Archive for 'Foreign policy'
YABLOKO paid tribute to the victims of acts of terror in Burssels
Press Release, 23.03.2016 YABLOKO leaders and activists brought flowers to the building of the Embassy of Belgium in Moscow. Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky left records in the book of condolences, and also met with the staff of the diplomatic mission to say the words of sympathy and support.
Posted: March 23rd, 2016 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Street Actions, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: sentence to Nadezhda Savchenko is part of the war
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 22.03.2016 The sentence passed today on Nadezhda Savchenko is inseparable from the military, political and media campaign launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine two years ago. Unlawful actions of the Russian authorities against Ukraine also include the trial on Savchenko. And this sentence – like a shot from a gun – […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2016 under Foreign policy, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Valery Borshchev: The trial of Savchenko is a farce
Press release, 21.03.2016 Co-Chair of YABLOKO’s Human Rights Defenders faction Valery Borshchev claims that the trial of Nadezhda Savchenko discredits the Russian system of justice.
Posted: March 21st, 2016 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia has no strategy on Middle East
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 17.03.2016 The military operation in Syria has been stopped suddenly. Why it was put to an end raises as many questions as the reason why it had been started. Nothing has actually changed in Syria: the Islamic State is staying where it was, Bashar al-Assad’s position remains nearly the same, the […]
Posted: March 18th, 2016 under Foreign policy.
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On withdrawal of the contingent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Syria
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 15.03.2016 The decision to withdraw the Russian Armed Forces from Syria raises as many questions as the decision to bring them there. The task to liberate 100 per cent of the Syrian territory from the control of the Islamic State, which is outlawed in Russia, and similar terrorist alignments which […]
Posted: March 16th, 2016 under Economy, Foreign policy, Human Rights.
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24 per cent of the conservative audience of the Russian News Service will vote for Grigory Yavlinsky at presidential elections
Press Release, 11.03.2016 One fifth of the Russian News Service radio audience supports YABLOKO’s stance on Crimea and a quarter is ready to vote for Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election. Such are the results of a telephone survey conducted during broacasting of an interview with Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and […]
Posted: March 14th, 2016 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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YABLOKO to conduct picketing in support of Nadezhda Savchenko
Press release, 10.03.2016 On 21 March, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO will conduct a series of one-person pickets in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko opposite the Kremlin. The pronouncement of the verdict will begin on this day.
Posted: March 12th, 2016 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Street Actions.
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In support of the Russian language as a means of the pan-European dialoge development
Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 15.02.2016 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO welcomes the proposal of Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, on recognition of the Russian language as an official language of the European Union. We consider this idea as […]
Posted: February 17th, 2016 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations.
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We rolled right back to North Korea
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 14.02.2016 “We rolled back to the times of a new Cold War,” such a vauge statement was made by Dmitry Medvedev in Munich, and all media wrote that Dmitry Mededev “had declared the start of the Cold War”. This means that the society is already prepared for a war, it is […]
Posted: February 16th, 2016 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations.
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YABLOKO calls on the Russian Foreign Ministry to support the UN resolution on human rights defenders
Statement of YABLOKO Bureau, 18.12.2015 On 25 November, 2015, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the draft resolution entitled “Recognizing the role of human rights defenders and the need for their protection”. The UN General Assembly resolution urges the states to recognize the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders, condemn […]
Posted: December 18th, 2015 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations.
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To restore the Russian-Turkish cultural, educational, tourist and economic ties
Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 09.12.2015 The reaction of the Russian leadership on the tragic death of Russian military Oleg Peshkov and Alexander Pozynich turned out to be asymmetric and strange. The [authorities] chose to strike a blow on cultural and educational ties between our nations. Such negative developments in the relations between Russia and Turkey […]
Posted: December 9th, 2015 under Foreign policy, Politics.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly demonstrates hypocrisy and confusion
Press Release, 3.12,2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation demonstrated that there would be no qualitative changes in the country: the course towards militarization would remain and the policies of “tightening the screws” would go on. The President underestimated the crisis tendencies in […]
Posted: December 5th, 2015 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Operation in Syria and the threats to the national security
Statement by YABLOKO Political Committee, 16.11.2015 Russia’s political leaders initiated a one-sided interference into the Syrian armed conflict on one of the sides without coordinating it with the potential allies. This interference is accompanied by tough ideological anti-Americanism, anti-European and self-isolating foreign policy, and a sustainably antidemocratic model within the country, when the propaganda firmly […]
Posted: November 25th, 2015 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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After Paris 11/13
Vedomosti, 16.11.2015 By Grigory Yavlinsky First, we can hope that now it is clear to all where the enemy is. Everyone in Russia (except those who complete lost heads in their hatred of the West, but there are not so many such people) feels the blows of mortal danger coming to us from the Paris […]
Posted: November 16th, 2015 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On the death of Helmut Schmidt, the fifth German Chancellor
Condolences from Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 11.11.2015 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO expresses deep condolences at the death of Helmut Schmidt to the German people, his family, friends and his colleagues on the social-liberal coalition in the German government.
Posted: November 11th, 2015 under Foreign policy.
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Sergei Mitrokhin greets the Kurdish party on another success in parliamentary elections in Turkey
Press Release, 02.11.2015 YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on another victory in passing to Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds.
Posted: November 3rd, 2015 under Foreign policy.
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Alexei Melnikov: the Day of Russia’s Disgrace
Alexei Melnikov’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 31.07.2015 Probably, reasonable people, both in Russia and abroad, realize that MH17 flight was shot down by the Russian military. Probably, many people understand that the Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea which launched a war against Ukraine, where a plane shot down by Putinistas was a […]
Posted: August 4th, 2015 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Youth Yabloko commemorated memory of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims
Press release, 17.07.2015 Activists of the Moscow branch of Youth Yabloko laid flowers to the Dutch Embassy on the anniversary of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Posted: July 17th, 2015 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Putin’s decree on classifying troop losses during peacetime as a state secret was challenged in the Supreme Court
Press release, 16.06.2015 Public activists challenged Putin’s decree classifying war losses sustained during peacetime special operations a state secret in the Supreme Court. These nine applicants are YABLOKO’s MP in the Pskov Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg, human rights defender Ivan Pavlov, journalist Grigory Pasko, Timur Olyevsky and others. The applicants claim that the decree violates […]
Posted: June 18th, 2015 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Memorandum of Political Alternative
Posted: June 10th, 2015 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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