RBC, November 29, 2000

The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko thinks that the draft law on guarantees for the President of the RF, considered by the lower chamber of the parliament today belies common sense, as it grants the ex-President more guarantees than the present President of the RF.

Press Release, 24.11.2000

On November 24, 2000 the Court of the Central district of Krasnoyarsk satisfied the complaint of the “Union of Right-Wing Forces – Yabloko” bloc about illegal removal of the bloc from the elections, declared leader of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko, Valeri Kirilits.

Press Release, 24.11.2000

Deputy Head of the Defence Committee of the State Duma, Alexei Arbatov, agrees with the assessment of the situation of the Armed Force of the RF provided by the Head of the General Headquarters, army General Anatoli Kvashnin, who filed a report on the condition of the armed forces and strategic plans on army reform at a closed meeting of the State Duma on November 24, 2000.

Press Release, 24.11.2000

The leader of the Yabloko Association, Grigory Yavlinsky, will participate in the European Forum, to be held in Berlin on November 24-25, 2000.

Press Release, 24.11.2000

On November 23, 2000 the representatives of Yabloko and the SPS officially submitted to the State Duma a draft Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation.

The legislative initiative was written by Igor Artemyev, Sergei Popov (both from the Yabloko faction) and Viktor Pokhmelkin (the SPS faction). The draft code was developed by a group of experts under the Yabloko faction under the guidance of the Deputy Head for Legislative Work of the Yabloko faction Igor Artemyev.

Press Release, 21.11.2000

“Today in Russia, under the cover of theoretical discussions about army reforms, which do not reveal anything to anyone, virtually two military doctrines exist, and correspondingly two competing programmes for the purchase of weapons, military equipment, research and pilot projects, and two reform programmes in the armed forces. This is an absolutely abnormal situation,” said Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Head of the Defence Committee for the State Duma, deputy of the Yabloko faction, in an interview with journalists on November 21.

Press Release, 22.11.2000

The Yabloko and the SPS factions of the State Duma will not support the draft law to restore the music by Alexandrov as the new Hymn for the Russian Federation.

The State Duma, November 22, 2000.

Sergei Ivanenko: Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, we are holding a joint press conference of Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces to consider the problem of the state symbols of Russia. Today the State Council will meet to consider this issue as well.

Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction

“Vechernaya Moskva”, November 13, 2000

There are many people who would welcome a discussion as to why are we clever, but not rich. They would gladly speak about the uniqueness of Russia and its special path of development. I believe that our poverty is attributable above all to society's attitude to business people, who are the engines of economic growth.

Press Release, 21.11.2000

The Yabloko faction has developed and plans to submit on November 22, 2000 to the Government of Russia four ways out of the energy crisis in Maritime Territory, announced deputy of the State Duma, Secretary on Ideology of the Yabloko Association, Sergei Mitrokhin.

Press Release, 21.11.2000

The Yabloko and the SPS factions of the State Duma decided not to support the proposal to legally approve the music by Alexandrov as the new Hymn for Russia.

Wall Street Journal, By ALAN CULLISON

November 21, 2000

"That will never happen," says Mr. Yavlinsky. "We have differences in economic policy, we have differences in politics, we have differences in

personalities."

Annual Meeting News, Bangkok’ 91, By David Shirreff

October 17,1991

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont is not backing the wrong horse, he says. "In fact, I’m not really backing a horse," he insisted yesterday. The horse in question was Grigory Yavlinsky, deputy chairman of the committee for the management of the national (Soviet) economy, in whom the Group of Seven industrial countries appear to have put a lot of trust.

“I am confident that Yavlinsky has the support and confidence of President Gorbachev,” said Lamont. "I'm also confident that Russian President Yeltsin is interested in dialogue with the West."

The European,

July 12-14, 1991

The idea of a deal between Mr Gorbachev and the West has been given its most precise shape in the guise of the "Grand Bargain" that Grigory Yavlinsky has been hawking around the West the past few weeks, writes Michael Maclay.

Mr Yavlinsky, a former deputy prime minister of Russia, has been working with American academics on a blueprint for the Soviet economy that would draw heavily on Western backing.

International Herald Tribune, By Serge Schnemann, May 23, 1991, New York Times Service

MOSCOW - After a bitter winter of estrangement from his comrades in changing Soviet society, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has signaled a readiness to come in from the cold.

In a series of gestures since his meeting with Boris N. Yeltsin, the head of the Russian Republic, and leaders of eight other republics last month, the Soviet president has reached out anew to liberal advocates of change at home and Western leaders abroad.

