Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Nikolai Rybakov: 1,000 missed chances. How and when did we miss the opportunity for peace?
Nikolai Rybakov special for the Yabloko web-site, 19.11.2024 People think that if they call mass murder “war,” then mass murder will stop being a murder, a crime. Leo Tolstoy Photo: Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Warriors of the Apocalypse” (1887) depicting the four horsemen of the Apocalypse – characters from the Sixth chapter of the Revelation […]
Posted: November 20th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to hold a discussion “1,000 Days After 24 February, 2022”
Press Release, 15.11.2024 The events after 24 February, 2022, became a turning point in the lives of each of us. For over two years, we have been living in a reality when people die every day.
Posted: November 18th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Lev Shlosberg: All wars are cursed from their inception
Lev Shlosberg ‘s Telegram blog post, 10.11.2024 Photo from social media 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THE PRESENT MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH […]
Posted: November 14th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Donald Trump has won. What will happen next? Nikolai Rybakov on the prospects of the policies of the 47th US President
Telegram blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 6.11.2024 Photo from social media Donald Trump has become the 47th President of the United States. Well, such a president, it is ok… Before the 2016 elections, he pays to a porn star for keeping silence about their affair. And where does he pay it from? From the presidential […]
Posted: November 8th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Nikolai Kavkazsky, a Moscow Yabloko member and human rights activist, added to the list of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 25.10.2024 Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Nikolai Kavkazsky became the fourth representative of the Moscow branch of the party to be added to the repressive list of “foreign agents”. Previously, Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Civil Assistance Committee, human rights defender and member of the Yabloko Federal Political […]
Posted: October 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We demand to stop the repression against Lev Shlosberg!
Statement by the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, 19.10.2024 Photo: Conference of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 19 October, 2024 /Photo by the Pskov branch of the party Five searches have already taken place within the framework of the criminal case opened on the so-called violation of the […]
Posted: October 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 16.10.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 25 October with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: October 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“There is always a place for a choice.” Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview for the documentary “The Unfinished Time”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 8.10.2024 Complete interview with English subtitles Since the late 1980s, Russia has repeatedly found itself at critical crossroads. There was a choice, there was an opportunity to fundamentally change the country’s future for the better and avoid another tragedy. In other words, over the past 35 years, Russia has repeatedly had a […]
Posted: October 11th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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“There will be no winners, everyone has lost.” Nikolai Rybakov on the NTV television channel about why it is necessary to stop the bloodshed now
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 8.10.2024 The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for two and a half years. Politicians continue talking about “victory”. But no one understands that when there are so many victims, no one has won, everyone has lost. Politicians have proven that they failed to do their job by allowing so […]
Posted: October 11th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: ‘The world will survive today’s nightmare and become more human’
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 9.10.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNS ACTIVITIES RELATING TO FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG. [This capitalised section is a text Lev […]
Posted: October 9th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024 Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles. 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sleepwalkers and the World
Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024 It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the […]
Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko called on the Red Cross to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zone in the Kursk region
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Rybakov called on the Red Cross to become an international mediator in organising negotiations on a ceasefire and creating humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of the Kursk region from the combat […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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WHY A CEASEFIRE IS NECESSARY TODAY
Grigory Yavlinsky for Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2024 Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant WHAT IS HAPPENING? The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass. Ukraine’s armed forces are continuing their operations in Kursk Region. Russia is carrying out missile strikes on Kharkiv, Poltava and Lviv … Ukraine is shelling Donetsk and Belgorod … The Russian missiles are […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Historians and politicians from Yabloko discussed the causes and consequences of World War I and drew parallels with the present
Press Release, 12.09.2024 A round table dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of World War I was held in Yabloko with the participation of Russian historians Vladimir Buldakov, Vladislav Aksyonov, Boris Kolonitsky, Konstantin Morozov and Alexander Shubin, as well as politicians from the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin. The discussion […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nine candidates for peace and freedom have been elected as deputies. Yabloko analyses the voting results
Press Release, 10.09.2024 In the recent elections, nine out of 59 candidates from the Yabloko party, who campaigned under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”, were elected to municipal councils. In total, the party nominated 301 candidates, but most of them were not registered or were withdrawn for far-fetched reasons. The […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov on the results of the elections in St.Petersburg that were “desirable” for the authorities but obtained at the cost of growing mistrust in the elections and the destruction of legitimacy
Press Release, 9.09.2024 Photo: A ballot with an inscription “For Vishnevsky! For Yabloko!”. Alexander Shishlov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party and the head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, commented on the elections of the Governor of St.Petersburg and municipal deputies that took place […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko sums up the political results of its election campaign “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”
Press Release, 09.09.2024 In this election campaign, Yabloko nominated 301 candidates in 69 election campaigns in 19 regions of Russia, who were ready to conduct an election campaign with the key political demand – the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement and the release of all political prisoners.
Posted: September 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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