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
Condolences by Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 22.10.2013
For and on behalf of the YABLOKO party we are conveying our condolences to the relatives and next of kin of the victims of the Volgograd act of terror. We are wishing speedy recovery to the injured. Read more »
Posted: October 22nd, 2013 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Press Release , 10/18/2013
The Kemerovo Regional Department of the Investigative Committee conducts an investigation into the incident in Kemerovo, when Yevgeny Artemyev, YABLOKO’s candidate to the Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Region from the YABLOKO party, was severely beaten. Read more »
Posted: October 21st, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Press Release, October 20, 2013
YABLOKO and the residents of the Fili-Davidkovo district, Moscow, conducted a rally against the infill construction. The construction of a seventeen-storied apartment block can do harm to the nearby apartment buildings.
Posted: October 21st, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, photos, video, October 18, 2013
On October 18, YABLOKO and Sochi’s movement “Law and Order” (Zakon i poryadok) conducted pickets outside the White House against the placing of Olympic construction waste in Akhshtirsky gallop which is situated in the karst block above the field of fresh waters. “Law and Order” leader Roman Shikarev, adviser of YABLOKO’s Chair Sofya Rusova and municipal deputy Grigory Semyonov participated in the action.
Posted: October 20th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, October 17, 2013
Municipal deputy Elena Tkach was beaten during the public hearings on the construction of a new shopping mall in the centre of Moscow and pulling down the two apartment blocks at number 13 and 15 Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane in connection with that. The incident was recorded on a video. 
Read more »
Posted: October 20th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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Press Release, October 17, 2013
A first meeting with YABLOKO’s election campaigners took place at YABLOKO’s office on October 16. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Executive Secretary of YABLOKO Regional Council Mikhail Petrov thanked the participants of the meeting for their work at the Moscow Mayoral elections and presented them with small gifts.
Posted: October 20th, 2013 under Elections.
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Press Release, October 16, 2013
Such situations can take place in any city of Russia until the government refuses to tell the truth about the enormous income they get from the slave labour of immigrants and corruption and until mass media will describe this conflicts as cross ethnic, said leader of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky at the briefing on October 16. Read more »
Posted: October 17th, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Press Release, October 16, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the Moskvoretsky Park on October 16. He found out serious violations of the environmental legislation and reached the stop of the illegal construction works.
Read more »
Posted: October 17th, 2013 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, October 16, 2013
YABLOKO member, former candidate for the Kemerovo Regional Council deputy Yevgeny Artemyev was beaten during a one-person picket against the election fraud within sight of a policeman in Kemerovo on October 16. Read more »
Posted: October 17th, 2013 under Elections, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO statement on the nationalistic insurgence in Moscow, October 14, 2013
The events that took place in the West Biryulevo district, Moscow, on October 13, make us once again express our concern in connection with the destructive developments taking place in the Russian society. Read more »
Posted: October 17th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, October 15, 2013
An audit by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office held after the inspection conducted by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in the Vorovsky Park, Moscow, revealed embezzlement of funds allotted for renovation of the park in the amount of 22 million roubles.
Read more »
Posted: October 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, October 14, 2013
Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO supported the rally “Russia against cruelty” organised by the animal advocates on October 12. The rally had taken place for the second time in Novosibirsk.
Read more »
Posted: October 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Press Release, October 14, 2013
Andrei Babushkin, member of YABLOKO Bureau, head of the “For Human Rights” committee and member of Presidential Council for Human Rights, was invited to Dozhd (Rain) TV channel to talk about the amnesty draft act developed by the Presidential Council for Human Rights. Read more »
Posted: October 14th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, October 12, 2013
A concert in support of “The third way”(trety put’) cultural centre, which is under threat of illegal eviction from its premises, was conducted on October 12, at Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s activists came to support the event.
This is how the entrance to the premises looks like at the moment
Posted: October 13th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Posted: October 13th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, October 10, 2013
Sergei Pogodin, director of School No 4 in Nelidovo, the Tver region, was dismissed from his post on 8 October, 2013, on the basis of an order from the acting head of the district administration, however, the document did not specify any reason for termination of the labour contract. According to local residents, his dismissal was caused by purely political reasons: in the recent elections of September 8 Sergei Pogodin was number two on YABLOKO’s list in the elections to the City Council of Deputies. Read more »
Posted: October 10th, 2013 under Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Press Release, October 10, 2013
Today, on October 10, 2013, law enforcement officers attempted to get into the office of the Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO party (presumably, these were officers from the Center for Combating Extremism). This happened at about 2:30 p.m. The police insisted that they needed Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the regional branch of YABLOKO and Coordinator of the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus. The police also insisted that they had to “survey the premises”. However, Andrei Rudomakha who really was in the office in the morning went to another city at day time. Read more »
Posted: October 10th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, October 8, 2013
An action in memory of the murdered journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya took place in Voronezh on October 7. The activists placed the portraits of Anna Politkovskaya, murdered journalist and writer Yuri Shchekochikhin, murdered human rights activist Galina Starovoytova, murdered human rights activist Stanislav Merkelov, murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova and murdered journalist Dmitry Kholodov at the square and lit the candles. 
Posted: October 10th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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RBC, 03.10.2013
These days Russia celebrates the anniversary of the events of October 1993. Twenty years ago a bloody confrontation took place in the Russian capital and only miracle helped to avoid a civil war. RBC correspondents spoke to the participants in those events about who was right, what people were dying for and who was to blame in their death. On the night from October 3 to October 4 Grigory Yavlinsky made a televised appeal to President Boris Yeltsin to “suppress the rebellion with the utmost responsibility,” while at the same time he criticized the statement made by Yegor Gaidar who called Muscovites to go out into the streets to defend democr Read more »
Posted: October 9th, 2013 under History.
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Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, October 9, 2013
The Investigative Committee of Karelia opened a criminal investigation on unlawful allocation of land in the Prionezhsky region. The criminal case is politically motivated and has absolutely no legal basis under it, it is targeted at removing Svetlana Chechil from the contest for the post of the head of the administration of the Prionezhsky district. Read more »
Posted: October 9th, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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