Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019
Memorandum of Political Alternative
YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues
YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008
RUSSIA DEMANDS CHANGES! Electoral Program for 2011 Parliamentary Elections.
Key resolutions by the Congress:
On
Stalinism and Bolshevism
Resolution.
December 21, 2009
On Anti-Ecological Policies of Russia’s Authorities. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009
On the Situation in the Northern Caucasus. Resolution of the 15th congress of the YABLOKO party No 252, December 24, 2009
YABLOKO's POLITICAL COMMITTEE DECISIONS:
On Russia's Foreign Policies. Political Committee of hte YABLOKO party. Statement, June 26, 2009
On Iran’s Nuclear Problem Resolution by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 6, 2009
Anti-Crisis Proposals (Housing-Roads-Land) of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO. Handed to President Medvedev by Sergei Mitrokhin on June 11, 2009
Brief Outline of Sergei Mitrokhin’s Report at the State Council meeting. January 22, 2010
Assessment of Russia’s Present Political System and the Principles of Its Development. Brief note for the State Council meeting (January 22, 2010) by Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. January 22, 2010
Address of the YABLOKO party to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Political Committee of the YABLOKO party. October 9, 2009
Moscow
Yabloko
Yabloko
for Students
St.
Petersburg Yabloko
Khabarovsk
Yabloko
Irkutsk
Yabloko
Kaliningrad
Yabloko(eng)
Novosibirsk
Yabloko
Rostov
Yabloko
Yekaterinburg
Yabloko
(Sverdlovsk Region)
Krasnoyarsk
Yabloko
Ulyanovsk
Yabloko
Tomsk Yabloko
Tver
Yabloko(eng)
Penza Yabloko
Stavropol
Yabloko
Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview
Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014
Grigory Yavlinsky : “If you show the white feather, you will get fascism”
Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals
Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience
Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991
A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
What
does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky
Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.
Lies
and legitimacy
The founder of the Yabloko Party analyses the political
situation. Article by Grigory Yavlinsky on radio Svoboda.
April 6, 2011
Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience
Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010
Grigory Yavlinsky's interview to Vladimir Pozner. The First Channel, programme "Pozner", April 20, 2010 (video and transcript)
Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.
Grigory Yavlinsky: Vote for the people you know, people you can turn for help. Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, October 8, 2009
Grigory
Yavlinsky: no discords in the tandem.
Grigory
Yavlinsky’s interview to the Radio Liberty
www.svobodanews.ru
September 22, 2009
A Credit for Half a Century. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Natalia Bekhtereva, Radio Russia, June 15, 2009
Sergei Mitrokhin's Speech at the meeting with US Preseident Barack Obama. Key Notes, Moscow, July 7, 2009
Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky
Alexei Arbatov: What Should We
Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002
Grigory
Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
Obschaya Gazeta, May 16, 2002
Grigory
Yavlinsky's speech.
March 11, 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky's Lecture at the Nobel Institute
Oslo, May 30, 2000
Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations
Moscow, July 7, 2009
By Arseny Roginsky, 16 December 2008
Nuclear
Umbrellas and the Need for Understanding: IC Interview With
Ambassador Lukin
September 25, 1997
Would
the West’s Billions Pay Off?
Los Angeles Times
By Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison
June 3, 1991
Press Release, 16.09.2025
Photo: Conditions at the DogTown shelter / Photo from the Mona Telegram channel
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, demanding punishment for animal abusers – the owners of the DogTown dog shelter.
Posted: September 18th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Judiciary, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 16.09.2025
Drawing dreams, making wishes and feeling like an important part of the community – this is the kind of workshop that Yabloko devised together with volunteers for refugee children whom the Committee for Civil Assistance is taking care of. The children painted with acrylic paints, decorated biscuits, and also danced to their favourite music, marvelled at the wonders of a bubble show and congratulated each other on the start of the new school year.
Posted: September 17th, 2025 under Charity, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 15.09.2025
Photo: Campaign billboard in Veliky Novgorod / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In the recent elections, under conditions of ongoing “special operation” and state repressions against dissidents, Yabloko managed to get elected to the Kaluga City Duma, as well as four municipal councils in the Pskov Region. In total, the party nominated 270 candidates in 27 Russian regions this year, including a candidate for Governor of the Novgorod Region and candidates for deputies in two regional legislative bodies (the Kurgan and Chelyabinsk regions). Most candidates needed to submit to electoral commissions voters’ or municipal deputies’ signatures in support of their nomination. As a result, 164 candidates in 19 regions of Russia conducted their electoral campaign under the unified party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. The political results of the election campaign were summarised the day before by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and party Analytical Centre head Ivan Bolshakov.
Posted: September 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.09.2025
164 candidates from the Yabloko party participated in elections in 39 electoral campaigns across 19 regions of our country under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” Yabloko leaders summarised the political results of the election campaign at a briefing in the party office on the night of 15 September.
Posted: September 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 11.09.2025
164 candidates from the Yabloko party are participating in the elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” in 19 regions of Russia.
On all days of voting, a hotline will be open for members of electoral commissions, observers and voters. Lawyers and electoral experts will be on call.
Posted: September 11th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 10.09.2025
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with the Novgorod Yabloko team at the Rurikovsky settlement in the Novgorod region/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On September 5 and 6, Yabloko party Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Novgorod Region. The purpose of the visit was to support 12 candidates running in the Novgorod Region elections: eight candidates in the Novgorod Municipal District and four candidates in Borovichi, Okulovka and Staraya Russa.
