Archive for 'Russia-US Relations'
Sleepwalkers and the World
Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024 It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the […]
Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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WHY A CEASEFIRE IS NECESSARY TODAY
Grigory Yavlinsky for Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2024 Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant WHAT IS HAPPENING? The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass. Ukraine’s armed forces are continuing their operations in Kursk Region. Russia is carrying out missile strikes on Kharkiv, Poltava and Lviv … Ukraine is shelling Donetsk and Belgorod … The Russian missiles are […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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From an Exchange to a Ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024 We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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We Need a Ceasefire Now — Before It Is Too Late
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.07.2024 Armoured Peace Dove. Banksy. 2003 “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong”. Abraham Lincoln The most recent rotation of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union – which is usually a formal procedure in the European bureaucratic system — […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Nuclear war today. What are its prospects and what does the arrival of Viktor Orban have to do with it?
Telegram blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 5.07.2024 Photo from social media. In 2023, nine countries increased their spending on nuclear weapons by 13%. This is a record high growth. According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), nuclear club countries have spent a record USD 91.4 billion on modernisation and the number of […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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‘No other way out’: Ceasefire agreement in Russia-Ukraine conflict is ‘necessary’
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.06.2024 Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, says in his interview to Erin Molan, Sky News Australia, that there is “no other way out” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict but a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: July 3rd, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“Don’t shoot!”
Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 17.06.2024 Photo from social media The Yabloko party stands for the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement without preconditions. Neither the resolution of the summit in Switzerland, nor Vladimir Putin’s statements at the meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry answer the most important question: when people, including […]
Posted: June 18th, 2024 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Versailles Trap
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.06.2024 A peace treaty was signed 105 years ago in June 1919 in Versailles, a Parisian suburb, marking the end of World War I. However, the Treaty of Versailles only delivered peace to Europe for a brief moment, before setting the wheels in motion for the start of the even more destructive […]
Posted: June 14th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: A Ceasefire Agreement Must Be Struck Now
Yavlinsky.ru, 05.06.2024 Photo by Svitlana Morenets // Getty Images We have leveraged every possible opportunity at every turn to call for a ceasefire since the very start of the special military operation. Our appeals have become more and more insistent from November 2002 onwards, as specific military, political and strategic circumstances, making it possible to […]
Posted: June 6th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The West’s Approach to Russia Should Have Been Much Smarter
Yavlinsky.ru, 23.05.2024 Grigory Yavlinsky, the Russian opposition Yabloko party’s leader, took part in the debates at Cambridge Union about the West’s Approach to Russia. The event took place on May 16, 2024. The other speakers were Dominic Grieve, the former UK Attorney General and Conservative MP, the former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee […]
Posted: June 6th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, Без рубрики.
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“A Way to the Future” with Grigory Yavlinsky: A Different World
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.05.2024 Transcript April 2024 “What should be done to prevent a large-scale war? The very first steps to be taken to prevent a big war should include: a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and the signing of a respective agreement; the creation of a demilitarised zone on both sides of the fault […]
Posted: May 17th, 2024 under Economy, Education and Science, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Arbatov on the US deployment of previously banned complexes in Asia: “This situation is fraught with a new missile arms race”
Kommersant, 22.04.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo from the personal archive Past week, the United States deployed medium-range ground-based missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time (see Kommersant on 16 April): army Typhon systems were deployed to the Philippines as part of the exercise. Previously, such weapons were prohibited under the Russian-American […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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NEW WORLD DISORDER
On the collapse of the international order formed after the end of World War II and the risks of a major global conflict Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.04.2024 DISINTEGRATION PROCESSES International political developments today show that the previous world order is irreversibly paying its final bow in history. Against the backdrop of an increase in shocks […]
Posted: April 15th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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TWO YEARS OF WAR. JUST STOP!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2024 Photo: Fragments of a building in Yubileiny District in Adviivka destroyed during the fighting / Photograph of Stanislav Krasilnikov (RIA NOVOSTI) 22 February 2024 The intense warfare between Russia and Ukraine has continued relentlessly now for two years – people are dying every day. Continuation of the military actions in any form […]
Posted: February 26th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Putin’s interview as a chance for dialogue
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.02.2024 In July 2021, Vladimir Putin published an article in which he made it absolutely clear to the whole world that Russia could start a military conflict with Ukraine at any moment. The article essentially denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty and, correspondingly, made territorial claims. Such claims, expressed by the […]
Posted: February 12th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The OSCE is the most important civilisational achievement of the last quarter of the 20th century
Viktor Kogan-Yasny’s blog post, 12.02.2024 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service My job is to occasionally write about things that relate to limiting bloodshed now and eliminating it strategically in the future. I have to write in a dry language because it’s “work”. Political leaders, military leaders and military commanders say […]
Posted: February 12th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Dialogue with Russia cannot be avoided
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 […]
Posted: January 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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A Way to the Future: 2023 Analysis
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, 29.12.2023 The series of interviews with the politician and economist, Yabloko party’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky A Way to the Future. The final episode of 2023 series presents the analysis of the last year’s events, suggests conclusions and expectations from the next year.
Posted: January 10th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The 22nd Congress of Yabloko. The key points
Press Release, 11.12.2023 Photo: Igor Artemyev, a member of the Federal Political Committee, speaks at the Congress on 9 December / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Past weekend, the 22nd Yabloko Congress took place in Moscow. The Congress elected the party leaders and the executive bodies of the party for the next four years. […]
Posted: December 11th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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