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, 21.10.2019
The branch of Yabloko in Tatarstan will hold a rally against political reprisals. The action will be held in Kazan on 2 November and is dedicated to the day of memory of victims of political reprisals, as well as the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists. The action starts at 13.00.
Posted: October 21st, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Members of the Yabloko party came out on one-person pickets
Press Release, 19.10.2019
On Friday, October 18, one-person pickets (that do not require permissions from the authorities) were organised by the Association of Independent Municipal Deputies. Picketing took place by metro stations at the end of the working day. The purpose of the action was to draw attention to unlawfully convicted participants in summer rallies for fair elections, the so-called defendants in the “Moscow riots case”. Yabloko also joined the action in support of political prisoners.
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova went out with the banner “Freedom for Political Prisoners” to Akademicheskaya metro station. She said that the true defendants in criminal cases should be those who participated in the rigging of the elections, who did not allow opposition candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma, refused to give permissions for peaceful rallies, pickets, marches and demonstrations, and denied citizens the realisation of their constitutional rights. “The “Moscow riots case” is a completely shameful page in Russian history. All political prisoners must be immediately released,” Slabunova emphasised.
Posted: October 21st, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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yavlinsky.ru, 17.10.2019
Question: What is “Putinism” and is it true that it is such a “political life hack”, as they write about it now?
Grigory Yavlinsky: “Putinism” means contempt for a person and his/her dignity, suppression of freedom, instilling fear, corruption, ignoring international law and increasing confrontation with developed countries of the world.
Posted: October 17th, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, 17.10.2019
Yelena Dubrovina, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, head of the Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party, honored lawyer of Russia, candidate of legal sciences and member of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia in 1999-2017, took part in the Ural Forum of Constitutional Law Experts, held in Yekaterinburg on 10-11 October, 2019. in her speech at the plenary meeting Dubrovina outlined the key problems of the electoral system of Russia, such as:
Posted: October 17th, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Press Release, 16.10.2019
Daria Bolshakova, member of the Yabloko party and activist of the Kaliningrad branch of the Russian Feminist Association ONA, was found guilty of organising a mass rally without notifying the authorities (Article 20.2 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation), having awarded her a fine of 10,000 roubles. Daria Bolshakova and her defenders plan to appeal the decision.
Posted: October 17th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Press Release, 17.10.2019
Today, Yevgeny Bunimovich, Yabloko deputy of the Moscow City Duma and member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and an initiative group of residents brought to the Moscow Mayor’s Office signatures of Muscovites for preservation of the park and creation of a cultural centre in Khovrino presenting Moscow with the goal of preserving the park and creating a socio-cultural centre instead of the former Khovrino hospital which was abandoned and then pulled down.
Posted: October 17th, 2019 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Press Release, 16.10.2019
Members and supporters of the Omsk branch of Yabloko took part in an environmental rally against urban air pollution. The protest rally was organised with the support of Tatyana Nagibina, Chair of the regional branch of the party.
The rally participants demanded that the authorities find sources of harmful emissions into the atmosphere, hold those responsible for air pollution accountable, and also opposed the construction of new hazardous chemical plants for the production of phenol in Omsk. It should be noted that 380 people signed under the resolution of the rally.
Posted: October 16th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 15.10.2019
Today, the Moscow Region Court considered the appeal on the measure of restraint in the case of Yevgeny Kurakin, head of the branch of Yabloko in Reutov, the Moscow Region. The court ruled out to return the case to the preliminary hearing stage to the Reutov court (the court of the first instance), and the decision to return the case to the public prosecutor was canceled.
The criminal case of fraud under of Article 159 Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was instituted against Kurakin back in 2012, but for all these years the investigation failed to provide convincing evidence of his guilt. The activist spent 18 months in a pre-trial detention centre and was released only after a security deposit of three million roubles was paid. In September 2019, Kurakin planned to run for election to the city Council of Deputies. Simultaneously with the decision to participate in the elections, his release on bail was canceled and replaced by detention, allegedly because of his reluctance to read the case file.
Video: Trial over Yevgeny Kurakin, bailiffs beat the public and the press who came to the hearings to support Kurakin.
Posted: October 16th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.10.2019
Konstantin Kotov was sentenced to four years [in a penal colony]. The defender of the Constitution and the rights of citizens of Russia, who has not committed any crime, will be in prison. Yesterday, the Moscow City Court upheld this decision. Neither the arguments of twelve lawyers, nor guarantors, nor even the Constitution of the Russian Federation could change anything. Because there is a political decision: Kotov should be in prison. So that to intimidate and frighten all.
Yesterday, four more [young people] were arrested within the “Moscow riots case”: Barshai, Emelyanova, Lesnykh, Martintsova. Two more managed to escape before the arrest.
