Archive for 'Foreign policy'
A U-Turn: from Сarnival to Сollapse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2018 On what has been happening with liberal capitalism, the “carnival politics”, a change of course in the global economy and the role of Russia in these developments. Smiles and tongue-in-cheek greetings at the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and the adviser to the President of the United States on national security […]
Posted: December 4th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Both Putin and Poroshenko are equally interested in the escalation of Russia-Ukraine conflict
Emila Slabunova’s blog post, 28.11.2018 The situation in the Kerch Strait clearly shows that the presidents of the two countries are ready “to sign their doom”. Both Putin and Poroshenko are equally interested in the escalation of the conflict. At the moment foreign policy adventures are vital for both leaders to preserve their power, get […]
Posted: November 29th, 2018 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the consequences of the conflict between PMC veterans and the Russian government
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.11.2018 They were not present in Crimea in 2014. They have not been present in the Donbass these four years. They are not present in Syria. They are not present in Central African Republic, in Libya and in Sudan… However, it looks like they are present in the Hague. The so called […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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A Hundred Years After the War: from Nationalism to Nationalism
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.11.2018 IN BETWEEN THE WARS The situation, in which the centenary of the end of the Great (First World) War is celebrated [in Russia], causes as many questions and bewilderment as the anniversary of the revolution in Russia. The unwillingness of the Russian authorities to discuss the crisis of […]
Posted: November 20th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the wars Russia denies its participation in
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 10.10.2018 Now [we have learned that] the Russian military “are not yet” in Libya. They were not in Crimea in February 2014. And they have not been in Donbas for all these four years. They have left Syria for three times already. They are not [to be found] in the Central […]
Posted: October 20th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to fight a mafia state
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018 We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has […]
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Reputation lost: poisoned by lies
Grigory Yavlinsky on what poisoning in Salisbury means for Russia Grigory Yavlinsky website, 12.09.2018 The main aim of the government of any country is to preserve its reputation, contribute to its reputation and make the country respectable and trustworthy. After Crimea, Donbass, the Boeing that was shot down, Syria and endless lies Russia ended up […]
Posted: September 15th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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The Politics of the Emperors With No Clothes
Grigory Yavlinsky about Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump and the difficulties of translation Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.07.2018 The next day, after the meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump arriving in Washington denied what he had said in Helsinki. It turns out that he was “misunderstood”, he simply had a slip of the tongue, “misspoke”, […]
Posted: July 25th, 2018 under Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans
Visas should be cancelled also for tourists from OECD, EU and BRICS countries Press Release, 20.07.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans, but also for residents of countries that give Russia the largest number of tourists. According to Yabloko, visas for tourists from OECD, […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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A Trump-Show
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.07.2018 During his visit to Europe, Donald Trump continues his political trolling of Europeans. These are not just separate episodes. This is not even an individual political style. This is a conscious denial of the content of politics, its replacement with a show. And this is not politics in the style of […]
Posted: July 18th, 2018 under Russia-US Relations.
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Helsinki 2018: The Lost Future
Grigory Yavlinsky on the upcoming meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Yavlinsky.ru, 13.07.2018 The summit in Finland and the way the Moscow establishment and the Russian media are waiting for it is an indication of the position of Russia in the present world. A year ago, a meeting with Donald Trump in Hamburg on […]
Posted: July 17th, 2018 under Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Oleg Sentsov and Russian punitive system
It is 2018, Russia is hosting the World Cup, Trump is flying to Putin and Oleg Sentsov is dying in a penal colony Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 03.07.2018 It is the 51st day, that [Ukrainian film director] Oleg Sentsov is starving in the Labytnangi city [by the North pole], Yamal. Whatever the army of state […]
Posted: July 4th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Penta-Trick
The World Cup in Russia began with a defeat: 5:0! The authorities scored five unanswered goals to the people. Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.06.2018 Even before the starting whistle, the account was opened by Russia’s Investigation Committee with a final arrest of long-resisting leader of the Serpukhov district [of the Moscow region] Alexander Shestun. At the […]
Posted: June 26th, 2018 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova: The President’s televised call-in show allows us to see the incompetence of our authorities
Emilia Slabunova’s blog post, 08.06.2018 I think that this was a beautiful televised call-in show of the President. It perfectly allows us to see with naked eye the incompetence of our authorities and the inefficiency of the management system. Because when the President deals with certificates and waste dumps, he is approached with a request […]
Posted: June 9th, 2018 under Economy, Foreign policy, Gubernatorial Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova and Yabloko call the Russian government to free Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov
05.06.2018 I, Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, and the Yabloko party as a whole believe that the case of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is a shameful page of modern Russian history. The fact that a person was sentenced for 20 years of imprisonment for his political convictions is the full and absolute […]
Posted: June 5th, 2018 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin bears personal responsibility for the life and physical condition of imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site 20.05.2018 Oleg Sentsov went on a hunger strike. The Ukrainian film director in the Russian prison is put in such conditions when this desperate step is the only way to draw attention to the situation of people persecuted in our country exclusively for political reasons. These people were convicted not for committed […]
Posted: May 20th, 2018 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Lev Shlosberg: “The Putin regime represents a symbiosis of a besieged fortress and the Stockholm syndrome”
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 09.04.2018 Lev Shlosberg, leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, was the guest of the programme “2018” at the Ekho Moskvi radio station. One of the topics discussed was the new US sanctions against Russian oligarchs and officials, as well as a number of companies, including those with state participation. Lev […]
Posted: April 9th, 2018 under Economy, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee on the past presidential elections: a plebiscite on support of the personality of the current President was held on 18 March, rather than presidential election
Decision of the Federal Political Committee No 103, 23.03.2018 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko regards the voting that took place on 18 March as a plebiscite held within the framework of an authoritarian system turning into a totalitarian one. The system formed in Russia does not allow free, competitive, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to Vladimir Putin: “These were not elections, but a plebiscite”
Russia needs radical economic reforms, prevention of an arms race and a big war Press Release, 19.03.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky took part in the meeting of Vladimir Putin with other candidates for the presidency of Russia. Yavlinsky said at the meeting that “the procedure held […]
Posted: March 20th, 2018 under Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018, Protection of Environment, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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