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
8.03.2019
I am pleased to congratulate all women on the International Women’s Day!
I wish all of us always be in peace and harmony with ourselves and external circumstances.
Wishing you love, beauty and joy! Happy holiday!
Emilia Slabunova,
Yabloko Chairperson
Posted: March 11th, 2019 under Greetings.
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Press Release, 5.03.2019
https://www.facebook.com/chelyabloko/videos/274095613484375/?t=0
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk-based branch of Yabloko, spoke at a rally in the city of Miass, at an ecoprotest action demanding to stop the construction of the Kruglogorsk mining and processing plant and prevent pollution of Lake Turgoyak. About 2,000 residents of the city participated in this rally.
Posted: March 11th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 6.03.2019
Deputies from United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the LDPR party excluded from the agenda of the plenary session of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg consideration of the legislative initiative of Yabloko “On the prohibition of the memorialization of Stalin and introduction of amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation”. Head of the Communist Party faction Olga Khodunova proposed not to consider the bill.
Posted: March 7th, 2019 under History, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The authorities must abolish reprisals against the dissenting
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 28.02.2019
Photo: Andrei Morev, municipal deputy from Yabloko and head of minicipality.
The Moscow authorities lost the municipal elections in 2017 in a number of [Moscow] districts, and began systematically intimidate municipal deputies. Pressure on municipal deputies is openly criminal and includes attacks, damage to property, threats to life and health, initiation of unmotivated administrative and criminal cases.
Thus, in September 2018, unidentified persons smashed the car of Vitaly Tretyukhin, municipal deputy in the Pechatniki District, and left a pig’s head in it. In May 2018, the car of Anastasia Muralova, municipal deputy of the municipal district of Izmailovo, was covered with indelible paint. Also in May, [unidentified persons] broke a glass in the car of Nadezhda Zagordan, municipal deputy of the Izmailovo municipality, and in September 2018, a pig’s head with a knife stuck in it was thrown under the door of her mother. In October 2018, the report of Irina Kopkina, municipal deputy of the Strogino District, was removed from the mailboxes of residents, and before that unidentified persons punctured tires of her son’s car. Tires of the car of Yulia Galyamina, municipal deputy, were also cut.
Posted: March 5th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko party’s Facebook page, 28.02.2019
https://www.facebook.com/yabloko.ru/videos/397593591084132/?t=4
Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder, Sergei Mitrokhin, ex Chairman of Yabloko, and party activists paid tribute to the memory of Boris Nemtsov four years after he was murdered by the Kremlin walls at Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Posted: February 28th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Nikolay Rybakov’s Facebook page, 27.02.2019
Today, four years after politician Boris Nemtsov was shot on the bridge by the Kremlin wall, people come to the site of his murder, where the so-called people’s memorial had been created by volunteers. The authorities refused to give a permission to create a memorial, so democratic people created a people’s memorial where everyone can bring flowers and candles in memory of Nemtsov. The volunteers guarding the people’s memorial regularly encounter attacks from “road workers” or “unidentified persons” who ruin the memorial. However, each time volunteers restore it.
Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, wrote on his Facebook page:
“Nemtsov Bridge, Boris Nemtsov Memorial. After the tragedy of 27 February, 2015, the volunteers I met today have been on duty for 1,461 days. These people protect the memory of Nemtsov, they demand to find those responsible for his murder. I agree with them and admire their civil courage. @ Nemtsov Bridge”
Posted: February 27th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 26.02.2019
Photo from memorial action of 2018
On Wednesday, 27 February, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party will lay flowers to the site of murder of politician Boris Nemtsov politician on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow.
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Press Release, 25.02.2019
The Yabloko party participated in the actions commemorating Boris Nemtsov. The actions took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other Russian cities on Sunday, 24 February, 2018.
In Moscow, Yabloko activists formed a column with a banner “Yabloko is the party of peace and is against war! ”. The column was headed by Grigory Yavlinsky, the party founder and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Party, Emilia Slabunova, Chair of Yabloko, Nikolay Rybakov, Deputy, Chairman of the party, Sergey Mitrokhin, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Valery Borshchyov, members of the Federal Political Committee.
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 25.02.2019
The Bashkir branch of Yabloko conducted a series of one-person pickets (that require to permission from the authorities) in the centre of Ufa, capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, demanding to protect residents of the city of Sibay from industrial and gas pollution.
Posted: February 25th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 22.02.2019
Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, recorded a video address to Yury Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in connection with prosecution of Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, by law enforcement agencies and criminals.
