Archive for 'Presidential Elections'
Nikolai Rybakov on the adoption of the bill on the immunity guarantees to the President
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 18.11.2020 Today in the State Duma was adopting, in the first reading, a bill on guarantees of immunity to the President after his leaving office and members of his family. The main argument was that the President should have a free hand… (!!!)
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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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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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to fight a mafia state
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018 We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has […]
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Yavlinsky calls governors to initiate the State Council for redistribution of tax revenues in favour of the regions
Press Release, 6.12.2017 “Regional leaders should initiate the State Council of Russia to change the system of distribution of fiscal revenues”, Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for presidency in Russia, said during his visit to Tatarstan.
Posted: December 8th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Yavlinsky on the true Russia
An interview with Sergei Brylyev, Vesti.ru, 20.11.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, has begun his presidential campaign in Tomsk. He ran in the presidential election in the remote year of 1996. He achieved his best result in 2000 coming third. However, he did not manage to became a candidate later on.
Posted: November 22nd, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “My goal is to change the policies. This will be my victory”
Press Release, 16.11.2017 Yabloko’s presidential candidate spoke about the new budget policy in Tomsk On 16 November, Yabloko presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky came to Tomsk to present a section of his presidential programme devoted to the new budget policy. Speaking at a press conference for the local media, Yavlinsky formulated the criterion for his successful […]
Posted: November 21st, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russia-24 Channel about peace with Ukraine, the case of theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, imprisonment of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and the presidential campaign in Russia
Press Release, 17.11.2017 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky has become a guest of the federal television channel for the first time in a long time. In a live broadcast of the Russia-24 channel Yavlinsky spoke openly about inefficient economic and foreign policy and normalisation of relations with Ukraine and Europe, as well as low confidence of […]
Posted: November 20th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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YABLOKO wins the municipal elections in Moscow
Press Release, 11.09.2017 According to data as of 8 am MSK, YABLOKO obtained 180 mandates in 51 municipal councils in Moscow in the elections of 10 September. In the Gagarinsky district, where President Putin voted, all 12 members of the council are now representatives of YABLOKO. In five other districts YABLOKO has a majority.
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Presidential Elections.
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Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Tomsk within the framework of Grigory Yavlinsky presidential election campaign
Press Release, 03.07.2017 Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Tomsk within the framework of the Time to Return Home campaign targeted at allotting federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development , not to foreign policy ambitions and adventures. Time to Return Home is a part of Grigory […]
Posted: July 6th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky urges Russian citizens to join the campaign for Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 21.06.2017 Yabloko launches the all-Russian campaign Time to Return Home. The party will collect signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war in Syria. Such a statement was made by Yabloko’s presidential […]
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Elections, Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, War in Syria.
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Academician Yuri Pivovarov supported Grigory Yavlinsky as presidential candidate
Press Release 21.03.2017 According to Yuri Pivovarov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and historian, Grigory Yavlinsky would be the best candidate from democratic opposition in the presidential elections of 2018.
Posted: March 21st, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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YABLOKO Federal Council discusses changes in the party
Press Release, 20.03.2017 The meeting of the Federal Council of YABLOKO, the most representative body of the party, worked in Moscow on 18-19 March. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova and Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov summarised the results of the elections to the State Duma in 2016 and told how YABLOKO should change. The Federal […]
Posted: March 20th, 2017 under Freedom of Speech, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky considers it necessary to give property to Russian citizens
Press Release, 19.03.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO presidential candidate, made a statement that if he is elected, the state should gratuitously transfer land to Russian citizens under construction of their own homes, as well as create a system of accounts where revenues from the exports of natural resources and dividends from state corporations would be transferred […]
Posted: March 19th, 2017 under Economy, Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Vladimir Putin easily and skilfully fooled everyone five years ago
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post, 05.03.2017 On the 4th of March, it was exactly five years since the last presidential election. Vladimir Putin has been holding the presidential post for the third term and is going to run for the fourth.
Posted: March 7th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Yavlinsky’s campaign for President of Russia picks up
Liberal International, 23.02.2017 The presidential hopeful of Yabloko (LI full member), Grigory Yavlinsky, has set his campaign for the key Russian elections in 2018 into full swing. He received a boost from a well-known opposition leader Vladimir Ryzhkov who, in a public statement, said: “Grigory Yavlinsky meets my political opinions, my stance, my programme better […]
Posted: February 24th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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“The absence of Navalny will not brighten the presidential election but reduce its representativeness”
Press release based on the article by Interfax, 09.02.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and a candidate for President of Russia, claims that the sentence given to Alexei Navalny is politically motivated and the absence of Navalny in the presidential election will reduce its representativeness.
Posted: February 15th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Vladimir Ryzhkov: I will support Yavlinsky in the presidential election
Ekho Moskvy Radio Station, 10.02.2017 Politician Vladimir Ryzhkov will support Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election as a candidate who meets his political stance and programme best of all. The politician made such a statement on the air of Ekho Moskvi Radio Station.
Posted: February 13th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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The Forum of Young Election Representatives gives start to Yavlinsky’s presidential campaign
Press release, 04.02.2017 The Forum of Young Election Representatives of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky is taking place in Moscow today. Young people from 30 regions of Russia have gathered in YABLOKO’a office in Moscow today.
Posted: February 8th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Vladimir Putin does not see any future and lives in the past
Press release, 04.02.2017 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky claims that the essence of the coming election of the head of the State is that the country should move forward and stop going round in circles. He made such a statement at the Youth Forum of the presidential candidate’s election representatives which was held in Moscow.
Posted: February 7th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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The keynote speech by Grigory Yavlinsky, a candidate for President of Russia
14.12.2016 These days the topic of presidential election of 2018 gained the attention of mass media and social networkers. YABLOKO was the first political party to nominate its candidate for the presidential race. In February 2016 YABLOKO Congress officially nominated Grigory Yavlinsky to run for President of Russia. We are posting Grigory Yavlinsky’s full speech […]
Posted: January 9th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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