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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

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:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

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

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

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

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Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

YABLOKO-ALDE conference 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

The Road to Good Governance

Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991

A Male’s Face of Russia’s Politics

Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

Resoulution
On the results of the Conference “Migration: International Experience and Russia’s Problems” conducted by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (the ALDE party)

Moscow, April 6, 2013

International Conference "Youth under Threat of Extremism and Xenophobia. A Liberal Response"
conducted jointly by ELDR and YABLOKO. Moscow, April 21, 2012. Speeches, videos, presentations

What does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.

Building a Liberal Europe - the ALDE Project

By Sir Graham Watson

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

YABLOKO and ELDR joint conference

Moscow, March 12, 2011

Reform or Revolution

by Vladimir Kara-Murza

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

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky!
Your vote counts!

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

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

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Yabloko: Liberals in Russia

By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

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

Head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Alexander Shishlov, spoke about the need for a ceasefire and expressed condolences to Navalny’s relatives during a briefing for faction leaders

Press Release, 21.02.2024

Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg

At the traditional briefing of faction leaders, which is held after each meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the head of the Yabloko faction, Alexander Shishlov, spoke not about the agenda of the meeting, but about the main thing: the need for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations, and expressed condolences, on behalf of the Yabloko faction, to the relatives of Alexei Navalny. The Press Service of the Legislative Assembly said that they would not distribute his speech, so we are publishing the full text here.

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Yabloko will send special postcards to women in prison timed to International Women’s Day

Press Release, 21.02.2024

Photo: “A new day will come” sent to the contest by Olga Gulevich, Veliky Novgorod

At the end of February and beginning of March, actions in support of political prisoners will be held in Moscow and regional offices of the party, timed to coincide with International Women’s Day (8 March). The postcards will contain works sent to Yabloko as part of the announced contest of drawings. In total, we received 106 works from different cities of Russia.

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Police drew up a violation report against Yabloko Federal Bureau member Alexander Yefimov for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”

Press Release, 20.02.2024

Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by Yabloko Press Service

Alexander Yefimov is charged with giving an interview to the movement of independent election observers Golos, which authorities consider to be part of the international non-governmental organisation European Network of Election Monitoring Organisations (ENEMO). In 2021, the organisation was declared undesirable in Russia.

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The Altai branch of Yabloko will hold an event in memory of Boris Nemtsov

Press Release, 20.02.2024

A memorial rally dedicated to the anniversary of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov will be conducted in Barnaul, the Altai Territory, on 25 February 25 at 13:00. The action will be held on Freedom Square near the monument to victims of political repression “Farewell”. The event was agreed upon with the city administration.

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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Denis Volkov on the dynamics of changes in public opinion in relation to the “special operation”

Press Release, 20.02.2024

On 19 February, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Dynamics of Changes in Public Opinion”. The lecturer was Denis Volkov, sociologist and Director of the Levada Centre. The  participants, using materials from sociological surveys, examined how the attitude of Russian society towards the “special operation” was changing in two years, what determines public sentiment today, how opinions are distributed among different segments of the population, and whether it is worth listening to critics of public opinion polls.

The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko elected a new Regional Council

Press Release, 19.02.2024

On Saturday at the 21st Conference of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko elected new leadership of the regional branch for the next two years. Delegates from Chelyabinsk, Kopeisk, Zlatoust, Miass and Troitsk participated in the conference.

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Yabloko will hold a round table “Traditional Family Values and Women’s Rights”

Press Release, 19.02.2024

Photo by Irina Bujor, Kommersant

The discussion will be held by the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party on 27 February. Everyone is invited to participate.

What are the “traditional family values” that the Russian government is promoting? Taking care of the family hearth, serving husband and children while giving up professional growth? How to deal with domestic violence? How can single-parent families be based on traditional values? How to combine the role of a “working mother” with these traditions?

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Yabloko to host a discussion “Why didn’t books help?”

Press Release, 19.02.2024

Picture: Francisco de Goya “Los caprichos”. The sleep of reason produces monsters. 1799. Prado Museum, Madrid

We invite everyone to join our open discussion “Why didn’t books help?”, timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the start of the “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine. Several invited guests will take part in the discussion: a teacher, a journalist, an actor, a writer and a sociologist.

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The Tula branch of Yabloko demands an investigation into the legality of the actions of police who attacked visitors to the Tipografia culture centre

Press Release, 19.02.2024

Photo: The Tipografia culture centre / Photo from open sources

The Tula regional branch of the Yabloko party issued an open appeal to the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Public Prosecutor’s Office with a demand to check the actions of police who stormed into the Tipografia culture centre past weekend.

On the night of 17-18 February, police and masked men burst into the Tipografia culture centre in Tula, where a night party was taking place. Video footage of ill-treatment of event participants emerged online. According to OVD-Info independent human rights project, the police forced the party participants to lie face down on the floor. Those present at the event were photographed, beaten, and threatened with being forcefully sent to the “special military operation”. Several people were forced to do squats, one was forced to sing the Tula anthem. The police detained several people and took them to the police station. One of the detainees told OVD-Info that protocols were drawn up against him and other participants in the event for “LGBT propaganda”.

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Alexei Navalny became a victim of political repression

Condolences by Grigory Yavlinsky, 16.02.2024

The death of Alexei Navalny is a great tragedy. Whatever its immediate cause, Alexei became a victim of political repression. Navalny was an opponent of the regime and ended up in the penal colony mainly for his political activities. The conditions of his detention, numerous imprisonments in the punitive isolation cell were nothing more than torture, a limitless physical and moral torture, hypocritically and cruelly committed by the authorities, which stop at nothing to suppress their opponents.

