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
Press release, 2.09.2018
Yabloko activists participated in protest actions against raising the retirement age in 14 cities of Russia. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova made a speech at the rally in Omsk while Yabloko’s Political Committee member Sergei Mitrokhin delivered his address in Moscow.
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Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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01.09.2018
Dear friends! The 20,000 rubles [approx. 250 euros] rate of pension by 2024 which the President promised in his latest address is a shame! It is really hard to survive on 20,000 rubles a month even now not to mention what will be in 6 years time.
https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1955130144785394/
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Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Press Release, 29.08.2018
Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on the need to direct additional oil and gas revenues to the elimination of third and second shifts in Russian schools.
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Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Economy, Education and Science.
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Press Release, 30.08.2018
The St.Petersburg Committee of Property suspended termination of the contract of rent of the St.Petersburg branch of the Memorial human rights society.
In April 2018, the City Commission for Disposal of Property refused to Memorial in concluding their regular rent contract for a new period without explaining the reasons. In July 2018, the St. Petersburg authorities announced termination of the contract and offered Memorial to vacate the premises of its office within three months.
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Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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3.09.2018
Chair of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko Oksana Demchenko believes that if the party representatives are elected to the city parliament, they will improve the quality of life in Krasnoyarsk.
– It is the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Yabloko this year. We have many deputies across Russia and a large number of initiatives which will help create equal opportunity society based on the principals of social justice. Yabloko activists also have mandates in several towns of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. They work in best interests of the local residents.
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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30.08.2018
1. Return the citizens control over the city.
Elect a new mayor via direct and competitive elections.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Press Release, 30.08.2018
On Sunday, 2 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will come to Omsk to address the rally against raising the retirement age. The Omsk branch of Yabloko is a co-organiser of the rally. Yabloko’s Tatyana Nagibina will be the anchor at the rally.
The rally will take place at the address Omsk, Dekabristov 91 (square in front of the Blinov arena) from 12:00 to 14:00.
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Press Release, 30.08.2018
Natalia Tumureyeva succeeded Sergei Shapkhayev, renowned academic and environmentalist, as head of the Buryat Regional Association on Lake Baikal. Natalia Tumureyeva is a former student of Sergei Shapkhayev, environmentalist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, 29.08.2018
The leaders of Yabloko went to the Russian regions to support Yabloko candidates in the 9 September elections.
The party Chair Emilia Slabunova visited Yekaterinburg, the Urals, to support party candidates in the city parliament (the City Duma). Yabloko put forward a strong team of united democratic coalition in the elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg.
Posted: August 30th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018
Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, and territorial in Crimea. Sanctions have been imposed because of corruption, theft and murder of [lawyer] Sergei Magnitsky, because of the annexation of Crimea and lies about the referendum on the peninsula, because of the war in Donbass, because of interference in the elections in the US… Now here go sanctions because of poisoning [of the Skripals] in Salisbury. Since neither calls nor statements nor demands, neither external nor internal affect the Kremlin, the words were backed up by practical measures – sanctions, so that it was clear that all this was not just rhetoric, that it was necessary to change the politics: to stop the war in Donbass, solve the problem of Crimea on the basis of international law, withdraw from Syria and not cover the crimes of Bashar al Assad, stop false propaganda and engaging in provocations around the world… But since Vladimir Putin’s policy have not changed, and all the persons who are “subject to sanctions” remain in their posts and do the same, then the new sanctions, which come into effect on 27 August, symbolise the beginning of a qualitatively different stage. Now it will be sanctions against everyone.
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 28.08.2018
On Sunday, 2 September, the Yabloko party will take part in the all-Russian action against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committee of the action.
The geography and format of the actions is as follows (more details will be added soon):
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018
https://twitter.com/YablokoParty/status/1034440810660618240
YABLOKO Party
@YablokoParty
YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova:
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Press Release, 24.08.2018
A rally dedicated to the anniversary of the victory over the reactionary forces of the State Emergency Committee was held in the Krasnopresnensky park, Moscow, behind the Russian ‘White House’ on 22 August, on the Day of the Flag of Russia.
