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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

RUSSIA DEMANDS CHANGES! Electoral Program for 2011 Parliamentary Elections.

Key resolutions by the Congress:

On Stalinism and Bolshevism
Resolution. December 21, 2009

On Anti-Ecological Policies of Russia’s Authorities. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009

On the Situation in the Northern Caucasus. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 252, December 24, 2009

YABLOKO's POLITICAL COMMITTEE DECISIONS:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

On Russia's Foreign Policies. Political Committee of hte YABLOKO party. Statement, June 26, 2009

 

On Iran’s Nuclear Problem Resolution by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 6, 2009

 

Anti-Crisis Proposals (Housing-Roads-Land) of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO. Handed to President Medvedev by Sergei Mitrokhin on June 11, 2009

Brief Outline of Sergei Mitrokhin’s Report at the State Council meeting. January 22, 2010

 

Assessment of Russia’s Present Political System and the Principles of Its Development. Brief note for the State Council meeting (January 22, 2010) by Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. January 22, 2010

 

Address of the YABLOKO party to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 9, 2009

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

Moscow Yabloko
Yabloko for Students
St. Petersburg Yabloko
Khabarovsk Yabloko
Irkutsk Yabloko
Kaliningrad Yabloko(eng)
Novosibirsk Yabloko
Rostov Yabloko
Yekaterinburg Yabloko
(Sverdlovsk Region)

Krasnoyarsk Yabloko
Ulyanovsk Yabloko
Tomsk Yabloko
Tver Yabloko(eng)
Penza Yabloko
Stavropol Yabloko

Action of Support

 

Archives

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FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

Grigory Yavlinsky : “If you show the white feather, you will get fascism”

Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals

The Road to Good Governance

Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991

A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

What does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.

Lies and legitimacy
The founder of the Yabloko Party analyses the political situation. Article by Grigory Yavlinsky on radio Svoboda. April 6, 2011

Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience

Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010

Grigory Yavlinsky's interview to Vladimir Pozner. The First Channel, programme "Pozner", April 20, 2010 (video and transcript)

Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Vote for the people you know, people you can turn for help. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, October 8, 2009

Grigory Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009

A Credit for Half a Century. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Natalia Bekhtereva, Radio Russia, June 15, 2009

Sergei Mitrokhin's Speech at the meeting with US Preseident Barack Obama. Key Notes, Moscow, July 7, 2009

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

Alexei Arbatov: What Should We Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
Obschaya Gazeta, May 16, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's speech.
March 11, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's Lecture at the Nobel Institute
Oslo, May 30, 2000

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

By Arseny Roginsky, 16 December 2008

Nuclear Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview With Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997

Would the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991

Archive for 'Без рубрики'

Omsk Yabloko leader Tatyana Shneider accused of “inciting hatred” over a 2011 comment on the VK social network

Press Release, 20.10.2026 Photo: Tatyana Shneider / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Omsk Public Prosecutor’s Office has summoned Tatyana Shneider, Chair of Omsk Yabloko, for 21 October “to give explanations and take part in drawing up the resolution” in an administrative case of “inciting hatred” (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). […]

Lev Shlosberg: Releasing political prisoners means the state ceasing fire on its own citizens

Novaya Gazeta, 16.10.2026 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, who is being held in custody pending the appeal against his sentence of 11 years and 1 month, has written an article for Novaya Gazeta on what should be done about political prisoners while hostilities continue. Yabloko’s Deputy Chairman is convinced that […]

“A return to Stalinist practices”: Novgorod Yabloko demands the lifting of restrictions on relatives of “foreign agents”

Press Release, 16.10.2026 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin at an action of writing letters to political prisoners / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko Viktor Shalyakin, head of the Yabloko faction in the Novgorod Regional Duma, has appealed to Sergei Shvetsov, Public Prosecutor of the Novgorod Region, demanding that he review the legality of new restrictions on deputies’ assistants. […]

Grigory Yavlinsky: On political prisoners in Russia

YouTube channel Zhivoi Gvozd, 12.10.2026 Watch on YouTube, choosing your preferred subtitle language There are several key topics today: the situation after the elections; Russia’s prospects, its goals and tasks; and the new generation of politicians, their responsibilities and opportunities. However, the most important and immeasurably painful issue today is the people under arrest and […]

St. Petersburg court fines Nikolai Rybakov 1,000 roubles

Press Release, 9.10.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a polling station on 20 September 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 9 October, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov 1,000 roubles under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). He was, […]

Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov: the 43 words of Yabloko’s programme are the very things Anna Politkovskaya devoted herself to

Press Release, 7.10.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Twenty years ago, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered. To mark the anniversary, Novaya Gazeta has issued a stamp bearing her portrait in the style of its portraits of Nobel laureates. The editorial team is convinced that, had Politkovskaya lived, it is she who would have received […]

