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, 7.11.2025
Photo: Olga Shnyrova / Photo from social media
The Yabloko party announces with deep regret the death of Olga Vadimovna Shnyrova, human rights defender, educator, director of the Ivanovo Centre for Gender Studies, and head of Yabloko’s local branch in Frunzensky District of Ivanovo.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 10.11.2025
Photo: Valery Borshchev was buried at Nikolo-Arkhangelsky Cemetery in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Sunday, 9 November, Moscow held the funeral of one of the most outstanding human rights defenders — of both contemporary Russia and the Soviet era — Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev. He passed away on 3 November at the age of 82 after a prolonged illness — at home, surrounded by family, principally preferring freedom to hospital walls. It was precisely “freedom,” as well as “faith,” “dignity,” “responsiveness,” “heroism” and “courage” that resounded on Sunday in tributes to the deceased. For many who came to bid him farewell, Valery Borshchev turned out to be not simply a friend, like-minded person, colleague or teacher, but literally a symbol of several eras and the main values that define life.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Condolences from Grigory Yavlinsky, 3.11.2025
Photo: Valery Borshchev at his home / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 3 November, Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev, Soviet dissident, Russian human rights defender, one of the founders of the Yabloko party and leader of its human rights faction, passed away. Yabloko Federal Political Committee Chairman Grigory Yavlinsky expressed condolences in connection with Borshchev’s passing:
Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev has been our loyal and sincere friend, our moral compass, an impeccably honest and decent person. A founder of our party and its organiser from day one. He will remain with us forever.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 3.11.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 3 November 2025, Valery Borshchev, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, leader of the Human Rights Faction, and co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, passed away at the age of 82, after a prolonged illness.
Soviet dissident and Russian politician, human rights defender and journalist, symbol of freedom and human dignity — this was and will forever remain Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev. He was friends with Academician Andrei Sakharov and stood at the origins of Russia’s oldest human rights organization — the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG). He participated in negotiations with militants in Chechnya, striving to stop military action and save people. He represented Yabloko in the State Duma, devoting enormous attention to protecting the rights of prisoners and problems of the penitentiary system.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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Decision by the Yabloko Federal Bureau adopted on 14.10.2025, published on 31.10.2025
Photo by RIA Novosti, Taras Litvinenko
At parliamentary hearings on the draft budget for 2026 and the planning period 2027–2028, Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matvienko proposed collecting fees to the Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund from non-working able-bodied citizens in the amount of 45,000 roubles per year.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Governance, Healthcare, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 30.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov spoke at the hearing via video link from Butyrka remand prison / Photo by the Moscow City Court Press Service
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov will remain in a remand prison until 29 November. Such was the ruling of the Moscow City Court on 30 October, after considering an appeal against the politician’s arrest. The defence — Kruglov is represented in court by lawyers Natalia Tikhonova and Sergei Badamshin — pointed to the “negligence” of Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court and an unacceptable number of errors in its ruling on arrest.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau adopted on 14.10.2025, published on 23.10.2025
Photo: From left to right: Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes Andrei Makarov, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov / Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant
The Yabloko party resolutely opposes the new package of tax initiatives submitted by the Government of Russia to the State Duma.
We believe that in conditions of economic stagnation, declining real incomes of the poorest layers of the population, an excessive key rate and still high inflation, the proposed measures are disastrous for the country, business and citizens. Instead of stimulating economic growth and supporting those who create added value, the government once again chooses the simplest and most destructive path — the path of increasing fiscal pressure.
Posted: October 23rd, 2025 under Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau, 22.10.2025
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
We declare resolute protest and rejection of the policy of systematic, unlawful and disproportionate restriction of the digital rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation, carried out under the pretext of “ensuring information security”.
