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
Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
Moscow, April 6, 2013
What
does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky
Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.
Building a Liberal Europe - the ALDE Project
By Sir Graham Watson
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
YABLOKO and ELDR joint conference
Moscow, March 12, 2011
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
By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009
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, 9.05.2024
On 9 May, the leaders and members of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War at the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery in Moscow, where more than 10,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried. The delegation laid flowers and a wreath at the War Memorial.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 8.05.2024
On 8 May, on the eve of Victory Day, the day of the victory over the Nazi Germany in 1945, members of the St. Petersburg Yabloko laid a wreath and flowers at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.05.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The State Duma has approved amendments stipulating that elected deputies included in the foreign agents register by decision of the Ministry of Justice will be deprived of their deputy mandate.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights.
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Statement by the regional party branch, 6.05.2024
The regional branch of the Yabloko party, on the basis of moral principles and principles of humanity, opposes the killing of captured stray dogs as a way to solve the problem of animals without owners.
In April, a survey was conducted on the government services portal “On the need to introduce additional measures into regional legislation to solve the problem of animals without owners in the Novosibirsk region”. One of the possible survey answers proposed to kill captured stray dogs if “the dog has not found a new owner within one month”.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.05.2024
On 23 May, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “The Institute of Asylum in Russia. How Can We Help Refugees?” the lecturer is Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Chairman of the Civic Assistance Committee, a member of the Memorial group, and a member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.05.2024
On 14 May, an event in memory of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin will be held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and a member of the Yabloko Federal Bureau, passed away on 14 May, 2022.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Condolences, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.04.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko regards the initiation of an administrative case under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences against Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, for his online interview with participants in the election observation movement Golos, as another example of pressure on political opponents of the authorities .
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 3.05.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow office of Yabloko hosted the final screening of the film “The Eternal Road” (2017) by the Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila, the screening was held within the framework of the Another Look film festival. Participants watched the feature film based on the real fate of Finns who emigrated to the USSR from America and were expelled from Finland after the victory of the “whites” in the civil war of 1918. The discussion of the film was attended by the Ambassador of Finland to Russia Antti Helanterä, the Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov, experts in the field of history and cinematography from Finland, as well as members and supporters of the Yabloko party.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 26.04.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Oktyabrsky District Court held the first hearing on Yabloko’s claim on non-admission of Yabloko representatives from joining the city’s electoral commissions. The interests of the party were represented by lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky.
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Elections, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 26.04.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code have been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, according to these amendemnts investigators and interrogators will be able to access the telephone calls of all citizens, bank accounts and transactions based on a simple request, without the sanction of a judge. Maxim Kruglov, the head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a request to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, asking to explain the need to introduce unconstitutional methods of collecting information into the Criminal Procedure Code and to list measures restraining security forces.
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The 26 of April is Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Chernobyl Tragedy and Other Radiation Disasters
Statement by the Yabloko party, 26.04.2024
Photo by istockphoto.com
Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 38 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, people had to be completely relocated from a significant number of settlements. Millions of people were exposed to radiation. The affected areas have not yet been properly rehabilitated. We also have to note that there are 7 RBMK-1000 power units with an extended service life in Russia today.
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Press Release, 25.04.2024
Photo: Nikolai Yegorov with his family / Photo from the personal archive
The judge of the Veliky Ustyug District Court of the Vologda Region made a decision on 25 April. Nikolai Yegorov, former deputy of the Vologda Legislative Assembly, father of six children and Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, will have to pay the state 200,000 roubles.
It should be noted that Nikolai Yegorov was found guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code) for posts on social networks. On 3 May, 2023, a group of police officers (12 people) detained Yegorov near his country house and then took him to his apartment for a search. Investigative actions also took place in the apartment of Yegorov’s daughter. On 5 May, 2023, a search took place in the office at Yegorov’s place of work. Equipment and data storage devices were confiscated from Yegorov. His family and he himself was under a ban on certain actions for almost a year while the investigation was going on.
