Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Yabloko’s has detected that the Russian government allocated 4.6 billion roubles for the celebration of the New Year and Christmas; whereas gifts cost 2 billion roubles out of this amount. In almost 50 per cent of the purchases there was no competition. Anti-Corruption Policy Centre experts, gifts to children cost somewhat less than the Defence Ministry’s tanks purchased this year.Read more »
For a long time the city of Troy was under siege, Has remained an unapproachable stronghold. Hut the people of Troy did not believe Cassandra – Maybe Troy would have existed to this day.
Russia has come to a stage when an actual open war with Ukraine might break out. Not only is it a crime but it also contradicts Russia’s national interests as well as crosses out any foreseeable future.
The roots of the problem are the incessant attempts of Moscow to control Kiev and limit the sovereignty of the neighbouring state, imperialistic ambitions of the Russian government, chauvinism of the so called “elite”, refusal to acknowledge Ukraine as an equal, refusals to acknowledge that Ukraine, the same way as Russia, has the right to define its national identity. However, the main and fundamental problem of the Kremlin is that they completely lack understanding of the modern life and world order, and have no adequate vision of the future. Their behaviour reminds of a teenage inferiority complex of the puberal growth stage when proving one’s “tough-guy-ism” and supremacy is a necessity. This [attitude] has already been expressed in the treacherous annexation of Crimea and in a criminal war in the Donbass organised and sponsored [by the Russian government]. Read more »
On 26th December, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko Party, will visit the Arkhangelsk Region. The politician is going to Arkhangelsk to get to know the opinion of the local residents concerning the problem of transferring municipal waste from Moscow to this region. Rybakov will address the residents in person to find out what Yabloko can do to oppose the plan of turning the region into a landfill site. Read more »
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko began recruiting candidates for the forthcoming municipal elections. In 2019 the residents of the regions will have to elect 472 municipal deputies. Read more »
Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chair, is celebrating his anniversary today. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, congratulated him on his birthday:
Dear Nikolai!
Happy Birthday!
You are reaching the best stage of life: you are young, and this proves that Yabloko’s policy is aimed at the renewal of the party. You have been a member of our party for a long time and have become a connecting link between different generations within Yabloko.Read more »
The first showing of the film “The Optimists” dedicated to Yabloko’s 25th anniversary will take place at the Centre for Documentaries on 25th and 26th December. The shooting team interviews about 60 people – Yabloko founders, leaders, activists and supporters.Read more »
Yabloko’s 25th anniversary takes place at a time that is not festive. At the same time, a quarter of a century is an important line to sum ups the results and estimate our abilities. It is important for us and for the country in general.
Our country is involved in two wars. Vladimir Putin’s policy blocks all attempts to lead the economy out of crisis. People are becoming more poor, they lose perspectives, and faith in a decent future for Russia.
Unfortunately, today we can state that the 25 years of the post-Soviet modernisation ended with a failure.Read more »
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov find the residents of Ingushentia who went missing in Egypt.
On 14 August 2018 a number of Russian citizens from different regions of the country were detained in Cairo, Egypt. They came their to study religion. After a while some of them were release. However, the whereabouts of five residents of Ingushetia are still unknown: Ileza Ashuyeva, Ismail Chemurziev, Khazir Dugiev, Ali Dzeitov, Ramzan Pliev.Read more »
The YABLOKO party considers the federal budget for 2019 and 2020-2021 to be a desperate attempt by the authorities to preserve the current state of affairs. The bloated public sector of the economy, total inefficiency and corruption are the basis of the present system and do not allow the country to develop. The archaic structure of the economy, its complete dependence on natural resources and the foreign policy that has made Russia a target for sanctions are leading our country to further stagnation.Read more »
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, offeres to provide an opportunity to vote with a facsimile signature to people who can not sign for receiving the ballot and put a mark in it. Vishnevsky submitted the corresponding amendments to the federal electoral law to the Russian Parliament (the State Duma).Read more »
Following the decision of the Tverskoy Distroct Court a renowned human rights defender and political activist Lev Ponomarev was sentenced to a long-term administrative detention.
Lev Ponomarev was brought to account for posting on the Internet some information about an event that was organised by the parents of the young people prosecuted with regard to the Novoye Velichiye (“New Greatness”) and Set (“Network”) cases. There are no grounds for the administrative prosecution of Lev Ponomarev.Read more »
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova appealed to the Moscow parliament (the Moscow City Duma) urging deputies to support a bill that would allow municipal deputies to approve appointment of heads of districts administrations, heads of out-patient clinics and schools and kindergartens principals, heads of the state budgetary institution providing utility services to citizens (Zhilishchnik) and engineering services, as well as to initiate their dismissal from posts.Read more »
The YABLOKO party stands for the priority of education, development of future generations and creation of conditions for their self-realisation. High-quality and affordable education is the foundation of development and prosperity of the country. In the 21st century, it is the education which determines what countries will be able to pave their “road to the future”: develop new technologies, renewable energy, culture and arts, and what countries will remain in the past forever. The Russian authorities do not understand the strategic role of education, which explains the wrong priorities of the state budget [policies] and the incompetent policy of optimization of the social sphere resulting in the closure of schools and institutions of supplementary education, outflow of specialists [from the sector] and endless increase of the burden onto teachers.
A speech by Boris Vishnevsky at the meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko Press release, 17.12.2018
I see the current state of affairs as darkness before the sun rise. I can see that the darkness is falling but I hope that the sun will rise. It is our task to bring it on.
We have been fighting against it [the darkness] during all the 25 years of Yabloko’s existence. However, it is not possible to understand what to do next if we do not see the reason why darkness fell.
Yabloko will respond to the present challenges and threats with a large-scale modernisation of the party which envisages broadening the party membership and will be based on Yabloko’s social-liberal values, political, moral and intellectual protest against the political system of lies and imitation formed by Vladimir Putin. This decision was made by the Federal Council of the party on December 16.
The main goal of Yabloko remains the same: ensuring human rights and freedoms for all residents of the country, welfare and success of Russia and its citizens, building a modern and efficient democratic state with a powerful market economy that provides equal opportunities for each member of society. The party will work for Russia’s positive future and the universal humanistic values of freedom, peace, trust and solidarity.
Yabloko leaders at the Federal Council of the party Press release, 15.12.2018
On 15th December, the leaders of Yabloko shared their opinion on the situation in the country and proposed their strategies of work in the present condition during the meeting of the Federal Council of the party.
Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko party, spoke about a strategy that will allow for a decent future for Russia.
He noted that “post-truth” had become one of the key terms to describe the situation in the world today. The Russian government forges the real agenda, conceals problems, creates an imaginary world that has nothing to do with real life.
“Yabloko should become the party of the real future of Russia: the party of peace, moral choice and values,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko Federal Political Committee, said at the meeting of the Federal Council of the Yabloko party.
“It is our responsibility. Our mission is the moral and professional choice in politics. It is crucial that people trust us,” he added.Read more »
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