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Yabloko advocates the development of a new liberal democratic
course of reforms in Russia, Yabloko party and parliamentary faction
leader Grigory Yavlinsky told a meeting of party activists representing
it in legislative and executive bodies in St. Petersburg on June
9.
In his view, the main principles of the course should be "an
uncompromising defense of human rights, subordination of the State
to the interests of citizens, creation of the requisite conditions
for the development of a real demonopolised market economy, and
the creation of an irreversible process of consolidation of democratic
forces in this country."
While admitting that democracy was not "the ideal public
and political course," he nevertheless expressed his conviction
that today "only this path of development an handle the four
main problems facing Russia: demography, the development of Siberia,
defense of borders and accession with full rights to the European
community."
At the same time, there was a real threat that Russia might be
saddled with a bureaucratic totalitarian regime, he claimed.
St. Petersburg has been chosen as the venue for the meeting,
as it has the biggest Yabloko faction in the legislative assembly
and the biggest number of Yabloko deputies in local government.
See the original at:
http://russia.strana.ru/politics/parties/2001/06/09/992079842.html
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