Irina Alexeeva: Fishing Trade

Moskovskiy Komsomolets, February 26, 2001

Despite the fact that on Friday top officials from the government and the Kremlin confirmed to us that Nazdratenko (Ed. ex-governor of Maritime Territory that has been suffering an acute energy crisis) would not be appointed head of the State Committee for Fishing, on Saturday he was appointed to this post.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia risks becoming a corporate police state

Novye Izvestia, February 24, 2001

Grigory Yavlinsky has delivered a report at the historical-philosophical conference entitled "Russia under Putin - where is it going?"

What is a corporate state? I would propose the following definition: a modern corporate state is a state that does not destroy democratic institutes, but adapts them to its needs. It makes them branches of a closed political system with a strict discipline. This discipline does not tolerate any attempts on criticism within the system and any deviation beyond its borders.

Three Years and the Whole ABM Story

Obschaya Gazeta, February 22, 2001, p.1

...And what was the result? After becoming acquainted with the letter, George Bush Jr. transfers Yavlinsky's initiative to Russian-American soil, and sends a letter to Putin on February 20, proposing the involvement of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex in the creation of ABM components. In the morning the Kremlin, obviously frightened by such a radical wording of the issue - which is extremely favourable in terms of propaganda - urgently sets forth counter-initiatives to Europe, again, in accordance with Yavlinsky's logic. The difference is that Bush had been thinking over the answer for three weeks, and the Kremlin for three years. The very three years during which this protracted rivalry over ABM could have resulted in an entirely different outcome for Russia.

Leader of Yabloko believes that the instruction of the Federal Security Service to examine anonymous applications from citizens constitutes “sheer arbitrary rule”

Rosbusinessconsulting, February 21, 2001

Chairman of the Yabloko Association Grigory Yavlinsky considers the inter-departmental instruction of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to review anonymous applications from citizens and potentially launch investigations on them as “sheer arbitrary rule placing the greatest possible pressure on citizens.” Such a declaration was made by Yavlinsky at a press conference on February 21, 2001.

Putin Touts Limited Shield to NATO

Protests Greet Latest Spent Nuclear Fuel Deal

By Charles Digges, Staff writer
St Petersburg Times, No 646, Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Svyatoslav Zabelin, who co-chairs the Moscow-based environmental group Social Ecological Union, agreed. "Both governments - Russia and America - seem intent on turning Russia into the world's radioactive toilet."

Protesters Slam Nuclear Waste Bill

The Associated Press
The Moscow Times, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001. Page 3

The bill received tentative approval in December and is scheduled to come up for a second reading this week. The 100 or so environmental activists lined up outside the Duma came from about 20 regions, the rally organizers said. "People's health is more valuable than profit," read one poster. Another read: "Mr. President, show will and courage - stop the insanity of the State Duma, don't allow Russia to be turned into a nuclear waste dump."

Living a big lie in Putin's new Russia

Elena Bonner, widow of the dissident Andrei Sakharov, says repression is creeping back

The Sunday Times, February 18, 2001

Today total state terror seems impossible, but we lived, and continue to live, in a state of lies. The great lie calls Russia a democratic state. The barely created election procedures were violated during the elections in Chechnya, which took place during the first Chechen war, and again in Yeltsin's 1996 election victory - which was decided largely by money and not the will of the voters. Then came the appointment of Putin as Yeltsin's heir, as if Russia were a monarchy.

Alla Glotova: Why Yavlinsky keeps silent

Moskovskiye Novosti, February 13, 2001

"Yabloko" today is almost the only Russian political organisation which is really independent from the authority and owes it nothing. Yavlinsky isn't bound by any crushing obligations to the authority: consequently the latter enters into dialogue with "Yabloko". Ruling directives suffice for the rest. They are left to clean up their image in the show business laundromat.

PSA Progress Blasted By Officials, Investors

By Lyuba Pronina, Staff Writer
The Moscow Times, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001. Page 10

Governor Immunity Sought by Yakovlev