that the forced
return of the refugees to Chechnya should be prohibited.
Democrats Prepare to Unite
Nezavisimaya Gazeta,
March 31, 2001, p. 3
The idea of establishing a permanent
democratic coordinating body has existed for a long
time already. This idea has been expressed by social-democrat
Alexander Yakovlev, republican Vladimir Lysenko and
Yabloko leader Grigory
Yavlinsky. The goal of this coordinating body
is to found a large-scale democratic coalition and
formulate the principal positions on key issues of
politics and economy. However, all the attempts of
the democrats to unite have failed
The Yabloko Association and the Democratic
Russia Movement create a democratic coalition
Press release, May 24, 2001
On May 24, 2001, the Chairman of the
Yabloko Association, Grigory Yavlinsky, Co-Chairman
of the Democratic Russia Movement, Lev Ponomaryov,
and members of the Coordination Council of the Democratic
Russia, Evgeny Ikhlov and Oleg Mustafin signed in
the Moscow office of Democratic Russia a joint declaration
on the creation of a union of democratic forces -
a democratic coalition.
Grigory Yavlinsky's speech at the All-Russia
Emergency Congress in Defence of Human Rights
Moscow, January 21, 2001
Normal open public policies are today
easily replaced by PR, lies, libel and mudslinging.
Today they don’t enter into discussions with their
opponents. There is no political discussion any more.
Today, if they are seriously concerned about an opponent,
they arrange for his political burial in the press,
the television or three hours before the X-hour when
he is removed from the elections. Today, this is enough
to show who is right.
Yabloko begins work on convening a
democratic conference
Press release, January 17, 2001
In April 2000 the Central Council
of Yabloko proposed to all the democratic organisations
of Russia to create a permanent body for the development
of a common position on key political issues. “The
decisions of the Democratic Conference should be adopted
on a consensus basis rather than by majority vote:
it may be chaired in turn by the representatives of
all the organisations-participants,” said Grigory
Yavlinsky. He also stressed that participation in
the Conference of non-political civil organisations
and organisations defending human rights is extremely
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