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

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.

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

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!"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.