Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Vladimir Putin has announced a large-scale arms race in his Address to the Federal Assembly. He threatens the whole world with new nuclear missiles. It seems that Putin has confidence in the possibility of limited use of tactical nuclear weapons. It is impossible to imagine anything more dangerous and erroneous than that. Because it is enough to just start and it will immediately turn into a full-scale nuclear conflict. A couple of minutes and it will be impossible to stop it.
Putin’s policy has brought Russia close to the real threat of a great war. It can begin due to any accident and at any time.
Speech at the debates on the television Channel One
Channel One, 01.03.2018
Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for the presidency of Russia, discussed Russia’s financial and economic policies with candidates for the post of head of the state during the debates on the television Channel One on the 1 of March. The candidate from the Yabloko party told about low income families and offered to cancel the income tax for them, and also spoke about his programme Housing-Land-Roads targeted at boosting domestic demand and encouraging of economic development.
Yavlinsky plans to take part in all the television debates. The schedule of the broadcasts for the current week can be found here.
Three years ago, the politician was killed on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, Moscow
Press Release, 27.02.2018
Russian presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko party Chair Emilia Slabunova and leader of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, by the Kremlin.
Grigory Yavlinsky said, “Vladimir Putin bears political responsibility for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, because Nemtsov was his principled political opponent.
The murder of Boris Nemtsov shows the inability of Russian special services to protect a statesman. The authorities’ refusal to consider the murder of Boris Nemtsov as the murder of a statesman once again shows that the present system of power is trying to do everything possible to forget about this terrible event.
Boris Nemtsov was a person who personified all that happened in Russia after 1991: the strive of our country for freedom, for a modern state, so that people would be respected, and so that people would respect their own country. Nemtsov put a lot of energy on this and gave his life for it.
The Perm region became the ninth region that presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited this year. The whole day of 26 February, he spent in Perm: in the afternoon he visited one of the confectionery factories, and in the evening held a large meeting with the residents of the city.
“Small businesses are the foundation of the whole economy. They feed themselves, they pay wages to people, provide consumers with their products and feed the whole country with their taxes, ” that is how Grigory Yavlinsky explained to journalists why he began his trip to the region by visiting a small business enterprise – the confectionery factory Sofia.
20:05 Grigory Yavlinsky will in the broadcasting of Svetlana Sorokina’s programme “V Kruge SVETA” (“In the circle of light”) on the radio Echo of Moskvi.
21:05 Academician Alexei Arbatov, Grigory Yavlinsky’s confidant, will speak at the debate on OTP television channel. Theme: The army and strengthening of defense.
In all the other debates Grigory Yavlinsky will participate personally.
The Yabloko party took part in the memorial march for murdered politician Boris Nemtsov. The march took place in Moscow today. Yabloko activists formed a column and carried a banner “No to Political Terror!”. The column was headed by presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky, party Chair Emilia Slabunova, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Co-Chairman of the Public Headquarters of Grigory Yavlinsky Supporters, and Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow Yabloko.
“The murder of Nemtsov is a political assassination because he was, first, a statesman, and second, an opponent of Vladimir Putin,” Grigory Yavlinsky said. According to Yavlinsky, the murder of a political opponent is always the responsibility of the incumbent president. “Therefore, Vladimir Putin is politically responsible for the murder of Boris Nemtsov,” the presidential candidate said.
Presidential candidate of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky took part in a rally against in-fill construction in Troparyovo-Nikulino district of Moscow. The Moscow city authorities plan to build three high-rise buildings in the district in Nikulinskaya Street that will increase the burden on the social infrastructure in the district, while they promised to build out-patients hospitals, schools and kindergartens.
The meeting took place in the territory of garage cooperative “Temp” which is also subject to development. The Yabloko party has long and consistently supported the residents of the district in their struggle against the developer. So the keynote of the action was the residents’ support for the candidacy of Grigory Yavlinsky at the presidential elections.
The presidential candidate met with residents of Krasnoyarsk and Zheleznogorsk
Press Release, 20.02.2018
On 19 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The first half of the day he spent in the city of Zheleznogorsk, where he met with the team of city electric networks company and the head of the city administration. Then Yavlinsky went to Krasnoyarsk to address the university students, answer local media questions and hold a large meeting with the residents of Krasnoyarsk.
Dmitry Muratov, publisher of the oppositional Novaya Gazeta newspaper, will come to Petrozavodsk, Karelia, as electioneering agent of candidate for the presidency of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky. The visit will take place on 20 February.
