Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019 They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”

Grigory Yavlinsky on the results of the investigation of Russia’s interference into the US elections Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.03.2019 The investigation by Robert Muller, Special Counsel [of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections] ended without charge or justification. Robert Muller did not find evidence of Donald Trump’s collusion with Vladimir […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019 The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 3.02.2019 The INF Treaty is no longer valid. Moscow announces the start of creation of new types of missiles. The threat to the security of Russia and Europe surges many-fold. Whether Russia was engaged in the development and testing of the rocket in violation of the INF Treaty, which was the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.02.2019 For a month now Trump has refused to approve any budget that does not include funds for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. The democrats have rejected his request for the allocation of USD 5.7 billion for these purposes. As a result, the American government has not been […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2018 On what has been happening with liberal capitalism, the “carnival politics”, a change of course in the global economy and the role of Russia in these developments. Smiles and tongue-in-cheek greetings at the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and the adviser to the President of the United States on national security […]

by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.11.2018 IN BETWEEN THE WARS The situation, in which the centenary of the end of the Great (First World) War is celebrated [in Russia], causes as many questions and bewilderment as the anniversary of the revolution in Russia. The unwillingness of the Russian authorities to discuss the crisis of […]

The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]

Grigory Yavlinsky about Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump and the difficulties of translation Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.07.2018 The next day, after the meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump arriving in Washington denied what he had said in Helsinki. It turns out that he was “misunderstood”, he simply had a slip of the tongue, “misspoke”, […]

Visas should be cancelled also for tourists from OECD, EU and BRICS countries Press Release, 20.07.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans, but also for residents of countries that give Russia the largest number of tourists. According to Yabloko, visas for tourists from OECD, […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.07.2018 During his visit to Europe, Donald Trump continues his political trolling of Europeans. These are not just separate episodes. This is not even an individual political style. This is a conscious denial of the content of politics, its replacement with a show. And this is not politics in the style of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky on the upcoming meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Yavlinsky.ru, 13.07.2018 The summit in Finland and the way the Moscow establishment and the Russian media are waiting for it is an indication of the position of Russia in the present world. A year ago, a meeting with Donald Trump in Hamburg on […]

Ekho Moskvi radio station, 09.04.2018 Lev Shlosberg, leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, was the guest of the programme “2018” at the Ekho Moskvi radio station. One of the topics discussed was the new US sanctions against Russian oligarchs and officials, as well as a number of companies, including those with state participation. Lev […]

Economist Grigory Yavlinsky talks about the people whose lives will be ruined by the politics of today 12 November 2017, Vedomosti   Grigory Yavlinsky for Vedomosti  Photo by Andrei Gordeyev/ Vedomosti: Russia’s political ambitions need to be buttressed by an economy that is far larger than the one we have today   The topic of sanctions […]

Former Russia’s Ambassador to the United States and now a Senator of the Federation Council, answers the questions of Novaya Gazeta about the diplomatic duel between the Russian Federation and the United States Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2017 Novaya Gazeta: Has the American side violated the norms of international law with regard to Russian missions in the […]

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post on the Ekho Moskvy website, 13.08.2017 The developments in Charlottesville, Virginia, make us put a question – what is the reason for such a surge of national radicalism in the USA? I have no doubt that the main reason is Trump and his nationalist rhetoric before the elections as well as […]

Grigory Yavlinsky on the G20 summit results, 10.07.2017 Trump is quite unpleasant and even dangerous for us. First of all, this is due to the fact that we are of no interest to him, and he is a deep American provincial. When we create no problem for him or when he cannot use Russia to […]

By Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 08.04.2017 How can it be still unclear to someone that Syria is a trap for Russia? Russia was led into the Syrian trap by the stupidity of Russian foreign policy, its short-sightedness and adventurousness. Any further steps targeted at escalation of Russia’s military actions in Syria only aggravate our […]