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, 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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Press Release, 10.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Arrested Yabloko Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Maxim Kruglov, via the FSIN-letter service, asked one of his colleagues to convey words of gratitude to all who support him:
“Dear friends,
Hello to everyone! I would like to convey my heartfelt gratitude to you for your support and warm words — they warm my heart and give me strength. Everything is well with me — as far as is possible under the circumstances. I receive many letters and kind words — thank you! I am sorry that I haven’t yet succeeded to reply to everyone, but I will definitely do so!
As, I think, the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky [popular science fiction authors in the USSR and Russia] said (and Boris, by the way, was a Yabloko supporter), let us look into the future with inexhaustible optimism! This era will pass, and people in uniform will be replaced by people with books.
Posted: October 10th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 8.10.2025
Photo: Grigory Gribenko at the monument to Babr, the symbol of Irkutsk / Photo by Pavel Kharitonenko’s Telegram channel
In the centre of Irkutsk, Yabloko activists held single pickets in support of their Moscow colleague Maxim Kruglov and all political prisoners. In addition, participants’ placards contained calls to cease fire and emphasised the Yabloko party’s position — for peace and freedom.
Posted: October 8th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.10.2025
On Tuesday, 14 October Yabloko will host a public lecture “Not Only the West: Democracy Japanese-Style”. The lecture will be delivered 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 will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Posted: October 8th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Press Release, 7.10.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov attended the court hearing via video conference from the remand prison / Photo by Ryazan Yabloko
On 6 October, the Ryazan Regional Court considered the defence appeal by Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko and editor-in-chief of the Vidsboku online media, against the ruling by Sovetsky District Court of Ryazan of 26 September, which extended his arrest at the petition of the investigator.
Posted: October 8th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Press Relese, 7.10.2025
On 7 October, the court changed the preventive measure for Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg: instead of house arrest, it imposed a ban on certain actions. The order came into force today, 8 October, and is valid indefinitely, until the court verdict.
Posted: October 8th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 7.10.2025
Photo: Kirill Goncharov, Ivan Bolshakov and Nikolai Rybakov lay flowers at the memorial plaque at the entrance where Anna Politkovskaya was killed / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
7 October is a tragic date for Russian journalists, human rights defenders, activists and politicians — the date of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a symbol of Russian freedom of speech. On this day 19 years ago, Anna was shot dead outside her home in Moscow on Lesnaya Street. Yabloko members came here today — Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, head of the Yabloko Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov and Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov. They honoured Anna Politkovskaya’s memory by laying flowers and observing a minute’s silence.
Posted: October 7th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 7.10.2025
Photo: Anna Shteinbakh / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Anna Shteinbakh, 30, has become the new Chair of the Yabloko party’s regional branch in Kaliningrad. Anna’s colleagues elected her by a majority vote at the general meeting of the regional branch, which took place past week. As head of the Kaliningrad office, Anna Shteinbakh replaced Alexander Lisovsky, who had chaired the branch in previous years.
Posted: October 7th, 2025 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in Zamoskvoretsky District Court, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova has appealed the arrest of Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party. In the complaint against the chosen preventive measure, the defence emphasises that the court had no grounds whatsoever for imposing a preventive measure on Kruglov at all, let alone one as severe as detention.
Posted: October 7th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 2.10.2025
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky and Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
We know Maxim Kruglov well. He has been a member of the Yabloko party for more than 20 years, holds a Candidate of Political Science degree, and is a specialist in anti-corruption policy. In the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections, he received around 40% of the vote and led our faction [in the Moscow parliament].
Posted: October 3rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in the courtroom / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow sent Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov to a remand centre until 29 November. He has been charged under Article 207.3, Part 2, point “d” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (dissemination of “fakes about the army”). The defence petitioned for a preventive measure not involving detention. Party leaders Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Arbatov offered personal guarantees. The party was also prepared to post bail.
Posted: October 3rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 1.10.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
According to the Investigative Committee, a criminal case has been opened against Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov under Article 207.3, Part 2, point “d” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation).
Posted: October 2nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 20.09.2025
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and film director Alexander Sokurov (left) at the launch of the book “Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar” by Boris Vishnevsky at the Mayakovsky Library in St Petersburg, 7 April 2016 / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant
A lawsuit on administrative violation has been filed with St.Petersburg City Court by the City Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding that a collection of articles by Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, published in 2015, be declared extremist material.
Posted: October 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2025
Heads of the member states of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada. 15-17 June 2025 // Wikimedia
The hostilities between Russia and Ukraine continue against the backdrop of declarations on the need for a ceasefire that are at times sincere, but more frequently hypocritical. Fighting of such magnitude and duration was last witnessed on this land during the years of the Great Patriotic War. Unfortunately, even this frightening comparison will not compel the individuals authorised to adopt the key decisions today to shudder and beat a retreat. Over the past three and a half years there have been a number of opportunities to put an end to the bloodshed. However, initially one decision-maker was opposed to the idea, then other parties were reluctant to do so, and then the third and fourth parties rejected the option. And today the whole world watches with callous indifference at how the future is being destroyed.
Posted: September 30th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 25.09.2025
On Tuesday, 7 October, the central office of the Yabloko party will host a book launch by Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Katrina vanden Heuvel ” Hope Springs Eternal” published as part of a project by the “Association of Researchers of Russian Society – 21 Century”. The event starts at 7:00 PM.
Posted: September 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 25.09.2025
Photo: Screenshot from broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech in the UN
In just one day, Donald Trump launched scathing criticism of “green” energy, migration policy and the UN. However, his most telling statements were about the Ukrainian conflict, which, among other things, contradict his own administration’s official position.
Posted: September 26th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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