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
Yabloko’s FB page, 25.06.2018
As an alternative to the Putin-Medvedev’s pension reform, Yabloko proposes to transfer dividends of state corporations to the pension fund. And Alexei Yetmanov, founder of the most successful independent trade union of Russia and member of the Yabloko party voiced another civilised recipe:
Posted: June 25th, 2018 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko FB page, 18.06.2018
Experts believe that an increase in VAT from 18 to 20 per cent will entail a price increase not in 2019, but already in the Fall of 2018. The burden on the construction sector, automotive industry and machine building will increase most – by 5 – 7 per cent. This means that apartments and cars will rise in price especially.
Here goes the forecast by Sergei Ivanenko, economist and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko:
Posted: June 25th, 2018 under Economy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the government’s plans to raise the retirement age.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.06.2018
Why did the government decide to raise the retirement age so rudely and so radically? Are they so brave that they are ready to go against the whole people? Look, already more than two million Russians have signed a petition against raising the retirement age. Why do you think all this was done?
Correct! So that Putin would cancel everything! Well, at least would pretend to cancel: soften, brake, blurt it out… The government has been struggling hard to prepare a circus act for the head of state – the abolition of the anti-popular reform (well, maybe substituting it for meaningless mitigations and adjustments). The president is such that at the most crucial moment – when all are already to go to rallies and referendums – he will take this wretched pension reform and cancel it. Not only that the guilty will be taken to task, but even pensions will be increased by one hundred roubles [approximately by Euro 1.4). And here you can see a strong president. A defender. And he has kept his word. Well, maybe pretended to keep it. Then his rating will indeed rise to 120 – 140 per cent. And Russians will want so that he stayed not just for the next term, but forever, to the end of time.
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Economy, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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In Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk
Press Release, 22.06.2018
The authorities turned down Yabloko’s applications for rallies against raising the retirement age in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk and proposed the party to hold rallies on the outskirts of the cities.
The Yabloko party planned to hold a rally in Moscow on 3 July in the city centre. However, the Moscow government refused to give such a permission referring to the decree of the Russian President which prohibits holding mass actions during the World Cup. Yabloko considers this decree to be unconstitutional. The Moscow branch of Yabloko holds pickets against raising the retirement age. Chair of the Moscow Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin was detained at the last action.
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Press Release, 15.06.2018
Yabloko demands that the measure of restraint to Alexander Shestun, head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, is replaced by his written undertaking not to leave the country. Such a statement was issued by the Bureau of the party. Yesterday, the court arrested the politician for two months for his alleged abuse of office.
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections.
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Press Release, 22.06.2018
Today, on 22 June, Nikolai Dizhur, candidate for the Governor of the Moscow region from the Yabloko party, submitted documents to the regional electoral commission for registration in the race.
Now he can start collection of signatures for registration in the election campaign. Until 5 July, Nikolai Dizhur must collect 98 signatures of deputies and heads of settlements and another 98 signatures of deputies and heads of municipal districts and city districts.
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Press Release, 20.06.2018
YABLOKO will light 1418 candles to commemorate the victims of the Second World War on the eve of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, 21 June.
Yabloko leaders will take part in the action.
Posted: June 20th, 2018 under History.
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Sergei Mitrokhin detained and taken to the police station
Press Release, 19.06.2018
On 19 June, the Yabloko party launched protest actions against a pension reform proposed by the government and envisaging raising of the retirement age. Members of the Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted a series of single-person pickets (which do not require any permission for the authorities), alternately holding a poster running “The “pension reform” is a robbery of the people!” The action was held at the entrance to the State Duma building in the morning.
However, the action lasted only 15 minutes. Police officers arrested Sergei Mitorkhin, leader of the Moscow Yabloko. The police referred to the order of Vladimir Putin, which prohibits any protest actions, including single-person pickets, during the World Cup. Sergei Mitrokhin was taken to the Tverskoye police station.
Posted: June 20th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Radio Liberty, 19.06.2018
MOSCOW — The head of the Russian opposition party Yabloko’s branch in Moscow, Sergei Mitrokhin, has been detained while protesting the government’s plan to increase the pension age.
An RFE/RL correspondent saw police detain Mitrokhin as he protested alone in front of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on June 19.
Read more »
Posted: June 19th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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The action against arbitrariness and reprisals was held on Academician Sakharov Prospect in Moscow
Press Release, 10.06.2018
Today, Yabloko leaders and representatives of the party took part in the rally “For Free Russia Without Arbitrariness and Reprisals”, which took place on Academician Sakharov Prospekt. The party was among the organisers of the action against mass violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens.
Growth of the number of political prisoners, blockings in the Internet, tyranny and torture in law enforcement, repression against political opponents of the regime, dismissals from job for likes and reposts in the social networks have become the hallmark of Putin’s government, Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, said in her speech at the rally.
