Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Nikolai Kharitonov
NTV television channel, "Segodnya" programme, September 24, 2001, 10-00 p.m.

Report on the meeting of the leaders of Duma factions with President Putin
"Radio-1" radio station, September 24, 2001; 16-00

The leader of Yabloko and the Ambassador of the US in Russia discussed the interaction of the two countries in the anti-terrorist operation
Press release, September 25, 2001
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky had a meeting with the Ambassador of the United States in Russia Alexander Vershbow. At the end of the meeting Yavlinsky informed journalists that Ambassador Vershbow had expressed his satisfaction and gratitude on behalf of the US government in connection with the initiative of the President of Russia to support the anti-terrorist operation of the USA.

Before meeting President Putin, Grigory Yavlinsky stated that the Russian Federation should intensify its efforts in domestic security provisions without reducing its measures to mere support of the US military operation
Press release, September 24, 2001
The Russian Federation should intensify its efforts in domestic security provisions without reducing its measures to mere support of the US anti-terrorist operation. This opinion was expressed by the leader of the Yabloko faction Grigory Yavlinsky in an interview with journalists before the beginning of a meeting with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Yabloko will aid in the search for the perpetrators and organisers of the contract killing of one of the leaders of opposition in Karachaevo-Cherkessiya Keram Semyonov
Press release, September 24, 2001
The Yabloko party will closely monitor the investigation of the murder (on September 17, 2001) of Keram Semyonov, one of the leaders of the opposition movement Vozrozhdeniye (“Renaissance”) in Karachaevo-Cherkessiya and candidate to the post of Mayor of the city of Karachayevsk and provide assistance in urgent identification of the perpetrators and organisers of the contract killing.

Grigory Yavlinsky in Tambov
Press release, September 24, 2001
On September 21-22, 2001 the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky made a working visit to the city of Tambov.

All-Russia Public Political Organisation Yabloko

The Yabloko faction and the government will continue further work on the Land Code
Press release, September 20, 2001
Consultations of the Yabloko faction with the government represented by the Minister for Economic Development and Trade German Gref resulted in an agreement on continuing further work on changes to the RF Land Code and new amendments targeted at increasing guarantees over the transparency of land distribution and protection of the rights of citizens disposing of plots of land, deputy of the Yabloko faction Sergei Mitrokhin told journalists.

State Duma shows no interest in the problems of nuclear terrorism
Press release, September 19, 2001
On September 19, 2001 during the first meeting of the State Duma, a deputy from the Yabloko faction, Sergei Mitrokhin proposed listening to the report of Alexander Rumyantsev during the Government’s Hour in the Duma. Mitrokhin considers it necessary, in view of the threat of terrorism, to obtain from the Minister information on security measures at nuclear objects, such as nuclear power stations, spent nuclear fuel recycling plants and nuclear waste depositories.

Alexei Arbatov: the terrorists’ response to the retaliatory action of the US may consist of an even more terrible series of acts of terror
Press release, September 18, 2001
An even more terrible series of acts of terror may follow the retaliatory action of the US. Such an opinion was expressed by Deputy Head of the Duma Defence Committee and member of the Yabloko faction Alexei Arbatov at press conference in the RIA-Novosti agency on September 18, 2001.

Alexei Arbatov thinks that Russia may participate in the retaliatory actions of the US
Press release, September 18, 2001
The USA should hold consultations with Russia on the terms of Moscow’s participation in this operation, said Arbatov, Deputy Head of the Duma Defence Committee and member of the Yabloko faction, at a press conference at the RIA-Novosti agency on September 18, 2001.

Russia faces fateful choice on cooperation with US
By Michael Wines, New York Times, September 21, 2001
As American military operations move toward what could be the first deployment of Western troops on former Soviet soil, Russia's policy of giving the Western war on terrorism full moral support — and so far not much else — is about to hit a dead end. What the Kremlin does next in Central Asia has the potential to alter relations with Europe and the United States, for better or worse, for years to come. The Russians are clearly anguished by their options.

On the terrorist attacks in America
Liberal International, London, September 12, 2001

Russia must remain in Europe, expert says
Rosbalt Information Agency, July 24, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky: additional funds are required to reinforce Russia’s borders, increase security for nuclear power stations and air flight safety
Press release, September 19, 2001
“There is no doubt that Russia is part of the international coalition in the fight with terrorism”. This statement was made by Yabloko’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky after the end of a closed discussion in the State Duma on the problem of combatting international terrorism.

Grigory Yavlinsky calls for immediate allocation of additional funds from the state budget to combat international terrorism
Press release, September 19, 2001
The leader of Yabloko and its parliamentary faction in the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky is certain that Russia “is and will be part of the international coalition in the fight with terrorism”. In an interview with journalists, Yavlinsky stated that Yabloko was calling for the immediate allocation of additional funds from the current state budget to adopt decisive measures for increased security of Russia’s citizens.”

