Archive for 'History'
“We are eternally indebted to them”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the defenders of democracy in 1991
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, and other party members laid flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia” at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Moscow to honour the memory of the victims of the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo from open sources Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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“We are guarding the memory of the place where almost 7,000 people found their last refuge.” Yabloko delegation visited Sandarmokh, the place of mass executions and burials during the Soviet period
Press Release, 5.08.2024 Photo: Anatoly Razumov, head of the Centre for Returned Names at the Russian National Library, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov A delegation of the Yabloko party, led by party leader Nikolai Rybakov and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, visited the Sandarmokh – the site […]
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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110 years since Russia entered World War I. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims
Press Release, 1.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service 110 years ago, on 1 August, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and our country entered World War I. More than 10 million servicemen from all sides fell victim to it, over 22 million were wounded. Russia’s losses in the war amounted to over three million […]
Posted: August 1st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political repression in Sandarmokh, Karelia, and invites all the party supporters to participate
Press Release, 08.07.2024 Photo: A monument at the place of mass burial with an inscription “People, don’t kill each other!” On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror, on 5 August, the Yabloko delegation will go to the Sandarmokh, Karelia, the place of mass burial of victims of Stalin’s political […]
Posted: July 8th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko’s Yaroslav Shcherbakov: “The militarisation of memory is inappropriate and unlawful”
At the request of Shcherbakov, the Chelyabinsk Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an action order to the Mayor’s Office about the improper maintenance of the Fraternal Cemetery of Soldiers Press Release, 26.06.2024 Photo: The Memory Memorial at the Fraternal Cemetery of Warriors with decommissioned S-75 anti-aircraft missile systems installed by the monument / Photo by the […]
Posted: June 27th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko Youth.
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“A philosopher of freedom and creativity”. Yabloko hosted a lecture about Nikolai Berdyaev
Press Release, 26.06.2024 A lecture dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher and sociologist Nikolai Berdyaev was held at Yabloko. The lecture was given by Anastasia Gacheva, a leading researcher at the Gorgy Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences and Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences.
Posted: June 26th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leaders honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War
Press Release, 22.06.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the night of 21-22 June, when 83 years ago Hitler invaded the USSR, Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and other party members lit candles and laid flowers at the Requiem 1941 monument in the centre of Moscow. This is a traditional Yabloko’s anti-war action that has […]
Posted: June 25th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to light 1418 candles to commemorate victims of the Second World War
Press release, 20.06.2024 UPD: We have to cancel our traditional “1418 Candles Per Each Day of War” action, since access to the “1941” memorial plaque, where we usually gather, will be limited due to preparations for the opening of the “Candle of Memory” campaign organised by the authorities. Yabloko will light 1418 candles to commemorate […]
Posted: June 20th, 2024 under History, Human Rights.
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The Versailles Trap

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.06.2024 A peace treaty was signed 105 years ago in June 1919 in Versailles, a Parisian suburb, marking the end of World War I. However, the Treaty of Versailles only delivered peace to Europe for a brief moment, before setting the wheels in motion for the start of the even more destructive […]
Posted: June 14th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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“Philosopher of freedom and creativity.” Yabloko to host a lecture on Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev
Press Release, 11.06.2024 On 20 June, a lecture dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Russian philosopher and sociologist Nikolai Berdyaev will be held at the Yabloko party’s central office in Moscow and will be also streamed on the Yabloko YouTube channel. The lecture will be given by Anastasia Gacheva, a leading researcher at the […]
Posted: June 11th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The West’s Approach to Russia Should Have Been Much Smarter
Yavlinsky.ru, 23.05.2024 Grigory Yavlinsky, the Russian opposition Yabloko party’s leader, took part in the debates at Cambridge Union about the West’s Approach to Russia. The event took place on May 16, 2024. The other speakers were Dominic Grieve, the former UK Attorney General and Conservative MP, the former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee […]
Posted: June 6th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a screening and discussion of the film “Andrei Sakharov. On the other side of the window”
Press Release, 20.05.2024 On 21 May, the birthday of human rights defender and scientist Andrei Sakharov, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow will host a screening of the documentary film “Andrei Sakharov. On the other side of the window” (Russia, 2022). The film by Dmitry Zavilgelsky and Boris Altshuler focuses on the […]
Posted: May 21st, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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“A Way to the Future” with Grigory Yavlinsky: A Different World
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.05.2024 Transcript April 2024 “What should be done to prevent a large-scale war? The very first steps to be taken to prevent a big war should include: a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and the signing of a respective agreement; the creation of a demilitarised zone on both sides of the fault […]
Posted: May 17th, 2024 under Economy, Education and Science, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Soviet dissidents about modern Russia: “The present period is completely different, much more terrible”
Press Release, 13.05.2024 Photo from left to right: Nikolai Ivlyushkin, Alexander Daniel, Svetlana Gannushkina, Valery Borshchyov, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Alexei Smirnov, and Alexander Podrabinek / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 12 May, a round table with the participation of Soviet dissidents was held at the Yabloko central office in Moscow. The participants […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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“We bow down before them, deepest gratitude.”
Press Release, 9.05.2024 On 9 May, the leaders and members of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War at the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery in Moscow, where more than 10,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried. The delegation laid flowers and a wreath at the War Memorial.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights.
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The St. Petersburg Yabloko laid flowers at the memorial at the Piskarevskoye cemetery
Press Release, 8.05.2024 On 8 May, on the eve of Victory Day, the day of the victory over the Nazi Germany in 1945, members of the St. Petersburg Yabloko laid a wreath and flowers at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko activists watched and discussed the feature film “The Eternal Road” about Stalin’s terror
Press Release, 3.05.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow office of Yabloko hosted the final screening of the film “The Eternal Road” (2017) by the Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila, the screening was held within the framework of the Another Look film festival. Participants watched the feature film based on the real fate of […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexei Arbatov on the US deployment of previously banned complexes in Asia: “This situation is fraught with a new missile arms race”
Kommersant, 22.04.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo from the personal archive Past week, the United States deployed medium-range ground-based missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time (see Kommersant on 16 April): army Typhon systems were deployed to the Philippines as part of the exercise. Previously, such weapons were prohibited under the Russian-American […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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