Archive for 'History'
The role and mission of Yabloko
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 160 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko is the only socio-political institution left in Russia that opposes war, totalitarian transformation of the state, and disintegration of society. Over the three decades of post-Soviet Russia, we have many times offered […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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About the causes of the ongoing tragedy and the way to overcome it
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 159 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 Photo: Moscow, Novy Arbat street, February 2022 / Photo by Vitaly Smolnikov, Kommersant The main reason for the current situation in our country is the failure of post-Soviet modernisation, which, in turn, was due to the refusal of the […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in the world and the responsibility of political leaders
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 156 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 The legacy of late Stalinism, combined with the collapse of the USSR in Belovezhskaya Pushcha [by the Belvezh Accords], illiterate and voluntaristic economic reforms, and Boris Yeltsin’s stake on power politics, made in the early 1990s, led to the […]
Posted: November 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Novosibirsk and Tatarstan branches of Yabloko offered to perpetuate the memory of Soviet human rights defender Anatoly Marchenko
Press Release, 1.11.2022 Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from the family archive Regional branches of the Yabloko party in Novosibirsk and Tatarstan propose to perpetuate the memory of Soviet human rights defender Anatoly Marchenko, the last deceased Soviet political prisoner. Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile due to the efforts of Marchenko and then […]
Posted: November 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Regional branches of Yabloko honoured the memory of victims of political repressions
Press Release, 1.11.2022 Photo: Chelyabinsk Past week, regional branches of Yabloko over Russia held actions in memory of victims of political repressions and in support of the present political prisoners. Yabloko party members and supporters organised actions of writing letters to political prisoners, laid flowers at memorial complexes, held lectures on the history of political […]
Posted: November 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will host a round table “Lessons of the October Coup of 1917 and Modern Times”
Press Release, 31.10.2022 Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant On 9 November, the Yabloko party in Moscow will host a round table “Lessons of the October Coup of 1917 and Modern Times” in its Moscow Office. The event is timed to the 105th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’etat.
Posted: October 31st, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko hosted a launch of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations” by Yuri Brodsky
Press Release, 31.10.2022 On 30 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, a launch of the new edition of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations” by the famous Russian photographer and historian Yuri Brodsky took place at the office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The […]
Posted: October 31st, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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The Fear of The Endless War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 25.10.2022 In October 2022 Yabloko party’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky answered the questions of BBC News about the perspectives of Russia’s special military operation against Ukraine, the West’s role in the current situation and the threat of nuclear weapon use. — In this month we`ve seen an escalation in Ukraine, we`ve seen the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin “Truth Instead of Law”
Press Release, 17.10.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On October 25, the Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin “Truth Instead of Law”. The lecture will start at 18:00 MSK. Has capitalism come to Russia? What is Russia’s “special path”? Is our country a separate civilisation? These […]
Posted: October 17th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Human rights organisation Memorial is the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2022!
Congratulations from the Yabloko leaders Press Release, 7.10.2022 Dear friends, For the second year in a row, the Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize to our compatriots – this is an unprecedented event in history. This is not only a recognition of the merits of the Memorial [human rights organization], but also an indication […]
Posted: October 7th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Greetings, History, Human Rights.
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“There can be no future if we do not reflect on the past.” Launch of the second volume of Yuri Dmitriev’s book about Stalin’s victims
Press Release, 6.10.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 5 October, the launch of the second volume of the book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh” by imprisoned historian and human rights defender Yuri Dmitriev took place at the office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The second volume of Yuri Dmitriev’s book “The Place […]
Posted: October 7th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host a screening of a Vladimir Kara-Murza film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” about Priest Georgy Edelstein
Press Release, 6.10.2022 Photo: The cover of the film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” by imprisoned journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza On 11 October, the Yabloko party will host a screening of a Vladimir Kara-Murza film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” about priest Georgy Edelstein. The screening will be held at the Yabloko […]
Posted: October 6th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Launch of Yuri Dmitriev’s book about Stalin’s victims in Karelia will take place in the Yabloko office in Moscow
Press Release, 3.10.2022 Photo: The cover of the book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh” picturing a memorial stone with an inscription “People, Don’t Kill Each Other” at the place of mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia The second volume of Yuri Dmitriev’s book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh”, which includes essays and memories of victims of […]
Posted: October 4th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Someone must honestly say what he thinks”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview, 16.09.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the launch of his book “Russia-2022: Underlying Causes. Why and how did a political system appear which has resulted in the events on 24 February, 2022”, 10 September, 2022. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Here we publish Grigory Yavlinsky’s commentaries on how Russia came to 24 […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book about the causes of what happened on 24 February
Press Release, 10.09.2022 On Saturday, 10 September, Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book “Underlying Causes. Why and How Did a Political System Appear, Which Has Resulted in the Events of 24 February, 2022?” the Moscow office of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 10th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to launch his new book on the fundamental causes of what happened on February 24
Press Release, 8.09.2022 Photo: the cover of the book On Saturday, 10 September, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya 31/2) will host a launch of the book by Grigory Yavlinsky’s work “Underlying Causes. Why and How Did a Political System Appear, Which Has Resulted in the Events of 24 February, 2022?” now published […]
Posted: September 9th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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“Honest journalism has been announced be a crime”. Yabloko leaders on the 22 years verdict to journalist Ivan Safronov and revocation of licence from Novaya Gazeta
Press Release, 6.09.2022 Photo: Ivan Safronov / Photo by Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant On 5 September, the Moscow City Court sentenced 32-year-old journalist Ivan Safronov to 22 years in a strict regime colony on the charges of “treason”. On the same day, the Moscow Basmanny District Court revoked the registration of the print version of Novaya […]
Posted: September 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The on-line conference Marathon in Memory of Mikhail Gorbachev organised by Yabloko brought together participants from different countries
Press Release, 3.09.2022 Full video of the conference The online conference Marathon in Memory of Mikhail Gorbachev, organised by the Yabloko party, lasted eight hours. The speeches of the participants were broadcast on the Yabloko YouTube channel. Politicians, statesmen and public figures, writers, journalists and human rights activists from Russia, the USA, Mexico and Italy […]
Posted: September 5th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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On 3 September, Yabloko to conduct on-line conference dedicated to Mikhail Gorbachev
Press Release, 2.09.2022 On 3 September, the day of funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yabloko will conduct on-line conference The Gorbachev Marathon dedicated to the President of the USSR. Politicians, public figures, and journalists will share their memories of the USSR President.
Posted: September 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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“He gave us hope and a chance – for freedom and life without fear”
Condolences from the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, 31.08.2022 Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev / Photo by the Gorbachev Foundation
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Condolences, History, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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