Archive for 'History'
Political Participation and Institutional Reforms
Grigory Yavlinsky’s report at the conference “The Uses of Power: Legitimacy, Democracy, and the Rewriting of the International Order” held at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican on April 14–16, 2026 Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.04.2026 The end of an era The global order created after the end of World War II has […]
Posted: April 27th, 2026 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations.
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War and the Market
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 20.04.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Fundamental historical and political problems, such as the nature of the Iranian regime since 1979, cannot be resolved through economic measures. Sanctions or blockades (of the Strait of Hormuz, for instance) are incapable of resolving a deep-seated conflict that has persisted for […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2026 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Nikolai Rybakov calls for dismantling of “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” exhibition at Katyn
Press Release, 17.04.2026 Photo: “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” exhibition at Katyn / Photo by the Russian Military History Society Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent a formal letter to Irina Velikanova, Director General of the Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, calling for the exhibition “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” to be […]
Posted: April 17th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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We demand the return of Ivanovskaya Gorka’s historic panorama to Moscow!
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party, 16. 04. 2026 Photo: Ivanovskaya Gorka / Photo from Kultura.rf In the heart of Moscow, the distinctive district of Ivanovskaya Gorka has survived to the present day, one of the few historically intact areas that preserve the spirit and character of old […]
Posted: April 17th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, History, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by diplomat and translator Pavel Palazhchenko “Diplomacy of Perestroika”
Press Release, 15.04.2026 On 22 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by diplomat and translator Pavel Palazhchenko “Diplomacy of Perestroika: Lessons for Today’s World”. Pavel Palazhchenko is an eyewitness to the key events and negotiations of the Perestroika era. As an interpreter for USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, […]
Posted: April 15th, 2026 under Foreign policy, History, Без рубрики.
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An open discussion, “The Path to Freedom”, to be held at Yabloko’s central office
Press Release, 1.04.2026 Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the events of March 1976, when musicians from the rock band Plastic People of the Universe were arrested in Prague and put on a show trial for performing at a festival of “alternative culture”. They were sentenced to between eight and eighteen months in prison […]
Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko to screen the documentary “The Right to Memory”, dedicated to human rights defender Arseny Roginsky
Press Release, 24.03.2026 30 March would have been the 80th birthday of Arseny Roginsky, historian, dissident, former political prisoner, and head and co-founder of the Memorial Human Rights Society*.
Posted: March 24th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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On the destruction of the Gulag History Museum and the falsification of historical memory
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 20.02.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today we have witnessed yet another step in the deliberate dismantling of national memory. The closure of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow and the attempt to “reformat” it [into a museum commemorating the victims of genocide of the Soviet people during WWII] constitute […]
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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82 years since the complete liberation of Leningrad from the blockade: Yabloko members held commemorative events in St Petersburg and Moscow
Press Release, 27.01.2026 Photo: Delegation from St.Petersburg Yabloko during the flower-laying ceremony on 27 January 2026 / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko Leaders and activists from Yabloko laid flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St.Petersburg and in the Alexander Garden in Moscow in memory of those who perished during the Siege of Leningrad. Today, 27 […]
Posted: January 28th, 2026 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the Political Situation in Russia and the World and the Role of the Yabloko Party
Decision of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko adopted on 2 December 2025, published on 10 December 2025 The duration of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine will soon exceed the 1,418 days of the Great Patriotic War [the war fought by the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany from June 22, 1941 (German invasion) to May […]
Posted: December 10th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “They can take away our freedom, but no one will manage to take away our faith, our thoughts and our convictions”
Press Release, 6.12.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the Federal Council of Yabloko, where he reported on the state of affairs in the party and the main directions of work for 2025.
Posted: December 8th, 2025 under Elections, Federal Council meetings, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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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