Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
How to vote for a ceasefire
A Frank Conversation with Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 27.07.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Are there elections in Russia today that fundamentally change power? No, no such democratic institution exists in our country any more. That is how the reforms were carried out in the 1990s. Do people in Russia […]
Posted: July 29th, 2026 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Omsk regional branch of Yabloko submits documents to Electoral Commission for candidates for the State Duma in single-mandate constituencies
Press Release, 16.07.2026 Photo: Tatyana Schneider, Chairwoman of Omsk Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Tuesday 14 July, the Omsk regional branch of Yabloko submitted documents to the district Electoral Commission to register the party’s candidates in three single-mandate constituencies for the elections of the State Duma.
Posted: July 16th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s lead candidates for the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly elections submit documents to regional electoral commission
Press Release, 15.07.2026 Photo: Left to right: Roman Morozov, Ivan Bolshakov, and Anton Gendrikson / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Wednesday 15 July, documents for Yabloko’s candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly were submitted to the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission. The candidates heading the party’s regional list submitted the documents in person.
Posted: July 16th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Congress of Yabloko nominates candidates for the State Duma and adopts election programme
Press Release, 29.06.2026 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov, Yana Ivanova, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Tatiana Schneider, Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov, Vitaly Isakov, Kirill Goncharov and Dmitry Anisimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 June, Yabloko’s pre-election Congress took place in Moscow. At the Congress, the party determined its candidates for the 9th convocation of the State […]
Posted: June 30th, 2026 under 23rd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Leaders of Yabloko’s list on the forthcoming State Duma election campaign: taking responsibility and restoring people’s right to life
Press Release, 29.06.2026 Photo: (left to right) Tatiana Schneider, Ivan Bolshakov, Dmitry Anisimov, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Yana Antonova, Kirill Goncharov and Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Over the past weekend, at its 23rd Congress, Yabloko nominated 412 candidates for the IX convocation of the State Duma. The federal list included 275 candidates, […]
Posted: June 30th, 2026 under 23rd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party Platform for the Elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 9th Convocation
Adopted by the Yabloko Party Congress on June 27, 2026 FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM! FOR A LIFE WITHOUT FEAR! For a ceasefire agreement, diplomacy, and the achievement of peace! Our goal is to prevent nuclear war! For a Russia free of fear and political repression! For the preservation of life, respect, dignity and the wellbeing […]
Posted: June 28th, 2026 under 23rd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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The September 2026 elections as an opportunity to begin the path towards peace, freedom, and a life without fear
Resolution by the Federal Political Committee, adopted at on 18.06.2026, published on 25.07.2026 The forthcoming elections to the ninth State Duma, to be held in September, differ fundamentally from all previous parliamentary elections. These are the first parliamentary elections to be held amid the armed conflict now entering its fifth year, when almost every day […]
Posted: June 25th, 2026 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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The purpose of politics is human life
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.06.2026 Watch on YouTube with automatic English subtitles At the beginning of the 20th century, technical progress moved to a qualitatively new level. Europe’s political elites proved incapable of making adequate decisions and, like sleepwalkers, with no understanding of what was happening, plunged the world into two world wars. Around 100 million […]
Posted: June 19th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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There is only one compromise — a ceasefire
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Marianna Minsker on RTVi RTVi, 13 June 2026 Watch on YouTube with automatic English subtitles There has been much talk recently about who should concede what, which side should make overtures, and what compromises might be possible. But in the fifth year of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, one thing […]
Posted: June 15th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“We have extensive experience of surviving in sulphuric acid”: interview with Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov
Novaya Gazeta. Baltiya, 11.06.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Forty-seven-year-old human rights defender and environmentalist Nikolai Rybakov is the fourth chairman of the Yabloko party. He joined the party in 1995 and rose from ordinary member to the head of Russia’s largest and still-unbanned anti-war organisation. Rybakov became party chairman in 2019, meaning that […]
Posted: June 15th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Vengeance and Hope
Written for the Yabloko website, 1 June 2026 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service There is such a thing as a politics of vengeance, and there is such a thing as a politics of hope. A politics of vengeance is built on powerful, demonic motivation and energy, and for that reason […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2026 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“We are the party of Russia’s future”
Grigory Yavlinsky on the possibility of voting for peace and freedom, and for a new path of development for the country YouTube channel Zhivoi Gvozd, 19.05.2026 Watch the video on YouTube switching into English subtitles I have personally taken part in federal elections ten times: three times in presidential and seven in parliamentary elections. There have […]
Posted: May 25th, 2026 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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War and the Market
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 20.04.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Fundamental historical and political problems, such as the nature of the Iranian regime since 1979, cannot be resolved through economic measures. Sanctions or blockades (of the Strait of Hormuz, for instance) are incapable of resolving a deep-seated conflict that has persisted for […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2026 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “What matters is not who will be in charge, but how you will live”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.03.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Russia’s complete failure to carry out the reforms of the 1990s and its descent into deep political crisis has now been compounded by the end of the era that took shape after World War II. Disorganisation and chaos are growing in world […]
Posted: March 24th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky “2050: Lisbon — Vladivostok. The Future, Politics, The Individual”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 6.03.2026 “First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it”. (William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907) […]
Posted: March 12th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Russia is Europe
Grigory Yavlinsky on political prisoners, the 95th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s birth, and the shared future of Russia and Europe Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 2.03.2026 Watch the video on YouTube switching into English subtitles Mikhail Gorbachev was born 95 years ago, a man who freed everyone in our country from fear and gave liberty not […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2026 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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“When making a choice, each person must remain honest with themselves”: Yabloko holds “Four Years After 24.02.2022” gathering
Press Release, 25.02.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov speaking at the gathering on 24 February 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 24 February 2026, Yabloko’s Moscow office hosted a gathering of like-minded people entitled “Four Years After 24.02.2022”. Anyone who wished to attend was welcome to come to the party office, so as not […]
Posted: February 25th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Four years of the special military operation: a way out of the historical dead end must be found
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.02.2026 Photo: Graves of those killed in the course of the special military operation in Ukraine, in the military section of a cemetery on the southern outskirts of St. Petersburg / Photo by Artyom Priakhin, Kommersant 24 February 2026 marks four years since the start of the special military operation. […]
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“A Frank Conversation” with Grigory Yavlinsky: “Human Life Comes Before Democracy”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.02.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Frank and honest public discourse on politics is rare today. It is difficult to speak about politics in times of chaos, and, moreover, it is dangerous: the risks of falling victim to repression, up to and including imprisonment or a staged “accident,” […]
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“We Are All Passengers on the Titanic”
The Nation, 07.02.2026 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Party On January 26, The Nation’s correspondent Nadezhda Azhgikhina interviewed Grigory Yavlinsky at his Moscow offices. Yavlinsky is the founder and leader of the Yabloko Party and a four-times candidate for the presidency of Russia (1996, 2000, 2012, 2018), in three of which he […]
Posted: February 12th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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