Posted: February 22nd, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 21.02.2019
Dear friends,
Unfortunately the situation is far from being calm and peaceful in Pskov.
Last morning, an unidentified man (allegedly an acting or former employee of the law enforcement or secret services) stuck a piece of paper on the sign of the public reception office of a deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly with physical threats addressed to me.
Unfortunately, in the context of a criminal attack on the Pskov Yabloko, such an action is not surprising. The instigators of the criminal case against Pskov Yabloko and me personally, and those who ordered this intruder to appear in front of our public reception office are the same people [though they can hardly be called ‘people’]. Such is politics in Russia today. Dirty people are doing it.
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Facebook page, 20.02.2019
1. [I ] have not heard about ending the war and the country’s development strategy for the future. Only a set of individual, very limited social measures and a big arms race.
2.[And there is] a question: Why most of these social measures could not be implemented within the past twenty years? Now, in the conditions of an arms race, even if they give something [to the people], they will take everything away [form the people] in the form of taxes and [rising] prices …
In general, in terms of promises, it all looks like the speech of the President, who was first elected a month ago.
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Economy.
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Ekho Moskvi radio station, 15.02. 2019
https://www.facebook.com/yabloko.ru/videos/vb.165523123474630/553820905137646/?type=2&theater
On 15 February, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and Yabloko founder, commented to the Ekho Moskvi radio station on a criminal case against the Pskov branch of Yabloko and Lev Shlosberg, Pskov Yabloko leader and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly.
Yavlinsky noted that the search in the Pskov branch of Yabloko and persecution its leader was a manifestation of the general weakening of power and its increasingly aggressive attempts to preserve itself and create the conditions for a further toughening of the political regime, as opposed to the emerging possibilities for change in the era of the general political crisis in Russia.
“… An unprecedented thing happened there: a police attack on the Yabloko office, searches and seizure [of hard disks and documents], this is the first time that police and Federal Security Service (FSB) attack an opposition political party, this is an unprecedented event in history, this is the beginning of a new phase.
They believe that they can search, intimidate and suppress with impunity the activities of the opposition party and Lev Shlosberg deputy of the Regional [legislative] Assembly. These are actions targeted personally at intimidation of Lev Shlosberg and suppression of the activities of the opposition party.
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairperson, 19.02.2019
Photo: Andrei Morev
The Yabloko party expresses serious concern over the fact that Andrei Morev, Moscow municipal deputy from Yabloko, was summoned for interrogation to the Investigation Committee of the Yakimanka district of Moscow.
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 19.02.2019
Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko party Chairperson and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, asked Karen Gabrielyan, Public Prosecutor General of Karelia, to check on the new criteria for evaluating the work of doctors.
On 14 January, 2019, the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Karelia established new indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of district physicians, general practitioners and departments heads. According to the new criteria, their work is recognised as effective if there were no more than ten ambulance calls and no more than two deaths in their district per month.
Posted: February 19th, 2019 under Healthcare, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019
The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of the Crimea, the war in the Donbas, threats to Ukraine, the war in defense of the Assad regime, and endless spy scandals. It has been clear for a long time that this course leads to a deadlock (see “A Conscious Choice?” Novaya Gazeta, February 2015). Over the past four years, the situation has become much worse.
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Actions will be held this Sunday, 24 February
Press Release, 18.02.2019
Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committees of the Boris Nemtsov March in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These actions paying tribute to the memory to the politician shot on the bridge opposite the Kremlin four years ago will be held this Sunday, 24 February.
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Statement, 14.02.2019
The Yabloko party expresses a categorical protest against the search conducted by the Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region in the premises of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 13 February.
A politically motivated forceful persecution of opposition political parties, use of a police repressive machine against legal political opposition is an anti-constitutional act. This is another shameful illustration of the unwise policies of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime, which suppresses any civic activism.
Posted: February 15th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Press release, 13.02.2019
The Investigation Committee is conducting a search in the office of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party, as Dmitry Permyakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch confirmed to the Press Service.
Posted: February 14th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Press Release, 12.02.2019
The Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party appealed to the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region with a request to check on the facts given in an interview with Inna Dozorova, the former head of the Saratov Kindergarten N 83, where she told that she had had to participate in the election fraud on the order of the administration of the Leninsky district of Saratov. Dozorova described specific fraud mechanisms and gave the names of the organisers of the crime.
“For the first time it was publicly confirmed what everyone participating in the elections in the region in a particular status knows and which was reflected in our party’s numerous statements on the results of the past election campaigns,” runs the statement of the Saratov branch of Yabloko.
Posted: February 13th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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