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The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny

Statement by the Yabloko party on the death of Alexei Navalny

16.02.2024

The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny.

Responsibility for Alexei Navalny’s death lies with the authorities of our country.

His death occurred in penal colony conditions that were essentially torture. The death of Alexei Navalny must be thoroughly investigated, as well as his poisoning in 2020. Society must know all those responsible for his death, and those responsible must be punished.

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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko called on the Governor of the region to build a children’s hospital in Miass and find specialists for the adult infectious diseases department

Press Release, 15.02.2024

Photo by Wikimedia Commons

Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, appealed to the Governor of the region with a request to solve the problem with the doctors of an infectious disease department and the construction of a children’s hospital in the city of Miass.

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A lecture about Admiral Alexander Kolchak who fought against the Bolshevik coup d’etat was held at the Omsk branch of Yabloko

Press Release, 13.02.2024

Photo by the Omsk branch of Yabloko

On the day of memory of the Russian scientist, statesman, political and military figure Alexander Kolchak, a public lecture “Admiral Kolchak as a Russian George Washington. Assessment of the image of the Supreme Ruler in Russia and abroad (1918-1920)” was held in the Omsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. The lecturer was Vladimir Kalekin, Master of History, Associate Professor, and Candidate of Sciences.

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Yabloko supporter in Tatarstan Zulfiya Sitdikova will be tried for “justifying Nazism” and “discrediting the army”. She needs help

Press Release, 13.02.2024

Photo: Zulfiya Sitdikova / Photo from social media

UPDATE: 13 February, 19:50 Moscow time. Fundraising for Zulfiya Sitdikova is closed! We thank everyone who helped the Yabloko activist.

Yabloko activist Zulfiya Sitdikova from Kazan, Tatarstan, is accused of “rehabilitating Nazism” (Article 354.1, Part 3 of the Criminal Code) and “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code) for the posters calling for peace. Previously, the activist was fined under an administrative article for “discrediting the army” and served five days of arrest for “disobeying the demands of a police officer”. The Tatarstan Yabloko is helping Sitdikova raise money to pay for a lawyer.

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Vladimir Putin’s interview as a chance for dialogue

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.02.2024

In July 2021, Vladimir Putin published an article in which he made it absolutely clear to the whole world that Russia could start a military conflict with Ukraine at any moment. The article essentially denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty and, correspondingly, made territorial claims. Such claims, expressed by the president of a nuclear power, substantiated Russia’s historical right to military action. “Moreover, this is not a war with a neighbour with whom the country has some differences, even if territorial, but instead a war with a powerful external aggressor, in other words, with the West where Ukraine is merely the battlefield for the confrontation,” I wrote in my response article “On the Historical Future of Russia and Ukraine” published on 19 July, 2021.

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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The OSCE is the most important civilisational achievement of the last quarter of the 20th century

Viktor Kogan-Yasny’s blog post, 12.02.2024

Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

My job is to occasionally write about things that relate to limiting bloodshed now and eliminating it strategically in the future. I have to write in a dry language because it’s “work”. Political leaders, military leaders and military commanders say in dry language how many they have killed and how many more they should kill, and they do not know other ways to achieve their goals.

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Sergei Piskunov, candidate member of Yabloko and electoral expert in Kuzbass, detained. His home searched in connection with the case of “organising an extremist community”

Press Release, 12.02.2024

Photo: Sergei Piskunov holding a placard “No More Than 2 Terms”/ Photo from social media

UPDATE: 12 February, 11:45 Moscow time. Sergei Piskunov was detained in the Altai Territory. He is suspected of “creating an extremist community” (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Now he is being taken to the Rubtsovsky City Court which will choose a preventive measure.

Sergei Piskunov, candidate member of Yabloko and electoral expert in Kuzbass, was arrested. This became known on 12 February. Earlier, on 10 February, his home was searched in connection with the case of “organising an extremist community”, after which the civil activist was taken for questioning, but then released.

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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko to the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: The shadow of repression, reminiscent of Stalin’s times, once again looms over science

Press Release, 9.02.2024

Photo: Akademgorodok (the “Academic Town”) in Novosibirsk /Photo from open sources

On the Day of Russian Science and in honour of the 300th anniversary of the formation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party sent congratulatory letters to the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the trade union of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as to Yevgeniy Kraus, the Acting Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and Anatoly Popkov, Chairman of the Trade Union Committee of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In letters signed by the Chair of the Novosibirsk Yabloko, Natalia Chubykina, the party not only congratulates the scientific community on their professional holiday, but also notes that the shadow of repression, reminiscent of Stalin’s times, is once again looming over science. The staff and management of trade union of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences had to face persecution of scientists.

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How we conducted New Year parties for children of refugees from Ukraine. Fundraising report

Press Release, 7.02.2024

On 23 and 25 December, charity Christmas parties were held at the central office of the Yabloko party for the children of Ukrainian refugees – wards of the Civic Assistance Committee and Lighthouse Charity Foundation. We are summing up the results of the charitable New Year parties.

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Lev Shlosberg about fines due to his “foreign agent” status: We have collected comprehensive evidence of my innocence

Press Release 6.02.2024

Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko

On 5 February, the Pskov City Court fined Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, three times for distributing materials without a “foreign agency” tag ( Article 19.34, Part 4, of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) and mentioning without a special reference an organisation recognised by the state as extremist (Article 13.15, Part 2, of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). The three fines totaled 62,000 roubles. Lev Shlosberg says that he is going to appeal these fines.

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