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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

RUSSIA DEMANDS CHANGES! Electoral Program for 2011 Parliamentary Elections.

Key resolutions by the Congress:

On Stalinism and Bolshevism
Resolution. December 21, 2009

On Anti-Ecological Policies of Russia’s Authorities. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009

On the Situation in the Northern Caucasus. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 252, December 24, 2009

YABLOKO's POLITICAL COMMITTEE DECISIONS:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

On Russia's Foreign Policies. Political Committee of hte YABLOKO party. Statement, June 26, 2009

 

On Iran’s Nuclear Problem Resolution by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 6, 2009

 

Anti-Crisis Proposals (Housing-Roads-Land) of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO. Handed to President Medvedev by Sergei Mitrokhin on June 11, 2009

Brief Outline of Sergei Mitrokhin’s Report at the State Council meeting. January 22, 2010

 

Assessment of Russia’s Present Political System and the Principles of Its Development. Brief note for the State Council meeting (January 22, 2010) by Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. January 22, 2010

 

Address of the YABLOKO party to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 9, 2009

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

Moscow Yabloko
Yabloko for Students
St. Petersburg Yabloko
Khabarovsk Yabloko
Irkutsk Yabloko
Kaliningrad Yabloko(eng)
Novosibirsk Yabloko
Rostov Yabloko
Yekaterinburg Yabloko
(Sverdlovsk Region)

Krasnoyarsk Yabloko
Ulyanovsk Yabloko
Tomsk Yabloko
Tver Yabloko(eng)
Penza Yabloko
Stavropol Yabloko

Action of Support

 

Archives

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FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

Grigory Yavlinsky : “If you show the white feather, you will get fascism”

Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals

The Road to Good Governance

Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991

A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

What does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.

Lies and legitimacy
The founder of the Yabloko Party analyses the political situation. Article by Grigory Yavlinsky on radio Svoboda. April 6, 2011

Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience

Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010

Grigory Yavlinsky's interview to Vladimir Pozner. The First Channel, programme "Pozner", April 20, 2010 (video and transcript)

Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.

Grigory Yavlinsky: Vote for the people you know, people you can turn for help. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, October 8, 2009

Grigory Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009

A Credit for Half a Century. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Natalia Bekhtereva, Radio Russia, June 15, 2009

Sergei Mitrokhin's Speech at the meeting with US Preseident Barack Obama. Key Notes, Moscow, July 7, 2009

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

Alexei Arbatov: What Should We Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
Obschaya Gazeta, May 16, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's speech.
March 11, 2002

Grigory Yavlinsky's Lecture at the Nobel Institute
Oslo, May 30, 2000

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

By Arseny Roginsky, 16 December 2008

Nuclear Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview With Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997

Would the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991

Archive for 'Governance'

Andrei Talevlin on Chernobyl Tragedy Remembrance Day: Humanity is not ready for full-scale use of nuclear energy

Blog post by Andrei Talevlin, 25.04.2025 Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor (uranium-graphite channel type reactor) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 39 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of […]

Alexander Shishlov at a conference in the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics: “The main task in human rights now is to conclude a ceasefire and stop killing of people”

Press Release, 25.04.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, spoke at the 11th International Conference “Human Rights Activities in Modern Russia: Problems and Their Solutions” at the St. […]

Last Address plaques commemorating victims of Stalin’s repression need state protection

Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, adopted on 10.04.2025, published on 24.04.2025 Photo: Restoration of the Last Address project plaques removed after an anonymous complaint / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant In early April, unidentified vandals removed the Last Address plaque installed on the house where famous theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold was arrested in […]

Prohibition on education for migrant children leads only to criminalisation

Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, adopted on 10.04.2025, published on 24.04.2025 Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant On 1 April, a law came into force prohibiting Russian schools from accepting migrant children who do not know the Russian language. The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party notes that this law not only contradicts the […]

Declassified US National Security Council documents: How Grigory Yavlinsky’s Programme could have changed history

Press Release, 21.04.2025 In early 1991, Grigory Yavlinsky was developing a programme for integrating the USSR and Russian economy into the global system with Western participation on mutually beneficial terms, similar to the Marshall Plan for post-war Europe. The programme complemented the previously developed “500 Days” economic reform plan for transitioning from a planned to […]

Sergei Mitrokhin held a meeting-lecture on the organisation of civil society in counteracting the merger of business and government

Press Release, 22.04.2025 Can citizens safely and effectively resist the oligarchic system while protecting their rights? Sergei Mitrokhin’s answer is “yes, they can”. Sergei Mitrokhin, the second Chairman of Yabloko, a deputy of the State Duma of three convocations and a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of two convocations, spoke at a meeting in […]

Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions to conduct its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners

Press Release, 17.04.2025 Photo by the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko Traditionally, everyone who is ready to support those deprived of freedom for their free speech and beliefs, with care and a kind words, is invited to the actions in support of political prisoners. Come to our offices and other meeting places, sign postcards and […]

Yabloko demands that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office investigate the actions of police against citizens of Kyrgyzstan during the raid in Moscow

Press Release, 16.04.2025 Photo: Screenshot of a video recording from one of the CCTV cameras of the bath complex during the raid Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, and Maxim Kruglov, the authorized representative of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov demanding an urgent and […]

Yabloko to host Sergei Mitrokhin’s lecture on organization of civil society

Press Release, 10.04.2025 Photo from Sergei Mitrokhin’s Telegram channel On 17 April, Yabloko will host a lecture by the second Chairman of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin on “Organisation of Civil Society in Counteracting the Merger of Business and Power”. Sergei Mitrokhin will explain how the oligarchic system affects the rights of Moscow residents and will demonstrate […]

The Ryazan District Duma approves decision on liquidation of rural settlements

Vid Sboku online media, 10.04.2025 Photo: People voting for preservation of their rural settlements at public hearings on liquidation of their settlements in Dubrovichi, the Ryazan region / Screenshot from the video published on social media The Ryazan District Duma approved a decision on transforming the Ryazan District into a municipal district, that is, for […]

Grigory Yavlinsky: Neither Russia, nor Ukraine, nor Europe will ever be the same

Zhivoi Gvozd, 8.04.2025 The video with an option of switching in English subtitles Negotiations on a ceasefire are underway. This is a very complex process in the current situation. There will certainly be intermittences, breakdowns, contradictory statements and explanations. However, the main thing is that negotiations to achieve a ceasefire are, in principle, inevitable and […]

The rally of the Novgorod Yabloko in defence of the teacher of Russian language and literature Yelena Tulina did take place!

Press Release, 7.04.2025 Photo: Yelena Tulina  / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The rally participants unanimously voted for the resolution in defence of Yelena Tulina, a Yabloko member and teacher of Russian language and literature. The rally called for an immediate end to the pressure on Tulina, expressed no confidence in the Head […]

Court made a decision on the third criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov. The total term of imprisonment is two years

Press Release, 4.04.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court has made a decision on the third criminal case against journalist and leader of the regional branch of the Yabloko party Vladimir Yefimov. Yefimov was sentenced to two years in a penal colony under two articles – “demonstration of extremist […]

The Ryazan Regional Court leaves Ryazan Yabloko Chairman Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention

Press Release, 3.04.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at a court hearing via video link / Photo by Vid Sboku On 3 April, the Ryazan Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of the lower instance to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, the Editor-in-Chief of the Vid Sboku (Side View) online media and deputy of […]

The Kamchatka Krai Court upheld Vladimir Yefimov’s sentence in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army”

Press Release, 31.03.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The decision was made on 28 March. Earlier, Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code). […]

Ksenia Cherepanova became the eleventh Yabloko member added to the register of “foreign agents”

Press Release, 28.03.2025 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo from the personal archive The Ministry of Justice added Ksenia Cherepanova, the Chairwoman of the Veliky Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. She became the eleventh party member to be added to the register.

The arrest of journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov extended for another two months

Press Release, 27.03.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan decided to extend the term of detention for Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko, for another two months. The court took such a decision despite the requests of Smirnov and his defence to change […]

Yabloko continues its monthly actions in support of political prisoners in dozens of Russian cities

Press Release, 18.03.2025 Those who are unjustly deprived of their freedom have a very hard time in prisons and pretrial detention centres. This is confirmed by the alarming news about the health of Maria Ponomarenko and Lyudmila Razumova. The Moscow and Novgorod branches of our party started helping them. It is in our power to […]

Moscow Yabloko asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office to initiate an immediate investigation into the detention conditions of journalist Maria Ponomarenko in a pretrial detention facility

Press Release, 18.03.2025 Photo: Maria Ponomarenko / Photo by RusNews Mass media have reported, citing a lawyer, that Maria Ponomarenko attempted suicide “due to constant bullying by the administration” of the detention facility and is currently on a dry hunger strike. Moscow Yabloko representative Maxim Kruglov is asking the Public Prosecutor of the Altiai Territory, […]

Pskov Yabloko wins the Constitutional Court case on removing party lists from elections in 2023

Press Release, 18.03.2025 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant On 18 March, 2025, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that the head of the regional branch of a political party has the authority to sign documents to register the nominated list of candidates from the moment of his/her election. The ruling was made at […]