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, 26.03.2020
Yabloko deputies in the parliaments of Karelia, Pskov, St. Petersburg, and also in the Duma of Veliky Novgorod appealed to regional governments with a proposal to provide school children who have the right to free school meals with food packages while schools are on quarantine.
Posted: March 27th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 25.03.2020
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city. Vishnevsky proposed a number of specific measures that will facilitate the life of St.Petersburg residents during quarantine caused by COVID-19.
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko, 25.03.2020
Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko
To: Yury Chaika,
Authorised Representative of the President of the Russian Federation
in the North-West Federal District
and
Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov,
head of the Republic of Ingushetia
An extremely alarming situation has developed in the world at present, due to the danger of the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a tremendous speed and on a huge scale. Only according to official data, hundreds of thousands of cases have been registered all over the world, thousands of people died from this disease and an extremely low number of people recovered from it. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognized the situation with the spread of this coronovirus infection as a pandemic.
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Address by Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, 24.03.2020
Dear friends, very difficult times have come. The coronavirus epidemic is increasingly spreading in Russia. The number of cases is growing, the federal government and the authorities of different regions are taking more stringent quarantine measures. Many enterprises and organisations are forced to stop working, some people switch to distance work, and some lose their work. At the same time, there is an economic crisis, the rouble is falling and prices are rising.
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Charity, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Novaya Gazeta, 25.03.2020
The so-called all-Russian vote will not give legitimacy to the document, which, in bypassing of the procedures established in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, was composed and unanimously approved by the President, [both] the chambers of the Federal Assembly, all subjects of the Federation and the Constitutional Court. The main [Constitutional] amendment – on the actual nullification of the terms of the presidency of Vladimir Putin, – as well as a number of others, fundamentally contradict the norms and principles enshrined in the fundamental Chapters 1 and 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and were adopted in bypassing the requirements of Chapter 9, therefore, it is about “resetting” of the Basic Law of the country, and about constitutional lawlessness.
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 24.03.2020
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region about the need to introduce quarantine in the schools of the region. The reason for the appeal was the exceeding of epidemic thresholds in 19 municipalities of the Chelyabinsk region (including the regional centre). A total of 14,777 cases of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza were registered in Chelyabinsk, the rate was 123 per 10,000 people, which is 23 per cent higher than last week.
Posted: March 24th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 23.03.2020
The Altai branch of Yabloko creates a volunteer movement to help the elderly during the coronavirus quarantine. Activists of the branch published a statement on recruiting volunteers to take care and provide help to elderly people. According to the regional branch of Yabloko, “in order to limit the contacts of elderly people living in the cities of the Altai Territory, we are recruiting people under the age of 40 who are not suffering from chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system and respiratory system, diabetes, who are not receiving immunosuppressive therapy and are ready as volunteers to deliver to single elderly people, at their request, food, medicine, etc.”
Posted: March 23rd, 2020 under Activities, Charity, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 16.03.2020
Deputies of the Yabloko party in the legislative assemblies of six regions – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Karelia, the Pskov and Astrakhan regions and the Khabarovsk Territory – introduce a new package of amendments to the Constitution. It is dedicated to improving the guarantees of human and civil rights and freedoms. The text of the bill in Russian is here.
Yabloko proposes to fix a single retirement age for men and women in the Constitution, which should be 60 years. At the same time, the retirement age of women will be reduced by two years for the birth of each child. It is proposed to recognise pension savings as private property, which can be inherited.
It is proposed to add a provision to the Constitution on the creation in Russia of an investment fund for future generations, where a 25 per cent of all income from exports of natural resources will be allocated. This money will be used to form and replenish individual savings accounts of citizens.
Posted: March 23rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Party members rallied and picketed in several regions
Press Release, 23.03.2020
Yabloko activists continue holding one-person pickets (these pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) and rallies against Putin’s constitutional amendments resetting the count on his presidential terms to zero and other Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. On March 21-22, rallies and pickets were held in seven regions.
VOLOGDA
Posted: March 23rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova introduced to the Karelian parliament Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 20.03.2020
Emilia Slabunova, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, presented to the regional parliament of Karelia a package of amendments of the Yabloko party, the adoption of which guarantees the creation of a truly social state in Russia.
Posted: March 20th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.03.2020
The situation with coronavirus is certainly serious. But there is no doubt that the mankind and all of us will cope with the pandemic. However, one cannot fail to notice that right now the events that will decisively determine our future are taking place in our country.
