Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Alarming news come from the Caucasus. In Karabakh there are active military actions with already a lot of victims from both the Azerbaijani and the Armenian side. Perhaps it is Turkey that has been tacitly pushing Baku to a military conflict with Yerevan. Russia has obligations before Armenia under the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), and therefore, can not stay away. Thus, Turkey may try to draw Russia into another war and distract it from the zone of its interests in Syria. Read more »
Grigory Yavlisky’s Facebook page, 03.04.2016
A hate campaign has been unleashed against Mikhail Kasyanov. The state has set an entire pack on him: the Federal Security Service with its wiretapping, peeping and informers, the Ministry of Interior with provocatively inactive and posing police, unbridled paid “public activists” who look like criminals, and, certainly, the state television in the form of the NTV channel which has been specially coached for political trash… All against one! Soho! Soho! Boris Nemtsov was killed, and we will bait and trample this one! Read more »
Hans-Dietrich Genscher was the politician who for many decades have been defining the level and content of international relations in Europe. His scope of thinking, vision of the future, the ability to find a compromise without concessions in the main thing made his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany very important, especially in the most important moment in history of German reunification. Read more »
Press release, 31.03.2016
Today, on 31 March, the Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO has conducted a street action demanding to observe the Constitution of the Russian Federation and provide the observance of the rights and freedoms of the citizens in accordance with the fundamental law of the state.Read more »
Press release, 31.03.2016
Today, on 31 March, the Lagislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region made a decision to cancel consideration of the bill on prohibition of public events at Bolshaya Pokroskaya Ulitsa (the main street of the city) from the agenda. Read more »
Press release, 31.03.2016
On 30 March, the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO addressed the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation with an appeal to reject the candidacy of Tatyana Moskalkova, police Major General, to the post of Ombudsperson. Read more »
YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova asks Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to save the country’s sole Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind and review the conditions for granting subsidies to socially-oriented non-profit organisations. Read more »
The Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir, 29.03.2016
… Russia’s oldest liberal party, Yabloko, has seen several of its local lawmakers censured or deprived of deputy status for breaking such rules over the past few months. Nevertheless, Alexander Gnezdilov, the party’s deputy chairman, insists that Yabloko will attempt to participate in both local and national elections this September, and make use of every opportunity that is available. Read more »
Press release, 30.03.2016
YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova forwarded a request to the General Presecutor’s Office demanding to launch an anti-corruption investigation of the Civil Code provision which allowed the city officials to demolish the sales premises in Moscow. YABLOKO claims that demolition of sales pavilions may continue to take place in other regions of Russia as well. Read more »
Press release, 30.03.2016
The Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and the local residents oppose the creation of a hundred additional parking lots for the officials’ cars in the historic centre of Krasnoyarsk. Read more »
Ella Pamfilova in her final report on the post of the Commissioner for Human Rights addressing the State Duma of the Russian Federation called deprivation of YABLOKO’s Lev Shlosberg of his deputy’s mandate by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region and removal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Mayor of Petrozavodsk an attempt of the authorities to get rid of the competitors. Read more »
I would like to congratulate all the members of the Central Electoral Commission with the beginning of work. They will face a very serious and complex problem: [they need to] restore public confidence in the institution of elections. Read more »
On 28 March, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO Alexander Gunko and the party activists conducted a picket with the demand to dismiss Yekaterina Smirnova, Ombudsperson of the Moscow Region. Read more »
On 27 March, the Chelyabinsk Region branch of YABLOKO held a meeting with the party activits in Magnitogorsk, the city of metallurgists which as an important public and political centre of the Chelyabinsk Region. Local YABLOKO activits have been members of the party since 1993.Read more »
Press release, 28.03.2016
On 26 March, the Tatarstan branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally against the transportation tarrifs raise in Kazan. Over 100 people took part in the action.Read more »
Press release, 28.03.2016
Chair of the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO Mikhail Amosov, member of Bureau of the Regional Council Kirill Strakhov and Regional Council member Pavel Nebeznya laid flowers to the Consulate of Belgium in St.Petersburg to commemorate the victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels. Read more »
It has turned 16 years since Vladimir Putin came in power. He was appointed President not least in order to ensure the inviolability of the fraudulent results of privatisation – almost free transfer of the most profitable state-owned assets to a ‘narrow circle of friends’ via the so-called ‘loans for shares’ auctions. This arrangement has been maintained until recently: the oligarchs who know well how they got the property were ‘milked’, frightened, blackmailed and even imprisoned, but the principles of criminal scheme of assets distribution were not questioned. Read more »
From Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 25.03.2016
Vladimir Putin at his meeting with [Russian] businessmen-billionaires has been discussing geopolitics, rather than the economy. This means that “grooming sheep” for geopolitical needs, presidential operation codenamed “Give us money!” is about to start soon. It very clearly demonstrates what the politics has done to the economy, how it drove the latter to an absolute deadlock. Read more »
Dmitry Gudkov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Dmitry Nekrasov and Yulia Galyamina plan to run for the State Duma in single-mandate constituencies from the YABLOKO party
Press Release, 24.03.2016
This week YABLOKO leaders met potential candidates for single-mandate constituencies who are not members of the YABLOKO party: Dmitry Gudkov, State Duma deputy, Vladimir Ryzhkov, ex Co-Chairman of PARNAS, Dmitry Nekrasov, expert of the Committee of Civil Initiatives, and Yulia Galyamina, one of the leaders of The Party of 5 December. Read more »
Press release, 18.03.2016
YABLOKO Chairperson developed the measures on tourism industry support. Tourism may become the locomotive which will steer the Russian economy out of crisis, Emilia Slabunova’s statement says. The document appeared in connection with the proposals expressed by a number of tour operators in an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Read more »
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 03.04.2016