MOSCOW - The Soviet Union would make private property the basis of its economy and take steps to ensure repayment of its foreign debt under a new economic treaty being proposed by Grigory Yavlinsky, deputy head of an interim committee currently running the Soviet economy.

Press Release, 01.11.2000

Yabloko is going to submit to the Duma its version of the draft law “On Parties”. This information was provided to journalists by Sergei Mitrokhin (Yabloko faction) on October 30, 2000

Press Release, 18.11.2000

«The federative reform started by Vladimir Putin is on the verge of collapse,” said Deputy of the State Duma, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Local Self-Government Issues, Sergei Mitrokhin (the Yabloko faction) in an interview with journalists on November 16, 2000.

Press Release, 03.11.2000

After the parliamentary elections in 1999, Yabloko launched discussions of party reforms, aimed at increasing the party’s efficiency at elections. The first stage of the reform involved a restructuring of the party’s governing bodies to resolve the following problems:

• Make the management of some directions of work more effective;
• Increase the representation of the regional organisations in the Central Council, the governing body of Yabloko between its congress

Press Release, 15.11.2000

This information was provided by one of the leaders of the SPS and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Irina Khakamada after the meeting of the Political Council of the two political organisations on November 15, 2000.

She also expressed her view that if such a situation occurred in Russia and the two candidates were separated by only several hundreds votes and the contenders were the communists and the party of power, we “would already be facing a civil war”.

Press Release, 15.11.2000

In an interview with journalists on November 15, Sergei Ivanenko expressed his belief that it was impossible to legally include in the draft law on the political parties under preparation today the provision stipulating that

only political organisations, and not political blocs, should be allowed to participate in future elections, based on the proposal of some political forces.

Press Release, 15.11.2000

The Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) factions of the State Duma condemned as anti-semitic the statements of the deputy of the State Duma from the CPRF Alexander Mikhailov, who was elected Governor of Kursk region in October.

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Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia

Christopher Cox, Chairman United States House of Representatives 106th Congress

Russia's new constitution, written by Yeltsin's team, was narrowly approved in December 1993. Yet even after Russians elected the 1993 and 1995 State Dumas under the Constitution written by Yeltsin, the Clinton administration continued to ignore the newly elected members of the Russian legislature. The consistent excuse they provided for this was that the 1993 and 1995 Dumas, too, were "Communist-dominated." In fact, the most consistent opposition to the Yeltsin regime came not from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or even from Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, but from the pro-democracy, pro-reform Yabloko party.

Press Release, 15.11.2000

Educational reform is an urgent issue for the ”whole of society” and reform methods “will determine the future of the country for a long time to come”, stated the leader of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky in a speech during parliamentary hearings (November 14, 2000) on the governmental draft on educational reform.

Press Release, 07.11.2000

The conference of the regional branch of Yabloko Association in St. Petersburg (closed on November 5) elected Dmitry Lenkov as new head of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko. This information was received from the

September 25, 1997

Vladimir Petrovich Lukin has formerly served as ambassador to the United States from Russia, the RSFSR Congress of People's Deputies and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet. During the attempted August 1991 coup he served as liaison between the Russian government and foreign nations. Lukin is considered to be a moderate reformer. He currently chairs the Russian Parliament's International Affairs Committee. He sat down last week to discuss Russia's foreign policy with IC editor Pete du Pont.

Press Release, 14.11.2000

The main goal of the Labour Code drafted by the Yabloko faction is to create a mechanism for regulating labour relationships.

The draft describes in detail the subjects of labour relations in Russia

today, forms a system for realising their rights, mechanisms for settling labour disputes both in court and prior to court proceedings

Press Release, 14.11.2000

The educational programme of the Yabloko association was published a year ago in November 1999. The present programme of educational reform proposed by the government coincides with the former programme in many areas.

Press Release, 14.11.2000

“The prospects of court investigations of inquiries filed by a number of

Federation Council members to the Constitutional Court are slight,” said the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Sergei Ivanenko, in an interview with journalists on November 13, 2000, regarding requests by some governors that the laws - initiated by the President and aimed at consolidating the hierarchy of power, that were adopted by the Duma in summer 2000 - be investigated for their compliance with the Constitution of the RF.

Press Release, 10.11.2000

The Yabloko faction in the State Duma thinks that participation of the state in the creation of political parties should be reduced to a minimum, and at best should not participate at all.”

This opinion was expressed by Alexander Shishlov, member of the Yabloko faction, at parliamentary hearings on the draft law “On Political Parties and Party Activities” held on Thursday. Shishlov is a co-author of a corresponding draft law prepared by the Yabloko faction.

By Leyla Boulton in Moscow

May 21, 1991

MR Grigory Yavlinsky, the economist who is trying to broker a western-assisted reform package for the Soviet Union, has warned that the west would have as much to lose from a failure of Soviet reform attempts as the Soviet Union itself.

