Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
A step towards bloodshed. Statement by the Yabloko party on the recognition of the independence of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.02.2022 Photo: Signing of the agreement between the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the “Luhansk People’s Republic” and Russia in the Kremlin on 21 February, 2022. / Photo from kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s recognition of the “independence” of the self-proclaimed “republics” – the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“People are simply lured out by the promises to give them 10,000 roubles.” Human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina about the evacuation of Donbass residents to Russia
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 22.02.2022 Russian regions have begun introduction of a state of emergency regime in anticipation of an inflow of refugees from Donbass. Up to a million people are expected to be evacuated from the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”. Svetlana Gannushkina, Chairperson of the Civic Assistance Committee and […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Donbass: a Peaceful Alternative
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 17 January 2022 Photo by Ilya Pitalyev / Kommersant In actual fact, the war started eight years and has never stopped, leaving over 13,000 dead, and countless refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Donbass residents are actually hostages in Moscow’s geopolitical games. Meanwhile the entire campaign of intimidation and scaremongering about war and […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko has already collected 15,000 signatures against war with Ukraine
Press Release, 21.02.2022 Photo: the Rostov-on-Don region, February 2022. Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant As of Monday noon MSK, 15,025 people left their signatures under the anti-war petition launched by Yabloko on its website. The number of signatures rose by more than 30 per cent after the aggravation of the situation in the so-called […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov called on the upper chamber of the Russian parliament to revoke permission for President Putin to use the army abroad
Press Release, 21.02.2022 Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant On the eve of the 518th meeting of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament – the Federation Council, – which will be held on February 22, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to all members of the Federation Council with a proposal to cancel the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Over 10,000 signed Yabloko’s petition against the war between Russia and Ukraine
Press Release, 19.02.2022 Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in St. Petersburg, 2015. Photo by Alexander Koryakov/Kommersant Yabloko has collected over 10,000 signatures against the war with Ukraine under a petition on the website of the Yabloko party.
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: No to war!
Yabloko leader addressed citizens of Russia with a statement “No to war!”. Press Release, 17.02.2022 Nikolai Rybakov: War means violence, tears and suffering. For some persons war means authority and money. But the death of innocent people is not worth any money.
Posted: February 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Independent American and Russian women call for peace
Press Release, 16.02.2022 Chair of the Yabloko Party Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva also signed the letter Photo by Maxim Bogodid / RIA Novosti We are women from the United States and Russia who are deeply concerned about the risk of imminent war between our two countries, who together possess over 90% of the world’s nuclear […]
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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NO TO WAR! Collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
Press Release, 13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Diplomacy of War
Russia’s Geopolitical Prospects Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.01.2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY NEGOTIATIONS Russia has been conducting negotiations for two weeks with representatives from the US, […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Prevent catastrophe – prevent war with Ukraine
Yabloko’s call on the Russian society Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 150 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022 Photo: Peace March, Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko calls on the Russian society and the Russian authorities under no circumstances […]
Posted: January 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On emergency measures to prevent war
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 149 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022 The life, health, safety and well-being of millions of people in Russia and Ukraine are under threat. A military clash between the two neighbouring states is becoming more and more likely, fraught with huge casualties. This is a conflict of […]
Posted: January 27th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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NO TO WAR!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 24.01.2022 Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war. Never in […]
Posted: January 26th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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A Common Lot of Authoritarian States
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 […]
Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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War and Our Role
Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, yavlinsky.ru, 8.01.2022 God forbid that war should happen, Or else we will make a fool of our grandkids… Vladimir Vysotsky. Ballad on Departure to Heaven The anti-Ukrainian propaganda in the Russian mass media continues unabated. The world press is overflowing with information and assumptions on an impending war between Russia […]
Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Acad. Alexei Arbatov on the defence and security of Russia
Press Release, 13.12.2021 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Wednesday, 22 December, Acad. Alexei Arbatov will give a lecture in the Yabloko Party University on the topic “Defence and Security of Russia”. The lecture will begin at 18 o’clock.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“Ukraine and the four Duma parties of war”. Boris Vishnevsky on the hand out of the United Russia party cards to the heads of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine
Blog post by Boris Vishnevsky, 6.12.2021 Photo by BerksiuS_Ukr / depositphotos The main event of the 20th congress of the [ruling] United Russia [party] is neither the re-election of [former Russian President and former PM] Dmitry Medvedev as Chairman of the party (but everyone understands that it is not he who is leading the party). […]
Posted: December 7th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The situation and prospects of political struggle in Russia in 2021
Decision No 147 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko believes that the assessments, forecasts and fears expressed in the article “No to Putinism and Populism” and the decision by the Political Committee […]
Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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In the Language of War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.10.2021 An article on Ukraine published by Vladimir Putin in July was completed yesterday by Dmitry Medvedev. If someone could still doubt the intentions, now everything has become obvious: Russia is moving towards war. There is no point in discussing either the form or the content of what has been published […]
Posted: October 12th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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