Lev Shlosberg and his lawyers appeal against the sentence in the consolidated criminal case

Press Release, 6.10.2026 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by Pskov Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, and his lawyers Vladimir Danilov, Vera Kovalchuk and Leila Abdullayeva have filed appeals with the Pskov Regional Court against the sentence handed down by a judge of the Pskov City Court, who sentenced the politician to 11 […]

Address by Lev Shlosberg to the Yabloko team

5.10.2026 Photo: Lev Shlosberg at the party congress in December 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Dear colleagues, Our party has been through the most difficult election campaign since its founding. The campaign took place with the greatest public support in the party’s history, yet formally it did not bring the results we […]

Pskov Yabloko submits bill to remedy obvious flaws in the electoral system on the last working day of the seventh convocation of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly

Press Release, 2.10.2026 Photo: Artur Gaiduk and Yana Ivanova / Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 28 September, Artur Gaiduk, a member of the Legislative Assembly and Chairman of Pskov Yabloko, and his deputy Yana Ivanova submitted the documents to the regional parliament. The bill was drafted in light of the recent election campaign with the […]

Nikolai Rybakov demands that Interior Minister investigate reports of torture of political scientist Alexander Kynev and hold those responsible to account

Press Release, 30.09.2026 Photo: Alexander Kynev / VK Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an official appeal to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, demanding an urgent inquiry into reports of violence against political scientist Alexander Kynev, who is being held in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention facility, and, should these […]

Court to hear administrative case against Nikolai Rybakov

Press Release, 29.09.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a polling station on 20 September / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Update: The court hearing will resume on 7 October at 2 p.m. A protocol of violation has been drawn up against Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov under Article 20.1(1) of the Code of Administrative Offences of […]

On the results of the election campaign and the violations committed during it

Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 29.09.2026 The Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, having considered the results of the recent election campaign, notes the following: The election campaign was accompanied by mass and systemic violations which give rise to justified distrust of its officially announced results. These include the […]

Yabloko member of St.Petersburg Electoral Commission Pavel Shapchits: “We have no doubts about the reliability of the election results — we are certain they are unreliable”

Press Release, 24.09.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Pavel Shapchits, a voting member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission representing Yabloko, was the only member of the electoral commission to vote against approving the results of elections in St. Petersburg. He wrote a dissenting opinion in which he explained in detail why the election […]

“Thanks to your activity, the whole country and the whole world have seen that millions of Russians stand for peace”

Address by party leaders to Yabloko supporters, 22.09.2026 Photo: “Peace to the World!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Dear friends, The election campaign has come to an end, and we would like to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts. Those who have supported us before, and those who joined […]

Yabloko’s actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and the regions: schedule of upcoming events

Press Release, 22.09.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko invites everyone interested to its traditional monthly action of writing letters to political prisoners, where anyone can write a letter or sign a postcard to people deprived of their freedom for their beliefs. The party holds these actions regularly, not only in Moscow, but in […]

Yabloko candidate Viktor Kogan-Yasny: A new chapter

Blog post by Viktor Kogan-Yasny, 22.09.2026 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny Yabloko has shown that society does exist in our country: a peaceful society that wants peace and the public good for everyone, for Russia and its neighbours. Arrogant officials have always looked at us (and still do) as if we were mad. And in a way, […]

Official results for Yabloko’s single-mandate candidates show: the party could have won factions in five more regional parliaments. St. Petersburg not yet counted

Press Release, 21.09.2026 Photo: Yabloko’s poster “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the regional legislative assemblies elections, where the party’s lists were removed from the elections, received an average of between 6.84% and 13.65% of the vote. These figures […]

Yabloko candidates in the State Duma elections took five second places and seven third places, with 11 candidates receiving over 10% of the vote

Press Release, 21.09.2026 Photo: Campaign posters of Yabloko candidates in the 2026 elections / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Central Electoral Commission’s website has published the results for 97 of the 99 Yabloko candidates who stood in single-mandate constituencies. Five of the party’s candidates took second place, and a further seven took third […]

Violations on the third day of voting. Observers detained in St. Petersburg and Kazan, Moscow voters denied paper ballots en masse

Press Release, 21.09.2026 Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov votes according to Plan B at a polling station in St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 September, three-day voting in the elections to the State Duma of the 9th convocation, regional parliaments and municipal councils in a number of constituent entities of […]

Yabloko is comfortably clearing the threshold in the Novgorod Regional Duma elections

Press Release, 21.09.2026 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by Novogorod Yabloko Update. After 100% of the precinct electoral commission protocols have been processed, Yabloko is receiving 6.38% of the vote; 12,986 voters voted for the party. After 80.44% of the precinct commissions protocols had been processed, the party was receiving 5.52% of the vote. Earlier, […]