The Harvard Crimson

By Lan N. Nguyen

May 22, 1991

A joint team of Soviet economists and American scholars - including three Harvard professors - are meeting this week to develop a plan to restructure the Soviet Union's economy while allowing for the growth of democracy there.

Harvard University Gazette

May 24, 1991

A team of top Soviet economists and American scholars met at Harvard this week to develop a joint plan that includes a program to move the Soviet Union toward democracy and a market economy and a program of substantial Western cooperation.

Press Release, 02.11.2000

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin (Yabloko) is convinced that the federal authorities are bound to play a role in the elections of the heads of federation subjects of the RF, schedule for November-December 2000 in many Russian regions.

Press Release, 02.11.2000

Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma and Secretary for Election Policies of the Yabloko Association, Igor Artemyev thinks that at the next Duma elections Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS)

will submit a single list of candidates

One of the prominent members of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma, Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee Alexei Arbatov thinks that the republican Bush Junior will win the presidential elections in the USA on November 7, 2000.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma from the Yabloko faction, Vladimir Lukin, thinks that it is too early to make any serious forecasts over the political course to be taken by the republican or democratic candidate to win the presidential elections in the USA.

A well-known doctor, member of the North Pole expedition, 37 year old Mikhail Malakhov does not rule out the possibility of a second round of gubernatorial elections in the Ryazan region, but has declared his determination to “seize” power in the region from the CPRF.

MOSCOW – Hidden behind a high concrete wall on the southern edge of Moscow is a cluster of dachas for the Russian government elite. Cooks serve up meals three times a day, while maids deliver wicker baskets of the best sausage, cheese and vodka for snacks. Chauffeur-driven black Volga sedans stand ready to whisk the pampered residents to town.

By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison

June 3, 1991

The path of transformation that the leaders of the Soviet Union can choose depends critically on the extent of Western engagement and assistance is critically dependent on the path of reform the Soviet Union is prepared to undertake.

for the adoption of the budget of the Russian Federation in the first reading (in general).

January 17, 2000

To call for a halt to a hugely popular war in the midst of an election campaign, as liberal Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky did late last year, would normally amount to political suicide.

The Russian Journal, By Otto Latsis

April 03, 2000

Shortly before the presidential elections, on March 23—25, the Agency for Regional Political Studies (ARPI) carried out another routine sociological survey. This gives us a chance to look at how reliable these types of surveys are and ascertain what mood voters were in as they went to the polls

The ORT channel, October 16, 2000, Interviewer: Alexander Lyubimov

Yavlinsky: Taxes in this budget are much lower than in the past. For example, a 13% income tax, which does not increase as actual earnings increase. This is very good.

Press Release, 30.10. 2000

The Central Council of the Yabloko association has elected the Bureau of the Central Council, a permanent political body comprising 15 people, in particular, the Chairman of the Yabloko association Grigory Yavlinsky, Deputy Chairman Vladimir Lukin, the heads of the regional organisations of Rostov, Chelyabinsk and Murmansk regions, the Republic of Karelia, the representatives of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Moscow region.

Most respected Vladimir Vladimirovich,

For many years Yabloko association has been preoccupied with the resolution of one of the most acute problems of Russian society – the problem of military reform. Four years ago the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, promised Russian citizens that from 2000 onwards our army would be built on a contract basis, and that the military conscription system would be a relic of the past. His words remained mere words.

Reuters

August 23, 1999

Russia's economy is unlikely to improve under new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and will only pick up after next year's presidential election, leading liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky said.

By Grigory Yavlinsky

July 05, 1999

After eight years with Boris Yeltsin at its helm, Russiaremains mired in political and economic crisis. As Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky explains, not only has Russia failed to rebuild from the wreckage of the Soviet Union, it could be in the first stage of its destruction as a sovereign state.

By EKATERINA LARINA , The Russia Journal

Semptember 6, 1999

The recently formed alliance of Sergei Stepashin and Grigory Yavlinsky may be a rare case of a political compromise in which the gains for those involved greatly outweigh the concessions, pollsters, analysts and politicians say.

Press Release, 30.10.2000

The leader of the Yabloko association and the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky thinks that “the threat of Stalinism has not perished” and that “there are many other people ready to repeat the past”.

He made this statement on October 30, 2000 at the mourning meeting in Moscow by the Solovetskiy Stone at Lubyanka Square.

Dear friends,

We are here together. There are much more of us than they think. Friends, not only we refuse to forget about the past as it actually was, we can also see what is happening. We feel that the danger of Stalinism has not perished