Novaya Gazeta, 15.09.2013
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Olga Bobrova

Photo by Anna Artemyeva, Novaya Gazeta

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Report by Grigory Yavlinsky
Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013
It is a great privilege to be on the panel with such [high level] speakers [as Nobel Prize winners]. That is why I want to simply follow and to develop what has been said before. Read more »

Report by Grigory Yavlinsky

Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013

It’s a great pleasure to be here and I’m very thankful for the invitation to see you and to speak to you. I would start with some quoting of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was asked once by Margaret Thatcher “What about transition in Russia?” And he responded that if “to say it in one word then it is good”, but if “to say it in many words – no good”. I think it is a detailed explanation of what has been going on, because there is a very big number of risks and it is absolutely not clear where the transition has been heading. It is the reality. But this reality is rooted as it was mentioned just now not only in historical roots in Russia, and historical cycles and different historical explanations, but from my point of view it is much more rooted in the way how the reforms were realized in Russia. And I want to present you my report specially prepared for this Forum covering some lessons of the Russian reform, because it was a large-scope reform, some lessons that must be very useful, from my point of view, for other reforms of a different kind almost in any country which we should examine in terms of risks of transition. Read more »

Press Release, September 19, 2013

The Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO participated in a mass rally in defence of the city under the slogan “Let’s protect Nizhny Novgorod! Let’s save our city ourselves!”. The rally was organised  by the Nizhny Novgorod civil movement. The citizens stood against the cutting down of the trees and pulling down the historic buildings for the purpose of commercial building.

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Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 18/09/2013

At present most of Muscovites do not have their representative in the Moscow City Duma. The Moscow City Duma elected in 2009 consists of 35 members representing two political parties only (the ruling United Russia has 32 deputies and the Communist Party has 3 deputies). Such a number of MPs and the structure of the Moscow City Duma do not reflect the present political spectrum in Moscow. Also the norm of representation, i.e. the correlation between the number of MPs and the number of voters is lower than in most of Russia’s regions. Read more »

Press Release, September 17, 2013

YABLOKO’a activists Yury Medovar, senior research scientist at Institute for Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Grigory Semyonov, YABLOKO’s municipal deputy, conducted a serious of one-person pickets against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences outside the State Duma on September 17. Read more »

Press Release, September 16, 2013

Efficient state governance means not merely a technique or an algorithm, but a vector of development which is determined by the political system and the political elite, it means development of relations in the society based on trust, said YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference Forum 2000 which has opened in Prague. Read more »

By Dr. Galina Mikhaleva
Special for YABLOKO’s web-site

Galina Mikhaleva

The famous slogan “Democracy minus a woman is not a democracy” can be paraphrased as follows: the greater is the deficit of democracy in a country, the greater is discrimination of women in all spheres of life. Read more »

Condolences, September 12, 2013 

Our friend, environmental activist and professional biologist Ivan Smirnov passed away suddenly on September 11.

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LI News, Press Release, September 12, 2013

LI full member, Yabloko, have won 70 seats in local parliaments and will have two heads of towns after the latest round of regional and municipal elections in Russia. Read more »

Yugenia Dillendorf’s blog in the LiveJournal , 10.09.2013

Only climate does not change in our country, that is why I believe that a day will come sometime, and Russian journalists will apologize for their work under Boris Yeltsin (since 1996) [for signing praises to Boris Yeltsin and his fraudulent elections], and Vladimir Putin, as the Chile judicial community has apologized for their actions under Pinochet . Read more »

Press release, September 12, 2013

Anatoly Glazunov, re-elected by a margin of one vote head of the Dobrovsky district of the Lipetsk region, has been threatening bodily harm to his competitor from the YABLOKO party Dmitry Pashinov and his family. It should be noted that all Pashinov’s relatives have already been sacked long before the voting day. Read more »

 Press Release, September 9, 2013

Leonid Zaprudin, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Kuban’s YABLOKO, had tires of his car ripped on the eve of elections when he arrived to Tuapse along with a group of journalists to cover the voting in the city. The incident took place on the night before the election day September 8 when unindentified people slashed tires of his car with a knife.

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By Anna Pushkarskaya, Kommersant, Video NikaNewsPTZ, 11.09.2013

Galina Shirshina elected Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, with the support of the YABLOKO party canceled her inauguration scheduled last week onto September 12 by the administration of Nikolai Levin, the former head of the city and member of the [ruling] United Russia party. Read more »

Press release, 10.09.2013

Factions of the YABLOKO party will emerge in the parliaments of Novgorod, Polevsky (the Sverdlovsk region), Krasnokamsk (the Perm region), Korsakov (the Sakhalin region) and Kosh-Axhagsky District (the Altai Terriotory). YABLOKO representatives will become heads of two towns in Karelia and municipal deputies in the Tver region, Karelia, the Kaliningrad and the Moscow region. Read more »

Press Release, September 7, 2013

YABLOKO founder and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky presented his book “The Troubled Times”, which represents a collection of articles and publications between 2008 and February 2013, at the 26th Moscow International Book Fair at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre on September 7. YABLOKO leader, candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin came to congratulate Grigory Yavlinsky on the presentation of the new book.

Grigory Yavlinsky presents his book

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Statement by the YABLOKO party, 08.09.2013

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO is outraged by today’s decision by oligarch Alexander Mamut to dismiss Svetlana Lolayeva, editor-in-Chief of Gazeta.ru. Read more »

 Press release, 09.09.2013

Factions of the YABLOKO party will emerge in the parliaments of Novgorod, Polevsky (the Sverdlovsk region), Krasnokamsk (the Perm region) and Korsakov (the Sakhalin region). YABLOKO representatives will become heads of two towns in Karelia and municipal deputies in the Tver region, Karelia and the Moscow Region. Read more »

Press release, photographs, videos, 08.09.2013

Candidate for Mayor of Moscow from the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin in his speech before journalists at the end of the voting day thanked Muscovites who supported him in this election. “I think they are the most intelligent people in Moscow who, on one hand, realise the threat the present political regime its political representative [the acting Mayor] Sergei Sobyanin present for Moscow and, on the other hand, these people do not follow provocateurs understanding what populism and nationalism are about,” Sergei Mitrokhin said. Read more »

Press Release, September 5, 2013

On September 8 at 12:00 candidate for Mayor of Moscow Sergei Mitrokhin will vote at the Polling Station No 174 located in School No 171 (Komsomolsky prospect, 43). Read more »