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, 16.11.2020
On 24 November 24 an international online conference “The situation with the protection of women’s rights in the COVID era. International experience” will be held in Yabloko. The conference is organised by the Gender faction of the Yabloko party. The conference will be held via Zoom and will start at 17:30.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 14.11.2020
The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko Party has opened the reception of nominees for the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award. The prize is awarded for the most wasteful public procurement contracts.
The Golden Toilet Brush has two nominations – federal and regional – and two sets of awards: gold, silver and bronze toilet brushes. The prizes are made in the shape of toilet brushes and will be awarded to the officials who made the most absurd and wasteful purchases from the federal or the regional budget funds.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, 14.11.2020
On Wednesday, November 18, Andrei Buzin, Dr. of Law, will launch his new book “Russian Elections: Inside, Outside and Sideways” at the next lecture of the Yabloko Party University conducted in Zoom format. The event will begin at 19:00.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Press Release, 13.11.2020
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, took part in events in memory of St. Petersburg doctors who died in the fight against COVID-19.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Press Release, 14.11.2020
On 12 November, an online discussion “On admission of new members to the party and protection from manipulation” was held in Yabloko.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Political Parties.
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Press Release, 13.11.2020
On the 15th anniversary of the murder of anti-fascist and musician Timur Kacharava, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, asking him to put a memorial plaque at the site of murder of antifascist Timur Kacharava.
Posted: November 13th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Press Release, 11.11.2020
On 10 November, the Yabloko Party University held an online lecture “Territorial Inequality in Modern Russia” by Natalya Zubarevich, Professor of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University.
Posted: November 13th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Igor Artemyev was dismissed from the post of the head of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service yesterday
Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 12.11.2020
Photo: Igor Artemyev
A Lamborghini worth only 100,000 roubles – now it will become a reality, but not for everyone!
(from the experience of selling confiscated goods in Russia)
Yesterday Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, was dismissed from his post! Will the hope for the development of competition in Russia leave us after his dismissal too?
This Service was formed under [Yabloko’s] Igor Artemyev [who was a Yabloko deputy in the State Duma and now is a member of the Federal Political Committee of the party], and it became the most effective executive authority in the Russian Federation.
Posted: November 13th, 2020 under Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, 12.11.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin demanding to reconsider the allocation of budget funds for provision of financial aid to Syria.
On Wednesday, 11 November, it became known that Russia allocated more than USD 1 billion for the restoration of power grids, the industrial complex of Syria and other purposes.
Posted: November 12th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, War in Syria.
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Deputies called on the Human Rights Commissioner of Russia to withdraw the approval of the current candidacy for the Karelian Ombudsperson
Press Release, 11.11.2020
Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev introduced amendments to the second reading of the bill “On the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Karelia”.
Yabloko’s MPs emphasise that their amendments are targeted at strengthening of the institution of the Human Rights Commissioner. In particular, they propose that when nominating the Ombudsman consultations on his/her candidacy should be held with human rights organisations, there should be a mandatory requirement for the regional Ombudsman to permanently reside in the Republic of Karelia, the Ombudsman should also have opportunity to take part with an advisory vote in the meetings of the regional legislative and executive authorities on the issues connected with protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, and in the event of their mass-scale violations, the Ombudsman should immediately make a report at the meeting of the regional parliament.
Posted: November 12th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 11.11.2020
Photo: Maxim Kruglov
Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, has launched a platform – an aggregator of amendments to the Moscow city budget from municipal deputies of the city. The aggregator enables the municipal deputies of Moscow to make amendments to the draft City Budget for 2021 and the planning period 2022-2023.
Every municipal deputy will have the opportunity to submit an amendment to the city budget via the platform, further his/her amendment can be submitted by the Yabloko faction to the Moscow City Duma for consideration.
Posted: November 11th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Statement by the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko, 10.11.2020
(On introduction of amendments to the Rules for Land Use and Development of the Urban District – Municipality the City of Yekaterinburg” (Decision No. 29/42 of the Yekaterinburg City Duma of October 27, 2020)
The erroneous perception and interpretation by the municipal authorities of Yekaterinburg of the task of “city development” became obvious after the decision adopted by the deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma in late October to amend the rules of land use and development. The majority of deputies and administration officials regarded the increase in housing construction as the main indicator of progress. How else can one explain a thorough media campaign and the rash voting.
