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, 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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Statement by the Public Constitutional Council
Novaya Gazeta, 11.03.2020
The decision on Putin’s irremovability as President of the Russian Federation, adopted at his proposal by the State Duma today, represents usurpation of power. This decision is unconstitutional.
The cancellation of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin, that is, allowing Putin to be in the post of President for another 12 or 16 years under the pretext of amending the Constitution, is nothing more than a gross violation of the current Basic Law and cynical neglect of Russian laws.
Posted: March 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 12.03.2020
Photo: Alexander Gontcharenko picketing the Altai Territory Legislative Assembly in Barnaul
On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party are conducting one-person pickets (that do not require any permission from the authorities) against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The pickets are held on the day of the approval of Putin’s constitutional amendments by regional parliaments. Yabloko conducts one-person pickets by the buildings of legislative assemblies and regional dumas in more than 50 regions. In Yekaterinburg, Sergei Khorenzhenko, Chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko, was detained at a picket by the police despite that fact that it was one-person picket that did not require a permission from the authorities.
Posted: March 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 11.03.2020
On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party will picket against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The pickets will be held on the day of the approval of Putin’s constitutional amendments by regional parliaments. Yabloko will picket the buildings of legislative assemblies and regional dumas in 47 regions:
Posted: March 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 11.03.2020
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov picketing by the State Duma
Today, on 11 March, Yabloko holds pickets by the State Duma and the Federation Council against usurpation of power by Vladimir Putin. It is expected that the parliament will finally approve amendments to the Constitution today, including resetting of the presidential term for Vladimir Putin.
Posted: March 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 10.03.2020
Tomorrow, on March 11, the Yabloko party will hold a series of one-person pickets (that do not require a permission from the authorities) by the State Duma (Okhotny Ryad 1) and the Federation Council (Bolshaya Dmitrovka 26) against the reset of Putin’s presidential terms and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President.
The pickets will start at 9 a.m.
Posted: March 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leaders on early parliamentary elections and new presidential election rules
Press Release, 10.03.2020
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the picket near the State Duma on March 10, 2020
Yabloko leaders held pickets outside the parliament building during today’s consideration by the State Duma of Putin’s constitutional amendments in the second reading. They protested both against the President’s proposals and against the unlawful procedure for their approval. Meanwhile, the deputies have already proposed holding early State Duma elections and resetting the presidential term for Vladimir Putin.
Posted: March 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 6.03.2020
Galina Mikhaleva, Chairwoman of the Yabloko Party’s Gender Faction, spoke at the round table on gender equality issues with the topic “Socio-Economic Transformation in Russia (1990 – 2020) and the Status of Women”. The round table was held as part of the Sixth International Film Festival “Eight Women” with the support of the Zhournalistka club (Woman-Journalist) co-chaired by Nadezhda Azhgikhina.
Posted: March 10th, 2020 under Gender Faction, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 5.03.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Dmitry Makhonin, acting Governor of the Perm Territory, as well as the Dmitry Samoilov, Mayor of Perm, with a proposal to rename the square of Rosalia Zemlyachka to Boris Nemtsov Square.
Earlier, participants of the Perm rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which was held on February 29, made a similar proposal.
Posted: March 6th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Bureau of the Regional Council of Altai branch of Yabloko, 5.03.2020
Russia is experiencing a political crisis associated with an attempt to change the spirit and letter of the Constitution, growth of reprisals in the country, [all this] against the backdrop of ongoing foreign policy adventurism (in eastern Ukraine and Syria) and stagnation in the economy. The social consequences of this are most noticeable in the regions subsidized from the state budget, such as the Altai Territory, where real incomes of the population have been falling for the seventh year.
Posted: March 5th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.03.2020
The President submitted to the State Duma a package of his amendments to the Constitution. In a week, the presidential amendments will be approved by the deputies, then by the Federation Council and regional legislative assemblies, and on 22 April they will be supported by a majority in the All-Russian plebiscite.
Video: Speech by Grigory Yavlinsky at a meeting of the Public Constitutional Council, February 2020
However, Putin’s amendments are aimed at consolidating of a fundamentally different concept of the Russian state in the Basic Law of the country. Instead of the democratic socially oriented state stipulated by the current Constitution, an unlawful model of a closed nomenclature-bureaucratic corporate state of a mafia type with the ideology of demagogic patriotism is unlawfully imposed on the country.
Posted: March 4th, 2020 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.03.2020
On 29 February, the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko took part in a rally of Ufa residents against unreasonably high prices for heating. Over 500 people took part in the action.
Posted: March 4th, 2020 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 3.03.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to the Mayors of Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl and Sochi, as well as to the Governors of St. Petersburg, the Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions and the Krasnodar Territory with a proposal to give one of the objects in these cities the name of Boris Nemtsov.
Posted: March 3rd, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.03.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a package of Yabloko amendments to the Constitution to the President, Speakers of the State Duma and the Federation Council, as well as to the heads of relevant committees of both houses of the parliament. It included four bills that the party had previously submitted through regional legislative assemblies, as well as two new laws on constitutional amendments regarding prohibition of mercenarism and the transition to a contract army, and fixing in the Constitution that torture is a grave crime.
Posted: March 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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