Archive for 'Foreign policy'
The situation and prospects of political struggle in Russia in 2021
Decision No 147 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko believes that the assessments, forecasts and fears expressed in the article “No to Putinism and Populism” and the decision by the Political Committee […]
Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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In the Language of War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.10.2021 An article on Ukraine published by Vladimir Putin in July was completed yesterday by Dmitry Medvedev. If someone could still doubt the intentions, now everything has become obvious: Russia is moving towards war. There is no point in discussing either the form or the content of what has been published […]
Posted: October 12th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Do you say that the real opposition is the communists? Then expect new repressions, the Iron Curtain and a war”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.08.2021 Photo: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Photo by Alexander Miridonov /Kommersant Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov equated criticism of Joseph Stalin with an attack on the outcome of the Second World War. What for? It attracts communist voters to the [ruling] United Russia party and at the same time makes it […]
Posted: August 31st, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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On the Historical Future of Russia and Ukraine
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.07.2021 Recently Vladimir Putin published an article entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. President Putin has in the past published in his name policy articles dedicated to history and the national question. For example, in the run-up to his election in 2012. However, the meaning of the policy article penned ten […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has published its election programme for the State Duma elections
Press Release, 29.07.2021. Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre), Yabloko Chairman and leader of the party list for the 2021 parliamentary elections. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The final version of the election programme of the Yabloko party “Freedom and Law. Hope for the Future” has been published. The programme has five sections. […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Programme documents, Protection of Environment, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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Geneva 2021: What Is Russia Left With?
“I am leaving the same way I came” Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.06.2021 The Geneva summit ended as expected without any significant breakthroughs. Ambassadors will be able to return to their places of work in Moscow and Washington, consultations will continue, mass media will find out who “won” in the negotiations, both sides will deal with […]
Posted: June 21st, 2021 under Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Freedom in Russia and our human dignity are our responsibility. No one, including President Biden, will solve these problems for us
What to expect from the Geneva summit Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 16.06.2021 Joe Biden was “asked” at the G7 meeting and the NATO summit, to speak toughly with Putin. And so it will be: we will hear some new words about the “red lines” and about the price that the Kremlin will have to pay. […]
Posted: June 17th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-US Relations.
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Boris Vishnevsky: This is not a Davos. This is a “vanity fair” for domestic use
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 4.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the President of Russia/ http://www.kremlin.ru The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a depressing sight. Not only because there are many respectable men in expensive suits, traveling in expensive cars in the centre of the city (I saw myself […]
Posted: June 4th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Hijacking of a foreign plane with the aim of kidnapping one’s opponents is an outrageous international crime
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 27.05.2021 Photo: Alexei Alexandrov / RIA Novosti On 23 May, 2021, an act of state terrorism was committed in Belarus. On the direct order by Alexander Lukashenko, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was landed in Minsk with the help of deceit (false information about […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Airplane hijacked: any criminal and terrorist methods without any restrictions will be used in Belarus and Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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President Putin did not give a single answer to Russians’ pressing questions. Yabloko Bureau on the President’s message to the Federal Assembly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 The Bureau of the Yabloko party notes that the presidential address of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly did not contain a single answer to the most pressing issues for [Russian] citizens (such as drop of incomes, price rise and stagnation of the economy), neither did it contain a […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The goal of Yabloko is to fight for freedom and the future of Russia
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko dated 4.04.2021, published on 20.04.2021 Photo by Vitaly Timkiv / RIA Novosti The YABLOKO congress states that the situation in our country has qualitatively changed over the past year. On 1 July, 2020, there was a breakdown of the Russian statehood in the form in which it existed […]
Posted: April 20th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Privatisation in Russia, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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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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