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, 08.05.2017
On 8 May, deputies of Yabloko’s faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and party activists commemorated victims of the Second World War laying flowers at the memorial at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery.
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Posted: May 8th, 2017 under History, Street Actions.
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Press release, 05.05.2017
Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.
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Posted: May 6th, 2017 under History, Human Rights.
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Press release, 04.05.2017
The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire.
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Posted: May 5th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press release, 02.05.2017
Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and head of the party’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, applied to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Government of the RF demanding to verify compliance of the appointment of Deputy Prime Ministers’s son CEO with the legislation on the prevention and management of conflict of interests.
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Posted: May 4th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press release, 02.05.2017
On 1 May, deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg made a speech at a rally organised by trade unions.
“Today a wonderful word is pronounced here – solidarity. Solidarity is our answer to injustice,” the politician said addressing the public.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2017 under Street Actions.
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Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for asylum in the USA
Representative of the indigenous small numbered peoples of Russia in the UN, public person Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for political asylum in the USA. A criminal case is likely to be faked against him in Russia. The Federal Security Service threatens his friends, family and colleagues.
02.05.2017
Pavel Sulyandziga is Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, one of the founders of the Indigenous Minor Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East Association and Batani Development Foundation for Minor Peoples. In 2016 Pavel Sulyandziga participated in the State Duma elections as a Yabloko’s candidate.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Press release, 02.05.2017
On May 1, the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko participated in a demonstration for the protection of the city. Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee member Mikhail Amosov, Bureau member Anatoly Golov and Human Right Committee member Natalia Yevdokimova headed the column of historic preservation activists.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2017 under Street Actions.
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Party leaders and activists will participate in memorial anti-war actions by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
Press release, 02.05.2017
On 5 May, Yabloko leaders and party activists will lay wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Read more »
Posted: May 2nd, 2017 under History.
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Press release, 30.04.2017
On April 29, Moscow Yabloko Youth held a rally against military conscription and for the transition to a professional army fully based on the contract system.
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Posted: April 30th, 2017 under Human Rights, Yabloko Youth.
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Interfax, 28.04.2017
UPD. Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal addressed to the chief of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Interior for Moscow, Major-General Oleg Baranov.
According to Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, an unidentified person attacked YABLOKO activist Natalia Fyodorova by her house in Moscow and doused her with some chemical.
Photo: Natalia at the YABLOKO action in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26 Read more »
Posted: April 28th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, 28.04.2017
Municipal deputy and member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Elena Rusakova became one of the initiators of a rally against the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings. Read more »
Posted: April 28th, 2017 under Environmental Policies.
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Press release, 26.04.201
Yabloko launched an alternative national strategy to promote women’s interests. Party experts claim that the current strategy, which was adopted by the government in March, has a declarative character and contains no specific measures to promote gender equality. Yabloko will forward the alternative strategy, the bills developed by the party and the critique of the current strategy to the government by the end of spring.
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Posted: April 26th, 2017 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction held memorable events in two dozen cities of Russia
Press Release, 26.04.2017
On 26 April, on the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, environmental activists held one-person pickets by the main office of the Russian atomic energy ministry – the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation in Moscow. YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction organised commemorative events in two dozen cities of Russia: St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Vladikavkaz, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg and others.
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Posted: April 26th, 2017 under Environmental Policies.
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It is time to correct political errors
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page, 21.04.2017
Everything is very serious with Crimea. Even France is discussing it a couple of days before its presidential elections. One of the top candidates, François Fillon, suggests holding an international conference on the Crimea. These proposals were expressed earlier: by British parliamentarians, by European politicians. In Russia, such proposals emerged in March 2014 (I wrote about this in Novaya Gazeta then).
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Posted: April 26th, 2017 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 21.04.2017
Lev Shlosberg, MP from the YABLOKO party of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembl, applied to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Pskov region asking the Service to institute proceedings under Article 16 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (prohibition of restricting competition agreements or concerted actions) in respect of the Administration of Pskov, and two companies OOO Tekhnodor and OOO UDS Pskov. It is assumed that there was a preliminary cartel agreement between the city government and the two companies on granting the companies a victory at the tenders for maintenance of public roads in Pskov. Read more »
Posted: April 25th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, 20.04.2017
On 20 April, activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO held a series of one-person pickets by the State Duma protesting against the draft law initiated by Moscow government on “housing renovation” which the State Duma had to consider in the first reading. The law deprives Muscovites of their private property right, as well as violates all the city developing, sanitary and environmental norms.
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Posted: April 25th, 2017 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Liberal International, 20.04.2017
In aftermath of the news homosexual concentration camps have been established in Chechnya – which met LI’s and worldwide condemnation – Russian LI member party, Yabloko, has expressed “serious concern about the threats of physical violence from the Chechen Republic” directed at the journalists of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that published the reports on violence and murders of LGBT people in Chechnya. Read more »
Posted: April 24th, 2017 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Press Release, 14.04.2017
This week, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted in the third reading amendments to the law on the budget process, developed by the Grigory Yalvinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of YABLOKO and ex-MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. The amendments will improve budgetary discipline and effectiveness of budget spending in St. Petersburg. Experts believe that Yavlinsky’s proposals can be used in legislation of other regions.
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Posted: April 19th, 2017 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Press Release, 18.04.2017
The Public Chamber of the city of Pskov proposed to develop a municipal program People’s Budget. It envisages collection of proposals from the city residents (for example, on the necessary road repairs, improvement of streets, yards and buildings, opening of playgrounds and sports grounds for children). The initiators of the project offer residents of Pskov to apply to the city administration so that to include the solution of the communal problem in the future city development programme. There may be several sources of financing for the works: the municipal budget, investments of the project partners, and even funds from the residents.
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Posted: April 19th, 2017 under Regional and Local Elections.
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Press Release, 18.04.2017
On 17 April, Tatyana Nagibina, Chair of the Omsk branch of YABLOKO, and activists of the regional party branch conducted picketing demanding from the city authorities to clean the city and create a favourable environment for city residents.
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Posted: April 19th, 2017 under Protection of Environment.
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