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
Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
Moscow, April 6, 2013
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
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
By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009
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, 23.06.2023
On June 22, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted a screening of the documentary film Pogostiye (Burying Ground), based on the book Memories of War by Nikolai Nikulin. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov told about filming this documentary.
Posted: June 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 22.06.2023
Photo: Galina Mikhaleva / Photo from social media
On 3 July, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Why feminism is good.” The lecture will be delivered by Galina Mikhaleva, Chairperson of the Yabloko Gender Faction, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University.
Posted: June 22nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leaders honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War
Press Release, 22.06.2023
On the night of June 21-22, Yabloko held its traditional action “1418 Candles for Each Day of the War”. The action is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Second World War. Yabloko leaders and activists laid flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park and lit candles.
Posted: June 22nd, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 21.06.2023
Photo: Emilia Slabunova, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia a bill on the return of direct mayoral elections in Karelia, including the Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The incumbent Mayor (city manager) of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, Vladimir Lyubarsky, decided to go to Ukraine as a volunteer fighter of the Akhmat special forces.
Posted: June 21st, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 20.06.2023
Photo: Letter from political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov to Boris Vishnevsky
Yabloko goes on conducting in its regional offices traditional actions in support of Russian political prisoners. Political prisoners do not have summer season or holidays. That is why it is so important not to stop supporting those behind bars. Yabloko has developed an instruction for writing and sending letters, so that people can get in touch with political prisoners even if they do not have the opportunity to come to one of the Yabloko offices for the action.
Posted: June 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 17.06.2023
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Dear friends,
I thank you all for your human responses to today’s decision of the authorities.
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Lev Shlosberg “Russian citizens for freedom” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov commented on the decision of the Ministry of Justice to recognise Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, a “foreign agent.”
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Mitrokhin decided not to participate in elections of the Moscow Mayor because of the inability to campaign for peace with Ukraine. He made this announcement at the conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko. Mitrokhin also stressed that he had no doubts that a candidate with such a stance would not be allowed to participate in the elections. Yabloko supported his stand and decided not to nominate another candidate.
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Cover of the book by Nikolai Nikulin “Memories of the War”
On 22 June, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will launch screening of a documentary film Pogostiye (Burying Ground), based on the book “Memories of the War” by Nikolai Nikulin. The event will be held at the central office of Yabloko in Moscow, staring at 19.00 (Moscow time).
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
The Pskov branch of Yabloko used the remainder of the charitable amount raised to pay the fine for Yelena Kuzmina, a Pskov resident accused of extremism and terrorism for her posts on VKontakte social media criticizing Vladimir Putin, so that to help to cover the fines for 15 more people.
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 15.06.2023
Photo: The wall of the Kresty (Crosses) prison where a memorial plaque to Anna Akhmatova hung / Photo by Misha Burlatsky
Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, appealed to the Governor Alexander Beglov and the general director of DOM.RF Vitaly Mutko asking them to take urgent measures so that to return the memorial plaque to renowned poet Anna Akhmatova to walls of the former Kresty prison.
The memorial plaque hung on the wall of the main entrance to the Kresty prison. It depicted a portrait of Anna Akhmatova and the lines from her poem “Requiem”. In the 1930s, victims of Stalin’s repressions accused in propaganda or calls to overthrow, undermine or weaken the Soviet regime served their sentences in Kresty. In 1930s Anna Akhmatova spent months in queues along with other women waiting for news of their loved ones. Her son Lev Gumilyov (who later became a famous historian) was imprisoned in Kresty.
Posted: June 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Earlier, Sobyanin promised to lift restrictions if the WHO announced the end of the pandemic.
Press Release, 14.06.2023
Photo: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin / Photo by Vladimir Gerdo, TASS
The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, demanded in his letter to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, dated 10 May, the immediate lifting of the anti-COVID ban on public events, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the end of the pandemic on 5 May.
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 13.06.2023
It became clear on 24 February, 2022, that there are no good options for the development of the situation. Since then, there have been only bad options and even worse ones. And now there is only one correct and, most importantly, ultimately inevitable solution: stop killing of many thousands of people and destruction of the infrastructure of life by concluding a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 13.06.2023
Photo: Klimentovsky pereulok 9/1. Next to this door was the Last Address sign with the name of Zinaida Nikolayevna Maevskaya (shot on 29 December, 1937, and fully acquitted in 1989)
It is reported that vandals have recently removed at least eight plaques installed on the houses where the victims of Stalin’s regime had lived. Vladimir Ryzhkov, an MP of the Moscow City Duma from Yabloko, sent an appeal to Oleg Baranov, the head of the Moscow police, demanding to conduct an investigation and bring the perpetrators to administrative responsibility.
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 13.06.2023
The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, Chairman of the Yabloko party from 2008 to 2015 and candidate of political sciences. The lecture was devoted to the tradition of constituent assemblies and their role in the future revival of Russia. The lecture was timed to Sergei Mitrokhin’s anniversary, as on 20 May he turned 60. Mitrokhin spent exactly half of his life at Yabloko. At the beginning of the lecture, he received congratulations from all the other chairpersons of the party: Grigory Yavlinsky, Emilia Slabunova and Nikolai Rybakov.
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Greetings, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Deputy Chairman writes on why the Russian authorities prefer not to recall the text of the Declaration of the State Sovereignty adopted on June 12, which became Russia Day
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 12.06.2023
Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant
Celebrating today’s holiday – Russia Day – the top officials make pompous statements, but try not to recall the document with the adoption of which is associated with this day: 33 years ago, on June 12, 1990, the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) adopted the Declaration of the State Sovereignty of the RSFSR by 907 votes against 13 (nine abstained), And it is clear why: it strikingly clashes with their present policies.
Posted: June 13th, 2023 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Без рубрики.
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He is awarded the prize for the book about science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and his protection of St. Petersburg architectural heritage
Press Release, 12.06.2023
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party, won the Petropol Prize. He is awarded the prize for the book about science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and his protection of St. Petersburg architectural heritage. The Prize is awarded annually for achievements in the field of culture and art, and philanthropy.
Posted: June 13th, 2023 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 9.06.2023
Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 29 September, 2018, the Nazran City Court found the leader of the Ingush Yabloko, Ruslan Mutsolgov, guilty of violating the procedure for holding public events and fined him 10,000 roubles. The Supreme Court of Ingushetia approved the fine, and Mutsolgov filed a complaint against this decision with the European Court of Human Rights.
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.06.2023
Photo by the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia
On the morning of 7 June, friends and former colleagues of Larisa Yudina visited her grave at the Elista cemetery, went to the street named after Larisa, and gathered in the office of the Kalmykia regional branch of Yabloko to remember Larisa.
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.06.2023
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo from social media
UPDATE: 8 June, 17:15. The court imprisoned Yabloko activist Vasily Neustroyev in a pre-trial detention centre. Such a measure of restraint was chosen for him for two months (until August 5), after which the court will be able to extend it or choose another measure.
The meeting of the Basmanny Court in Moscow on choosing a preventive measure for Vasily Neustroev will be held today, 8 June, at 14:00. Hundreds of people are confident in the innocence of Vasily Neustroyev. The defence will provide the court with statements of readiness to stand surety for Vasily.
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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