Archive for 'History'
Moscow Yabloko protests against restoration of a bas-relief in a Moscow underground station depicting Joseph Stalin, and announces collection of signatures against this initiative
Press Release, 13.05.2025 Photo: A bas-relief “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow, dismantled in 1965/ Photo by Glavarchiv, Moscow On 13 May, the Moscow branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to Maxim Liksutov, head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road and […]
Posted: May 13th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposes to perpetuate the memory of Anatoly Marchenko, the last Soviet political prisoner who died in prison
Press Release, 13.05.2025 Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from open sources Thanks to Anatoly Marchenko, Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile and a state decision was made to release all political prisoners in the Soviet Union. From Marchenko’s book “My Testimony” Soviet and European societies learned about the lives of Soviet political prisoners in […]
Posted: May 13th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On 9 May, the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II
Press Release, 9.05.2025 Moscow The leaders and members of the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg, as well as at memorials in other Russian cities.
Posted: May 12th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the war at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow
Press Release, 7.05.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov brought flowers from Yabloko to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. “Millions of people – soldiers and sailors, workers, front-line doctors and nurses, residents of besieged […]
Posted: May 7th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye and Vvedenskoye cemeteries in Moscow
Press Release, 7.05.2025 On 9 May, members and supporters of Yabloko will honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Eternal Flame at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. We invite all our members and supporters to join the memorial event.
Posted: May 7th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Memory of Victory over fascism in World War II is the foundation of peace
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 Victory over fascism is one of the key, meaningful events in the history of our country. We bow our heads and honour the memory of those who died in the struggle for life, for our country, against the state misanthropic ideology of […]
Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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80 years of Victory in World War II: prevent another world war
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant 80 years of Victory in World War II is a special anniversary. Almost all the veterans who survived the war and understood, unlike the current generation of politicians, the full horror of war, have passed away. The […]
Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko activists to clean up Butovo Firing Range, the execution and burial site during Stalin’s period
Press Release, 5.05.2025 Photo: Yabloko members and supporters at Butovo Firing Range on 30 October, 2024 Cleaning up at the Butovo Firing Range in Moscow, the execution and burial site of victims of Joseph Stalin repression, will take place on 14 May, starting at 12:00.
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is against replacing the memory of the Victory in the WWII with the praise of a tyrant
Statement by the Yabloko party, 1.05.2025 Photo by Kirill Braga, RIA Novosti On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, the topic of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad [commemorating the name of Joseph Stalin] is being proposed again. President Vladimir Putin, who had previously signed a decree on assigning the […]
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko introduces federal initiative to open access to files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR
Press Release, 30.04.2025 Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have introduced a federal legislative initiative that should open access for relatives and researchers to archival files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR.
Posted: April 30th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky answered questions from the viewers of the Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel about the past, present and future of Russia
Press Release, 29.04.2025 Over the past 120 years, Russia has experienced many tragedies and catastrophes: revolutions, coups d’etat, destructive and bloody wars, and large-scale political repressions. Even the state disappeared twice: in 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed, and in 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart.
Posted: April 29th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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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 […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Economy, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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Yabloko to host a launch of the book “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity” by Mikhail Solovyov
Press Release, 19.02.2025 On 5 March, the anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a launch of the two-volume work by historian and social scientist Mikhail Solovyov “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity”. Using historical materials, the author reveals the essence of Stalinism, its totalitarian nature. The book describes […]
Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Yabloko Party hosted a screening of the “Night and Fog” documentary dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust
Press Release, 30.01.2025 Photo: Grigory Grishin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 January, the central office of the Yabloko Party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by French director Alain Resnais “Night and Fog” (“Nuit et Brouillard”), dedicated to the topic of the Holocaust. The discussion was moderated by […]
Posted: January 31st, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the siege of Leningrad in World War II
Press Release, 27.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko Olga Tsepilova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly Olga Shtannikova, member of the Yabloko Bureau Anatoly Golov and other party members […]
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to screen the documentary “Night and Fog” to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Press Release, 27.01.2025 On 29 January, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow will screen the documentary “Night and Fog” (“Nuit et Brouillard”) by Alain Resnais to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January. Adolf Hitler’s directive “Night and Fog” of 7 December, 1941, authorised the kidnapping of anti-Nazi political activists throughout […]
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Yekaterinburg Mayor’s Office to Yabloko: Memorial to victims of political repression to be repaired in 2025-2026
Press Release, 24.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region received a response from the Yekaterinburg administration to the Yabloko request signed by the regional party branch chairman Maxim Petlin about the condition of the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression on the 12th kilometer of the Moscow Highway. […]
Posted: January 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs to facilitate access to files of repressed persons in its archives
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, has achieved a change in the inner instruction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which limited citizens’ access to archival documents related to their relatives repressed during Joseph Stalin’s period.
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko asks the Moscow Department of Culture to explain the reason for dismissal of the Director of the GULAG History Museum
Press Release, 15.01.2025 Photo: Roman Romanov, the dismissed Director of the GULAG History Museum / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin with a request to explain the reasons for the dismissal of Roman Romanov […]
Posted: January 15th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva
Press Release, 17.12.2024 Photo: Nina Khrushcheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko hosted a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva, political scientist and professor at the New School in New York, and great granddaughter of USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nina Khrushcheva spoke about her new book “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System”, and […]
Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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