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, 9.07.2020
Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 8.07.2020
Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation
Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020
They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 7.07.2020
Ivan Safronov, former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, was detained on suspicion of treason. The apartment of Taisiya Bekbulatova, Editor-in-Chief of Kholod.Media, was searched. Journalists’ colleagues were detained during [solidarity] single pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] near the Federal Security Service building in Moscow.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 6.07.2020
Photo: Oleg Mandrykin
On June 21, the conference of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region in the forthcoming election.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Vitaly Ilyin elected Chairman of the Yabloko regional branch
Press Release, 6.07.2020
On July 5, the Kemerovo regional branch of the Yabloko party held a conference on the election of its governing bodies. The conference was attended by 11 delegates from Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.07.2020
On July 4, the Conference of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party was held. The Conference nominated candidates for the coming municipal elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region, as well as the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.07.2020
The Bureau of the Yabloko party considers the conviction of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva not only the result of a fabricated “case”, but also the actual destruction of the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 29 of the Constitution of Russia. Despite the fact that the sentence is not related to deprivation of freedom, we regard it as unlawful and unfair and certainly subject to cancellation.
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2020
The main result of the caricatured “nationwide vote” is directly opposite to what the Kremlin intended.
The indicators of the allegedly unanimous support of the “amendments to the Constitution” that are joyfully broadcasted by the Central electoral Commission do not matter. The fact that it would be announced that there would be, roughly, 75 per cent “for” and 25 per cent “against”, was clear back in March. Without any “voting”.
However, they wanted to get a “holiday of nullification”, a triumphal plebiscite, demonstration of popular support for Putin — but they got an obvious disgrace.
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.07.2020
On June 29, Arina Gerasimova, a member of the Yabloko party, came to the polling station of the precinct electoral commission No. 53 of Saratov. The members of the commission refused to give her a ballot due to the fact that her signature was in the voters book and she had allegedly voted already.
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ivan Bolshakov on the results of the “All-Russia vote” on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments
Facebook post by Ivan Bolshakov, 2.07.2020
A miracle has not happened and could not happen. Certainly, the results announced by the Central Electoral Commission have nothing to do with reality. The “All-Russian voting” was reduced to an absurd post-modern show humiliating voters. Persistent campaigning calling voters to come to polling stations in the situation of COVID epidemic became a marker of cynicism and moral “nullification” of the government in the eyes of millions of Russian citizens.
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 1.07.2020
Yabloko does not recognise Vladimir Putin’s “plebescite” on consitutional amendments and its results. Such a statment was made by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov:
Today, on 1 July, 2020, the false and unlawful special operation Constitution 2020 will be completed ingloriously.
Its purpose and meaning is to put President Vladimir Putin beyond the limits of presidential terms, out of voting rules, out of reach of court and above the law; to consolidate in the Basic Law of Russia the lawlessness and arbitrariness that have developed in our country over the past decades.
Posted: July 2nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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Press Release, 1.07.2020
Photo: Talia Khabriyeva and Vladimir Putin
The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found unexpectedly expensive elite real estate (worth almost 0.5 billion roubles) from Talia Khabriyeva, one of the key authors of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. The investigation is published here.
Posted: July 1st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The deputy of the regional Duma, who was taking the leaflets to the Yabloko office, is facing administrative responsibility
Press Release, 29.06.2020
The police seized leaflets against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms from Dmitry Anufriyev, Chairman of the Astrakhan branch of Yabloko and MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma.
Anufriyev’s car was stopped when he left the printing house with Yabloko leaflets against Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments. The leaflets set out the main points of the alternative amendments prepared by the Yabloko party – the Constitution of Free People.
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 29.06.2020
Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, filed an application with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Stavropol Territory about abuse of power by police officers. The leader of the regional branch of the party asks the Public Prosecutor to verify the legality of the detention of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the Yabloko party who, on June 26, went on a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) to the Kislovodsk Mayor’s office with a placard against changing the Constitution and “resetting” the presidential terms. After a “conversation” with threats in the police office he was released without a protocol being drawn up. The police tried to exert pressure on the activist.
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.06.2020
Photo: a voting station.
A “popular vote” to amend the Constitution is like a rape. That is, it resembles coercing into something that you initially did not want and what should not have happened, and the longer and more persistently they persuade you, the more disgusting it becomes. Now people, even if they vote, do not understand at all why they need it, and, certainly, they feel cheating.
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 29.06.2020
The Yabloko party has been conducting a nation-wide campaign against the “reset” of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin. Members of the regional branches of the Yabloko party protest against the eternal rule of Vladimir Putin. The campaign Speak Up Against the Reset of Presidential Terms includes picketing, distribution of stickers and leaflets and placing banners.
BARNAUL
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 27.06.2020
On June 25, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, after a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) against constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to remain on the post of President of Russia until 2036. The court sent the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko under arrest for eight days. According to the police (they told it informally to the family of Anatoly Nogovitsyn), the Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko was detained so that he could not hold any protests on July 1, the final day of voting for the “reset” of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms.
Earlier the court in Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory, arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy of the Council of the Municipal Formation of the Yeysk District, for “disobeying the police”. Alexander was arrested after a rally against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. Yabloko considers the arrest of Korovainy a political revenge on the part of the leadership of Yeysk and the Krasnodar Territory and demands his immediate release.
The Yabloko party has been conducting a nation-wide campaign against the “reset” of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin.
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 26.06.2020
In Skhodnya, near Moscow, the police forcibly ousted Kristina Klimayeva a member of the precinct electoral commission from Yabloko, from the voting station. Klimayeva last night tried to control the sealing of ballots after the first day of voting. She had to call an ambulance, as due to stress her blood pressure got up high.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 21.06.2020
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If there was an alternative vote, only a quarter of Russians (25%) would support the amendments of President Vladimir Putin. These are the data of a sociological survey conducted by the Levada Centre on the request of Yabloko from June 11 to 17. The survey involved 1,516 people over 18 years of age from a representative sample of the Russian population. There were fewer supporters of the presidential package than supporters of the Constitution of Free People proposed by the Public Constitutional Council and the Yabloko party (28%) and even fewer than opponents of both the projects (26%).
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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