Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The Internet has been discussing the new series Chernobyl. They write that this is one of the most significant films not only about the catastrophe, but also about the USSR in general. As a contemporary of these events, I can say that all my friends and acquaintances who had at least some qualifications necessary to eliminate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went there. Most of them as volunteers. The highest human solidarity and dedication, by any measure, was demonstrated by dozens of thousands of people from all over the country in the struggle against the consequences of the catastrophe.
On Thursday, 6 June, Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky will meet with new Yabloko members in the Moscow office of Yabloko.
The meeting will be held as part of the #MakeYourVoiceLouder campaign. The Yabloko party has been conducting this campaign since February 2019. Over the past months, thousands of people have joined Yabloko across the country, hundreds of new members joined the party in Moscow.
On 2 June, activists of the Rostov branch of Yabloko traditionally came to the place of shooting of a peaceful demonstration of workers in the city of Novocherkassk in 1962, in order to honour the memory of the victims of the crime of the Soviet authorities.
On Tuesday, 11 June, Andrei Kosmynin, historian and adviser to Grigory Yavlinsky, will deliver a lecture “The History of Russia and its gears for Russia’s future”. The lecture be held in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg 2). The lecture will begin at 19:00.
On 1 June, 1, the Novgorod branch of Yabloko held a conference. The conference delegates re-elected Anna Cherepanova as Chairperson of the Novgorod branch, and Alexei Sabelsky and Oksana Sergeyeva as Vice-Chairs.
Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On conducting an experiment on the organisation and implementation of remote electronic voting at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the seventh convocation”.
The proposed system of remote electronic voting is a “black box”, which does not allow for ensuring the citizens’ right to secret voting. The source code of the system is closed. There are no guarantees that there are loopholes specially left inside the code, with the help of which voting results can be either identified or distorted.
In recent years, a number of leaders of the present Russian government began raising a question of the need to create and legislate a single ideology.
Now, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been switched to the promotion of this idea. An appeal has been made to introduce into the Constitution of the Russian Federation an article on a unified state ideology and begin a discussion that should result in the elaboration of such a unified state ideology, which would be mandatory for all.
On 29 May, Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova took part in a charitable event in support of Yuri Dmitriyev, historian, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, and one of the founders of the Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor memorial complexes where victims of Stalin’s reprisals are buried. Expeditions led by Dmitriyev discovered unknown places of mass burial of Stalin’s victims. Dmitriyev insisted that these places of burial should become memorial complexes. The authorities tried to prove that there had been no shootings of political prisoners, only several Red Army soldiers and officers were shot there by the Finns, and sent their special expedition to Sandarmokh. Historians, civil activists and relatives of the victims objected to this.
Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky, 27.05.2019
On May 27, 2019, Yevgeny Abramovich Bunimovich, member of the Federal Political Committee the of Yabloko party, Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, poet and teacher, turns 65. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, send Yevgeny Bunimovich greetings on his anniversary:
Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman and environmentalist, visited Kostroma on 23 May.
Rybakov met with Valentina Yamshchikova, deputy of the Kostroma City Council and Co-Chair of the regional ecological movement “In the Name of Life”. Rybakov and Yamshchikova discussed environmental problems of the Kostroma region and environmental protection measures implemented in the Kostroma region.
The bill on the direct election of the heads of Novgorod and heads of municipal districts was submitted to the Duma of Veliky Novgorod by Anna Cherepanova, MP of the Veliky Novgorod Duma and Chair of the Novgorod Yabloko. A similar bill was also submitted by the deputies of the Duma of the Okulovsky municipal district. The bill will be considered in June.
“An exceptionally corporate issue”. This is how the Kremlin explained the dismissal of journalists from the Kommersant newspaper for publishing an article about Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin [the paper wrote about possible dismissal of Matviyenko, Chair of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and her replacement by Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intellgent Service) However, this explanation refers, certainly, not only to relations within the newspaper’s editorial office. A corporation – this is how the Kremlin authorities imagine the Russian state. Therefore, the dismissal of Kommersant journalists represents a landmark event.
Inauguration of the new President of Ukraine is taking place in Kiev. Congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky and wishes of success to him. Endlessly difficult and dangerous work is in store for him.
MPs of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the initiative of Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Karelian parliament and Chair the Yabloko party, on punishment of for disrespect for human rights and freedoms.
It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, was sentenced in Russia to 20 years of strict regime on Putin’s personal order.
Alexei Karnaukhov, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, will launch the first educational anti-corruption course within the framework of the special project Academy. The project is initiated by Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre. The special project is devoted to the methodology of civil anti-corruption investigations from how to search for information to publication of the results.
Today Galina Shirshina, director of the Olonets Dairy Plant and ex-mayor of Petrozavodsk from Yabloko, celebrates his birthday. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, sends birthday greetings to Galina Shirshina:
On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery in Moscow
Press Release, 9.05.2019
On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery – the largest military burial in Moscow. The war should never happen again – that was the leitmotif of all the speeches at the memorial to the fallen soldiers.
