Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Emilia Slabunova to meet the staff of the music college that is being evicted from its premises and make a speech at a rally against closing the hospital in Shimsk Press release, 24.01.2019
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will arrive in Veliky Novgorod for a two days business trip.
On 25th January Yabloko Chair will have a meeting with students of a local music college and their parents. They are protesting against the eviction of the college from the premises that have been using since 1959. The staff of the college is concerned that some musical instruments are too fragile to be transported. What is more, their new premises is not suitable for a college – it is smaller and it is not soundproof. Read more »
On 23 January, Juan Guaido, leader of the Venezuelan opposition parliament, declared himself acting President of the country. This happened in Caracas during a demonstration when many thousands people protested against President Nicolás Maduro, and a disastrous economic situation developed in Venezuela during his presidency.Read more »
Irina Safronova, Chair of the Rostov branch of Yabloko, came to a court hearing on what measure of restraint was to be applied for Anastasia Shevchenko, an activist of the Open Russia organisation. Anastasia is accused of being an active member of an organisation which is classed as “undesirable” in Russia.Read more »
Such decision was adopted at the general meeting of the Moscow Helsinki Group on 21 January
Press Release, 22.01.2019
Three Co-Chairs of the Moscow Helsinki Group were elected at the general meeting of the organisation. Valery Borschyov, leader of Yabloko’s Human Rights Faction and member of the Human Rights Council of Russia, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, founder of the Sakharov Centre, and Dmitry Makarov, Co-Chairman of the coordinating council of the international Youth Human Rights Movement, were elected Co-Chairs of the Group.Read more »
Yabloko Deputy Chair on the top-down policy of the Kremlin and the creation of the all-Russia waste operator Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post at the Echo Moskvy website, 18.01.2019
It seems that everyone has finally understood what the reform of the municipal solid waste treatment is about and why it is not going to be effective. However, we have another thing coming – the all-Russia environment operator. This structure was created following the presidential decree of 14th January. The organisation will be responsible for the formation of a complex system of MSW treatment. Read more »
On 29th January, Yabloko will hold a lecture “Urban Policy in the Baltic States. Life-hacks for Moscow and Russia”.
We will find out:
– The first “green” president in Europe: who is this person and why they will not be reelected
– How Perestroika and the Singing Revolution gave a start to the environmental movement in the Baltic States
– What is wrong with Estonian oil shale and Latvian nuclear powerRead more »
The City Hall of the Shimsk municipal district, the Novgorod Region, authorised Yabloko’s rally against healthcare optimisation and the closure of the local hospital. The protest action will take place on 26th January. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will make a speech at the rally. Read more »
Statements of the Saratov regional branch of Yabloko on the situation in Russia’s health care in connection with the attempt of the authorities to close Children’s Out-Patient Hospital No 10 in Saratov
The practices of “optimisation” of health care institutions go on in Saratov, these come down to reduction of the number of medical institutions, hospital beds, reduction of the number of doctors and increase of the work load on medical personnel.Read more »
For a month now Trump has refused to approve any budget that does not include funds for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. The democrats have rejected his request for the allocation of USD 5.7 billion for these purposes. As a result, the American government has not been functioning all this time.
This is the longest shutdown of the US government in the country’s history. Approximately a quarter of the federal government stands idle. Funds have not been allocated for the salaries of 800,000 employees. In January all these people, including prison guards, airport employees and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have not received their first salary of the year. Owing to the shutdown, some international airports have been forced to close their terminals: as a result of the government shutdown, the security services have experienced significant shortages of manpower. And even though the employees of the security services are on the federal payroll and vested with particular responsibilities, and are required to work by law even if they are not paid their salaries, according to the US mass media a number of them have taken sick leave as a mark of protest against the situation. The most dangerous consequences of the shutdown arise from the partial suspension of the operations of the US Food and Drug Administration, with 41% of its employees forced to stay at home.Read more »
Today Yabloko activists and leaders have laid flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed – at 3 Prechistinka Ulitsa.
“Nationalism and neo-Nazism are a serious threat to public security,” Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, said.
The politician recalled Markelov’s speech two months before he was murdered. He said we all needed protection from terror: from a mafia state, neo-Nazis and fascism, lawlessness. He said that nobody would stand up for us but ourselves.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 13.01.2019
Grigory Yavlinsky on the hidden causes of the global financial crisis
At the end of 2018 global stock markets fell to their lowest levels in December since the Great Recesson at the end of the 1920s. In 2018 world markets lost almost $7 trillion.
