Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Grigory Yavlinsky on the new US sanctions against Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019 The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of […]
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about Russia’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty as the defeat of Putin’s foreign and defence policy
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 3.02.2019 The INF Treaty is no longer valid. Moscow announces the start of creation of new types of missiles. The threat to the security of Russia and Europe surges many-fold. Whether Russia was engaged in the development and testing of the rocket in violation of the INF Treaty, which was the […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko Liberal Club to discuss the experience of German liberals with Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven
Press release, 25.01.2019 Yabloko’s Liberal Club will discuss the experience of German and European liberals on 30th January, Wednesday. The Free Democratic Party of Germany had been either part of the ruling coalition or parliamentary opposition since the end of World War II. However, the party did not pass the 5 per cent threshold in […]
Posted: January 28th, 2019 under Elections, Russia-Eu relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “We must deal with our country, not Maduro!”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram channel, 24.01.2019 On 23 January, Juan Guaido, leader of the Venezuelan opposition parliament, declared himself acting President of the country. This happened in Caracas during a demonstration when many thousands people protested against President Nicolás Maduro, and a disastrous economic situation developed in Venezuela during his presidency.
Posted: January 24th, 2019 under Foreign policy.
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“Shock Therapy” for America: Normalising the Absurd
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.02.2019 For a month now Trump has refused to approve any budget that does not include funds for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. The democrats have rejected his request for the allocation of USD 5.7 billion for these purposes. As a result, the American government has not been […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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The Kurils’ Deadlock
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.01.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky on the upcoming negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe and the dispute over the Kuril Islands Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Moscow to prepare the visit of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the negotiations in late January, Shinzo Abe and Vladimir Putin will discuss the […]
Posted: January 16th, 2019 under Foreign policy.
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Russia is a peaceful country
Statement by the Federal Council No 56, 14.01.2019 Every day people in Russia and around the world fear more and more that there is a possibility of a big war with an enormous number of victims as new provocative resistance, conflicts, use and demonstration of military force, including the strategic weapons, emerge.
Posted: January 15th, 2019 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Through the party reform towards progress in the country
Statement by the Federal Council No 51, 28.12.2018 The Yabloko party is one of the most experienced political organisations in the country: We have been standing up for the vales of freedom, peace, responsibility, human dignity and respect for people for 25 years. These values make thousands of people come to us. We founded Yabloko […]
Posted: January 15th, 2019 under Elections, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russian Economy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The Lines of War and the Way to Hope
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 30.11.2018 For a long time the city of Troy was under siege, Has remained an unapproachable stronghold. Hut the people of Troy did not believe Cassandra – Maybe Troy would have existed to this day. (by Vladimir Vysotsky; translated by Nathan Mer) Russia has come to a stage when an actual open […]
Posted: December 27th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Results of the Year: Putin and Futility
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.12.2018 The President, who has been governing the country for 19 years, in four hours has reported the following: • Russia needs a breakthrough, but an increase in the retirement age is inevitable. • We will not have the developments like in France, and gasoline prices will not price. • The situation […]
Posted: December 26th, 2018 under Economy, Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Why modern Russia needs Yabloko
Press release, 15.12.2018 “Yabloko should become the party of the real future of Russia: the party of peace, moral choice and values,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko Federal Political Committee, said at the meeting of the Federal Council of the Yabloko party. “It is our responsibility. Our mission is the moral and professional choice in […]
Posted: December 15th, 2018 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights.
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Yavlinsky: Russia is on the edge of a big war – not a hybrid war but a real one
Press release, 15.12.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko Federal Political Committee, gave a speech at the Federal Council of the Yabloko party. According to the politician, Russia is on the edge of a full-fledged war. Yavlinsky says that the root of the problem is the attempt of the Kremlin to control Kiev and curtail the […]
Posted: December 15th, 2018 under Economy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The situation in the Kerch Strait is leading to the further escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 4.12.2018 The situation in the Kerch Strait is leading to the further escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. All these 4 years the citizens of the two countries have been hostages of irresponsible politicians. This is the first time in history that Russia and Ukraine have an open conflict, and this is […]
Posted: December 7th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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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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