Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Grigory Yavlinsky urges Russian citizens to join the campaign for Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 21.06.2017 Yabloko launches the all-Russian campaign Time to Return Home. The party will collect signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war in Syria. Such a statement was made by Yabloko’s presidential […]
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Elections, Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, War in Syria.
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Time to Return Home
Grigory Yavlinsky blog post, 19.06.2017 Russia has been involved in the Syrian war for almost two years. According to official data, 35 our military men were killed, unofficial [data] give a much higher figure. What our soldiers and officers should give their lives for? For the endless rule of dictator Bashar al-Assad? Where is the national […]
Posted: June 20th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Yabloko launches Grigory Yavlinsky presidential campaign with collection of signatures in Russian regions for Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 19.06.2017 Today, Yabloko’s presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky came to Ryazan to launch the all-Russian campaign “Time to Return Home.” Today, Yabloko launches collection of signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war […]
Posted: June 19th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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89 per cent of the audience of the Ekho Moskvy radio station support Grigory Yavlinsky’s initiative to cease Russia’s participation in military conflicts abroad
Press Release, 16.06.2017 Ekho Moskvy radio station conducted live discussion of the publication in the newspaper Kommersant which reported that YABLOKO, at the initiative of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky, was launching “Time to Return Home” campaign.
Posted: June 19th, 2017 under War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky launches a video project on the solution of the problem with Crimea
Press Release, 31.05.2017 The first video to the 20th anniversary of “friendship” between Russia and Ukraine has been released today. Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate to the post of Russian President, will talk about the ways to solve the problem of Crimea and relations between Russia and Ukraine in a special online project “Is Crimea Ours?” on […]
Posted: June 7th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Pskov residents stand for withdrawal of Russia’s troops from Syria
Press release, 17.05.2017 The Pskov branch of Yabloko conducted an action called “It is time to return home” aimed at stopping Russia’s interference into the Syrian civil war. The activists gathered signatures for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. They managed to collect about 400 signatures.
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under War in Syria.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: Europe chooses social liberalism
Yabloko Deputy Chairman on the French presidential elections results 16.05.2017 The new president of France Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated at the Élysée Palace on 14 May. The youngest president in the history of the Fifth Republic will turn 40 at the end of the year. Macron, with his evident social liberal and pro-European programme, won […]
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under Foreign policy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to solve the problem of Crimea
It is time to correct political errors Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page, 21.04.2017 Everything is very serious with Crimea. Even France is discussing it a couple of days before its presidential elections. One of the top candidates, François Fillon, suggests holding an international conference on the Crimea. These proposals were expressed earlier: by British parliamentarians, by […]
Posted: April 26th, 2017 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Russia’s deadlock in Syria
By Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 08.04.2017 How can it be still unclear to someone that Syria is a trap for Russia? Russia was led into the Syrian trap by the stupidity of Russian foreign policy, its short-sightedness and adventurousness. Any further steps targeted at escalation of Russia’s military actions in Syria only aggravate our […]
Posted: April 11th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations, War in Syria.
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Academician Arbatov: Russia should withdraw its troops from Syria and strengthen its southern borders
Press Release, 22.02.2017 Alexei Arbatov, one of the leading Russian experts in the field of military policy and international security, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, and member of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO party, gave an interview to yabloko.ru on the threats and challenges facing Russia.
Posted: February 28th, 2017 under Foreign policy.
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Sometimes it’s better to remain silent than to speak
About the speech of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Munich Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post 20.02.2017 Sometimes it’s better to remain silent than to speak.
Posted: February 21st, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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This world was not invented by Putin
by Grigory Yavlinsky 17.02.2017 The 53rd Munich Security Conference opens on 17 February. While it represents a continuation of the Meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers and could become a platform for contacts on a range of issues, it is highly unlikely that we should seriously expect anything from the Munich Forum. It would appear that […]
Posted: February 18th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: People are dying in Donbass: The Kremlin hopes there will be enough ammunition
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 06.02.2017 The war in the east of Ukraine is well under way again, people are dying. But the Kremlin officially hopes that the so called “rebels” in Donbass will have enough weapons and ammunition. Political cynicism of the Russian authorities is reaching a new level. A human’s life is not on the […]
Posted: February 8th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Obama left everyone with Trump
By Grigory Yavlinsky 19.01.2017 Assessing the eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, we have to speak more about the period his presidency feel onto, rather than him. The fact that a black politician became US President seemed to open a new era in the US and even the world history considering the position of the […]
Posted: January 27th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Galina Mikhaleva gave an open lecture on Russia-EU relations
Press release, 12.01.2017 On January 11, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, professor of Bremen University Galina Mikhaleva gave a lecture on Russia-EU relations. The lecture was held by the discussion club of Moscow Yabloko Youth.
Posted: January 16th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Yabloko Youth.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What price Russia will pay for Aleppo?
Facebook post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.12.2016 Rescuing Bashar al-Assad’s regime and trying to recall the spirit of the confrontation of two great superpowers of the last century – the USSR and the US, – the Russian government dragged the country into a large-scale conflict, which generates instability for all its participants far beyond the combat […]
Posted: December 21st, 2016 under Foreign policy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The international security system has become fragile, as it was on the threashold of World War I”
Facebook post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.12.2016 An act of terror took place in Ankara. Andrei Karlov, Russian Ambassador in Turkey, was killed. What happened was not just an accident and not just one more tragedy in a long list of terrorist attacks for the past period. This is a characteristic feature of a qualitatively new […]
Posted: December 21st, 2016 under Foreign policy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: There are people living in the Kuril Islands!
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post, 16.12.2016 The Russian government is looking for ways out of its international isolation. They thought about finding such a way out through Japan, as they have failed to do something proper with China, and no one else wants to talk to them. The Japanese seem to be interested in dialogue.
Posted: December 19th, 2016 under Economy, Foreign policy.
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Alexander Gnezdilov participated in a discussion on the USA presidential election
Press release, 15.12.2016 On December 15, YABLOKO Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov participated in a discussion on the USA presidential election. The discussion was moderated by journalist Vladimir Pozner.
Posted: December 16th, 2016 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What will happen now? Donald Trump will happen
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 9.11.2016 So, Donald Trump was elected President of the USA. What will happen now? Nobody knows. Even Trump himself does not know. As for Russia, it was clear long before the election day that a bare victory of any candidate would not fundamentally change the US-Russia relations. The policy of the Russian […]
Posted: November 16th, 2016 under Russia-US Relations.
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