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, 29.04.2020
On April 28, the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory adopted a decree declaring the Bazaikhsky geological cross-section on the Torgashinsky ridge within the boundaries of the city of Krasnoyarsk be a natural monument of regional significance. The Krasnoyarsk branch of the Yabloko party actively supported this environmental initiative by local residents.
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 29.04.2020
Emilia Slabunova, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, believes that Larissa Boychenko, Human Rights Ombudsperson in the Republic of Karelia, should be dismissed.
Slabunova came to the conclusion about the incompetence of the Ombudsperson after reading the report of the Human Rights Commissioner for 2019. It turned out that the text of the report was largely copied from the reports of the Russian Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova. There are large parts of reports by the Russian Ombudsperson from different years, up to 2013, copied to the report of the Karelian Commissioner.
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, 28.04.2020
The authorised representative of the Yabloko regional office in the Leningrad Region appealed to the regional authorities with a proposal to postpone the public discussion of all high-profile waste management projects for a period after the coronavirus epidemic ends and living conditions in the Leningrad region come to its normal state.
“The whole history of recent years shows that the issues of the location and reconstruction of waste management facilities in the Leningrad Region cause a heated public discussion, often taking the form of protest rallies and spontaneous popular gatherings,” recalls Oksana Demchenko, authorised representative of the Yabloko party in the Leningrad Region. “We are convinced that the epidemic of coronavirus infection and the forced self-isolation of residents of the Leningrad Region are currently hindering a full-fledged public discussion of any planned economic activity, in particular waste management facilities, which always attract increased attention from citizens.”
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 28.04.2020
Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state. He wrote about this in his article called Digital Danger, published by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper today . The Public Commission should include IT specialists, lawyers, public figures and human rights defenders.
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Based on Vashi Novosti, 28.04.2020
On April 27, Sergei Busurin, Mayor of Veliky Novgorod, signed Decree No. 1413 on reducing budget expenditures in Veliky Novgorod. This was announced by Anna Cherepanova, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod and deputy of the Duma of Veliky Novgorod.
According to Cherepanova, “the sequestration will affect cultural, educational, physical education and sports institutions. They are ordered to reduce costs by at least 20%”.
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 28.04.2020
At the end of the summer of 2019, managers and psychologists, posing as professional lawyers, opened a spacious bright office in one of the central shopping centres in Omsk. A colorful sign with a phone number advertised allegedly high professionalism of the specialists of this firm. Relying on the trust of citizens, the office gave people to sign contracts and acts of work, although nothing was done in fact. Citizens lost their money, nerves and time.
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.04.2020
The government commission, chaired by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, recommended that regional authorities provide support to victims of domestic violence.
To this end, the commission invites the heads of the interior in the regions to ensure institution of criminal proceedings under Article 116.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings by a person subjected to administrative punishment) in the absence of a statement by the victim; by May 1, 2020, inform citizens at the level of local police stations about the activities of crisis centres that help women; by June 1, 2020, include information on the state of crime in the sphere of family-domestic relations into the statistics of the interior and the results of the work of the police in their prevention; by June 1, 2020, optimise the procedure for conducting forensic medical examinations to reduce the time it takes to prepare a conclusion on beatings.
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Albert Khusainov blog post, 27.04.2020
We are commemorating a tragic event – the Chernobyl disaster. The day of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26 is now the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters.
This year, members of the Yabloko party in Bashkiria will not be able to hold the rally they planned, lay floral tributes and light memorial candles in Ufa at the monument to the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy and will not hold pickets in the cities of Bashkiria on the occasion of a terrible date in the history of our country and of all mankind.
Posted: April 27th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Press Release, 25.04.2020
The Yabloko party has been creating a volunteer network to overcome the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Party activists and anyone who wants to join them will provide help to fellow citizens throughout Russia.
Posted: April 27th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 24.04.2020
On 23 April, the Regional Council of the Tula branch of Yabloko conducted a video conference and adopted an appeal to Alexei Dyumin, Governor of the Tula region, calling him to initiate a review of part of the regional budget expenditure items allocating 1.4 billion roubles to healthcare.
