Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Now [we have learned that] the Russian military “are not yet” in Libya. They were not in Crimea in February 2014. And they have not been in Donbas for all these four years. They have left Syria for three times already. They are not [to be found] in the Central African Republic…
But there is a cemetery in the Leningrad region with a thousand of fresh graves under the numbers without names. There are, probably, [such cemeteries] in other places too… There are endless lies.
Now it is clear that Putin meant by the “positive picture” in our economy. Russian billionaires are world leaders in terms of growth rates! In 2018, the fortunes of the ten richest people in Russia grew by 10.8 per cent, and this is more than any other billionaire in the world! American oligarchs have fallen behind – they have 7.5 per cent, while the British have some shameful 3.4 per cent.
And you say “sanctions”.
Our congratulations to the winners of the “capitalist competition” [Russian oligarchs] Mikhelson, Timchenko and Alekperov!
Press release, 19.10.2018
Today Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, proposed a new stage of the party development. Yabloko should become the party that puts moral, ethical and intellectual principles first.
“In the situation when absolute cynicism and total lies prevail, we need to offer the society an alternative. This has a practical meaning. One of the major reasons for the recent economic problems is lies and cynicism in economic relations, the loss of trust and deceit,” Yavlinsky said. Read more »
A politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky launched a new website dedicated to his presidential election campaign and his new books at ceremony that took place in Yabloko office in Moscow. Yavlinsky answered the questions of the audience and signed autographs.Read more »
On 29 October, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will take part in the Returning the Names memorial action. They will pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals by the Solovetsky stone.Read more »
Grigory Yavlinsky: Young students were killed [in a college] in Kerch [Crimea]. Terrible pain. My deepest condolences to relatives and friends and strength and health to the wounded.
Emilia Slabunova: At least 10 people died and another 50 were injured in the explosion in a college in Kerch. My condolences to the families and friends of the victims. I am wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
Children are vicitms of grownups’ vices. Let the memory of those killed in Kerch be blessed.
We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has been clear from the beginning, and there was an alternative.
Press release based on a statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 16.10.2018
The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko released a statement putting forward an initiative to reintroduce mayoral runoff elections. The statement was addressed to Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and city parliament MPs. Read more »
On 22 October, Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy will hold a round table on the safety of municipal deputies in Moscow.
Yabloko deputies who were elected to municipal councils in September 2017 have faced pressure on behalf of their opponents, government representatives and law enforcement. Read more »
On 12 October, Yabloko activists delivered reports on the work carried out by Yabloko municipal deputy Irina Kopkina in Moscow’s Strogino District over the course of a year. Later that evening local residents posted on social media that representatives of Zhilishchnilk, a state funded institution responsible for housing and utilities services, were supposedly taking away the reports from mail boxes. Some local residents were outraged by this action – they called Irina Kopkina and told her about what had happened.Read more »
A few days ago, Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, said that it is necessary to “pinpoint changes” to the Russian Constitution in order to eliminate the shortcomings of the Fundamental Law of the Russian Federation.
Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair and an MP in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, introduced a bill on the repeal of the municipal filter in the gubernatorial elections. Read more »
New district electoral commissions which will function over the course of the next five years will be soon formed in Moscow. Yabloko calls upon the party supporters to put their candidacies for election commission members forward. Read more »
Anna Cherepanova, a Yabloko MP in the Veliky Novgorod city parliament, put forward an initiative on the reintroduction of direct mayoral elections.Read more »
We demand a political reform and the cancellation of the municipal filter Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 11.10.2018
Election campaigns of different levels, including gubernatorial elections in 25 regions of Russia, took place in September 2018. As a result, 19 new governors were elected with the support of United Russia, 2 with the support of LDPR, 1 – The Communist Party, 1 – Just Russia. Runoff elections in two regions will be held later.Read more »
A rally to commemorate Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta journalist, was held in St. Petersburg on 8th October. She was murdered at an entrance hall of the apartment where she lived in Moscow on 7 October, 2006.Read more »
On the night of 4 to 5 October, unidentified persons punctured the tires in the car of the son of Irina Kopkina, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in the Moscow district of Strogino. This has become the second attack on the car of the family of the deputy for the past few months. Kopkina associates the incident with her activities as a municipal deputy.Read more »
by Svetlana Prokudina, specially for the website, 7.10.2018
Today Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova celebrates her birthday. Emilia Edgardovna dedicated many years of her life to Petrozavodsk [capital of the Republic of Karelia] where she started her career as a teacher. Later she became the headmaster of a lyceum and a candidate for the city mayor. Today Emilia Deputy is Yabloko Chair and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia. The anniversary of the party head coincides with in important date in the history of the organisation – the 25th anniversary of Yabloko’s foundation. Emilia Slabunova gave an interview to Yabloko.ru where she recalls her first steps in politics and names the main goals of the party.Read more »
On 7 October, on the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised a flash mob “For the Raising of…” in the city.
The name of the action is connected with the recent law on raising the retirement age, which was adopted by both the chambers of the Russian parliament – the State Duma and the Federation Council – and was signed by the President of Russia. Yabloko activists asked the flash mob participants to sign greeting cards for the President and write their ideas of “raising it” on balloons.Read more »
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 10.10.2018
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