Archive for 'Foreign policy'
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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Grigory Yavlinsky visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory
The presidential candidate met with residents of Krasnoyarsk and Zheleznogorsk Press Release, 20.02.2018 On 19 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The first half of the day he spent in the city of Zheleznogorsk, where he met with the team of city electric networks company and the head of the city administration. […]
Posted: February 21st, 2018 under Housing and Utilities Reform, Presidential elections 2018, Protection of Environment, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, War in Syria, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Yavlinsky demands from Putin to report on the mass death of Russians in Syria
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Candidate for the Presidency of Russia, 12.02.2018 All the world’s media and numerous sources in social networks in recent days have reported a lot of dead Russian citizens fighting in Syria – employees of PMC Wagner and others, as a result of a clash with the forces of the Syrian opposition […]
Posted: February 12th, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky visited Rostov-on-Don, South Russia
The presidential candidate passed an “exam” in the local university and spoke to residents of the region Press Release, 09.02.2018 On 8 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited Rostov-on-Don. In the afternoon he addressed the students of the Southern Federal University, and in the evening he held a large meeting with residence of the region.
Posted: February 12th, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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How can we stop war and achieve peace in Donbass? 10 steps by Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 29.11.2017 How can we stop the war and achieve peace in Donbass? This is what should be done: 1. All Russian “servicemen and rebels” and all the units of the Russian armed forces must be withdrawn from Donbass. All military, financial, diplomatic and any other support for the separatist forces and […]
Posted: December 4th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky has launched a web-site “Is Crimea Really Ours?”
“A new referendum in Crimea would be for Russia a sign of the political power, rather than weakness” Press Release, 24.11.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, the presidential candidate of Russia, has launched a special website, where he answers questions about ways to solve the problem of Crimea and about the relations between Russia and Ukraine. Yavlinsky again […]
Posted: November 27th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Foreign policy should work for the national economy
Grigory Yavlinsky on the Channel One on the key points of his presidential programme Press Release, 21.11.2017 Grigory Yalvinsky, Russian presidential candidate, became a guest of the programme Vremya Pokazhet (Time Will Tell) on Channel One. In his speech, the politician spoke about the key points of his presidential programme. The key idea voiced by […]
Posted: November 25th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Presidential elections 2018, Russian Economy.
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Bad Inheritance of Sanctions
Economist Grigory Yavlinsky talks about the people whose lives will be ruined by the politics of today 12 November 2017, Vedomosti Grigory Yavlinsky for Vedomosti Photo by Andrei Gordeyev/ Vedomosti: Russia’s political ambitions need to be buttressed by an economy that is far larger than the one we have today The topic of sanctions […]
Posted: November 15th, 2017 under Economy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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The Legislative Assembly of Karelia refused to restrict Vladimir Putin’s right to use Russian armed forces abroad
Press Release, 19.10.2017 Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia rejected Yabloko’s bill restricting Vladimir Putin’s right to use Russian armed forces abroad. The bill was submitted by Emilia Slabunova, MP and Yabloko Chair.
Posted: October 20th, 2017 under War in Syria.
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Kremlin’s new ally
Grigory Yavlinsky on the dangerous partnership between Russia and Saudi Arabia and “Putin’s political post-modernism”, 09.10.2017 Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs already called the meeting between Putin and Saudi Arabia’s King an epochal event. It is true that the President of Russia met another civilization, the feudal epoch, in the Kremlin. This is probably the […]
Posted: October 19th, 2017 under Foreign policy.
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Nikolai Rybakov participated in meeting of delegates of the IPU Assembly
Press release, 16.10.2017 On 15th October, Yabloko Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakv gave a speech at the meeting of national parliament deputies, who are members of parties represented in Liberal International. The event was held as part of the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in St. Petersburg.
Posted: October 17th, 2017 under Russia-Eu relations, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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