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, 23.04.2019
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted for public discussion the first version of his programme for the election of the governor of St. Petersburg. Vishnevsky plans to amend his programme in accordance with proposals and comments of St. Petersburg residents.
Posted: April 25th, 2019 under Gubernatorial Elections, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.04.2019
Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, sent a message of congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine in Ukrainian and Russian.
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Greetings, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.04.2019
According to public opinion polls, the attitude of over 50 per cent of Russians to Joseph Stalin is somewhat positive. This is not surprising. Stalin’s methods of governing based on fear and lies were maintained under Leonid Brezhnev and country leaders after him. Mikhail Gorbachev abolished this practice. But then, not yet overcome, Bolshevism with its “goal justifies the means” and indifference to the life, dignity and destiny of man, formed the basis of the reforms of the 1990s, which gave rise to the mafia state. And in the 2000s, capitalism with a Stalinist face emerged on the basis of this “market Bolshevism”: lawlessness, authoritarian rule, contingent property law, dullness in power, and corruption, which was deliberately laid in the foundation of all relations in the country, so that to serve as a universal charge for arrest for anyone at any time (just like “anti-Soviet activities of the enemies of the people and spying for world imperialism” in [Joseph Stalin’s] 1930s).
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under History, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019
They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 22.04.2019
On 20 April, a rally of the city opposition was held in Vologda under the slogan “We demand!”. The speakers demanded that the authorities abolish their tariffs for garbage collection and revise their project for improvement of the Vologda embankment.
Members of the Vologda branch of Yabloko took part in the rally.
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Press Release, 18.04.2019
The documentary “The Optimists” was filmed at the end of 2018 and is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko party. The protagonists tell not only about the history and formation of Yabloko, but also recollect the key events in the history of Russia for the past 25 years.
Posted: April 21st, 2019 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Press Release, 18.04.2019
Yabloko’s friendly non-governmental organisation the Sisters Centre, which is engaged in helping victims of sexual violence, turned 25 years old.
For all these years, the unique Sisters Centre was providing professional psychological and legal support to women in difficult situations and conducted seminars and round tables teaching psychologists and lawyers how to provide help and open same centres.
Posted: April 20th, 2019 under Gender Faction.
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Press Release, 18.04.2019
Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
On 16 April, Yabloko held a discussion on the Concept of reforming the electoral system of the Russian Federation. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, member of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia in 1999–2016, head of the Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko Party and member of its Federal Political Committee, presented draft amendments to the electoral legislation.
Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Elections.
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Press Release, 16.04.2019
Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket.
Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Baltiysk.
Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.04.2019
The power struggle between the groupings [in power] seems to be gaining momentum. Last week, Public Prosecutor General attacked simultaneously the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Investigative Committee and the Interior Ministry. It followed from the report of [Public Prosecutor General] Yuri Chaika that the number of corrupt officials in the aforementioned law enforcement agencies increased during the year, while the FSB held the palm with a twofold increase the number of identified corrupt employees during the year.
Posted: April 18th, 2019 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, 17.04.2019
Photo: Organisers of the action: Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Valery Borschyov
Valery Borshchyov and Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights activists and members of the Yabloko party, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office to hold a march in the city centre on 1 May “The First of May Against Torture and Discrimination”.
Posted: April 17th, 2019 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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Press Release, 15.04.2019
Photo: Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov
The authorities of Ingushetia continue searches and arrests after the March rallies in Magas against the border agreement with Chechnya. Protest leaders Ahmed Barakhoyev, Barakh Chemurziyev and Musa Malgasov have already been arrested for two months. Today, the law enforcement accompanied by military equipment (!) came to the house of Magomed Mutsolgov, journalist and one of the most respected human rights defenders of the North Caucasus, to make a search there.
Posted: April 16th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 15.04.2019
Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
On Tuesday, 16 April, the Yabloko party will discuss with representatives of other political parties and political technologists its proposals on the reform of the electoral system.
The round table where the Concept of Reforming the Electoral System of the Russian Federation will be presented will be held in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The Concept was developed by Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives headed by Yelena Dubrovina.
Posted: April 15th, 2019 under Elections.
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Press Release, 11.04.2019
A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).
Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018.
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Press Release, 11.04.2019
Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk
Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day.
Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned 90 hours of compulsory work. The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk found him guilty of violation of Article 20.2 Part 3 of the Administrative Code (“Actions of the organiser of the rally that caused interference with the functioning of vital infrastructure, transport or social infrastructure”)
The court also fined Yuri Chesnokov 16,000 for violation of Part 1 of the same article (“Violation by the organiser of the established order of the organisation of a public event”).
Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 10.04.2019
Prosecution of the organisers and participants of the anti-garbage rally of 7 April goes on in Arkhangelsk.
On the evening of 10 April, Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the environmental protest in Arkhangelsk and member of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party, was detained for the third time.
Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 10.04.2019
The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia unanimously supported the draft federal law on the right of the family to teach all children in one school. The draft law was developed by Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Yabloko Chairperson. The initiative was sent to the Council of Legislators at the Russian parliament.
Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Education and Science, Human Rights.
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Yabloko Deputy Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the rally
Press Release, 8.04.2019
On Sunday, 7 April, a rally against the “garbage reform” was held in Yekaterinburg. The action was organized by the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. Residents are dissatisfied with the unreasonable increase of tariffs for waste disposal and lack of introduction of separate collection of the waste.
Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Shlosberg’s draft laws envisage for public persons fines up to 1 million roubles, compulsory community service up to 200 hours, or administrative arrest of up to 30 days
Press Release, 9.04.2019
Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov regional parliament, head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, published the texts of a package of bills “On disrespect of authorities to the people”, which he plans to submit to the State Duma through the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. The legislative initiatives of Lev Shlosberg were developed jointly with Yabloko lawyers in in response to the government’s law “On disrespect for authorities”, also known as the “Senator Klishas’ law”.
Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky
8.04.2019
Alexei Melnikov, economist, columnist and member of the Yabloko party turns 55 on 8 April. Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the party, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, congratulate him on this anniversary:
Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Greetings.
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