Posted: October 15th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Press Release, 14.10.2019
About 4,000 residents of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, came to the rally against the appointment of Dmitry Trapeznikov (who used to be Chair of the Council of Ministers of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine) acting the head of the administration of Elista. The Kalmyk branch of Yabloko was one of the organisers of the rally.
Posted: October 14th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 9.10.2019
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko has prepared a bill on the return of direct elections of the Mayor of Chelyabinsk, the capital of the region. The regional branch plans to introduce its legislative initiative in the regional Legislative Assembly through Yelena Vakhtina, head of the Yabloko faction in the Council of Deputies of the Central District of Chelyabinsk, for this the Council should support the party’s initiative.
In addition, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, called on municipal deputies from other district councils to join the Yabloko’s initiative.
Posted: October 14th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 10.10.2019
Two more prisoners of conscience appeared in Russia: in Rostov-on-Don 19-year-old Yan Sidorov and 22-year-old Vladislav Mordasov were sentenced was sentenced to six years and six months and six years and six months in a maximum security colony respectively. On November 5, 2017, they were detained at a picket dedicated to local problems: return of land to fire victims. They have been being persecuted for deciding to use their constitutional right to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly.
Posted: October 14th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 10.10.2019
A series of one-person pickets (which require no permission from the authorities) in defense of political prisoners Yan Sidorov, Vladislav Mordasov and Vyacheslav Shashmin took place in Rostov-on-Don. Members of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko and residents of the city in turn went out with posters into the street. Mothers of Yan and Vladislav also took part in the picketing.
Posted: October 11th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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9.10.2019
Today Boris Nemtsov could have turned 60. In February 2015, Boris was killed, shot right by the walls of the Kremlin…
We have known each other since 1990. We worked together, were friends. Boris was a very sincere and very free person. In recent years, he openly, vividly and sharply opposed the authorities. And that is why President Putin bears political responsibility for the murder of Nemtsov.
Posted: October 11th, 2019 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 4.10.2019
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky
On Thursday, October 3, an auction in support of political prisoners was held in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. The main partner of the action was the portal delo212.ru of the initiative group Case 212, where you can find detailed information about the prisoners of the so-called “Moscow riots case” and transfer money to assist them. Journalists, politicians, actors, public figures, scientists, and even the defendants were selling their works at the auction.
Posted: October 4th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Statement by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 1.10.2019
An unidentified person attacked Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party and the deputy of the City Duma, at the entrance to Mayor’s Office, before the meeting of the Novgorod Duma on the morning of September 26. The man poured white powder on her.
The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party regards this attack as an act of political pressure on the opposition party and personally on MP Anna Cherepanova. This represents a reaction to the effective political work of Novgorod Yabloko, as its results are confirmed by a significant increase in the support of party candidates in the elections and growth in the number of supporters in different disrticts of the region.
Posted: October 2nd, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, 29.09.2019
The Yabloko party supported the rally for the release of political prisoners, which was held in Sakharov Prospect in Moscow today. Grigory Yavlinsky took part in the action, and Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, addressed the rally from the stage.
Posted: October 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Posted: September 30th, 2019 under Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 24.09.2019
The Kirov branch of Yabloko participated in the rally “For Environmental Rights” conducted within the All-Russian Day of Environmental Protest. Activists and supporters of the Yabloko party, including Polina Klyucharova, Alexander Amosov and Arthur Abashev, took part in the action. The rally participants opposed the construction of the Maradykovsky complex for processing chemical weapons and a landfill in the Arkhangelsk region.
Posted: September 26th, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Deutsche Welle, 24.09.2019
Deutsche Welle talked with Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of the Yabloko party and Doctor of Economics, about why the Russian Federation adopted the Paris climate agreement and what consequences it will have for society and the economy.
Deutsche Welle: Grigory Alexeyevich, more than three years have passed between the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement by Russia and its adoption. Do you think that the sudden acceleration of work in this area is really connected with the aggravated environmental problems in the country, or is there some other underlying reason?
Grigory Yavlinsky: I think that this is a political decision and it was not adopted that quickly. The point is that Vladimir Putin is ready to take a variety of measures to raise his own popularity. He does not change the situation with Crimea, Ukraine and in other matters. You know what happened in Moscow in the summer, how many people were persecuted for political reasons. And the topic of climate change is in fact fashionable, popular. Why should not he take such a step to please people? And besides, the topic of climate is a civilisational issue. People who understand the value of environmental protection are people of a higher cultural organisation. The lower is the level of culture, the less is understanding of climate issues. So Putin decided to demonstrate that he is well civilised in order to gain popularity in this way.
Posted: September 26th, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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