Alexei Arbatov: the efficiency of the US operation against the Taliban will depend to a large extent on the position of Russia
Press release, September 18, 2001
The efficiency of the US operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan will depend to a large extent on the position of Russia, both directly and indirectly, in view of Russia’s influence on Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and other countries in the region. This opinion was expressed by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defence Committee and deputy from the Yabloko faction Alexei Arbatov at a press conference at the RIA Novosti news agency on September 18, 2001.

Alexei Arbatov thinks that after the acts of terror in the US support for plans to create the NMD system in the country will grow
Press release, September 18, 2001
After the acts of terror in the US support for the plans to create the national missile defence system (NMD) inside the country will grow. This opinion was expressed by Deputy Chairman of Duma Defence Committee and deputy from the Yabloko faction Alexei Arbatov at a press conference at the RIA Novosti news agency on September 18, 2001.

Democracy for Moneybags
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Novaya Gazeta, August 20, 2001
The Communist form of rule came to an end in our country a decade ago: the Central Committee, regional and district committees of the Communist Party and Communist government have gone...

Grigory Yavlinsky: Yabloko will insist on the allocation of additional funds to reinforce Russia’s borders, increase security for nuclear power stations and air flight safety
RosBusinessConsulting, September 19, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky advocates Russia’s active participation in the international anti-terrorist operations
RIA Novosti, September 18, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia should participate in the development of anti-terrorist operation jointly with the US and other countries
RosBusinessConsulting, September 18, 2001

Most of Russian legislators oppose Russia’s participation in the American “retaliatory operation”
ITAR-TASS, September 18, 2001

Soviet Veterans Warn United States
Associated Press, September 18, 2001
The prospect of a U.S. attack on Afghanistan brings an ominous message from veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war with Afghan guerrillas: You'll never win. "You can occupy it, you can put troops there and keep bombing, but you cannot win,'' said Lt. Gen. Ruslan Aushev, who was decorated for bravery during the 1979-89 war.

Yavlinsky calls for Russia to take active role in antiterror coalition
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 19, 2001
Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky on 18 September called for Moscow to take "a leading and aggressive" role in the antiterrorist campaign alongside the U.S. and Europe, RTR television reported. Indeed, Yavlinsky said, Russia should not wait for an American decision on what to do but help prepare joint actions, because such participation is in Russia's national interests.

Parlamentarians denounce terrorism, divided on what to do
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 19, 2001
Both the Duma and the Federation Council on 18 September unanimously passed resolutions denouncing international terrorism, but debates in both chambers suggested that the deputies remain deeply divided as to how far Russia should go in cooperating with the United States in the war against it.

World leaders list conditions on cooperation
By Patrick E. Tyler and Jane Perlez, The New York Times, September 19, 2001
...an influential parliamentarian, Aleksei G. Arbatov, said although the consensus there was "total moral support" for the United States and the struggle against terrorism, there also existed a strong humanitarian concern "not to resort to massive strikes, to nonselective actions which are unjustified from the moral point of view, to avenge the death of thousands of innocent people with the deaths of tens of thousands of other innocent people."

Russia moves closer to spent nuclear fuel imports
Reuters, June 29, 2001
Plans to open Russia to imports of spent nuclear fuel got the go-ahead from the upper house of parliament on Friday, paving the way for President Vladimir Putin to enact the bill criticised by environmentalists.

Does Kremlin reshuffle augur real chance?
By Jeremy Bransten and Sophie Lambroschini Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 30, 2001
On 28 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin made substantial changes in the
Russian government, replacing the interior and defense ministers -- among other
cabinet officials -- with close personal associates. Putin said those moves would
advance plans for military reform and what he called the "demilitarization" of
Russian public life.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia should actively participate together with the USA and the West in the fight against international terrorism
Press release, September 18, 2001
...In an interview with journalists on Tuesday September 18, 2001, Yavlinsky stressed that "it is high time now to participate in the development of joint actions rather than waiting for the USA to come forward with a decision."

Interview with Victor Pokhmelkin
Vremya MN, September 15, 2001, p. 4

Russia may play its own game
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 15, 2001
The experts we spoke with are convinced that Russia's foreign policy is pragmatic enough. The USA has already announced that retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks is inevitable. The countries which could face retaliatory strikes are Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Algeria, and Sudan. Many countries are expressing their readiness to assist the USA in this campaign, letting America use their military bases, territories and military resources.

Yabloko's activists organise mourning picket in Miass
Ural-Press-Inform (Chelyabinsk), September 14, 2001
Activists of the Miass city branch of Yabloko organised a mourning picket for the Day of Memory of the Victims of Fascism in the central square of the city. It was organised under the slogan "No - to Fascism, Nationalism and Extremism!"