Posted: November 10th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 10.11.2020
On 12 November, an online discussion “On admission of new members to the party and protection from manipulation” will be held. The discussion is organised by the Social Democratic and the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party and start at 19:00.
Posted: November 10th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, 9.11.2020
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the city Governor Alexander Beglov from municipal deputies who strongly oppose the municipal “budget reform” proposed by the Governor: 121 deputies from 41 municipal councils of St. Petersburg put their signatures under the appeal. The essence of the reform is to sharply reduce the municipalities’ own revenues and replace them with subsidies from the city budget.
Posted: November 10th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Press Release, 9.11.2020
Photo: Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, detained during a single picket in support of arrested journalist Ilya Azar, 1 June 2020.
The Bureau of the Yabloko Party sent appeals to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev demanding to protect participants in single pickets.
In Moscow alone, since the beginning of the pandemic, several hundred participants in single pickets have been detained. Dozens of people were detained during the same period in St. Petersburg. Lawyers were not allowed to see some of the detained picket participants in the police stations.
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 9.11.2020
Nominees of Yabloko participate in by-elections to the Assembly of Deputies of the Pechora region, in the repeat elections of deputies to the Assembly of the urban settlement Pechora and in the postponed elections to the Assembly of the rural settlement Sebezhskoye.
On 6 December, 2020, by-elections, as well as repeat and postponed elections will be held in the Pskov region: a deputy of the Assembly of Deputies of the Pechora region in district No. 1 is elected due to the early resignation of the current deputy; a deputy of the Assembly of deputies of the urban settlement Pechora in district No. 6 has to be elected because there was only one candidate in the September 13 elections and, according to the law, there a vote against a candidate was introduced, and the number of votes against the candidate turned out to be higher than the number of votes for the candidate.
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Tatiana Schneider’s blog post, 9.11.2020
On 3 November, I received a strange call from the police. An interesting conversation took place, the content of which caused me, to put it mildly, bewilderment. Also I even had to give a written explanation to the policeman. The essence of all this, for me, strange act was the following: on 5 August this year, I published a post of my authorship on the Vkontakte social network, and later, on 10 August, 2020, it was edited (by me) and published in the Internet information channel Business Kurs (Business Course). The post was about emissions from the Omsktekhuglerod plant. I described my observations and memories of the emissions. I described the consequences of soot flying into houses, using the example how it damaged furniture. On the Vkontakte social network, this post was backed up by photographs of the very furniture that got soot, which was blown into the windows by the wind. Time passed and at the beginning of November I learned that Mr. Kaplunat, the well-known “soot king”, General Director of this enterprise, wrote a statement against me basing on the above criticism and my subjective opinion, where he accuses me of extremism and also of a “corruption component”. In a statement to the police, the author was trying to accuse me of wanting to organise a kind of a strike at the enterprise he managed, citing as an example “the mechanisms by which they operate” in Belarus and Khabarovsk. And he asked the police to deal with me, since, according to him, people like me were participating in the destabilisation of political regimes. I am very sorry that any private criticism of the Omsktekhuglerod plant evoked such a reaction from its management. Valery Nikolayevich Kaplunat was trying to make me liable under the article “extremism” because I dared to criticise his enterprise.
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 6.11.2020
The by-elections of deputies of the Saratov Regional Duma were held in the Saratov region not so long ago, which the regional branch of the Yabloko party did not recognise for the first time since 2017. The elections were held with numerous violations: from direct fraud to the use of physical force against observers, however, the trump card of the falsifiers was the multi-day voting. But even in such conditions, the ruling party does not feel sufficiently protected from competitive elections, and it forces the ruling party to continuously change the rules [of the elections]. The initiatives of the newly elected deputies from the [pro-government’s] United Russia party were not long in coming: they propose to change the procedure for the formation of the Saratov City Duma and, at the next elections in 2021, switch from the mixed system to the majority system, canceling party lists as an institution.
Posted: November 6th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.11.2020
The City Court of St. Petersburg confirmed the invalidity of the elections held by Electoral Commission No 1,280 in the Moskovskaya Zastava municipal district. Representatives of pro-government’s United Russia, the LDPR party and one self-nominated candidate will be replaced by deputies from Yabloko and another independent self-nominated candidate.
Posted: November 6th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 5.11.2020
On 2 November, the Ivanovo region formed new territorial electoral commissions. However, none of the candidates proposed by the regional branch of the Yabloko party as electoral commissions members were approved.
Posted: November 6th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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