Press Release, 16.02.2022 Attention: the number of regions in the title changes as we open new points of collection of signatures. Photo:  A sign at the collection point in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional branches of the Yabloko party launched a collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in their […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“I am leaving the same way I came” Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.06.2021 The Geneva summit ended as expected without any significant breakthroughs. Ambassadors will be able to return to their places of work in Moscow and Washington, consultations will continue, mass media will find out who “won” in the negotiations, both sides will deal with […]

What to expect from the Geneva summit Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 16.06.2021 Joe Biden was “asked” at the G7 meeting and the NATO summit, to speak toughly with Putin. And so it will be: we will hear some new words about the “red lines” and about the price that the Kremlin will have to pay. […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2021 Photo: Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti On 2 October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist for the Washington Post, was killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian Сonsulate in Istanbul. Recently, US National Intelligence accused the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, […]

Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020 New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information […]

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. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020 These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and […]

Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 4) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 15.12.2020 INTRODUCTION The year 2020 is drawing to a close. One can only imagine what will come next. According to Deutsche Bank strategists, the era of globalisation, which has lasted for almost four decades, is coming to an end and will […]

Revolution in the information environment and the future of politics  POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 3) Grigory Yavlisky’s web-site, 09.12.2020 We are witnessing before our very eyes a serious transformation of the information and communications space which has already led to notable political and social changes and may have even more significant consequences in the medium and […]

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 website, 1.12.2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is […]

On the prospects for Trumpism and the threat of fascism  Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 23.11.2020 Donald Trump and Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Debate Virtually the whole world has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential elections.  The regime in Russia is upset and taken aback. It has been rumoured that the powers-that-be will congratulate Biden […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.10.2020 The date 27 October 1962 has gone down in history as “Black Saturday”. It is believed that on this day the world was the closest it has ever come to a nuclear war. This was the height of the Cuban missile crisis. Today, almost six decades later, the threat of the […]

Press Release, 9.10.2020 On Thusday, 15 October, an online lecture by Natalia Bubnova, a leading researcher of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held at the Yabloko Party University. The lecture will begin at 19:00. The topic of the lecture is “American Elections at […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.09.2020 There is a war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan report hundreds of deaths. [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin over the phone “express concern” and urge “to prevent further escalation”. For 28 years, Russian diplomacy have been trying to produce an impression of Moscow’s mediation in the peace process, […]