Posted: April 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press release, 25.04.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly published their income declarations for 2023. Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky insist on the openness of people’s representatives, and therefore do not take advantage of the possibility to report anonymously envisaged by the recent law.
Posted: April 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 24.04.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent two administrative claims to the court challenging the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents.”
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 23.04.2024
Photo: Crocus City Hall after a fire as a result of the terrorist attack on 22 March, 2024 / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant
The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, received a response from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation about the reasons for the mass death of people due to a fire as a result of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall on 22 March, 2024. The ministry reports that investigative actions are currently underway, including on the issues of putting the facility into operation, its functioning, finishing of the premises and the operability of all fire protection systems. In addition, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that it had supported amendments to legislative acts related to improving the activities of the federal state fire supervision. The bill was introduced to the State Duma after the tragedy in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping mall in Kemerovo in March 2018. Then the fire claimed the lives of 64 people. At the same time, it follows from the response of the Ministry of Emergency Situations that the bill introducing the definition of “a facility with a large number of people” and stipulating that state construction supervision at these facilities should be carried out with the participation of specialists from fire supervision authorities, has not yet been adopted. According to the information system of the State Duma web-site, the amendments to the legislation “stuck” at the second reading stage.
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 23.04.2024
On 27 April 27, Chairwoman of the Yabloko Gender Faction and Doctor of Political Sciences Galina Mikhaleva will take part in a round table on the role of women in Russian politics, which is organised by the regional branch of the party in Novgorod. Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Novgorod City Duma will also take part in the event.
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Gender Faction, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 23.04.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov submitted more than a thousand signatures, as well as individual appeals to each deputy and senator of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation demanding that income and property declarations for 2023 be disclosed and made public. Similar appeals to deputies will be sent to the chairpersons of legislative assemblies of Russian regions.
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Kommersant, 22.04.2024
Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo from the personal archive
Past week, the United States deployed medium-range ground-based missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time (see Kommersant on 16 April): army Typhon systems were deployed to the Philippines as part of the exercise. Previously, such weapons were prohibited under the Russian-American Treaty on Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that the emergence of American ground-based medium- and shorter-range missile systems in any region could lead to Russia abandoning its voluntary moratorium on the deployment of such systems on its territory. Kommersant correspondent Yelena Chernenko spoke with Academician Alexei Arbatov, head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, , about the background and possible consequences of this situation.
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Foreign policy, History, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Die Presse, 18.04.2024
Ruslan Grinberg / Foto: Dmitri Dukhanin, Kommersant
Können wir uns Russland überhaupt vorstellen ohne eine wirtschaftliche und humanitäre Verflechtung mit dem Rest Europas?
Solang ich mich erinnern kann, hat man uns Russen Folgendes von allen Tribünen der Macht aus versichert – den sowjetischen Tribünen und später den russischen Tribünen: dass das bürgerliche Europa „untergeht“, dass es „seinen letzten Atemzug macht“. Man hat uns gepredigt, Europa sei dabei, seine politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Existenz zu beenden, und zwar mit all den Werten, für die es bei uns berüchtigt sei.
Posted: April 22nd, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations.
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Press Release, 22.04.2024
Photo: Constitution of the Russian Federation with the recent changes / Photo by Pavel Lisitsyn, RIA Novosti
On 21 April, Russia celebrates Local Government Day. The memorial date was established by President Vladimir Putin in 2012. On this day (2 May, as of the new style) in 1785, Catherine II of Russia issued a “Charter on the Rights and Benefits of the Cities of the Russian Empire”. The document established new elected city institutions, expanding the circle of voters and consolidating the foundations of self-government. In accordance with the Charter, a meeting of the “city community” was convened in cities every three years, which included only the wealthiest citizens. The permanent city body was the “General City Duma,” consisting of the city mayor and six councilors.
The Deputy Chairpersons of the Yabloko party write about the level of development of local self-government and its prospects in our country and individual regions.
Posted: April 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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