Archive for 'Foreign policy'
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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The Stavropol branch of Yabloko held an action in support of the people of Belarus
Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Stavropol branch of Yabloko held an action in support of the people of Belarus. Vitaly Zubenko, head of the regional branch of the party, took part in the action. According to the participants, the action took place under the close scrutiny of about twenty police officers and the Centre for Combating […]
Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An online lecture by Natalia Bubnova will be held at the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 9.10.2020 On Thusday, 15 October, an online lecture by Natalia Bubnova, a leading researcher of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held at the Yabloko Party University. The lecture will begin at 19:00. The topic of the lecture is “American Elections at […]
Posted: October 9th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Lev Shlosberg: the visit of the Pskov delegation to Belarus represents a manifestation of support to the Lukashenko regime
Press Release, 2.10.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction / PLN Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, regards the visit of the Pskov Region delegation headed by the Governor to Belarus on 28 September as […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Where is the “influential world power”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.09.2020 There is a war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan report hundreds of deaths. [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin over the phone “express concern” and urge “to prevent further escalation”. For 28 years, Russian diplomacy have been trying to produce an impression of Moscow’s mediation in the peace process, […]
Posted: September 30th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, War in Syria.
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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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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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A poisoned reputation
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020 Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning? Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: Russia is now losing the Belarus of tomorrow
Press Release, 4.09.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party Pskov regional politicians discussed the formation of a reserve from the Russian security and law enforcement for Belarus and Vladimir Putin’s support for the actions of Alexander Lukashenko at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station. The opinions […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Belarus is being turned into a concentration camp
Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov! Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020 Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day
Press Release, 26.08.2020 A series of pickets dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine took place in Novosibirsk on August 24. The annual public action has become traditional for Novosibirsk thanks to a group of citizens who have been actively advocating normalisation of relations between Russia and Ukraine since 2014 and against the military intervention […]
Posted: August 26th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian failed coup d’etat of 1991, Kremlin manipulators and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.08.2020 29 years ago, a group of gray, but high-ranking Soviet officials tried to turn history back and return a huge country to the same gray past as they were. But hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to defend their future. Then, in August 1991, people […]
Posted: August 25th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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The Chairman of the Kalmyk branch of the Yabloko party went on a picket of solidarity with the people of Belarus
Press Release, 17.08.2020 On August 15, Batyr Boromangnaev, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Kalmykia, held a single picket of solidarity with the protest of the people of Belarus in Elista. Batyr Boromangnaev held a plackardr “Freedom to the people of Belarus!”.
Posted: August 18th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Hands off Belarus!
Citizens of Belarus themselves will sort out their domestic affairs Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.08.2020 No matter what Lukashenko may agree with Putin about, no matter what kind of help he is promised – military, hybrid or propaganda – any intervention by Russia in the situation in Belarus is unacceptable and will be criminal.
Posted: August 17th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and European leaders calling them to assist in resolving the situation in Belarus
Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the leaders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine with an appeal to influence the leadership of Belarus to stop the violation of human rights in this country.
Posted: August 14th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov appealed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to protect Russians in Belarus
Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to protect Russian citizens detained on the territory of the Republic of Belarus – journalists, civil and public figures, including Artem Vazhenkov, Coordinator of the Golos movement in Tver, and activist Igor Rogov.
Posted: August 14th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Violent suppression of protests in Belarus must not go unpunished
Statement by the Yabloko party, 13.08.2020 The Yabloko Party expresses solidarity with the citizens of Belarus protesting against the unfair election of the head of state and the usurpation of power by Alexander Lukashenko. The suppression of legitimate protests by brutal force, the brutality of the security forces, blood and violence in the streets of […]
Posted: August 13th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Recognition of Alexander Lukashenko as lawfully elected President of the Republic of Belarus contradicts to the state interests of Russia
Appeal of the deputies of regional legislative assemblies of the Russian Federation, 12.08.2020 On August 9, 2020, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won the presidential elections in the Republic of Belarus. Numerous evidence gives every reason to believe that the election results were falsified. Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of the elections, against the will of the […]
Posted: August 13th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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From the “Kursk” to Minsk
The nuclear submarine K-141 sank 20 years ago Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.08.2020 On 12 August, 2000, the nuclear submarine K-141 “Kursk” exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during an exercise. Onboard there were 118 crew members: officers, warrant officers, sailors and civilian specialists. All died. Could the Kursk tragedy result from the deplorable state […]
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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