Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held pickets in support of the Belarus society and the right of Khabarovsk to freely elect head of the region
Press Release, 10.08.2020 Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held a series of single pickets against the repressive policy of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in support of the protest of the residents of Khabarovsk when the authorities arrested the governor of the region who won the election against the […]
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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The law is targeted against those who are telling the truth about the annexation of Crimea
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020 They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The lessons of symmetry. Why the Russian Foreign Ministry does not allow member of the PACE delegation to Russia
Novaya Gazeta, 28.05.2020 Photo by Vladimir Klopovsky, Obzor: Emanuelis Zingeris and Boris Nemtsov Two years ago, in the summer of 2018, the deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania and one of the most famous Lithuanian politicians Emanuelis Zingeris was banned from entering Russia for five years. Meanwhile, he was not going to […]
Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Eu relations.
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Yabloko sends its emergency programme to combat COVID-19 pandemic to the Russian President, government and parliament
Press Release, 31.03.2020 Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov sent the authorities a programme of socio-economic and political measures developed by the party to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was sent to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, members of both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, as well as to the […]
Posted: March 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed a programme of urgent measures to support citizens and business people during the COVID-19 pandemic
Press Release, 28.03.2020 According to Yabloko, the Russian authorities should provide all possible support to citizens facing the threat of not only becoming infected with coronavirus, but also losing their means of subsistence, as well as private businesses. The party has developed a programme of urgent measures, consisting of 20 points of a socio-economic measures […]
Posted: March 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Nemtsov. Five Years After.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.02.2020 Five years ago, Boris Nemtsov was killed. A year before that, Crimea was already annexed, the war in Donbass was gaining momentum with might and main. However, the demonstrative killing by the Kremlin’s walls of an opposition politician, an uncompromising critic of authoritarian power and personal opponent of Vladimir Putin became […]
Posted: February 27th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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The political situation in Russia at the beginning of 2020 and the need for real change
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 28.01.2020 The 2020 Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly], amendments to the Constitution hastily introduced [by the government], and formation of a new government of the Russian Federation testify to the policies of the authorities that led the country into a dead end are maintained. The main thing […]
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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LOSS OF THE FUTURE
A time of troubles and change By GRIGORY YAVLINSKY Full version, 26.11. 2017 A number of recent events have radically changed the self-awareness of millions of people all over the world, primarily in the most economically developed parts, which had been objectively until now at the forefront of development in the world and defined to […]
Posted: December 12th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Normandy Four summit
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 10.12.2019 Briefly about the Normandy Four meeting: it is well, that it has taken place. Now, until December 31, an exchange of prisoners will be possible – “all for all”. As for the rest… Vladimir Zelensky said that the principles on which he was building his policy were the three impossibilities: […]
Posted: December 10th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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On Russia’s polices in the Middle East and Africa
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko notes the dangerous counterproductiveness of Russia’s policies in the Middle East: the country did not gain allies there but got bogged down in a strange, endless civil war that claimed thousands of lives. In 2015, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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WAR IN SYRIA: WHAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER
Achievements of President Putin’s four-year policy in the Middle East by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.10.2019 President Putin agreed to Turkey’s seizure of Syria’s border area and told President Erdogan that he was ready to send Russian soldiers to the Syrian-Turkish border to help the Turks monitor the expulsion of the Kurds from lands […]
Posted: November 7th, 2019 under Foreign policy, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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4,000 people came to the rally organised by the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko against the appointment of the mayor of Elista
Press Release, 14.10.2019 About 4,000 residents of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, came to the rally against the appointment of Dmitry Trapeznikov (who used to be Chair of the Council of Ministers of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine) acting the head of the administration of Elista. The Kalmyk branch of Yabloko was […]
Posted: October 14th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The 5G Break Zone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Economy, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Clean Hands of the President
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.05.2019 Inauguration of the new President of Ukraine is taking place in Kiev. Congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky and wishes of success to him. Endlessly difficult and dangerous work is in store for him.
Posted: May 24th, 2019 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The fate of Oleg Sentsov and the future of our country
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2019 It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, […]
Posted: May 14th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On the lost time and the “sovereign armored train”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The Path to Peace for Donbass
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.04.2019 Distributing Russian passports on a mass scale to foreign nationals in a war zone is not the way to peace. If Putin really wants to help the residents of Donbass, then we must stop the war with Ukraine. This will ensure the real and long-term safety of the inhabitants of the […]
Posted: April 29th, 2019 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky sent greetings to Vladimir Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine
Press Release, 22.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, sent a message of congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine in Ukrainian and Russian.
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Greetings, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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