The activists of the regional Yabloko branch expressed their concern connected with the experience of certain regions in European countries and the USA, where belated measures led to paralysis of the healthcare system and cost thousands of human lives.
Posted: April 27th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Press Release, 24.04.2020
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin calling for measures to increase the accessibility of the market for state and municipal procurement for small and medium-sized businesses.
“The Yabloko party believes that the state should improve the conditions for small and medium-sized businesses and become their “best client”, reducing costs for fulfilling contracts and paying for work on time,” Nikolai Rybakov emphasised in his address.
Posted: April 24th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Press Release, 23.04.2020
Photo by TASS: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asking him to provide aid to all small and medium-sized businesses, regardless of the industry sector, during a pandemic.
Posted: April 24th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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Press Release, 23.04.2020
Nearly 21 million roubles are allocated in the budget of the Ryazan region for the project Digital Educational Environment in 2020. “At the same time, distance education of children in the context of the coronavirus epidemic in the region was completely failed by the Minister of Education Olga Schetinkina,” say the activists of the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: April 24th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 23.04.2020
The Tula Regional Duma refuses large purchases of expensive cars for the regional parliaments and allocates these 5 million roubles for the purchase of ambulances. Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula Yabloko, noted that this happened exactly 24 hours after Yabloko’s publication of the video about the purchase by the Tula Regional Duma of two expensive cars of the executive class.
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 23.04.2020
The Yabloko party insists that the government should take immediate measures to prevent the upsurge of domestic violence. Such measures include immediate reaction of the police to reports of violence, provision of a sufficient number of shelters for victims, hotel rooms inclusive, and cancellation of liability for violation of the isolation regime for victims.
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Gender Faction, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 23.04.2020
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and leader of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, together with members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, organised fundraising for the purchase of personal protective equipment for doctors working in St. Petersburg medical institutions.
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 23.04.2020
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic and self-isolation, the number of cases of domestic violence against women, children and the elderly has significantly increased, whereas women are the first to become victims. This applies to all countries, emphasised UN Secretary General António Guterres.
In Russia, the situation is especially threatening: domestic violence is decriminalised, the law on the prevention of domestic violence has not been adopted; the number of shelters for victims of violence is catastrophically insufficient, some of them are closed due to a pandemic.
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Gender Faction, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 22.04.2020
On Tuesday, 28 April, the Yabloko Party University will host an online lecture by Gasan Guseynov “Modern Russian political language”. The lecture will be held on the Zoom platform and will begin at 17.00 MSK.
Gasan Guseynov is Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Press Release, 22.04.2020
The Yabloko party has proposed to the Russian government a set of measures to support students and university professors in the situation of the coronavirus epidemic: cash payments to students (12,000 roubles) and university professors (50,000 roubles); transfer of students who have lost their jobs to state-financed places; interest-free loans for the purchase of equipment needed for distance learning; compensation for rental of housing for those who were evicted from dormitories by university authorities.
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Economy, Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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The collapse came out of the blue, although it was visible from afar
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.04.2020
The economic crisis is growing. Despite Russia’s deal with OPEC, world oil prices continue falling. According to the terms of the deal, from May 1, Russia should reduce oil production to 8.5 million barrels per day. On average, the production of crude oil itself (without gas condensate) in Russia is about 10.4 million bps, that is, Russian oil companies have to reduce production by 1.9 million bps. This reduction is 6.5 times higher than the level of decline in production by Russia (0.3 million bpd), which the other parties to the deal insisted in early March and which the Russian negotiators refused. The new reduction is about 33% of Russian oil exports. Such a sharp rollback from the initial claims is due to a serious miscalculation of the assessment of the impact of the epidemic on the global economy and the global drop in demand, i.e., the “force majeure circumstances” – it is simply nowhere to store the excess volumes, and the reduction will have to be carried out by way of established fact.
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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