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, leader of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, says in his interview to Erin Molan, Sky News Australia, that there is “no other way out” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict but a ceasefire agreement.
Photo: A screenshot of a map with locations for collecting signatures that the Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office offered to the Yabloko party
The administration of Chelyabinsk did not approve for the regional branch of the Yabloko party any of the one hundred locations which Yabloko applied for so that to collect signatures for the nomination of Yabloko candidates for the Chelyabinsk City Duma elections. The Mayor’s Office proposed three collection points instead, which are literally located in a field or near the railway. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko and a candidate, filed a lawsuit in the Sovetsky District Court of the city.
The head of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg parliament, Alexander Shishlov, appealed to the city Public Prosecutor Viktor Melnik: the list of those municipal deputies who put their signatures for the candidate for Governor of St. Petersburg Alexei Kovalyov included members of Yabloko who did not support him.
On 28 June, the conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 25 more candidates for municipal deputies; earlier, on 24 June, the regional branch of the party nominated 70 candidates (five candidates will run in the elections in two electoral districts at once), the total number of Yabloko candidates who will compete for mandates in September is 90 people.
13 candidates from Yabloko will conduct their election campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the ceasefire agreement!”. This was decided by the Conference of the regional branch of the party, held on 28 June.
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko nominated Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the party and an entrepreneur, as a candidate from the Rostov region in the by-elections for a State Duma deputy. Single-mandate electoral district No. 152 includes the Aksai district and the city of Novocherkassk. The decision was adopted at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the party on 27 June. The Yabloko candidate will conduct his election campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the ceasefire agreement!”.
Yesterday I was in Dagestan – in Makhachkala and Derbent. That was case when I couldn’t help but come. You all understand the tragic reason. I will return (https://eng.yabloko.ru/yabokos-statement-on-the-situation-in-dagestan ) to the substantive side of the problem more than once in the future. But now I just want to share the photos. Perhaps they will convey the atmosphere and feelings.
Photo: Yabloko candidates Victor Zagorodnikov and Alexander Zagainov
The conference of the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated two candidates for by-elections to the regional Legislative Assembly and to the Berezovsky District Council. The party will be represented in the elections by retired law enforcement officer Viktor Zagorodnikov and current deputy of the Esaul village council Alexander Zagainov. The candidates will conduct the election campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the ceasefire agreement!”.
At the request of Shcherbakov, the Chelyabinsk Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an action order to the Mayor’s Office about the improper maintenance of the Fraternal Cemetery of Soldiers
Press Release, 26.06.2024
Photo: The Memory Memorial at the Fraternal Cemetery of Warriors with decommissioned S-75 anti-aircraft missile systems installed by the monument / Photo by the regional branch of the party
The Chelyabinsk Public Prosecutor’s Office, in a response letter to the leader of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko Yaroslav Shcherbakov, admitted that the gravestones in the cemetery were destroyed, there were no stars on the tombstones, and the burial fence was broken. In addition, there is decommissioned military equipment by the monument to grieving mothers devoted to the victims of the Second World War, which is prohibited by order of the State Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects. In connection with the identified violations, the Chelyabinsk Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an action to the Mayor’s Office about the improper maintenance of the Fraternal Cemetery of Soldiers. Earlier, Yaroslav Shcherbakov reported that the memorial at Lesnoye Cemetery, an important place for Chelyabinsk residents, had been under conservation for four years, and access to it was closed even on Victory Day, 9 May.
The Yabloko party expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of those killed in the terrorist attack in Dagestan, including Orthodox Archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov, who worked there for more than 40 years, civilians and a large number of law enforcement officers. May their memory live forever! We wish a speedy recovery to the wounded.
A lecture dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher and sociologist Nikolai Berdyaev was held at Yabloko. The lecture was given by Anastasia Gacheva, a leading researcher at the Gorgy Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences and Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences.
Delegates to the conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, which took place on the evening of 24 June, nominated 70 candidates for 17 municipalities of St. Petersburg. On 28 June, the regional branch plans to nominate more candidates who have expressed their desire to run for Yabloko in recent days.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social media
Past week, the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Yakutia held a conference of the party branch, and elected governing bodies of the regional branch for the next two years. Anatoly Nogovitsyn was re-elected Chairman of the branch.
On the night of 21-22 June, when 83 years ago Hitler invaded the USSR, Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and other party members lit candles and laid flowers at the Requiem 1941 monument in the centre of Moscow. This is a traditional Yabloko’s anti-war action that has been taking place for many years already.
Photo: Olga Yurkevich / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Yurkevich, a candidate of medical sciences, a doctor of the highest category and pediatric anesthesiologist, a candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the coming by-elections in constituency No 18 of St.Petersburg. Members of the Bureau of the regional branch of the party unanimously voted for the nomination of Olga Yurkevich.
24 Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma are campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” Each candidate must collect signatures from Muscovites in his/her support so that to be registered in the race.
UPD: We have to cancel our traditional “1418 Candles Per Each Day of War” action, since access to the “1941” memorial plaque, where we usually gather, will be limited due to preparations for the opening of the “Candle of Memory” campaign organised by the authorities.
Yabloko will light 1418 candles to commemorate the victims of the Second World War on the eve of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, 21 June.
Yabloko will once again host the actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners. The number of political prisoners in Russia is growing every week. It is important for those unjustly imprisoned to know that they are not forgotten.
Yabloko has announced the collection of guarantees for our colleague from St. Petersburg Vasily Neustroyev, who is kept in a pre-trial detention centre on charges of crimes that he did not commit. Yabloko offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Pskov are collecting personal guarantees for Vasily. Personal guarantee is one of the preventive measures that is not related to imprisonment. The guarantor who signed the paper guarantees that the accused will comply with the obligations imposed on him and will not hide from the investigation, and the court.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Russian Federation violated the rights of Gulnaz Ravilova when considering her administrative violation case. The decision was published today.