Decision No 109 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 12.03.2019

The Federal Political Committee of the party adopted a new version of the “Memorandum of Political Alternative” at its meeting on 1 March. This document is mandatory for signing by party candidates in elections of all levels.

Political Memorandum

1. The country needs deep and comprehensive political reforms targeted at transfer from the authoritarian system to the true separation of powers, real local self-governing, transparency of the legislative and the executive authorities and their accountability before people, honest elections and depolitisation of the law-enforcement.
2. Bolshevism and Stalinism are misanthropic ideologies and practices. The state must give legal assessment to the coup d’etat of 1917 -1918 and the gravest crimes that followed it.
3. Nationalism and religious fundamentalism in all their forms and manifestations are unacceptable.
4. The transition from the authoritarian to the democratic regime must be peaceful, non-violent and carried out in a lawful, constitutional way.
5. Immediate cessation of an arms race, abolishing of the state propaganda for war, militarisation of the country, and the policy of threats and intimidation in foreign policy are needed.
6. Business and property must be completely separated from government (that merged in Russia due to the erroneous policies of 1990 – 2000s), support of large businesses from the state budget must be abolished. Transfer from the resource-based to the high-tech economy is needed.
7. An open and public investigation into all facts of corruption in the Government and Presidential Administration, the law enforcement, state-owned companies and state-owned corporation is needed. All those guilty must be punished, whoever they are.
8. All the repressive laws limiting human rights and liberties guaranteed by Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (including the Dima Yakovlev’s law [or the “orphans law”], restriction of the freedom of assembly, assigning the “foreign agents” status to NGOs and the law on unwanted foreign organisations), and censorship in the mass media, social networks and in the field of culture must be abolished.
9. Russia must recognise Ukraine’s sovereignty in the borders of 2013, give up its support of criminals and separatists, inciting hatred and propaganda of war. The solution of the Crimea’s problem is possible in accordance with the roadmap developed within the framework of a specially convened International Conference.
10. A dignified and successful future of Russia can only be based on the values of freedom, human rights, principles of democracy, the rule of law, and inviolability of private property.