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, 11.09.2020
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the critical situation with the protection of the cultural and architectural heritage – the wooden architecture of Tomsk.
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Press Release, 11.09.2020
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime.
Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Encroachment on the life of a statesman or public figure, committed in order to terminate his public or other political activities, or out of revenge for such activities”) into the fact of poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent.
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Open appeal of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko, 10.09.2020
Photo:Nadezhda Zhuravleva, candidate for to the Nizhny Tagil City Duma from the Yabloko party
To the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev
To the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region
The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party demands that the law enforcement of the Sverdlovsk region conduct a thorough investigation of the incident related to the attack on Nadezhda Zhuravleva, candidate for to the Nizhny Tagil City Duma from the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 9.09.2020
The Yabloko party is challenging in the Supreme Court the resolution of the Central Electoral Commission to hold a three-day voting. The plaintiffs are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and candidates for municipal deputies of two cities near Moscow – Elektrostal and Shatura – Alexander Gunko and Svetlana Smirnova, respectively.
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future
by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020
Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square
WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT
The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at the end of the 1980s – start of the 1990s. This failure can be attributed primarily to the following factors:
These factors underpinned the creation of an autocratic, unlawful, quasi-mafia and anti-social political regime in Russia, marked by chronic economic stagnation and an impoverished population. This also led to a political system dictated by an imperial mindset, adherence to the principle of the “limited sovereignty” of former Soviet republics, attempts at flagrant interference in the affairs of neighbouring countries, the annexation of Crimea and war in the Donbass, contract killings of political opponents and journalists, senseless bloody participation in the war in Syria, and the adoption of countless repressive and backward-looking laws.
The goal of the opposition in the new environment is to engineer the regeneration of the Russian state: convene a Constituent Assembly; adopt a legitimate Constitution which actually exists to serve the people; and build a modern country on its basis. To succeed, we must achieve the following objectives:
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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Press Release, 10.09.2020
On September 9, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko” was holding a seminar for those who signed up to be observers at the upcoming elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. After the lecture began, police officers suddenly stormed in. They said that on they were acting on basis of a statement they had received from “a certain person”, so they stopped the lecture and began to put down the personal data of all those present.
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, 9.09.2020
A search was conducted in the apartment of Irina Maltseva, candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma from the Yabloko party, on 9 September at 6 a.m. The investigative actions were carried out on the basis of the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the so-called 2003 YUKOS case. Similar measures were taken against Andrei Sergeyev, deputy of the Council of the Bogorodsky rural settlement of the Ivanovo district, and Nikolai Dyachkov, regional coordinator of the United Democrats project in the Ivanovo region.
It is obvious that the YUKOS case, to which the Ivanovo opposition, even theoretically, was in no way involved, is nothing more than a screen for covering up unprecedented pressure on strong candidates in the elections of representative bodies of local self-government. The only goal of the criminal regime is to demoralise our candidates four days before the main vote, as well as to create difficulties in their election campaigns.
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 9.09.2020
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin’s apartment after a search
Searches were conducted in the apartments of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and candidate to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement, and Irina Maltseva, ethnographer and candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma.
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.09.2020
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko candidate Ksenia Sverdlova
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited Saratov on September 7, as part of his tour to Yabloko regional branches participating in regional elections on 13 September. Ksenia Sverdlova, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Saratov, will take part in the by-elections of deputies of the Saratov Regional Duma in the Volga single-mandate constituency No. 1.
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.09.2020
The Zelenodolsk City Court removed from the municipal elections in the Osinovo town, Tatarstan, all representatives of the Dioxinovo movement who oppose the construction of an incineration plant in the settlement. On 7 September, the court removed from municipal elections 13 candidates, including Ruslan Zinatullin, leader of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, and Yelena Izotova, Chair of the regional branch of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan.
Posted: September 8th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.09.2020
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan removed from 13 Yabloko candidates from the elections to the City Council of Neftekamsk in single-mandate constituencies. The pretext was an allegedly incomplete set of documents submitted by the Yabloko candidates to the electoral commission. The suits were filed by candidates from the ruling United Russia party and the territorial electoral commission. Cassation appeals were filed against the court decisions. Earlier, candidates from Yabloko managed to defend in the Supreme Court the Yabloko party list in the elections in the single electoral district of Neftekamsk.
Posted: September 8th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 7.09.2020
“An international investigation team should be created under the auspices of one of the credible international organisations so that to investigate the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, said.
Posted: September 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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Press Release, 7.09.2020
On 15 September 15, an online discussion of participants in the Russian feminist movement will be held under the auspices of the Gender faction of the Yabloko party. The event will begin at 19:00.
The topics offered for the discussion are as follows: the situation with gender equality and the conservative U-turn in Russia, the tasks of the feminist movement, new forms of organisation, interaction or conflict of different generations of feminists. The recording of the meeting will be published in the Internet.
Posted: September 7th, 2020 under Gender Faction, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020
Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning?
Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights of Salisbury using forged documents and suddenly they poison someone there. Probably because it is the Russian authorities who wage hybrid and criminal wars in other countries of the world and secretly bury their citizens who died in these wars.
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 4.09.2020
Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party
Pskov regional politicians discussed the formation of a reserve from the Russian security and law enforcement for Belarus and Vladimir Putin’s support for the actions of Alexander Lukashenko at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station.
The opinions of the Pskov politicians traditionally divided. Some believeв that the presence of a special reserve of Russian security and law enforcement that can be sent to Belarus on the request of Alexander Lukashenko would prevent a repetition of the “Ukrainian scenario” in Belarus, as well as possible unrest on the border with Russia. Others did not support this decision of the Russian government to form a reserve and perceived it as support to dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, said that he was categorically against any interference into the domestic affairs of Belarus. In his opinion, after the announcement of the formation of a reserve of law enforcement and security in Russia for actions on the territory of Belarus, the Belarusian society would be more radical to Russia, since for most of Belarus citizens Lukashenko was “an illegally elected and hated president”.
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020
Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus reported serious injuries as a result of beatings during detention, more than a hundred people reported severe beatings in places of temporary detention. More than 260 people were detained during the protest action on August 27 in the centre of Minsk, as follows from the data of the human rights centre Viasna.
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 3.09.2020
Alexei Navalny [opposition politician and one of vocal critics of the regime] was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group, the German government said in a statement. Angela Merkel, in her commentary, stated unequivocally that “it was an attempt to silence him [Navalny]”. Unambiguous, because if it were not for a chemical warfare agent, one could think of the Novosibirsk construction mafia or the Tomsk swindlers, about whom Navalny and his team were filming an investigation during their trip there. But we are talking about poisoning with a military nerve agent, which is inaccessible to an ordinary mafioso and which should not be there at all.
Posted: September 3rd, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.09.2020
Nikolai Rybakov
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will visit Saratov on Monday, September 7, as part his election tour in the Russian regions.
In the morning, the Yabloko Chairman will visit Park Svobody (the Freedom Park) and the Ivolgino district, the so-called Saratov ghetto. During the day, he will take part in the launch of the Clean Air civil programme for air quality control and will meet with activists participating in this programme.
Posted: September 3rd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 2.09.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, and Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexander Gusev in connection with illegal cutting of trees in the Severny Les (Northern Forest) forest park in Voronezh.
Posted: September 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 2.09.2020
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov visited the Voronezh region on Monday, August 31, as part of his election tour on the threashold of regional elections.
Posted: September 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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