Sergei Ivanenko: Lukashenko’s victory will not strengthen the union between Russia and Belarus
Press release, September 10, 2001
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko thinks that the victory of Alexander Lukashenko at presidential elections in Belarus will not strengthen the union between Russia and Belarus.

Did Lukashenko Win by Duping the People?
RosBusinessConsulting, September 10, 2001
The victory of Alexander Lukashenko results from his policies of duping the people. This is the opinion of the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko, expressed in an interview with RBC on the results of the presidential elections in Belarus on September 9, 2001.

Declaration on the challenge from international terrorism
The Yabloko Association, September 12, 2001
The Yabloko Association conveys its deep condolences to all who suffered or lost their relatives due to the monstrous act of terror in the US. This is a tragedy for all of humanity...

Grigory Yavlinsky calls on USA to refrain from unjustified retaliatory measures after the acts of terrorism
Press release, September 12, 2001
“This tangle of violence should not be allowed to develop endlessly,” Yavlinsky told journalists (on Wednesday September 12, 2001) after the tragic events in the USA on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

Yabloko faction calls on West to refrain from inadequate retaliatory measures after the actes of terrorism in the U.S.
RIA "Novosti, September 12, 2001
..."We appeal to the leadership of Western countries to refrain from taking inadequate measures that could lead to an escalation in the tension in the world’s hot spots and increase mass support for terrorists, which could lead to even graver consequences," said Yavlinsky.

Sergei Ivanenko: Russia must provide political support to the USA
Press release, September 11, 2001
The First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanenko assesses the recent events in the USA as “a thoroughly planned terrible act of terrorism that had been planned over a long time.”

Scandal intensifying Yabloko
By Olga Tropkina, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 12, 2001, p. 2
The autumn political season has begun with a scandal in the Yabloko movement. The scandal was preceded by protracted opposition between Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky and former deputy leader Vyacheslav Igrunov. The other day another figure joined this argument: Andrei Sharomov, former chairman of the Moscow Youth Organization of Yabloko. He accused Yavlinsky of authoritarianism and the instigation of conflicts within the party "by Stalinist methods."

The Quiet Duma
By Yevgeny Zherebenkov, Itogi, No. 36, September 2001, pp. 20-23
The 2002 draft budget submitted by the Cabinet, together with a whole package of unfinished bills, await Duma deputies. By the end of the year the Duma is supposed to adopt the Labour Code in the second reading and Land Code in the third and continue its work on pension reforms and tax-related legislation. The new budget is calculated with new tax tariffs already, and the most important issue of pension reforms has still to be resolved – where will the money be accumulated and who will control the money that Russians stash away against old age.

Battles over the new Criminal-Procedural Code continue
Izvestia, September 13, 2001, p. 6
Opponents of the new Criminal-Procedural Code, which the Duma is expected to pass in a third reading soon, launched another attack yesterday. Sergei Popov of the Yabloko faction, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee for State-Building, called the Code a "police code". Some of its items and provisions will lead to a further deterioration in the situation with civil rights and liberties. Others impede investigation and leave the guilty immune.

Yabloko: By agreeing to import spent nuclear fuel, Russia has opted for the same path as third world countries
Press release, September 6, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky and the activists of the Moscow branch of Yabloko discuss a plan of action
Press release, September 6, 2001

Nuclear Lobby Against Referendum (Do we need to import spent nuclear fuel?)
Sergei Mitrokhin, Sovetskiy Sakhalin, September 4, 2001
Recently laws allowing for the imports of spent nuclear fuel into Russia have come into force. A large number of propagandist publications explaining its importance for the development of science and industry in Russia emerged at once. The Yabloko faction which voted against these laws consider them doubtful economically and dangerous ecologically.

Vladimir Lukin discusses migration policy issues with the Governor of Kuban Alexander Tkachyov and the Mayor of Sochi Leonid Mostovoi
Press release, September 4, 2001
Deputy Head of the RF State Duma Vladimir Lukin (the Yabloko faction) had a meeting with the Governor of Kuban Alexander Tkachyov and Mayor of Sochi Leonid Mostovoi, where they discussed migration policy issues...

September 4, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky: Evgeni Primakov will maintain his political influence
Press release, September 3, 2001
The leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky thinks that Evgeni Primakov will maintain considerable political influence after leaving the post of the leader of Fatherland-All Russia faction and will be in demand from the executive authorities.

Yavlinsky: Resignation of Evgeni Primakov from the post of leader of the Fatherland-All Russia faction will not affect his political authority
RosBusinessConsulting, September 3, 2001
The resignation of Evgeni Primakov from the post of the leader of Fatherland-All Russia faction will not affect his political authority. This is how the Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky commented on the change of leadership in the Fatherland-All Russia faction. According to Yavlinsky, Primakov’s status as a national politician is more important than the nominal post of leader of one of the Duma factions.