Politician Vladimir Ryzhkov will come to Barnaul, Altai, as electioneering agent of candidate for the presidency of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky. The visit will be held on February 21-22.
On 18 February, over 100 St. Petersburg activists participated in a mass picket against torture and political reprisals organised by the Yabloko party by the monument to the victims of Stalin’s reprisals – the Solovetsky Stone.
Boris Vishnevsky, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg; Nikolai Rybakov; Deputy Chairman of Yabloko; members of the Yabloko Bureau Anatoly Golov and Alexander Kobrinsky; Vitold Zalesski, member of the Board of the Memorial society; former Soviet political prisoners Yuly Rybakov, Alexander Skobov and Vyacheslav Dolinin; journalist Daniil Kotsiubynsky; human rights activists Dinar Idrisov and Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko; Yana Teplitskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Public Monitoring Commission, as well as activists of the Solidarity movement, “Open Russia” and supporters of Alexei Navalny participated in the action.
Human rights defender Yuly Rybakov in his speech urged citizens not to be indifferent to information about torture by the FSB (Federal Security Service).
On Saturday, February 17, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited the Sheremetyevsky dog shelter of the Charitable Foundation “In Good Hands”. He considers it necessary to adopt a law on protection of animals. As a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Yavlinsky proposed to introduce measures against cruel treatment of animals: two years of imprisonment for murder or a fine of 700,000 roubles (approximately Euro 10,000).
Grigory Yavlinsky examined the shelter and met with its inhabitants. There are almost 280 dogs in the shelter.
Economist Yevgeny Gontmakher will visit Kostroma as electioneering agent of Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for the presidency of Russia. The visit will take place on 19 February.
“Not all the candidates for the presidency have a clear programme of action in case of their victory, and, probably, not everyone will have it. But this is not the case of Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky,” that is how Vladimir Solovyov, anchor and front man of the Kremlin propaganda, presented Yavlinsky to the viewers. For the first time in a long time, the leader of Yabloko had an opportunity to address Russians from one of the major federal television channels. Despite the specific format of the programme, Yavlinsky managed to inform the audience about the key issues of his presidential programme and told about his vision of the future of Russia.
Grigory Yavlinsky, presidential candidate of Russia, visited St. Petersburg. The meeting with the residents of the city became one of the most massive in the ongoing election campaign of the leader of the Yabloko party. The hall with a 400 seats capacity turned out to be too small for all who wanted to attend.
Or those in charge of unlawful campaigning must be punished
Press Release, 15.02.2018
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova filed a second complaint with the Central Electoral Commission of Russia demanding to immediately apply to the Channel One so that to provide Grigory Yavlinsky and other candidates for the presidential post with the same amount of time as was allocated for Oliver Stone’s “Interview with Putin” film or re-examine the fact of showing the film during presidential election campaign, recognise it unlawful and bring those in charge of unlawful campaigning to justice.
After the first appeal of Emilia Slabunova to the Central Electoral Commission, the commission proposed to Channel One to interrupt the broadcast of the film and continue it after the elections. After that Channel One canceled the broadcasting of the final episode of the film scheduled on Thursday.
Today, on 14 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky met with the coordinators of the Yabloko’s volunteers in the central office of the party. Grigory Yavlinsky’s supporters will coordinate the work of thousands of volunteers in the presidential elections, who have already registered and continue to register on the Yabloko website.
On 13 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky took part in the meeting of the Economic Club of the FBK company. The Club discussed economic sections of the programmes of presidential candidates. Andrei Kolesnikov, anchor of the discussion and journalist, explained that the Club asked all the candidates to present their programmes, but only three responded – Grigory Yavlinsky agreed to speak in person, and Ksenia Sobchak and Boris Titov sent their representatives – Andrei Nechayev and Yakov Mirkin respectively.
Opening the meeting, Igor Nikolayaev, well-known economist and Director of the Institute of Strategic Analysis of the FBK company, said that the programme of Grigory Yavlinsky stands out as of its thoroughness. It sums up decades of Griogry Yavlinsky work, Nikolayaev stressed.
Yabloko’s presidential candidate visited an industrial enterprise, learned about food-stuff prices in the market places and met with the residents
Press Release, 13.02.2018
On 12 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky visited Saratov, a city situated in the South-East of the European part of Russia. This is the fifth of Grigory Yavlinsky this year to a Russian region within the framework of his pre-election tour. Yavlinsky began his visit with laying of flowers in memory of those killed in the crash of a flight of “Saratov Airlines” to the monument of An-24 aircraft installed in front of the city airport.
