Archive for 'History'
A Multipolar End
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site and Zhivoi Gvozd Youtube channel, 16.10.2023 Grigory Yavlinsky on the Hamas attack on Israel, repression in Russia and the future world order Everything on which the world order was based after the end of World War II is losing significance before our eyes. After the extreme horrors of war and colossal sacrifices, […]
Posted: October 17th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko turns 30!
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram post, 16.10.2023 30 years ago, on 16 October, 1993, a protocol on the establishment of an electoral bloc for elections to the State Duma was signed, the top three candidates included Grigory Yavlinsky, Yury Boldyrev and Vladimir Lukin. People immediately named the political association “YABLoko” [according to the first letters of the […]
Posted: October 17th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Greetings, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Don’t push the planet towards a nuclear disaster
Statement by the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 13.10.2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on 5 October that Moscow may withdraw ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). A week later, on 12 October, it was reported that the relevant State Duma committee had prepared a bill to revoke ratification. Its consideration […]
Posted: October 13th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture on the causes and consequences of the superficial Europeanisation of Russia
Press Release, 6.10.2023 On 27 October, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Causes, Results and Significance of the Superficial Europeanisation of Russia in the Second Half of the 15th – early 16th Centuries”. The lecture is Tatyana Chernikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor of Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Posted: October 7th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Yabloko deputy Artur Deputy Gaiduk appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to the inaction of the Pskov region Public Prosecutor’s Office on the appeal to dismantle the monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki
Press Release, 5.10.2023 Photo: Monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki / Photo from open sources Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies from Yabloko, points out that the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov Region, which received for consideration and response his August appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office in […]
Posted: October 6th, 2023 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the lessons of the coup of October 1993
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2023 30 years ago Russia was on the brink of civil war. The illiterate “price liberalisation” of state monopolies, carried out literally within a day in January 1992, in a country where there were no private enterprises at all, caused hyperinflation of 2.600% by the end of the year – prices grew […]
Posted: October 4th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region refused to take measures to dismantle the recently erected monument to Joseph Stalin
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 29.09.2023 I have received a response from the acting Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region to my appeal, in which I asked to dismantle the [recently erected] monument to Stalin in Velikiye Luki, as violating laws, humanism and common sense. Stalin’s repressions were recognised as a crime by decisions of the […]
Posted: September 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin “Russian Political Mentality. The Conditions of Formation and the Key Features”
Press Release, 27.09.2023 On 2 October, The Yabloko Party University will host the fourth lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee and Candidate of Political Sciences. Mitrokhin’s lecture “Russian Political Mentality. The Conditions of Formation and the Key Features” will be held within the framework of the series “Truth Instead of […]
Posted: September 27th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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A round table in memory of Viktor Sheinis was held at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Press Release, 18.09.2023 Photo: Viktor Sheinis /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A round table “Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis: Academic, Politician, and Person” was held at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences past week. The event was dedicated to the memory of Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis (1931–2023), Doctor of […]
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Condolences, Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Yabloko launched a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period”
Press Release, 15.09.2023 On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party hosted a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics. Galina Mikhaleva, head of the Yabloko Party […]
Posted: September 15th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria commemorating victims of the World War II: No more wars!
Press Release, 4.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria On 3 September, the anniversary of the end of World War II, activists of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Bashkiria, according to their long-term tradition, laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the battles in August-September 1945.
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to launch a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 4.09.2023 Photo: The book cover On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party will host a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics.
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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“They Chose Freedom”. Yabloko hosted a screening of a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza about Soviet dissidents
Press Release, 28.08.2023 On 25 August, a screening of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s documentary film “They Chose Freedom” took place in the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The film is dedicated to the history of the dissident movement in the USSR from its emergence in the 1950s to the fall of communist power in […]
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko MP of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies, Artur Gaiduk, appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to remove the monument to Joseph Stalin erected in Velikiye Luki
Telegram Channel of the Pskov region branch of Yabloko, 22.08.2023 Photo: The Pskov regional branch of Yabloko Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies, writes in his appeal addressed to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and sent on 22 August, that it is reported that the monument, opened on the territory […]
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko honored the memory of the defenders of democracy who died under tanks during the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 22.08.2023 On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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The Tambov region became the 24th region of Russia visited by the Yabloko leader since the beginning of the year
Press Release, 27.07.2023 On 25-26 July, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, visited the Tambov region. Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the meeting with Olga Burkanova, Director of the Voroninsky nature reserve On the morning of 25 July, Rybakov together with the Chair of the Tambov branch of Yabloko Yana Zenkina and other party members, visited the office […]
Posted: July 28th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launched a documentary film about memories of the Second World War
Press Release, 23.06.2023 On June 22, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted a screening of the documentary film Pogostiye (Burying Ground), based on the book Memories of War by Nikolai Nikulin. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov told about filming this documentary.
Posted: June 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“We will be grateful to them for our lives, our children and grandchildren”
Yabloko leaders honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War Press Release, 22.06.2023 On the night of June 21-22, Yabloko held its traditional action “1418 Candles for Each Day of the War”. The action is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Second World War. Yabloko leaders and […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The memorial plaque to renowned Russian poet Anna Akhmatova disappeared from the facade of the former prison. Boris Vishnevsky appealed to the Governor and the owner of the building
Press Release, 15.06.2023 Photo: The wall of the Kresty (Crosses) prison where a memorial plaque to Anna Akhmatova hung / Photo by Misha Burlatsky Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, appealed to the Governor Alexander Beglov and the general director of DOM.RF Vitaly Mutko asking them […]
Posted: June 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vladimir Ryzhkov demanded that the head of the Moscow police punish those destroying the Last Address signs put to commemorate the victims of Stalin’s repression
Press Release, 13.06.2023 Photo: Klimentovsky pereulok 9/1. Next to this door was the Last Address sign with the name of Zinaida Nikolayevna Maevskaya (shot on 29 December, 1937, and fully acquitted in 1989) It is reported that vandals have recently removed at least eight plaques installed on the houses where the victims of Stalin’s regime […]
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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