Posted: October 23rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 21.10.2025
In mid-October Yabloko hosted a lecture “Not Only the West: Democracy Japanese-Style” by Alexander Gnezdilov, member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, editor-in-chief of Smart Power Journal and author of the Telegram channel “Gnezdilov. Against the Current”. The lecture was organised by the Yabloko party’s Analytical Centre
Posted: October 22nd, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Press Release, 21.10.2025
Photo: Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and Duma Speaker Konstantin Somov / Photo by the Veliky Novgorod Duma Press Service
On 24 October, the Veliky Novgorod Duma will consider the issue of record salary increases for local officials. Mayor Alexander Rozbaum is asking deputies to approve almost doubling his own salary — according to Yabloko’s estimates, to 480,000 roubles per month (he currently receives 260,000). Duma Chairman Konstantin Somov also expects his salary to increase from 250,000 roubles to 430,000 roubles per month.
Posted: October 22nd, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 21.10.2025
Photo: Diana Loginova in court / Photo by Alexei Dhushutin, Novaya Gazeta
I am outraged by the court’s decision to arrest singer Diana Loginova (Naoko) for 13 days for performing songs in the street. In fact, the state used this decision so that to further expanded the scope of repressions, punishing Diana not for crimes, but for creativity and self-expression in music. Under no circumstances can I agree that peaceful street performance of songs poses a threat to public safety.
Posted: October 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Press Release, 20.10.2025
On 13 November, Yabloko will hold a new charity auction in support of political prisoners’ families. The action will be the seventh in a row, and the funds raised will traditionally go to help relatives and lawyers of political prisoners. The event will take place simultaneously on two platforms — online and at the Yabloko office in Moscow.
Posted: October 21st, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau of 14.10.2025, published on 19.10.2025
Photo: Andrei Sakharov speaks at the 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti
Fifty years ago, on 9 October 1975, Academician Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his many years of defending human rights as the only solid foundation for genuine and lasting international cooperation.
Posted: October 20th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau of 14.10.2025, published on 17.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party expresses protest against the politically motivated persecution of Maxim Kruglov and resolute disagreement with the charges brought against him.
Posted: October 17th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 17.10.2025
Photo: Yevgenia Lomakova / Photo from social media
A terminally ill 20-year-old Muscovite Yevgenia Lomakova, who suffers from cystic fibrosis — a genetic disease in which the body gradually “blocks up” the lungs and digestive organs — could die in a remand prison. The young woman has been in detention for many months, which is unacceptable with her diagnosis. The courts first imposed a preventive measure in the form of detention, and then sentenced her to an actual term in a penal colony, which Yevgenia may not live to see the end of.
Posted: October 17th, 2025 under Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.10.2025
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
15 October marks the 70th birthday of Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Boris Lazarevich Vishnevsky. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Federal Political Committee Chairman Grigory Yavlinsky congratulate him on this anniversary.
Posted: October 15th, 2025 under Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 13.10.2025
The Yabloko party announces the start of open enrolment for the Federal Party School. This is already the fifth intake of the educational project, whose graduates become young public politicians, experts and managers — that is, the party’s active personnel reserve. Enrolment opens on 13 October and will continue until 1 November inclusive.
Posted: October 13th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 10.10.2025
Although Donald Trump has indeed participated in resolving a number of protracted conflicts, let us not forget that he has previously taken many actions directed against peace. Moreover, efforts in the name of peace should be dictated primarily by concern for people, not personal ambitions.
Posted: October 13th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 10.10.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Yabloko party Deputy Chairman must return to house arrest. This decision was made today, 10 October, by the Pskov Regional Court. He granted the public prosecutor’s protest, which challenged the ruling of the first instance judge who had changed the politician’s preventive measure to a “ban on certain actions”.
Posted: October 10th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 10.10.2025
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by Konstantin Lenkov
The Third Cassation Court of St Petersburg overturned the decisions of lower courts—the district, and then the city court — regarding “Boris Vishnevsky’s participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”. Vishnevsky’s complaint about unlawful administrative prosecution was granted “partially”, the ruling runs. This means that some of the politician’s arguments were not considered by the court.
Posted: October 10th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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