Archive for 'History'
Grigory Yavlinsky: Europe has no plan for ending the war
Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 12.11.2025 Watch the video switching into English subtitles On one hand, constant talk about continuing military aid to Ukraine, but with understanding that their own citizens do not agree with rising taxes and categorically do not wish to personally participate in military action. On the other — justified fear of direct […]
Posted: November 14th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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50 years since Academician Sakharov’s Nobel speech. “Peace, Progress, and Human Rights” as values that do not depend on time
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau of 14.10.2025, published on 19.10.2025 Photo: Andrei Sakharov speaks at the 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti Fifty years ago, on 9 October 1975, Academician Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his many years of defending […]
Posted: October 20th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Why didn’t Donald Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 10.10.2025 Although Donald Trump has indeed participated in resolving a number of protracted conflicts, let us not forget that he has previously taken many actions directed against peace. Moreover, efforts in the name of peace should be dictated primarily by concern for people, not personal ambitions.
Posted: October 13th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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There Is Only One Solution
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2025 Heads of the member states of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada. 15-17 June 2025 // Wikimedia The hostilities between Russia and Ukraine continue against the backdrop of declarations on the need for a ceasefire that are at times sincere, but more frequently hypocritical. Fighting of such magnitude and duration was […]
Posted: September 30th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosts a book launch by journalists Nadezhda Azhgikhina (Russia) and Katrina vanden Heuvel (USA) “We Still Believe…”
Press Release, 25.09.2025 On Tuesday, 7 October, the central office of the Yabloko party will host a book launch by Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Katrina vanden Heuvel ” Hope Springs Eternal” published as part of a project by the “Association of Researchers of Russian Society – 21 Century”. The event starts at 7:00 PM.
Posted: September 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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In Vladivostok, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory is on trial for her greetings posted on Victory Day, 9 May 2021
Press Release, 25.09.2025 Photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo by the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory Since August 2025, Primorsky Regional Court has been hearing a criminal case brought under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (“Rehabilitation of Nazism”) against Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko regional branch in Maritime Territory. She is charged […]
Posted: September 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky responded to Vladimir Putin’s call to “depoliticise” Stalin’s role in WWII with words from Nikita Khrushchev’s report
Boris Vishnevsky special for the Yabloko web-site, 19.09.2025 Photo: Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev on the Mausoleum tribune / Photo from akg-images, EAST NEWS Vladimir Putin called on deputies to “depoliticise” Stalin’s role in victory in the Great Patriotic War [a term used in the former USSR, Russia and some post-Soviet states to describe the […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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On the anniversary of the terrorist attack on a Beslan school, Yabloko held memorial events for the victims
Press Release, 3.09.2025 Photo: Yabloko Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov at the Beslan victims’ memorial in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 1 September 2004, terrorists took more than 1,100 hostages at School No. 1 in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia. For more than […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko honored the memory of the defenders of democracy who died under tanks during the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 22.08.2025 On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. The traditional party action was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, his Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov, Federal Political Committee member Ivan Bolshakov, Adviser to Yabloko Chairman Grigory Grishin, party apparatus head Yevgenia […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Thousands of Hiroshimas and thousands of Nagasakis
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.08.2025 Photo: After the atomic bombing. Hiroshima, Japan. 17 November 1945 // U.S. Department of Energy These days mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 6 August 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, equivalent in power […]
Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of victims of political repression at Sandarmokh, Karelia, and Levashovo Cemetery by St.Petersburg
Press Release, 6.08.2025 On the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Great Terror on 5 August, a Yabloko party delegation visited the Sandarmokh site in Karelia – the place of execution and burial of more than 6,000 people in 1937-1938. The memorial event was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Karelia Legislative Assembly […]
Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to hold screening of the Children of Hiroshima film, paying tribute to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing
Press Release, 30.07.2025 On 6 August, the tragic 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Yabloko party invites its members and supporters to a screening of the film Children of Hiroshima.
Posted: August 4th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Trump has no substantive position on Ukraine
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.07.2025 What is desperately needed now? Russia and Ukraine sign an agreement for an immediate ceasefire: troops stop at current positions and cease fire. After this, substantive negotiations are needed about the conditions and ways to achieve peaceful coexistence: about the new content of Russian-Ukrainian relations, European security architecture and its prospective […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2025 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Memory means responsibility, not a personality cult
Statement by the Kaliningrad regional branch of the Yabloko Party, 14.07.2025 Photo: Alexander Dudin. Demonstration. 1989 “We must become a country of convictions, without persecution and violence… All this will only be possible when the foundations for the revival of a totalitarian regime and uncontrolled power disappear.” A. D. Sakharov, from the collection “Speaks”, New […]
Posted: July 14th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to the exhibition and discussion “Women and the Resistance to National Socialism”
Press Release, 7.07.2025 In 1933, the rise of the National Socialists to power in Germany led to the emergence of resistance. With the outbreak of World War II, this activity did not cease, but went underground. Resistance to the Adolf Hitler’s regime was fragmented, and included representatives of different social classes, religious and political groups. […]
Posted: July 8th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko lit candles in memory of the victims of World War II
Press Release, 22.06.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the 84th anniversary of the attack of the fascist Germany on the USSR, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that affected the lives and destinies of hundreds of millions of people – participants in the events of the first half […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites to the screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941”
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Photo: Screenshot of the film “People of 1941” On the evening of 21 June, on the threashold of a sad anniversary of fascist Germany’s attack on the USSR on 22 June 1941, we will conduct screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941” paying tribute to the heroes and victims of the […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has submitted an application for a series of one-person pickets in Moscow for the removal of the Stalin bas-relief at Taganskaya metro station
Press Release, 19.06.2025 Photo: Kirill Goncharov and Maxim Kruglov at the office of the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The initiators of the action are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, as well as representatives of the Moscow branch of the party: authorised representative of the regional branch Maxim […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An appeal has been sent to the Moscow City Duma with a proposal to install a memorial sign at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death
Press Release, 17 June 2025 Photo: People’s memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death on Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service An initiative group of 11 people, including Yabloko party leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, has sent an appeal to the Moscow City Duma’s Commission on Monumental Art […]
Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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