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, June 14, 2013
On June 11, YABLOKO’s Gender faction held a round table on “Women’s rights and opportunities. European experience and Russia’s problems” with Caecilia van Peski, representative of the Dutch Democratic party D66.
Caecillia van Peski
Posted: June 14th, 2013 under Gender Faction, YABLOKO Sister-parties.
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Press Release, June 13, 2013
The Conference of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO nominated Sergei Mitrokhin to run in the Moscow mayoral elections. He was nominated unanimously be the delegates of the conference.
Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of YABLOKO
Posted: June 13th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Press Release, June 12, 2013
The YABLOKO party took part in the manifestation “For Your and Our Freedom!” which was held in Moscow on June 12, Russia Day. This action was held in support of Russian political activists enjailed after the demonstration of May 6, 2012. Read more »
Posted: June 12th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Press Release, June 11, 2013
Today YABLOKO activists and party leader Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a series of one person pickets against adoption of the bill on protection of religious feelings by the main entrance to the State Duma. The State Duma included examination of the bill in the second and third reading in its agenda.
Posted: June 11th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, June 7, 2013
YABLOKO held an action near the Representation of the Republic of Kalmykia in Moscow to honour the memory of Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of Sovietskaya Kalmykia newspaper and Chair of the Kalmykia branch of the YABLOKO party. She was murdered in July 1998 and YABLOKO still insists that the ex President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is involved in the crime. 
Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Kavkazsky Uzel, Louise Orazayeva, June 7, 2013
The Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkaria has made changes to its regulations as regards the right of the parties that are not represented in the legislative body to participate in the plenary sessions. The changes were made in connection with a lawsuit by the YABLOKO party in the Supreme Court of the Republic. Read more »
Posted: June 7th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Press Release, June 7, 2013
YABLOKO held a mourning rally in memory of Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of Sovietskaya Kalmykia newspaper and Chair of the Kalmykia branch of the YABLOKO party, in Elista, capital of the of the Republic of Kalmykia. Larissa Yudina was murdered on June 7, 1998. The activists demanded from the President of Kalmykia to resume investigation of the murder and demanded from the law-enforcement agencies to find those who ordered the crime. The action in memory of the journalist took place in Moscow as well.
Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of YABLOKO
Posted: June 7th, 2013 under Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina.
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Press Release, June 6, 2013
The Moscow authorities finally removed the fence which has surrounded the first historic beach Serebryany Bor (silver forest) for 8 years. The officials took measures only after YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin sawed the gates and several unites of the fence down with a wire cutter and an angle grinder.
YABLOKO’s activists dismantling the fence
Posted: June 6th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, June 4, 2013
Today YABLOKO’s activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin cleaned a part of Timiryazevsky park, which is situated in the north of Moscow. The action was held within the Environment Week, announced by YABLOKO in the run-up to the World environment day celebrated on June 5.
Posted: June 4th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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Press release, June 4, 2013
Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party, has reiterated his proposal to nominate YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin for the post of the Mayor of Moscow, if the mayoral elections are scheduled for September 8. Grigory Yavlinsky proposed this first a year ago at a conference of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, and then the conference supported that proposals. Read more »
Posted: June 4th, 2013 under Elections, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Alexei Melnikov’s blog, June 3, 2013
Alexei Melnikov
In connection with the assumptions that the elections of the Moscow Mayor may be held in September 2013, brainwashing of the residents of Moscow that there is no alternative to Sergei Sobyanin at the mayoral elections has already begun. And if there may be an alternative, then it is only Mikhail Prokhorov, leader of the oligarchic platform. All the other do not count, as allegedly they are absolutely unknown in Moscow. Read more »
Posted: June 3rd, 2013 under Elections, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, Topics of the day.
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Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, June 1, 2013
The YABLOKO party expresses its categorical protest in connection with the plans of the VGTRK state television and radio broadcasting corporation to drastically reduce broadcasting of the Euronews channel starting from June 1.
Instead of Euronews Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region will be able to watch only Podmoskoviye (The Moscow Region) television channel there. Read more »
Posted: June 1st, 2013 under Gubernatorial Elections.
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Press Release, May 30, 2013
The Volgograd branch of YABLOKO cannot place its banner with an innocent slogan “For Welfare, Peace and Love” in the Kamishin city, the Volgograd region. The advertising company that signed a contract with YABLOKO for placing the banner for a month began dismantling of the banner on the third day after its placing.
Posted: May 30th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Press Release, May 28, 2013
On May 27, the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Green Russia environmental faction of the YABLOKO party and public environmental organisations of the Krasnoyarsk region conducted a round table “Ecological problems of the Krasnoyarsk Region” in Krasnoyarsk. The main topic of the meeting was the discussion of radioactive safety in the region in connection with government’s plans to build a repository for high-level and long-lived radioactive waste near Krasnoyarsk. 
Posted: May 29th, 2013 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau
May 29, 2013
On the threashold of election campaigns regional electoral commissions have once again initiated signing an agreement on honest elections. They have been practicing such agreements since 2003.
In the Sverdlovsk region, the Electoral Commission has sent to the regional branch [of the YABLOKO party] an Agreement on the Political and Moral Principles of Conducting Election Campaigns in the Sverdlovsk Region. Read more »
Posted: May 29th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, Press Release, May 28, 2013
On May 28, 2013 police officers of the city of Sochi conducted two searches in the apartment and countryside residence of Vladimir Kimaev, the member of the Council of Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC). Both searches took place in the absence of Vladimir Kimaev. Searches were conducted concurrently by two groups of police officers. The one, which took place in the apartment situated in Maly Akhun area, was headed by lieutenant colonel Andrey Stolov. The second one took place in Tretya Brigada village and was headed by major S. Tsygankov. Read more »
Posted: May 28th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, May 28, 2013
Vladimir Kimayev
Police is searching the apartment and country cottage of Vladimir Kimayev, leader of the Sochi branch of YABLOKO. According to Kimayev, his son called him about an hour ago and said that police came to their apartment in the Maliy Akhun district, Sochi, and demanded to let them into the apartment for searching for “prohibited articles”. Read more »
Posted: May 28th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Press Release, May 27, 2013
The visit of YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Krasnoyarsk region began with a scandal. The regional state television channel Yenisei unilaterally terminated its contract with the YABLOKO party on provision of air time by the channel.
Posted: May 28th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Press Release, May 27, 2013
The information circulated by some media that the YABLOKO party will support the candidacy of Konstantin Ilkovsky representing a pro-government Just Russia party at the coming gubernatorial elections in the Baikal Territory is not true. The regional branch of YABLOKO has never adopted a decision on the possible support of that candidate. Read more »
Posted: May 27th, 2013 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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Statement by the YABLOKO party
The website of the State Duma published the draft law on “insulting of the religious feelings” prepared for the second reading.
The YABLOKO party notes significant changes introduced into the text since public criticism of the bill.
The authorities abolished very dangerous attempts to grant special rights to some religions as “an integral part of historical heritage of the peoples of Russia”. Read more »
Posted: May 23rd, 2013 under Human Rights, Programme documents, Yabloko's Views.
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