Ten years have passed since the global financial crisis. However, a number of the key causes and factors of the crisis have still not been understood and eliminated. On the contrary, the impact of these factors has intensified as a result of the expansion of the new economy and dissemination of information and t digital technologies.
The following issues are the key problems of the contemporary global economy that are the hidden causes of the crises that the government of the world’s leading countries don’t want to resolve: Read more »
Boris Vishnevsky, Yabloko MP in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, addressed Andrei Bakumenko, head of the National Guard Troops in St. Petersburg, with a suggestion to commission the service to shovel snow in the city instead of dispersing rallies and pickets.
In his letter Vishnevsky writes that there is a serious problem with the removal of snow and ice in the city. This situation not simply causes inconvenience but creates a threat to people’s health. There is a lack of cleaners and special equipment. Mass media writes that school teachers were commissioned to shovel snow in the areas where social infrastructure facilities are situated. Read more »
Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were murdered ten years ago Press release, 16.01.2019
On 19th January, Yabloko activists and leaders will lay flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by – at 1 Prechistinka Ulitsa.
Ten years ago Markelov and Baburova were murdered in the centre of Moscow in plain daylight on 19 January 19, 2009, shot in the head. Neo-Nazis Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis were rested in 2009 on suspicion of murder. In 2011 Tikhonov was sentenced to life imprisonment, Khasis was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In 2015 Ilya Goryachev, leader of a nationalist group “BORN”, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Read more »
Yabloko condemns harassment and discrimination of citizens on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
Statement, 15.01.2019
Since late December 2018, persecution of LGBT people has resumed in the Chechen Republic. According to the Russian LGBT Network, about 40 people were detained, two of whom died of torture.
For the first time, information about participation of law enforcement agencies of the Republic in the systematic prosecution and murder of homosexuals and bisexuals was made public in 2017, but yet the Russian authorities have not conducted an investigation into the crimes committed, despite irrefutable evidence. Thus, the leadership of Russia created the conditions for continuation of violence against Russian citizens. Read more »
Grigory Yavlinsky on the upcoming negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe and the dispute over the Kuril Islands
Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Moscow to prepare the visit of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the negotiations in late January, Shinzo Abe and Vladimir Putin will discuss the issue of concluding a peace treaty [between Russia and Japan, which the USSR and Japan failed to conclud after the Second World War]. The task is to agree on a formula for resolving a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan and come close to defining the specific framework of a future treaty. Real information – and often just hysterical – battles have developed around this issue recently.Read more »
Statement by the Federal Council No 56, 14.01.2019
Every day people in Russia and around the world fear more and more that there is a possibility of a big war with an enormous number of victims as new provocative resistance, conflicts, use and demonstration of military force, including the strategic weapons, emerge.Read more »
The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will hold a rally to protest against the government plan to cut expenses on healthcare in the city of Shimsk. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will participate in the rally that will take place on 26th January.
According to Chair of the regional party branch Anna Cherepanova, the participants of the demonstration will protect the constitutional rights of people to have health protection. They will demand that the regional government cancel the design to close the twenty-four-hour in-patient department of the Shimsk central hospital.Read more »
Yabloko Deputy Chair Sergei Ivanenko celebrates his birthday today. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova and Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky send their greetings:
Sergei Victorovich, you are one of those politicians who people associate Yabloko with. You are well-educated, composed, you are an excellent speaker, an intelligent and noble person who can have a way with any interlocutor and by no means give up on your convictions.
We are sure that you will make a great contribution to the development of democracy in our country.
Statement by the Federal Council No 51, 28.12.2018
The Yabloko party is one of the most experienced political organisations in the country: We have been standing up for the vales of freedom, peace, responsibility, human dignity and respect for people for 25 years. These values make thousands of people come to us. We founded Yabloko as a democratic opposition to the policy of Boris Yeltsin with his dishonest privatisation and irresponsible policy of the government in the 90s. We developed and offered reforms for the majority, we expressed and protected the interests of citizens in their resistance to the corrupt state machine, we preserved out party in the environment of a tough authoritarian regime. In the hardest times we were ready to sacrifice political dividends and personal prospects to honestly help our country become a modern, competitive, prosperous, and secure, to give the society a real choice.Read more »
The Moscow City Duma rejected the bill of independent municipal deputies, expanding the powers of municipal councils. The authors of the bill proposed to give the Councils of Deputies of Moscow the right to approve the appointment and dismissal of heads of councils in municipal districts.Read more »
Emilia Slabunova to meet the staff of the music college that is being evicted from its premises and make a speech at a rally against closing the hospital in Shimsk
