Archive for 'Economy'
The 5G Break Zone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Economy, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Slabunova initiated an appeal from the Parliament of Karelia to Minister of Culture on improving the quality of restoration of monuments
Press release, 27.06.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chairperson of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, submitted to the Karelian parliament a draft appeal to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky on improving the quality of restoration of cultural heritage objects.
Posted: June 28th, 2019 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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On the lost time and the “sovereign armored train”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Understanding Russia.
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An Opponent’s View
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky’s book The Putin System has been published by Columbia University Press, New York. How power works in present-day Russia, how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule for over 20 years — these questions are often misunderstood and the answers remain opaque. In The Putin System, Russian […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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After criticism by Emilia Slabunova, the leadership of Karelia will increase funding for research
Press Release, 29.04.2019 Arthur Parfenchikov, head of Karelia, submitted to the parliament of the Republic of Karelia draft amendments to the budget, which provide for an increase in co-financing of scientific research within the framework of an agreement with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in 2019.
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Education and Science, Social Policies.
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A round table “For Decent Medicine” held by the Yabloko branch in Chuvashia
Press Release, 25.04.2019 A round table discussion on the problems of the Russian health care system was held in the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Chuvashia. Basing on the results of the discussion, representatives of political parties and public associations of Chuvashia adopted a resolution “For Decent Medicine”, which was […]
Posted: April 25th, 2019 under Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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They are preparing Russia for a war
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019 They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, Без рубрики.
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The Vologda branch of Yabloko participated in the rally “We demand!”
Press Release, 22.04.2019 On 20 April, a rally of the city opposition was held in Vologda under the slogan “We demand!”. The speakers demanded that the authorities abolish their tariffs for garbage collection and revise their project for improvement of the Vologda embankment. Members of the Vologda branch of Yabloko took part in the […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko participated in a rally for observance of the Constitution and resignation of the Russian government
Press Release, 9.04.2019 The Omsk Public City Council, which the regional branch of the Yabloko party is a member of, held a rally for observance of the Constitution and resignation of the Russian government.
Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko met the militarist propaganda train of the Ministry of Defense with anti-war pickets
Press Release, 8.04.2019 On 6 April, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko organised an antiwar picket. The action was a response to the arrival of the government’s propaganda train “The Syrian Turning Point”, which goes across Russia demonstrating trophy military equipment from Syria. According to the organisers of the picket, on the day the train stops […]
Posted: April 8th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Russian Economy, War in Syria.
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Sewerage, state-owned corporations and national projects
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 3.04.2019 Every fifth family in Russia does not have access to a centralised sewage system. But neither the government nor the regional authorities are going to do anything about it. Why? Simply because if they allocate money for sewage, they really have to build it, because sewage has specific consumers – millions […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2019 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko’s branch in Kalmykia gave negative assessment to regional officials at a rally dedicated to the Constitution of the Republic
Press Release, 1.04.2019 On 30 March, the Kalmyk regional branch of the Yabloko party held a rally dedicated to the Constitution (the Steppe Code) of the Republic of Kalmykia. The rally discussed not only the problems of the Constitution of the Republic of Kalmykia, but also a wide range of issues related to the basic […]
Posted: April 1st, 2019 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Emilia Slabunova spoke against the bill on reducing requirements for investors in Karelia
Press Release, 22.03.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, spoke against the bill on reducing the requirements for investors in Karelia at the Karelian parliament today.
Posted: March 25th, 2019 under Economy.
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Yabloko Chairperson: Vladimir Putin must change all his plans and visit the village of Tomsino where extreme poverty make people go rogue
Press Release, 18.03.2019 According to Emilia Slabunova, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced the Decade of Childhood in Russia, must personally visit the village of Tomsino in Sebezhsky District, the Pskov Region, where fellow villagers harassed and mobbed Tanya Perchikova, 12-year-old girl who wrote a letter to Russian President asking for help. Moreover, the head […]
Posted: March 18th, 2019 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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“The speech of the President, who was first elected a month ago.” Grigory Yavlinsky about Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Yabloko’s Facebook page, 20.02.2019 1. [I ] have not heard about ending the war and the country’s development strategy for the future. Only a set of individual, very limited social measures and a big arms race. 2.[And there is] a question: Why most of these social measures could not be implemented within the past twenty years? […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Economy.
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Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko spoke at a rally against “optimisation” of healthcare
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Alexander Yermishin, Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko, demanded that the authorities should resume functioning of children’s clinic No 10 and children’s infectious diseases hospital No 6 in the Volga district of Saratov. Both medical institutions fell victim to the government’s practices of “optimisation” in the form of merger with other […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The elimination of poverty will be conducted right in the Russian Statistical Service”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.02.2019 How to increase growth rates of the economy and overcome poverty in Russia? It is very simple. It is necessary to appoint such a head to the Russian Federal Statistical Service (Rosstat) who will draw both economic growth and an increase of income of the population, and unceasingly trumpet about this […]
Posted: February 6th, 2019 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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“We have never betrayed our principles and have always stood firm”. Interview with Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the Yabloko party
Specially for Yabloko website by Svetlana Prokudina, 12.01.2019 Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chair, has turned 60 on 12th January. Sergei Victorovich is one of Grigory Yavlinsky’s closest colleagues. He was actively involved in the foundation of the Yabloko party. Ivanenko played one of the key roles in the work of Yabloko’s faction in the State […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2019 under Elections, History, Human Rights, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Coming round full circle. Premonition of another global crisis
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.01.2019 The past year, 2018, recalled the global financial crisis, and not only formally in the spectre of its tenth anniversary. The abrupt decline in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ stock market indices at the end of the year were the most significant since 2008. Pre-Christmas indicators for global stock markets came […]
Posted: January 29th, 2019 under Economy.
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Coming round full circle. Premonition of another global crisis
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 13.01.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky on the hidden causes of the global financial crisis At the end of 2018 global stock markets fell to their lowest levels in December since the Great Recesson at the end of the 1920s. In 2018 world markets lost almost $7 trillion. Ten years have passed since the […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2019 under Economy.
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