Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The peculiarity of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is that the ceasefire is not a tactical respite, not a private episode and, most likely, not even a temporary first step solution. A ceasefire in this case is a strategy. In the current circumstances, this is the only possible political solution to immediately stop the bloodshed while preserving the prospects for both Ukraine and Russia.
Charitable foundations and social projects will take part in the New Year’s fair. One can support the work of these organisations by purchasing products made by their wards.
In the last days of December, Yabloko will hold actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions. Not all post cards and letters will reach their recipients before the New Year. However, good wishes are always important for those deprived of freedom. Yabloko invites all to come to the offices of the party branches, write letters to political prisoners and spend time with like-minded people; or one can also write a letter to a political prisoner without visiting our offices with the help of our instruction.
Tatyana Pasman, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko, proposed nine amendments worth 13,6 mln roubles to the draft city budget for 2024 and the planning period of 2025 and 2026.
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The budget of Karelia for 2024 and the planning period 2025-2026 was adopted in the third reading with 25 votes in favour and 8 against out of 34 present. All 20 amendments of Yabloko, as well as proposals of other parties, were rejected. The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic, Emilia Slabunova, spoke at a parliamentary meeting about why the faction did not consider it possible to support such a draft budget. Slabunova also demanded that the government of the Republic of Karelia present a plan for solving the problems reflected in the blocked amendments of the three factions, and a plan for increasing its own revenue sources of the budget of Karelia in 2024.
Just like last year, Yabloko is again organising New Year’s parties for Ukrainian refugee children.
Children would certainly like to celebrate the New Year at home, with their family, next to a decorated Christmas tree. But you understand, this will not happen now.
All are asking the question – what can I personally do? We offer to help make the world around for these children a little kinder.
We will hold holidays this year on 23 and 25 December for the wards of the Civic Assistance Committee and the Lighthouse Charity Foundation.
Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov asks the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev to conduct a medical examination of Alexei Gorinov and monitor the provision of medical care to him in full.
Alexei Gorinov, a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, was convicted of “fakes” about the army, and, according to his lawyer, is in very bad condition, very weak and can hardly stand on his feet. He has a chronic lung disease; in the penal colony he suffered from left-sided pleuropneumonia, underwent treatment, but, according to available information, after returning to the penal colony IK-2 in the Vladimir region, he was prevented from taking medications.
Resolution by the Yabloko Congress, adopted on 10.12.2023, published on 12.12.2023
Photo by Yury Abramochkin, RIA Novosti
Thirty years ago, a vote on the draft Constitution of Russia took place.
The creation of the Constitution of post-Soviet Russia, its popular discussion and adoption procedure could have become key stages in the creation of a new state, fundamentally different from the Soviet system based on lies and terror and, as a result, lost its legitimacy.
However, instead of all this, the creation and adoption of the Constitution in 1993 was subordinated to short-term political interests and became, in fact, a continuation of the forceful solution to the constitutional crisis chosen by President Yeltsin and his circle in September-October 1993.
The Yabloko’s Control and Audit Commission will include: Dmitry Kushpita, Chairman of the Vladimir regional branch of the party and Director of school No. 40 in Vladimir, advisor to the city mayor on issues of education, physical culture and sports; Kirill Lysenko, Deputy Director for Regional Development in the Digital Transformation Laboratories, Deputy Chairman of the Council on Informatisation and Digital Economy of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, lecturer at Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vadim Monin, Chairman of the Astrakhan regional branch of the party, Associate Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Administration of the Astrakhan Branch of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Tatyana Pchyolkina, Chair of the Orenburg regional branch of the party, lawyer; Andrei Talevlin, Deputy Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the party, Chairman of the Green Russia faction in the Chelyabinsk regional branch, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law of the Chelyabinsk State University; Tatyana Shkred, Chair of the Voronezh regional branch of the party, individual entrepreneur.
Photo: Igor Artemyev, a member of the Federal Political Committee, speaks at the Congress on 9 December / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Past weekend, the 22nd Yabloko Congress took place in Moscow. The Congress elected the party leaders and the executive bodies of the party for the next four years. Nikolai Rybakov retained the post of Yabloko Chairman, 55% of delegates voted for him. The programme “Peace. Progress. Human Rights”, with which Nikolai Rybakov campaigned for the post of party Chairman is published on the Yabloko website.