Posted: September 11th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 7.09.2025
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with candidate for Pskov City Duma in district No. 3 Andrei Tsatsenko during door-to-door campaining in Pskov
On 2 and 3 September, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, together with head of the party Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov and head of the party staff Yevgenia Vlasova, visited the Pskov Region on a working trip. The main purpose of the trip was to support candidates from Pskov Yabloko before the upcoming municipal elections, in which 48 of Yabloko candidates are registered on party lists and 32 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
Posted: September 10th, 2025 under Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 8.09.2025
Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on the denunciation of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Punishment.
The Yabloko party expresses its absolute disagreement with this initiative. This step is unacceptable from the point of view of protecting human rights and complying with our country’s international obligations.
Posted: September 8th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.09.2025
Photo: Yabloko Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov at the Beslan victims’ memorial in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 1 September 2004, terrorists took more than 1,100 hostages at School No. 1 in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia. For more than two days, the gunmen held children, their parents and school staff in a mined building under torturous conditions—without water or fresh air. On the third day, the school was stormed and most hostages were freed. As a result of the terrorist attack, 314 hostages died, 186 of them children. In total, according to some data 333 people, including rescuers, died and at least 783 were wounded. Today Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the monument on Solyanka in Moscow.
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 3.09.2025
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has prepared appeals on behalf of the Assembly to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Maxim Shaskolsky and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, demanding they influence the situation and stop the violation of fair competition and a number of Constitutional provisions (Articles 8, 23, 29, and 34) in blocking voice calls in Telegram and WhatsApp messengers for Russian citizens. It is also necessary to initiate proceedings for violation of antimonopoly legislation and issue Roskomnadzor (the Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications) with an order to cease actions that restrict competition and violate citizens’ rights. Shortly after the documents are registered, St Petersburg parliamentary deputies will have to vote for these appeals.
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 1.09.2025
Photo from open sources
Surveillance cameras that recognise people’s ethnicity have been launched in St. Petersburg. This was announced by Igor Nikonov, deputy head of the city administration’s committee on information technology and communications, during the “zero readings” of the 2026-2028 city budget. Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Olga Shtannikova and Alexander Shishlov criticised the installation of “ethnic-oriented” surveillance cameras.
Posted: September 1st, 2025 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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29.08.2025
Da Mosca, in un’intervista esclusiva con Fanpage.it, Grigory Yavlinsky avverte: “I leader europei devono convincere Trump a perseguire un cessate il fuoco immediato in Ucraina, per scongiurare Armageddon”. Il leader social-liberale accusa le fallimentari riforme degli anni ’90: “La Russia di oggi e quel che accade in Ucraina ne sono il prodotto, anche l’Occidente è responsabile”. E vorrebbe “un Europa dall’Atlantico a Vladivostok nel 2050”.
Posted: August 29th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Interview to the “I Gryanul Gram” YouTube channel
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 11.08.2025
Broadcast of 8 August 2025
First, about the most important thing.
If we set the task of developing not just an agreement on a temporary ceasefire, but a strategic solution on the ways and methods of advancing toward stable and long-term peace, then it is important to discuss the root causes of the tragic conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as well as a fundamentally different security system in Europe and a new concept of nuclear deterrence in the world.
Posted: August 27th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 25.08.2025
Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant
Not taking a foreign child into a Russian school because they don’t know Russian is stupid. This is the view not only of the Yabloko party, but also of Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov. The speech of the President of Tatarstan at a meeting of education and science workers in Innopolis goes against the federal law that came into force on 1 April 2025. According to new school admission rules, foreign children must be tested on knowledge of Russian. In mid-May it was reported that 81% of applicants were refused testing for various reasons.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights.
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Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 22.08.2025
Photo: Bookshop Podpisniye Izdaniya (Books by Subscription) in St Petersburg. Photo by Nikolai Rybakov
In recent years, repressions in the cultural sphere have intensified in the country. Contrary to the direct prohibition in the Russian Constitution (Article 29 item 5), state censorship is rapidly expanding its boundaries and penetrating all spheres of public life – from politics and journalism to schools, universities, literature and cinema.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.08.2025
On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. The traditional party action was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, his Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov, Federal Political Committee member Ivan Bolshakov, Adviser to Yabloko Chairman Grigory Grishin, party apparatus head Yevgenia Vlasova, Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, as well as other members and supporters.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.08.2025
Photo: Pskov Yabloko representative lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Strugo-Krasnensk District Court granted Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuit against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation in connection with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruling of 18 March 2025, which confirmed constitutional violations in cancelling registration of seven unified candidates lists of Pskov Yabloko in the 2023 municipal elections, including the unified list of candidates for elections of deputies to the Strugo-Krasnensk District Assembly of the first convocation.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.08.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In total, 172 Yabloko party candidates are participating in 39 electoral campaigns in 19 regions of the country under the unified party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire agreement!”.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 21.08.2025
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
What is happening today will go down in Russian history as a period when our society was thrown back in technical progress by years by decisions of the executive and legislative authorities. We are faced with restrictions on the use of popular social networks, YouTube has been effectively blocked, and in many regions there are failures in the operation of the mobile Internet in general.
Posted: August 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 20.08.2025
“Dear friends and colleagues, St. Petersburg Yabloko members! Thank you for the long letter and postcards with words of support and caring. Touched,” imprisoned historian and head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriyev wrote in a response to the St. Petersburg Yabloko. Yuri Dmitriyev is sentenced to 15 years in prison and in dire need of letters from freedom.
Posted: August 20th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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