Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
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.
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!”.
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.
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:
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
Statement of the Yabloko party in connection with the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko
29.05.2018
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been murdered in Kiev. A courageous, honest and tough man.
Arkady Babchenko saw the goal of his life in the search for truth and delivery of this truth to each of us. As always in such cases, the shot was sneaky and treacherous – in the back.
On behalf of the Yabloko party, I would like to express my condolences to all those who knew and respected Arkady Babchenko.
Participants of the event will discuss the role of digital technologies in the development of the state and business
Press Release, 28.05.2018
On Wednesday, 30 May, politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky will speak at the opening of TAdviser SummIT.
The elite of the Russian IT market will gather at the event to discuss the role of digital technologies in the development of the state and business.
An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on stage will be the opening event of the summit. The leader of Yabloko will answer the questions of Alexander Levashov, Editor-in-Chief of TAdviser, about the prospects of the development of the digital economy in Russia.
Voting in Yabloko’s primaries so that to determine a party the candidate for the post of the Mayor of Moscow from will end on Tuesday, 29 May, at 21:00. The Counting Commission will open the ballot box and begin counting the votes cast for the primaries. The results of voting will be announced immediately after the completion of the count.
The final of the debates of participants in Yabloko’s primaries for the party candidate on the post of Mayor of Moscow will take place in the Yabloko party. The final debate was preceded by qualifying rounds, the winners of which were determined by the voting of viewers on the Internet. For the first time in the Russian political history, the technology of blockchain was used in voting. It allowed to guarantee full transparency of the process and absolute honesty of the voting results.
Photo: The results of the evening round of the vote of the third day of the debate. From top to bottom: Andrei Morev, Yakov Yakubovich, Alexei Krapukhin, Yana Sokolova.
Grigory Yavlinsky on what we can expect from the “new” Russian government
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 21.05.2018
What does the composition of the “new” government tell us? That the situation won’t get any better. Outwardly everything will look just as it did, but to all intents and purposes things will be much worse. Objectively this is because the economy is in decline. Subjectively, this is due to the fact that neither Dmitry Medvedev nor his deputies don’t know what to do in the current circumstances. And they don’t want to. They don’t care. Read more »
Your activity in Yabloko in defending the rights of citizens, and Muscovites, in particular, is uncompromising
Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.05.2018
Today, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, turns 55. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, send Sergei Mitrokhin their greetings:
Mikhail Amosov, Yabloko MP in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, considers the response from the Leningrad region Public Prosecutor’s Office on his appeal on the issue of possible violations of the rights of convicts held in the Penal Colony Settlement No 8 to be formal and unsatisfactory.
According to the parliamentarian, it is absolutely unacceptable that the penal colony-settlement was moved to the centre of St. Petersburg from Borisov Griva settlement which actually resulted in a change of the penal regime for the convicts. Instead of a settlement colony, the convicts found themselves in a very real prison.
Two unidentified persons whose faces were hidden by hoods attacked David Kankia, Coordinator of the election observers movement Golos in the Krasnodar Territory, on May 18 at about 1 p.m.
Oleg Sentsov went on a hunger strike. The Ukrainian film director in the Russian prison is put in such conditions when this desperate step is the only way to draw attention to the situation of people persecuted in our country exclusively for political reasons. These people were convicted not for committed crimes (there were no such crimes), but for their beliefs that are in line with modern international law.
It is necessary to stop the suffering of innocent people. The release of Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian citizens held in Russian prisons for political reasons will not only be a humane and just step, but an act corresponding to Russia’s fundamental national interests.
Yabloko’s organizational committee for holding the primaries within the party so that to determine its candidate in the Moscow mayoral election, received signatures of the first potential candidates: Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the Moscow branch of the party, economist Igor Nikolayev and Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council.
As of May 16, Yabloko’s organizational committee for conducting primaries that should determine the candidate for post of the Mayor of Moscow from the Yabloko party, received applications from 37 potential candidates; 22 of them have already begun collecting signatures in favour of their participation in the preliminary voting. This was announced at the briefing for journalists conducted by Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the organizational committee.
Among those who submitted applications are Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, Elena Rusakova, head of the Gagarinsky district of Moscow, Igor Nikolayev, Professor of the Higher School of Economics and economist, Igor Glek, chess grandmaster and Yabloko municipal deputy of the Troparyovo-Nikulino district of Moscow, Viktor Dulin, coordinator of the volunteer movement Lisa Alert and municipal deputy from the Arbat district of Moscow, and others.
A headquarters for provision of legal assistance to citizens detained at the protest rallies held in different cities of Russia on 5 May opened in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow.
Yabloko’s Russian web-site gives telephones of its public reception office and party’s lawyers who provide legal assistance to the detained and their relatives.
Headquarters for providing assistance to the detained was also deployed in St. Petersburg. Here Yabloko conducts this work jointly with the Office of Alexander Shishlov, Ombudsman for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, and the Detainees Assistance Group.
On 4 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid wreaths and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall and honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War by a minute of silence.
Yabloko leaders Grigory Yavlinsky, Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Ivanenko, Nikolai Rybakov, Sergei Mitrokhin, Elena Dubrovina and other participated in the action.
Memorable actions will be held on the 4th and 9th of May
Press Release, 27.04.2017
On 4 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will lay wreaths and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall.
The participants will gather by the Historical Museum (metro station “Revolution Square”) at 14:40.
On 9 May, the Yabloko party will take part in mourning events at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, where thousands of Muscovites, soldiers and officers who were killed during the Second World War, were buried.
On the threashold of the start of the primaries in Yabloko, that have to determine Yabloko’s candidate for the Mayor of Moscow in the forthcoming mayoral elections, the party held a round table devoted to the programme of transformations of the political system in Moscow. The round table was held in the party’s office on 26 April. The main conclusion of the discussion was as follows: a candidate from Yabloko would seek to liberalise the system of the city governing and transfer of the powers to local self-government.
