Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Grigory Yavlinsky: On the Brink of War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.04.2021 Photo by Alexei Kudenko / RIA Novosti To what condition have they brought the country, so that in 2021, literally, a possible war with Ukraine is all over the news? What had to be done with the people so that they could seriously discuss how the Ukrainian army could threaten Rostov-on-Don, […]
Posted: April 19th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: In the atmosphere of military hysteria. Why the Kremlin is pumping the society with militarism and what the elections have to do with it
Novaya Gazeta, 13.04.2021 Photo by olegkozyrev/depositphotos Dmitry Peskov’s [Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary] statements that Russia “is not going to move” towards war with Ukraine, but “will not remain indifferent to the fate of Russian speakers who live in the southeast of the country” are not a sign of abandoning the planned scenario, but represent another […]
Posted: April 15th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: There is a chance to stop the operation of resetting the presidential terms
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 6.04.2021 The Russian authorities intend to conduct a nationwide election campaign in an atmosphere of military hysteria. I don’t want to repeat once again the phrase about “a small victorious war”, which the Putin regime is once again extremely in need, but we have to – everything is developing too alarmingly […]
Posted: April 7th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The key decisions of the Yabloko congress: the reform of Yabloko, the demand to release political prisoners and elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 6.04.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The key points On 3-4 April, Yabloko held a new stage of the 21st Congress, which was attended by almost 120 delegates from several dozens of regions. The main topic of the Congress was the reform of Yabloko and the release of […]
Posted: April 6th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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On the growing danger of a new war with the participation of Russia
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko, 5.04.2021 Photo by Sergei Averin/RIA Novosti In early April, there was an exacerbation of the military confrontation in Donbass. In recent days, significant movements of military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been taking place.
Posted: April 6th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin and Biden – ”It takes one to know one”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2021 Photo: Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti On 2 October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist for the Washington Post, was killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian Сonsulate in Istanbul. Recently, US National Intelligence accused the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, […]
Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: the war in Syria helped Vladimir Putin to divert public attention from Russia’s domestic problems
Press Release, 18.03.2021 Photo: The centre of Homs, Syria. Photo by gsafarek / Depositphotos.com Alexander Gnezdilov, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, gave a comment to the oldest Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny. The publication was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the civil war in Syria. In 2015, by the […]
Posted: March 19th, 2021 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russian Economy, War in Syria, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? INSTITUTIONALISATION OF VALUES
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020 New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Our economy is state capitalism. A group of people has all the income, and the people bears all the expenses
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24.12.2020 The leader of the Yabloko party shared his views on the ending 2020. The leader of the Yabloko party has always had a special critical view of what was happening around him and had his own recipes how to fix it. He shared this special view of the outgoing 2020 in the […]
Posted: December 24th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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The New Age Economy
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020 These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICS
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 4) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 15.12.2020 INTRODUCTION The year 2020 is drawing to a close. One can only imagine what will come next. According to Deutsche Bank strategists, the era of globalisation, which has lasted for almost four decades, is coming to an end and will […]
Posted: December 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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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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Trump wins even in defeat
On the prospects for Trumpism and the threat of fascism Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 23.11.2020 Donald Trump and Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Debate Virtually the whole world has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential elections. The regime in Russia is upset and taken aback. It has been rumoured that the powers-that-be will congratulate Biden […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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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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How to get rid of Putin?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.10.2020 Will Mr.Putin remain President after 2024, they ask him at the Valdai Club meeting. My colleagues ask me about the same on a Yabloko party stream. Vladimir Putin compares himself to Saint Francis and says that “this must certainly end some day”. However, in Belarus, for example, the people decided that […]
Posted: November 4th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Programme documents, Russia-Belarus Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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How to avoid going to “heaven”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.10.2020 The date 27 October 1962 has gone down in history as “Black Saturday”. It is believed that on this day the world was the closest it has ever come to a nuclear war. This was the height of the Cuban missile crisis. Today, almost six decades later, the threat of the […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The State Duma, which is unable to utter a word against the President and the security forces, must be driven away in the 2021 elections”
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 22.10.2020 A couple of years ago, it seemed that Russia simply did not have a more helpless, incompetent and antipopular parliament than the State Duma of the past, the sixth convocation, which was justly nicknamed “the mad printer” [for the speed of stamping laws]. But looks like the current parliamentary corps […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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