The rally was organised by the All-Russian Public Movement “For Human Rights”. The Yabloko party has been taking part in the action year in memory of the events of 1991 and the victory of Russian democrats every year.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Street Actions, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 20.08.2018
On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action will be the independent trade union Uchitel (Teacher) and the Social Action movement. A number of the other political forces of the Nizhny Novgorod region are going to support the action.
Posted: August 27th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Birthday greetings from Emilia Slabunova
25.08.2018
Today marks the anniversary of Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Emilia Slabunova, the Yabloko party’s Chair, sends Anna greetings on her 45th birthday:
Posted: August 26th, 2018 under Greetings, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 24.08.2018
Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in which he called to investigate the illegal provocation of crimes by law enforcement agencies. The reason for the appeal was the so-called case of “The New Greatness” organisaiton.
Anna Pavlikova. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / “Novaya Gazeta”
In the appeal, Grigory Yavlinsky recalls that the unlawful intentions of the defendants of the case of the “New Greatness”, if they existed, were totally provoked by an unknown person who was being held as a secret witness in the case, as well as by two other witnesses officially included in the state of law enforcement bodies.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 20.08.2018
Instead of providing housing to almost 160,000 Russian orphans who do not have it, saving children from family violence (according to unofficial data in 2016, more than 2,500 children aged 2 weeks to 14 years became victims of domestic violence), creating conditions for upbringingadolescents, so that they do not set priceless temples on fire [like was the recent case in Karelia], and solutions to many other problems related to the not-so-beautiful situation of children in the country, the state represented by the Ministry of Education decided to fight against people who seek to create human conditions for orphans – their foster parents [proposing to introduce a law envisaging a ban on having more than three adopted children in a foster family] .
There is neither explanation nor justification for this. Cannibal laws for some reason always come to us much faster and easier than laws that should stand for the protection of children’s rights and their happy childhood.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Press Release, 23.08.2018
The Krasnoyarsk branch of the Yabloko party opposed the plans of the local administration to cut the green zones in the city of Krasnoyarsk for the sake of opening of vehicles service facilities there.
On 22-23 August, the city administration is holding public hearings aiming to get a formal residents’ consent so that to give permissions to entrepreneurs from different districts of Krasnoyarsk for the use of land plots located in the green zone for the launch of automobile transport facilities there.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council, believes that the problem of transparency in getting permission to hold rallies can be resolved in court
Press Release, 17.08.2018
The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko formulated its demands as to the protection of freedom of rallies in its written appeal to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
Members of the Yabloko party made a proposal to make the procedure for getting permission for the date, time and venue of the rallies more open and transparent. Yabloko activists say that one of the solutions to the problem maybe creation of an online schedule of events and their venues which should be published on the official website of the Mayor’s Office, or a handwritten magazine with a similar demonstration of the timetable open to all those interested to organise a public event or action.
Photo: Visiting session of the Human rights Council in Novosibirsk
On August 15, Svetlana Kaverzina, Chair of the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, voiced a demand at the visiting session of the Human rights Council in Novosibirsk to ensure equal rights for all political forces in organising rallies and other public events.
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly.
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Press Release, 17.08.2018
Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Alexei Kudrin, Chairman of the Russian Accounts Chamber, demanding to check the effectiveness of spending Russia’s budget funds for the restoration of the Capitol’s dome in Havana, the capital of Cuba. At the same time, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service with a request to check the feasibility study of the project.
On 16 August, 2018, the Russian President’s Property Management placed a tender for performance of work for restoration of the gold coating on the dome of the National Capitol in Havana, Cuba. The cost of restoration totals 642.4 million roubles. The President’s Property Management classified the substantiation of the price. Spending the federal budget funds on the needs of another state was not substantiated either.
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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