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, 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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23.06.2020
Open address to the President of the Russian Federation
Respected Mr. President,
A nationwide representative opinion poll conducted by the Levada Centre a few days ago shows that 28% of Russian citizens are ready to vote for the package of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation – the Constitution of Free People – developed by the Public Constitutional Council and the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, at the same time, only 25% [are going to vote] for the project proposed by you and the Federal Assembly.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 25.06.2020
The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region turned down Yabloko’s application for pickets in Yekaterinburg against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, citing the Ministry’s lack of information about the possibility of extending the COVID high-alert mode.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.06.2020
The action of the authorities to amend the Constitution of Russia has approached the finish line.
Both in terms of content and form, the amendments proposed by Putin to the Basic Law of the country, as well as the so-called “popular vote” are, as is well known already, unlawful (see the expertise).
Opponents of this lawlessness speak mainly about the of “reset” of Putin’s terms – granting the right to extend his powers until 2036. This is absolutely correct: such an “amendment” is a mockery of law and opens the way for the almost eternal irremovability of power. However, it is important to see that people are being pushed to a non-alternative vote with one tick [for all the amendments], putting more than 200 hundred amendments [in a package to one vote] at once, which draw up an authoritarian corporate state at the level of the Constitution, serving the interests of the nomenclature and the groups around the power. That is, the present closed antisocial political system with an adventurous foreign policy course, with extremely incompetent corrupt, semi-criminal and non-independent staff at all levels, with a militaristic and police ideology and corresponding repressive mechanisms will now be enshrined in the Basic Law of Russia.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 25.06.2020
More than five advertising agencies refused to place Yabloko’s banners with a slogan I AM AGAINST THE RESET [OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS] because of “fear of the city administration”. The companies are afraid to lose the bid for the right to placement of advertising structures. This was stated by the manager of the largest aggregator of the outdoor advertising booking company All-billboards.ru (the regional branch of Yabloko disposes of the correspondence and records of telephone conversations).
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.06.2020
A court in Yeysk arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, a municipal deputy, member of the Yabloko Party known not only in Yeysk, but throughout the Krasnodar Territory as an activist fighting against the tyranny of local authorities and for protection of the environment.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 24.06.2020
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.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 22.06.2020
An online lecture by Yelena Dubrovina, lawyer and member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, will be held at Yabloko’s Party University. The lecture will be held on the Zoom platform on June 23, beginning at 16.00.
Posted: June 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.06.2020
Photo: Anna Cherepanova on a single picket.
On June 11, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party in the case of contestation of the results of the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma in 2016.
Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Veliky Novgorod Duma, recalled that in 2016, the list of Novgorod Yabloko to the regional Duma, which she topped, gained 4.83% of the vote. Yabloko lacked 0.17%, or about 300 votes, to get a mandate to the regional parliament. The authorities did everything so that the Yabloko would not get into the regional Duma.
Posted: June 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 19.06.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, with a request to track and prevent violations during the voting on the approval of amendments to the Constitution.
In his appeal, the Chair of Yabloko notes that media have published numerous reports on the participation of commercial and non-profit organisations throughout the country in the preparation of contests, lotteries and quizzes that have to take place during voting. “The organisers of these events do not conceal the fact that the main purpose of these events is to encourage citizens to take part in the all-Russian vote,” Nikolai Rybakov emphasises.
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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Press Release, 19.06.2020
The Supreme Court of Karelia satisfied the claim of Olga Tuzhikova, Ilya Shkvarin and Valery Alekseev, the residents of the capital of Karelia Petrozavodsk, to the city administration, who demanded that the change of the status of part of the territory of the Kamenny Bor park (where the construction of a kindergarten is going on as part of the Federal Special Programme for the Development of the Republic of Karelia until 2020) was unlawful.
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The region is ranked fourth in Russia as of the number of COVID cases
Press Release, 19.06.2020
The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to Governor Gleb Nikitin with a demand to cancel the Victory Day parade in Nizhny Novgorod scheduled on June 24 instead of May 9 due to the epidemic. The corresponding appeal was sent to the Governor by Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 17.06.2020
The Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko, the environmental movement For Life, and the public organisation People’s Power decided to support the nomination of Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and Director General of Shunga agricultural enterprise, as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections that will be held in the Kostroma region on September 13.
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 17.06.2020
Alexander Yakovleva, deputy from the Yabloko party in the City Council of Kaliningrad and an actress, was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Kaliningrad.
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 17.06.2020
Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria, sent an appeal to the head of the region Radiy Khabirov. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the World War 2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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17.06.2020
We deeply grieve over the death of Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov, a wonderful person and a great doctor, who was close to us.
Sincerely,
the Yabloko party
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Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (November 1, 1928 – June 15, 2020) – Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, doctor of medical sciences, Director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Intensive Care, head of the Department of Hematology and Intensive Care of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. First Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.
In 2019, after the high-profile case of Ivan Golunov [when a journalist exposing corruption was arrested in connection with drugs that were planted to him by police], Academician Vorobyov turned to the President of the Russian Federation with a proposal to review all sentences under articles on drugs, “Who else could have been illegally arrested, was innocently convicted, received incomparable punishment under these articles? The case of Ivan Golunov again raised the question of repressive drug policies in the Russian Federation. The answer should be a radical reform of the criminal prosecution system for drug-related crimes”. Dozens of academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke in support of Andrei Vorobyov’s appeal.
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Special for the web-site of Yabloko, 17.06.2020
Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
The Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party prepared an expert opinion on the federal law “On the Unified Federal Information Register Containing Information on the Population of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law “On the Register”), which has recently entered into force. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, head of the Centre, told about the main conclusions of a multi-page study:
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 16.06.2020
Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova
On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007. Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, including passers-by who did not participate in the March. Olga Tsepilova, Chair of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, as well as passers-by Alexander Kazantsev and Natalia Kazantseva, were injured.
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 16.06.2020
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov
On 15 June, the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ryazan Region was the first among political parties to nominate its candidates for deputies of the Ryazan Regional Duma. The list of candidates is topped by Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine Vid Sboku (Side View).
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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