Posted: June 13th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Street Actions.
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Emilia Slabunova’s blog post, 08.06.2018
I think that this was a beautiful televised call-in show of the President. It perfectly allows us to see with naked eye the incompetence of our authorities and the inefficiency of the management system. Because when the President deals with certificates and waste dumps, he is approached with a request to “break through the walls” in the Stavropol Territory, we realise that the whole system that has developed and the institutions do not function. The personnel policy [of the President] also shows its inefficiency: the appointed governors who did not won in tough competition in reality, and were exclusively only in the bureaucratic corridors, are not able to solve even the most elementary problems.
Posted: June 9th, 2018 under Economy, Foreign policy, Gubernatorial Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Sergei Mitrokhin’s FB post, 07.06.2018
Her blood is on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s hands [Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is ex President of the Republic of Kalykia in Russia and now President of the International Chess Federation].
20 years ago, Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of [oppositional newspaper] Soviet Kalmykia [and of the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko] was brutally murdered. Her murderer Vaskin was part-time assistant to President Ilyumzhinov ON LEGAL ISSUES (!).
Vaskin served his imprisonment term and was released, but the person who ordered the murder, as it has ALWAYS been in the modern history of Russia, has “not been found”.
Posted: June 7th, 2018 under Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina.
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Press Release, 04.06.2018
On 10 June, on the eve of the Day of Russia, a rally against mass-scale violations of human rights and freedoms will take part in Moscow, in Academician Sakharov Prospekt. The Yabloko party is the co-organiser of the action. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, will speak at the rally.
Photo: “I protest peacefully, but with all my force”.
Here goes the address of the organisers to the participants of the action:
Posted: June 7th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Street Actions.
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Press Release, 07.06.2018
On 6 June, Vitaly Arshinov nominated by the Pskov branch of Yabloko, submitted documents to the Pskov Region Electoral Commission so that to run in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections.
Photo: from left to right Lev Shlosberg and Vitaly Arshinov.
From this moment, Yabloko begins collection of signatures of the heads and deputies of local self-governments in support the nomination of the candidate.
To get its candidate registered as a candidate for the post of governor, Yabloko must collect and submit to the Electoral Commission of the region (by 7 of July) notarially certified signatures of at least 111 heads and deputies of local self-government bodies, including at least 45 signatures of heads of districts, deputies of city parliaments and district assemblies, no less than from 20 municipalities of the Pskov region of the second level (there are 26 municipalities in the region in total). The maximum number of signatures is 116.
Posted: June 7th, 2018 under Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections.
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05.06.2018
https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1876690389296037/?t=23
I, Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, and the Yabloko party as a whole believe that the case of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is a shameful page of modern Russian history. The fact that a person was sentenced for 20 years of imprisonment for his political convictions is the full and absolute responsibility of the Russian authorities and personally President Putin.
Oleg Sentsov should be released without delay – this will be not only an act of humanism, but also a manifestation of political will, not in words, but in deed, towards peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Towards the world that both our nations are waiting for.
Posted: June 5th, 2018 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 05.06.2018
Yakov Yakubovich, head of the Tverskoy municipal district of Moscow, who won the primaries in Yabloko (58 per cent of the vote in the second round), will not take part in the forthcoming Moscow Mayoral elections, because he is confident that he will not be able to overcome the municipal filter [mandatory collection of municipal deputies’ signatures in favour of his nomination]. He made this statement at a briefing in the party’s office after the end of the vote count in the primaries.
Posted: June 5th, 2018 under Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Sergei Mitrokhin will take part in the action
04.06.2018
On the Day of Environmental Protection, 5 June, the Moscow branch of Yabloko will hold a picket against cutting down of city parks. The picket will be held by the office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation. Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, will take part in the action.
The picket will be held under the slogan “Stop cutting down city parks!”.
Posted: June 4th, 2018 under Protection of Environment, Street Actions.
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Press Release, 31.05.2018
The organizational committee of the primaries for nomination of Yabloko’s candidate for the post of the Mayor of Moscow will be held on 2 June. It will last three days, the counting of votes will begin at 21:00 on 4 June, after which the name of the winner of the primaries will be announced.
The debates of the winners of the first round of the primaries Sergei Mitrokhin and Yakov Yakubovich will be held on 1 June at 19:00.
Posted: June 1st, 2018 under Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Svetlana Alexievich directly succeeds to the great Russian literature”
31.05.2018
On 31 May, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Alexievich, writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature, turns 70. Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky sends his greetings to Svetlana Alexievich:
Posted: May 31st, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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30.05.2018 – 0:39
A demonstrative political murder once again. Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist, radical critic of Putin and Russian politics has been killed. This is very bad. This is a sign that, according to the plan of those who ordered this murder, everyone should understand. And be ready.
Incredible grief for the relatives. Deepest condolences
Posted: May 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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