The Nation, 17.01.2024 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the Congress of the Yabloko party, Moscow, December 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Grigory Yavlinsky is the founder of Russia’s leading and oldest democratic opposition party, Yabloko, which is the only party in Russia calling for a cease-fire. The interview was conducted by The Nation’s […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, yavlinsky.ru, 7.01.2022 Photo: The building of the Mayor’s office in Almaty. 6 January, 2021 // REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev The events in Kazakhstan have been developing rapidly. Yesterday morning the government was dismissed in order to extinguish the wave of discontent, and by nightfall, fighting began in different settlements of the […]

Press Release, 29.07.2021. Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre), Yabloko Chairman and leader of the party list for the 2021 parliamentary elections. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The final version of the election programme of the Yabloko party “Freedom and Law. Hope for the Future” has been published. The programme has five sections. […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 27.05.2021 Photo: Alexei Alexandrov / RIA Novosti On 23 May, 2021, an act of state terrorism was committed in Belarus. On the direct order by Alexander Lukashenko, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was landed in Minsk with the help of deceit (false information about […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]

Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24.12.2020 The leader of the Yabloko party shared his views on the ending 2020. The leader of the Yabloko party has always had a special critical view of what was happening around him and had his own recipes how to fix it. He shared this special view of the outgoing 2020 in the […]

POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 2) Digital technologies and the globalisation of disorder As a series of events sent shockwaves globally, a large-scale process proceeded in the background imperceptibly, with the creation of new forms and methods to manage social phenomena, to all intents and purposes representing the birth of a new type of political system. It […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.10.2020 Will Mr.Putin remain President after 2024, they ask him at the Valdai Club meeting. My colleagues ask me about the same on a Yabloko party stream. Vladimir Putin compares himself to Saint Francis and says that “this must certainly end some day”. However, in Belarus, for example, the people decided that […]

Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Stavropol branch of Yabloko held an action in support of the people of Belarus. Vitaly Zubenko, head of the regional branch of the party, took part in the action. According to the participants, the action took place under the close scrutiny of about twenty police officers and the Centre for Combating […]

Press Release, 2.10.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction / PLN Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, regards the visit of the Pskov Region delegation headed by the Governor to Belarus on 28 September as […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.09.2020 At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.

On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]

Press Release, 4.09.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party Pskov regional politicians discussed the formation of a reserve from the Russian security and law enforcement for Belarus and Vladimir Putin’s support for the actions of Alexander Lukashenko at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station. The opinions […]

Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov! Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020 Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.08.2020 29 years ago, a group of gray, but high-ranking Soviet officials tried to turn history back and return a huge country to the same gray past as they were. But hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to defend their future. Then, in August 1991, people […]

Press Release, 17.08.2020 On August 15, Batyr Boromangnaev, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Kalmykia, held a single picket of solidarity with the protest of the people of Belarus in Elista. Batyr Boromangnaev held a plackardr “Freedom to the people of Belarus!”.

Citizens of Belarus themselves will sort out their domestic affairs Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.08.2020 No matter what Lukashenko may agree with Putin about, no matter what kind of help he is promised – military, hybrid or propaganda – any intervention by Russia in the situation in Belarus is unacceptable and will be criminal.

Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the leaders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine with an appeal to influence the leadership of Belarus to stop the violation of human rights in this country.

Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to protect Russian citizens detained on the territory of the Republic of Belarus – journalists, civil and public figures, including Artem Vazhenkov, Coordinator of the Golos movement in Tver, and activist Igor Rogov.