Archive for 'Understanding Russia'
Memories of the Future
Grigory Yavlinsky reflects on the fate of great scientists who got under reprisals in the 1930s and draws parallels with modern Russia Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.07.2018 Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev, whose planes were used throughout the country, “spied in favour of France”. Biologist Nikolai Vavilov, one of the most famous Russian scientists in the world, […]
Posted: July 26th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Shooting of the Romanovs’ royal family: no period of limitation
Grigory Yavlinsky on why the crimes of the Bolsheviks have not received a state assessment Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 17.07.2018 On the night of 17 July, 1918, the Bolsheviks shot the royal family [in Russia]. A century later the successors of those same Bolsheviks are still in power. They cynically exploit both the memory of the […]
Posted: July 18th, 2018 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Political Economy. Kemerovo
Grigory Yavlinsky: “The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government” Smart Power Journal, 02.04.2018 The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government on all levels, which underlies the economic, the political and the socio-political structure of modern Russia. First, this evident […]
Posted: April 2nd, 2018 under Economy, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The merger of business and the government is the main vice of the system”
Grigory Yavlinsky at the Stolypin Forum about why Russia builds such shopping malls that suddenly burn Press Release, 30.03.2018 Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the Stolypin Forum at Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), on 29 March, 2018. In his speech, Yavlinsky spoke about why not a single, even the best quality and […]
Posted: March 30th, 2018 under Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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Yavlinsky: Talented people in Russia may write economic programmes, but we do not have a state that could implement them
Grigory Yavlinsky FB page, 30.03.2018 There are so many talented people in Russia who can write economic programmes. But we do not have a state that could implement such strategies. This system does not perceive any external strategies, it develops according to its own internal laws. That is why not a single businessman or owner […]
Posted: March 30th, 2018 under Economy, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee on the past presidential elections: a plebiscite on support of the personality of the current President was held on 18 March, rather than presidential election
Decision of the Federal Political Committee No 103, 23.03.2018 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko regards the voting that took place on 18 March as a plebiscite held within the framework of an authoritarian system turning into a totalitarian one. The system formed in Russia does not allow free, competitive, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, War in Syria.
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Yavlinsky: “It does not matter how few percent they will declare to me now and how much to Putin, it is important what will happen to the country now”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, 18.03.2018 We perfectly realized that this procedure was not very similar to a real election: disproportionate coverage in the media, spoilers and administrative pressure. But we participated in it, because it was the only opportunity to demand change. We participated in this campaign to force Putin to change the policies: to […]
Posted: March 20th, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Greetings on the Day of Russia!
From Emilia Slabunova, 12.06.2017 Today our country celebrates its day, the Day of Russia. I am sending my greetings on the holiday to all those who care about Russia’s future.
Posted: June 13th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Emilia Slabunova: Responsibility of the opposition should be peaceful and lawful change of power
YABLOKO leader spoke at the 4th Congress of the Russian Association of Political Consultants Press Release, 14.04.2017 “The responsibility of the opposition is to peacefully and lawfully achieve a change of power and the system in the country”, YABLOKO leader Emilia Slabunova said at the 4th Congress of the Russian Association of Political Consultants. The […]
Posted: April 14th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s lecture “The Russian Parallels: 1917 — 2017”
On political parallels and assessment of the events of 1917 Novaya Gazeta, 03.04.2017 In the absence of a modern and honest assessment of what happened [in Russia] one hundred years ago, the Russian public consciousness is doomed to flounder between the idea of a revolution as a blessing and the only way to achieve change, […]
Posted: April 4th, 2017 under History, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky considers it necessary to give property to Russian citizens
Press Release, 19.03.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO presidential candidate, made a statement that if he is elected, the state should gratuitously transfer land to Russian citizens under construction of their own homes, as well as create a system of accounts where revenues from the exports of natural resources and dividends from state corporations would be transferred […]
Posted: March 19th, 2017 under Economy, Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What happened in 1917
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post, 21.02.2017 The utter public support of the authorities. People’s love for the head of the state. Patriotism on the transcendent level…
Posted: February 22nd, 2017 under Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Exhaustion of the state
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 23.12.2016 Today the President has the end of year press conference, the President is answering the questions of the journalists. There are a lot of question but, in my opinion, there is one major question: what is going on with our state? The situation with [oil company] Rosneft will probably help answer […]
Posted: December 28th, 2016 under Understanding Russia.
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Boris Nemtsov Bridge
Lev Shlosberg Live Journal, 12.06.2016 Speech on receiving the Boris Nemtsov Foundation Prize Bonne, 12 June, 2016 Respected Raisa Akhmetovna, Respected Zhanna, Dear friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Twenty-six years ago, on 12 June, 1990, the first Congress of People’s Deputies adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the RSFSR (the Russian Soviet […]
Posted: June 14th, 2016 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Understanding Russia.
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Launch of new books by Grigory Yavlinsky
Press release, 29.11.2015 Politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky presented his new books at the Book Fair of Intellectual Literature Non / Fiction. This year two news books by Grigory Yavlinsky were published: “Peripheral Authoritarianism What Russia Has Achieved and Why”and “Notes on History and Politics: the People, the Country, and the Reforms” written together with […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2015 under Economy, Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Reform is Impossible
Politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky on why the discussion on economic reforms has lost any sense Grigory Yavlinsky for Vedomosti, 8 November 2015 Photo: Forums still hear empty words that Russia should finally diversify its economy. Valery Sharifulin /TASS The profound systemic crisis of the Russian economy is beyond doubt. In June, at the […]
Posted: November 25th, 2015 under Economy, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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YABLOKO supports local residents opposing a temple construction in park
Press release, 25.06.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin held a meeting with local residents who oppose the construction of a temple in Torfyanka park, Moscow. More than 300 people came to the meeting. YABLOKO leader focused on the legal bearings of the case.
Posted: June 26th, 2015 under Environmental Policies, Understanding Russia.
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Mitrokhin demands to demolish the monument to Stalin in Lipetsk
Press release, 03.06.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhim called to demolish a monument to Joseph Stalin in Lipetsk and bring the Communist party to responsibility for erecting it. The appeals were forwarded to prosecutor of the Sovetsky district of Lipetsk Mikhail Makeyev, deputy head of the city administration Anna Shamayeva and chief of Lipetsk regional office […]
Posted: June 5th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Come-back to anti-constitutional practices in family and marital relations is unacceptable
YABLOKO Buereau statement, 02.06.2015 The marriage of 17-year-old Kheda Goylabiyeva and Chechen police chief Nazhud Guchigov under support of Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Chechnya, is a dangerous precedent of a come-back to traditional practices which are contrary to the Consitution principals. It is a case of obvious underage forced marriage, possibly as a second wife. […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2015 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Two films by Grigory Amuel shown in YABLOKO
Press Release, 29.05.2015 On 26 May two films by Grigory Amuel were shown in YABLOKO: “Redlich – People from the Other Side” and “Football 1955. USSR – West Germany”. The event was organized by Galina Mikhaleva, Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee and Olga Radayeva, Advisor to YABLOKO Chairman.
Posted: May 29th, 2015 under Understanding Russia.
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