The new members of the Federal Political Committee, which is a steering body of the party, dealing with the party’s strategy, are the famous economist Yevgeny Gontmakher, Alexei Melnikov, economist, publicist and a State Duma deputy of three convocations, and political scientist Ivan Bolshakov, who worked as Deputy Chairman of the party from 2019 to 2023.
The Federal Bureau includes 21 people (including the party Chairman and Deputy Chairpersons). Representatives from 15 regions became members of this executive body, 40 per cent of the Bureau are newly elected.
The nature and essence of the largest armed conflict in the centre of Europe since the Second World War – the conflict between Russia and Ukraine – is such that it has not had, does not have and will not have a military solution.
Yabloko has always opposed the military method of resolving interstate contradictions, chosen by Russia on 24 February, 2022, in favour of a ceasefire and the start of negotiations. Today this is becoming inevitable.
People wish peace and justice. The road to justice and building a new European security architecture will be difficult and long. However, every day of continued hostilities only lengthens the path, multiplies casualties and destruction, and ultimately deprives both Russia and Ukraine of the future.
The duty of responsible politicians is to protect the future of their countries.
Photo: (from left to right) Maxim Kruglov, Boris Vishnevsky, Anna Cherepanova, Sergei Ivanenko, Nikolai Rybakov, Lev Shlosberg, and Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The new leadership of Yabloko will include six Deputy Chairpersons of the party. They are: the leader of the Pskov Yabloko, Lev Shlosberg; regional deputies Boris Vishnevsky (St. Petersburg) and Maxim Kruglov (Moscow); Deputy of the City Duma of Veliky Novgorod, Chairman of the Novgorod branch of the party Anna Cherepanova; party representative in the Central Election Commission, head of the Tula branch Vladimir Dorokhov and head of Moscow Yabloko Sergei Ivanenko.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
According to the results of the secret ballot of the congress delegates, 59 delegates (55%) voted in favour of Nikolai Rybakov. Alexander Yefimov came second with 26 votes in favour. Anna Cherepanova and Maxim Kruglov received 12 and 10 votes, respectively.
Grigory Yavlinsky made a political report at the Yabloko Сongress. He spoke about the need for a ceasefire in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, about political prisoners, the economic situation and the upcoming elections. A significant part of the report was devoted to the future of Yabloko in the Russian politics. According to the party leader, the role of the party must radically change: Yabloko is no longer a party trying to correct the policies of the state. The circumstances in the country are such that Yabloko should become the party in power. This is exactly what is needed for the future of Russia.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a report at the 22nd Yabloko Party Congress. He spoke about the historical forks of the past 30 years and Yabloko’s proposals at each of them.
Rybakov said that it was necessary to understand at what turns the wrong choice had been made, since such forks and such crossroads would happen more than once in the history of our country:
Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Ivan Bolshakov on how the party can exist in the current conditions
Press Release, 9.12.2023
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them,” Yabloko Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov began his report at the 22nd Party Congress with this quote from George Orwell.
“I think this also refers to Yabloko,” Bolshakov noted. “When the authorities promote a misanthropic ideology and implement the principle “people are trash,” we are talking about saving people, saving lives.”
At 10:00 (Moscow time) a two-day Congress of the Yabloko party will begin, the Congress will elect new executive bodies of the party for the next four years.
The Congress will be opened by political reports from Yabloko leaders – party Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov and head of the Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky. The reports will be streamed on Yabloko’s Youtube channel.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 November, 2023, published on 7 December, 2023
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the televised debates during the 2018 presidential campaign / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The upcoming eighth presidential elections in Russia in March 2024 are radically different from those held in Russia since 1991. In the situation when fighting and human loss go on, and those who disagree with the actions of the authorities are imprisoned for expressing a position different from the position of the state, the elections turn into a kind of plebiscite with the question of support for Vladimir Putin personally and his policies, with a predetermined result, which was already announced by his Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.
