Archive for 'History'
“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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GORBACHEV AND THE MANY DIRECTIONS HE PROFFERRED TO THE WORLD
In commemoration of Mikhail Gorbachev By Grigory Yavlinsky Girgory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.08.2022 Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev / Photo by Sergei Mikheyev, Kommersant “But of those decadent ages in which no Ideal either grows or blossoms? When Belief and Loyalty have passed away, and only the cant and false echo of them remains; and all Solemnity has […]
Posted: August 31st, 2022 under Condolences, History, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov on Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 31.08.2022 Mikhail Gorbachev gave our entire society and each of us personally a lot of chances. Society got the chance for renewal and building of a civilised state. It was under Gorbachev that a true parliament was born, and relatively free elections were held, where democrats received significant representation. The most […]
Posted: August 31st, 2022 under Condolences, History.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Mikhail Gorbachev
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 31.08.2022 Mikhail Gorbachev gave us freedom. He gave freedom to hundreds of millions of people in Russia and around Russia, and also to half of Europe. We bear responsibility how we in Russia took advantage of the freedom given to us, this great opportunity. Few leaders in history have had […]
Posted: August 31st, 2022 under Condolences, History.
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Alexander Gnezdilov met with head of the Taiwan’s representative office in Russia Keng Chung-Yung
Press Release, 25.08.2022 Photo: Alexander Gnezdilov and Keng Chung-Yung/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Gnezdilov, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, met with Keng Chung-Yung, head of Taiwan’s Representative Office in Russia. The meeting was initiated by the Taiwanese side, and the reason for it was Alexander Gnezdilov’s […]
Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Без рубрики.
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In Moscow Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the coup of August 1991
The leaders and activists of Yabloko laid flowers at the Monument to the Defenders of Democracy Press Release, 21.08.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 21 August, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the August 1991 coup. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022 Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication […]
Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Russia-2022: Underlying Causes
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.06.2022 The most important specific of Russian national disasters is that they can all be attributed to the inadequate capability documented in culture to respond adequately to the challenges of history. Alexander Akhiezer1 In order to understand what has happened in Russia and before we even attempt to contemplate what comes next, […]
Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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“Today this date [the day of remembrance of the victims of the Second World War] has become an open bleeding wound and our common immense responsibility”
81 years ago Hitler attacked the Soviet Union Press Release, 21.06.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov and Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the night of June 21-22, members of the Yabloko party traditionally gathered on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow to lay flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under History, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko opposes self-isolating Russian universities from the outer world
Statement by the Yabloko party, 27.05.2022 Photo by Alexander Kozlov / Kommersant Recently a number of officials of the Government, the State Duma and the Security Council of Russia have made statements about their intention to withdraw from the Bologna process of a common European higher education area. These statements do not just uphold the […]
Posted: May 27th, 2022 under Education and Science, History, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched on 31 May
Press Release, 20.05.2022 A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched in the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2) on Tuesday, 31 May, at 18:00.
Posted: May 20th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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