Archive for 'Economy'
Information Ochlocracy
Revolution in the information environment and the future of politics POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 3) Grigory Yavlisky’s web-site, 09.12.2020 We are witnessing before our very eyes a serious transformation of the information and communications space which has already led to notable political and social changes and may have even more significant consequences in the medium and […]
Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the Political Systems of the New Age
POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 2) Digital technologies and the globalisation of disorder As a series of events sent shockwaves globally, a large-scale process proceeded in the background imperceptibly, with the creation of new forms and methods to manage social phenomena, to all intents and purposes representing the birth of a new type of political system. It […]
Posted: December 4th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 1.12.2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is […]
Posted: December 1st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: the federal policies of interbudgetary relations remain repressive
Press Release, 27.11.2020 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly in the first reading adopted the draft regional budget for 2021 and for the planning period of 2022 and 2023 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov region Administration Pskov parliamentarians considered in the first reading the draft budget of the region […]
Posted: November 28th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko calls on the regional government to open data on the causes of excess mortality in the region
Press Release, 19.11.2020 Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, sent an inquiry to the regional Ministry of Healthcare demanding to open data on the reasons for the increase in mortality in 2020. The analysis of open data of Rosstat (the Russian statistical agency) in the Chelyabinsk region shows that 2,043 more deaths […]
Posted: November 20th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded from Prime Minister and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber to reconsider the allocation of funds to the aid to Syria
Press Release, 12.11.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin demanding to reconsider the allocation of budget funds for provision of financial aid to Syria. On Wednesday, 11 November, it became known that Russia allocated more than USD 1 billion for […]
Posted: November 12th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, War in Syria.
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Head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma provided municipal deputies the right to introduce amendments to the Moscow city budget
Press Release, 11.11.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, has launched a platform – an aggregator of amendments to the Moscow city budget from municipal deputies of the city. The aggregator enables the municipal deputies of Moscow to make amendments to the draft City Budget for […]
Posted: November 11th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Rybakov urged Putin to change environmental policy and allow NGOs to conduct environmental monitoring
Press Release, 14.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin a roadmap to change environmental policy against the backdrop of events in Kamchatka. The head of Yabloko proposes, among other things, creating a federal register of objects of accumulated environmental damage, instructing the government to amend the regulation plan in the field […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Russian regions: inequality of opportunities
Grigory Yavlinsky on the fact that well-being and career in Russia depend on the place of birth Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020 It is well known that the well-being and career of a person in Russia directly depends on the region in which he/she was born and raised. Inequality and injustice begin in our country from […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Federalism, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre revealed signs of a cartel in major repairs of housing and landscaping in Moscow for 8.7 billion roubles
Firms close to Moscow officials participated in the tender Press Release, 9.10.2020 The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko Party has identified signs of cartel conspiracy in procurement for construction and major repairs in Moscow. The investigation was launched after residents of the Khamovniki district filed complaints about the quality of the repairs of their […]
Posted: October 9th, 2020 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Pay for COVID!
Statement by the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, 5.10.2020 We support the All-Russian campaign of medical workers “Pay for COVID!”, who demand full and timely payment of incentive and insurance premiums to healthcare workers for their labour in the conditions of the coronavirus infection. Dozenss of thousands of medical and support personnel have […]
Posted: October 6th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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A multipolar impasse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.09.2020 At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax
Press Release, 22.09.2020 On September 24, Yabloko will hold an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax: “On the inclusion of the requirement to introduce a progressive personal income tax into the party’s programme documents”. The discussion is organised by the Social Democratic faction of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia needs detoxification
FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 3.09.2020 Alexei Navalny [opposition politician and one of vocal critics of the regime] was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group, the German government said in a statement. Angela Merkel, in her commentary, stated unequivocally that “it was an attempt to silence him [Navalny]”. Unambiguous, because if it were […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov visited Neftekamsk
The head of Yabloko discussed environmental issues with local residents and party candidates for September elections Press Release, 20.08.2020 On Thursday, August 20, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov paid a visit to the city of Neftekamsk, the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Posted: August 21st, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov visited the Kaliningrad region
Yabloko Chairman met with local residents and deputies of the City Council of Kaliningrad Press Release, 19.08.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov arrived in the Kaliningrad region on Wednesday, August 18. During his stay in Kaliningrad he also visited Zelenogradsk, and the towns of Mezhdurechye and Kamenskoye.
Posted: August 20th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded resignation of the heads of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, as well as the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for the accident in Norilsk
Press Release, 4.06.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov called on the Russian authorities to dismiss all those responsible for concealing information about the accident in Norilsk, as well as make systemic changes in the field of environmental protection. “We consider it necessary to dismiss Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss, head of […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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The disaster in Norilsk; the unlearned lessons of Chernobyl
We demand resignation of those responsible for concealing information and introduce systemic changes in the field of environmental protection Statement by the Yabloko party, 4.06.2020 The large-scale disaster which happened with the spill of oil products at Thermal Power Plant No 3 of the city of Norilsk on May 29 demonstrates the fragility and inefficiency […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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