There were no illusions about what the Constitutional Court’s conclusion on Putin’s amendments and “zeroing out” [resetting] of the presidential terms would be (11 out of 15 judges, including the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, were appointed to these posts on the proposal of Vladimir Putin). However, it was unlikely that anyone could have imagined that the constitutionality of the rejection of a change of power in Russia would be justified by the fact that there is “developed parliamentarism, a real multi-party system, presence of political competition, an effective model of separation of powers, equipped with a system of checks and balances, and also ensuring rights and freedoms by independent justice, including the activities of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation” in our country today. Such an assessment of the Constitutional Court is either a demonstration of extreme cynicism or a legal absurdity in combination with a profound misunderstanding of reality.
Posted: March 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky’s commentary on Vladimir Putin’s statement that the middle class in Russia is 70% of the population
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 19.03.2020
While discussing the coronavirus and Putin’s decree on appointing, despite everything, of a “nationwide vote” on amendments to the Constitution, in the evening I noticed something else, granite-strong statement made by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: it turns out that we have more than 70% of the middle class in our population.
Posted: March 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 18.03.2020
On March 15, a rally against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation was held in Gorno-Altaysk. The actions was organised by Maria Demina, MP of the State Assembly – El Kurultai of the Altai Republic and the head of the Defend Altai public movement. The event was supported by representatives of Yabloko, the Communist Party, and regional public organisations.
Posted: March 18th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 17.03.2020
On March 15, Yabloko members in Novosibirsk went on a series of one-person pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The action took place in the centre of Novosibirsk.
Posted: March 18th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 17.03.2020
Members of the Yabloko party and the Golos movement held a series of one-person pickets [that do not require any permission from the authorities] in the centre of Kemerovo against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation on resetting of the presidential terms for Vladimir Putin and unlawful amendments to the Constitution.
Posted: March 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 17.03.2020
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to accept the Yabloko’s lawsuit against President Vladimir Putin on the cancellation of his order to conduct an all-Russian vote on constitutional amendments. Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov challenged this decision at the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court.
Posted: March 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 14.03.2020
To: Vladimir Kolokoltsev,
Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
I demand that those detained during one-person pickets [these pickets do not require any permission from the authorities] in Moscow be immediately released and that you order to stop unlawful practices of detentions at one-person pickets.
Posted: March 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.03.2020
Apparently, the Kremlin’s special operation with respect to the Constitution has come to the finish line. With the help of the amendment proposed by the deputy-cosmonaut [Valentina Tereshkova], all the terms of the incumbent President are proposed to be “nullified” [or “reset”] so that Putin could remain in power for at least another 16 years. The President, certainly, agrees with everything. Further, the Constitutional Court will be obliged to recognise the “space amendment” as lawful (although in 1998 the same Constitutional Court considered “nullification” for Boris Yeltsin unlawful), then a plebiscite – and Putin will be forever. But the fact is that the whole procedure (invented in the Kremlin for finalisation of the irremovability of the president’s person) to amend the Basic Law of the Russian Federation in all its components is unlawful, illegal and does not comply with the current Constitution either in content or in form.
Posted: March 13th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 13.03.2020
The Yabloko party proposes to supplement the Constitution of the Russian Federation with a chapter on the electoral system, political parties and the rights of the opposition. Regional MPs from Yabloko introduced the corresponding bill to the legislative assemblies of six constituent entities of the Russian Federation – Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Astrakhan and Pskov regions, Karelia and the Khabarovsk Territory.
One of the norms of the new chapter prohibits the establishment of direct or indirect restrictions on the rights of citizens to be elected to bodies of state power and local self-government. The Constitution should establish the liability for direct or indirect coercion to vote, such actions by officials and organisations are proposed to be considered a crime.
Posted: March 13th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 13.03.2020
Yabloko deputies voted against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution during their consideration in the legislative assemblies of the regions.
In Karelia, the Khabarovsk Territory and the Pskov Region, votes against were cast only by Yabloko’s MPs. In the Moscow City Duma, the Yabloko faction was the only faction which did not support the nullification of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin and his other constitutional amendments.
Boris Vishnevsky in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Dmitry Anufriyev in the Duma of the Astrakhan region also voted “resetting” of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms and the constitutional amendments.
Here is what deputies from Yabloko said from the rostrums of the legislative assemblies:
Posted: March 13th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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