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, 17.03.2021
Photo: Nikolai Mitrokhin /photo from Nikolay Mitrokhin’s Facebook page
On 24 March 24, historian Nikolai Mitrokhin will deliver a Zoom lecture within the framework of the Party University. The lecture will start at 19:00 MSK.
Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, from left to right: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov.
Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow police, Oleg Baranov, with a proposal to prove the effectiveness of the Safe City electronic surveillance system after a chemical attack on the Novaya Gazeta editorial office.
Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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Decision of the Federal Political Committee No. 138 of February 26, 2021, published on March 16, 2021
In accordance with the statement of the 17th Congress of the Party “On the priorities of coalition policies” dated June 17, 2012, and the Decision of the Federal Political Committee of the Party No. 81 dated January 23, 2016, which approved the Principles of the Party’s Coalition Policies, the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers it necessary to once again state clear and transparent Principles of the Party’s Coalition Policies.
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Coalition Policy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021
Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live
Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations “undesirable” in Russia and shut them down].
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti
On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC.
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, appealed to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, with a demand to conduct a check on the facts set out in the published investigation and initiate a criminal case based on the results of the check.
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Press Release, 15.03.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov held the third interregional seminar with regional headquarters in Krasnoyarsk on March 12 – 14. The seminar was attended by heads and employees of Yabloko branches from nine regions: Perm region, Krasnoyarsk region, Maritime Territory, Altai Territory, Tomsk region, Kemerovo region, Vologda region, Saratov region and the Republic of Yakutia. The participants discussed preparations for the elections to the State Duma, the principles and technologies of the election campaign, as well as the coalition policy of Yabloko.
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021
Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin
These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia.
Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his report on his work in 2020. Opposition deputies criticised the actions of the law enforcement, recalled numerous violations of the statute and the law on the police at winter opposition rallies, obstruction to the work of lawyers and journalists, the cynical Fortress Plan, unlawful detentions of Muscovites and the morally controversial use of urban video surveillance and face identification systems.
The Yabloko faction and a number of opposition MPs voted against the adoption of this report.
Finally, instead of working on their mistakes, the top officials of the law enforcement agencies decided to once again try to intimidate representatives of the opposition.
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 12.03.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko
On 11 March, members of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Kalmykia held single pickets near the People’s Khural of Kalmykia (the parliament of Kalmykia) demanding to abolish the practices of unreasonable granting of tax benefits to certain business companies.
In particular, Yabloko activists call for the abolition of the 1.5 billion roubles tax break granted to the Fortum company and call on the largest companies operating in Kalmykia (Lukoil, KTK) to pay the taxes to the region in full.
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 12.03.2021
On 6-7 March, 2021, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov held seminars with regional headquarters of the party in Yekaterinburg. The participants of the seminars discussed the party’s coalition policy and the upcoming election campaign to the State Duma. In total, leaders and activists of Yabloko regional branches from 13 regions (Moscow, Volgograd, Perm, Voronezh, Orenburg, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Rostov and Chelyabinsk regions, Stavropol and Transbaikal regions) took part in the seminar.
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 11.03.2021
Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Artyom Avanesov
The Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia believes that the appeal of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg with the demand to initiate a criminal case into the attempt on the life of Alexei Navalny, which was addressed to the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, does not contain the data necessary for the pre-investigation procedural verification by the military investigating authorities.
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 11.03.2021
Photo from the official website of the Administration of the Ryboretsky Vepsian rural settlement
Emilia Slabunova, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, calls the parties of the lease agreement concluded between the timber industry company OOO DOK Kalevala and the Republic of Karelia to review the terms of the lease of forest plots on the territory of the original Vepsian settlements situated in the Sheltozersky, Ryboretsky, and Shokshinsky forest districts.
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 9.03.2021
Four deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma signed an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of media reports about the possible poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. by officers of the Federal Security Service in 2015 and 2017. This information was published in a number of media in January.
Posted: March 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Press Release, 5.03.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation, and Pavel Palazhchenko, head of the International Contacts and Press Service of the Gorbachev Foundation.
Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko party Chairman, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, took part in the international conference The Man Who Changed the World, timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Press Release, 8.03.2021
On Friday, 12 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a Zoom lecture by Alexander Sungurov “Human Rights: Fundamentals of the Concept and Unresolved Problems”. The lecture will begin at 19:00.
The lecture will cover the following issues:
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 4.03.2021
Photo by Goldfinch4ever/Depositphotos.com
On Thursday, 4 March, Yabloko’s Gender held a Zoom conference “The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” The conference was dedicated to the 8 of March International Women’s Day.
Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the faction, Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the faction, Tatiana Ovcharenko, Marina Karavayeva, Olga Shtannikova (St. Petersburg), Kristina Abramicheva (Ufa), Svetlana Ivanova (Perm), Irina Safronova (Rostov) and other activists of the faction participated in the conference.
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, History, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 5.03.2021
Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg / Photo: Artyom Avanesov
More than three weeks have passed since the publication of the investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider about the circumstances of the two attempts on murder on politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., but the Investigative Committee of Russia keeps silent. Earlier, the Investigative Committee did not respond to direct appeals from Vladimir Kara-Murza and his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov. Yabloko deputies demand to start legal proceedings.
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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How the pro-government United Russia party stole Yabloko’s initiative and passed it off as its own
Press Release, 4.03.2021
Photo: J-Aleks/depositphotos, Moscow, Russia: Entrance to the building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, street Okhotny Ryad, 1
Since June, the State Duma was supposed to publish parliamentary inquiries on the website. It is a surprisingly good initiative: this way you can track whose interests the deputies are promoting and disclose the use of inquiries for personal gain. However, there is nothing surprising here, the Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre offered the same thing in November 2017. At first, United Russia refused us, and then simplified our idea and passed it off as its own.
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 4.03.2021
On 3 March, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article on the reform of the Yabloko party. The text by Darya Garmonenko, like many other texts by this author, is replete with errors and distortions. We publish the full text of the commentary of the Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov:
– The goal of the reform is to transform Yabloko into an efficient professional, but at the same time ideological party with clear political principles, massive membership and involvement of a significant number of supporters in its activities. The reform will launch mechanisms to renew the party and increase the influence of rank-and-file members on the decision-making process.
Posted: March 4th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO Sister-parties.
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Federal Political Committee Decision No. 137, 3.03.2021
Having heard and discussed the reports of the Chairman of the Party Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the Party Ivan Bolshakov on the preparation for the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, representative bodies of the state power and local self-government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, having considered the draft decision on the preparation of the Party for the election campaign, prepared by members of the Federal Political Committee Boris Vishnevsky, Valery Borshchev, Svetlana Gannushkina, Emilia Slabunova, Viktor Sheinis and Lev Shlosberg, and taking into account the discussion
Posted: March 4th, 2021 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Political Committee Decisions, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Congratulations, 2.03.2021
Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo by Alexander Polyakov / RIA Novosti
On 2 March, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the first President of the USSR, turns 90. Yabloko leaders congratulate Mikhail Gorbachev on his anniversary and speak about the role of his personality in history.
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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