Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Politicians have to win the votes of electorate in a fair competition in the system where Angela Merkel acts
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 25.09.2017
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will head her country for the fourth time in a row. Does it represent irremovability of power? And what about corruption? And why does Germany have no corruption on such a scale like in Russia then? The reasons are obvious: [Germany has] fair elections, civil control, separation of powers, independent media and independent financing. But there are also some important details.
Politicians have to win the votes of electorate in a fair competition in the system where Angela Merkel acts.
In Vladimir Putin’s system demonstrates a different practice: the Presidential Administration is tasked with making the election “cheerful and attractive” by finding necessarily a female candidate, or a left-wing candidate, or doing some other clownery (as in the Soviet era, when they had to mandatory nominate a milkmaid, a worker and a representative from the youth).
On 21 September, Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, whom the party intends to nominate for the 2018 presidential election, revealed the key messages of his election campaign at a press conference at the Interfax news agency. The press conference was also attended by deputy heads of Yabloko Nikolay Rybakov and Alexander Gnezdilov. Read more »
Viktor Sheinis, one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and chief researcher of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the party’s legislative initiative to restrict the President’s right to use armed forces abroad. Read more »
On 19th September, the territorial electoral commission of the Checkov city district, the Moscow Region, made a decision to withdraw the mandate from deputy Nikolai Dizhur. He headed Yabloko’s list of candidates that gained nearly 7 per cent in the election of 10th September. According to the territorial electoral commission, Dizhur failed to give a notification of leaving the elected office of a deputy of the Serpukhov district council within five days. The law forbids to work in two councils at the same time. Read more »
On 19th September, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in the Gagarinsky district Elena Rusakova was elected head of the municipal council by secret ballot. Rusakov is one of the most active and effective municipal deputies in Moscow. She was elected to the municipal council for a second term. Read more »
A second meeting of the elected municipal deputies took place in Yabloko, 15.09.2017
On 14th September, a second meeting of the elected municipal deputies and the party leadership took place in Yabloko office. Yabloko decided to ask the participants of the meeting why they decided to run in the elections as Yabloko candidates, what problems they faced during the election campaign and what their plans for the future are. Read more »
The new book that Yabloko launched at the Moscow International Book Fair are now available on the party website Press release, 19.09.2017
Yabloko’s library was enriched by new books published by the party and its leaders of late. The books were launched at the Moscow International Book Fair at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in the beginning of September.
Press release, 19.09.2017
On Thursday, 21st September, a press conference on the results of Yabloko’s Time to Return Home anti-war campaign and the plans for Grigory Yavlinsky’s presidential campaign will take place at the central office of the Interfax news agency. Read more »
Deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly spoke about his activity during the summer period on air of the Partburo radio programme. He participated in the meetings of the working group on the inventory of green space in St. Petersburg and tried to seek a referendum on the future of St. Isaac’s Cathedral museum through legal action. Read more »
The elected municipal deputies gathered in Yabloko for the first time Press release, 13.09.2017
Yesterday, 12 September, the first meeting of the newly elected municipal deputies took place in Yabloko’s office. Yabloko had a very good result in the Moscow municipal elections winning 176 mandates, which made Yabloko the second largest party in Moscow (after the ruling United Russia party). Leaders of Yabloko and its Moscow branch also participated in the meeting. Apart form congratulations, the participants of the meeting discussed the issues concerning the strategy of common activity as well as the practical aspects, which the deputies, who were elected for the first time, will face. Yabloko believes that such a strong team can change the city agenda using the experience of the party. Read more »
Former Russia’s Ambassador to the United States and now a Senator of the Federation Council, answers the questions of Novaya Gazeta about the diplomatic duel between the Russian Federation and the United States
Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2017
Novaya Gazeta: Has the American side violated the norms of international law with regard to Russian missions in the United States?
Vladimir Lukin: Certainly, there are violations of international law, if one looks at the situation from our side. Certainly, there are no violations, if one looks at it from the American side. Read more »
Liberal International, 12.09.2017
Challenging the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin a liberal coalition, of which Yabloko (LI full member) is a part, has become the second largest party in the capital, Moscow, after regional elections throughout the country last weekend. Read more »
According to data as of 8 am MSK, YABLOKO obtained 180 mandates in 51 municipal councils in Moscow in the elections of 10 September. In the Gagarinsky district, where President Putin voted, all 12 members of the council are now representatives of YABLOKO. In five other districts YABLOKO has a majority. Read more »
In regional and local elections of 10 September YABLOKO’s managed to overcome the five per cent threashold in the Pskov region in the North-West, the Moscow region and the Sakhalin region in the Far East. YABLOKO candidates also won in their constituencies in the elections in the Krasnodar Territory, the Moscow region, the Pskov region and the Vologda region. In Moscow YABLOKO obtained 181 mandate in 51 municipal councils, thus becoming the second party in the capital of Russia with the largest number of municipal deputy mandates (after the ruling United Russia). Read more »
Yabloko will open a Centre for New Municipal Policy, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova said during a briefing on Monday. The Centre will coordinate the activity of Yabloko’s large team of municipal deputies including those, who were elected in Moscow and other regions on 10th September. Read more »
According to Yabloko’s candidate for municipal deputy in the Timiryazevsky district Yulia Galyamina, the territorial electoral commission made a decision to recount the votes at the polling station No. 435. As a result, the coalition of Yabloko deputies (five candidates were elected; there are 15 members in the council on the whole) and 3 independent candidates may be deprived of the majority in the council. Read more »
FB post by Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow YABLOKO, 11.09.2017
Congratulations to all the deputies who passed from YABLOKO and our support and all the civil activists whom we supported on behalf of the Moscow Rescue Committee. The total number of such deputies allow us to count on our participation in the Moscow mayoral election [as non-parliamentary parties have to bring 110 signatures of municipal deputies from 110 Moscow municipalities to get registered in the campaign]. Following the results of these elections, I feel even more convinced that I should oust [the present Moscow Mayor] Sergei Sobyanin from his post.
YABLOKO succeeded in the elections to regional and local parliaments held yesterday in Russia.
YABLOKO’s teams also managed to overcome the five per cent threashold in in 19 municipalities in Russia, where elections on party lists were preserved (the Pskov region, the Moscow region and the Sakhalin region) and in 51 municipality in Moscow. Read more »
Dear friends,
Thank you for hearing us, that you came and supported us yesterday [at the elections]! You voted for YABLOKO! 180 deputies were elected yesterday from the YABLOKO party in 51 Moscow district. We became the second party as of the number of municipal deputies in the capital of Russia. In seven Moscow districts we obtained the majority. And in Gagarinsky district – where Putin voted yesterday – YABLOKO has a 100% result: we took 12 seats out of total 12. Read more »
