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, 22.11.2022
Photo by Tatiana Gord, Kommersant
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia sent an appeal to the President of Russia with a request to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation, announced by Decree No. 647 of 21 September, 2022.
Posted: November 22nd, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 22.11.2022
This week, actions in support of political prisoners will be held in the offices of the Yabloko party across Russia. Yabloko invites all, who would like to support politicians and civil activists who were unjustly convicted or under investigation, to take part in the actions. Participants of the actions can sign postcards printed by the Yabloko party or bring their own letters. Regional offices of Yabloko undertake to send all correspondence to the addressees.
Posted: November 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 21.11.2022
Speaking about the reasons for what happened to Russia in February 2022, analysing the path traveled over three decades and looking for answers to the question of how to find a future for our country, it is extremely important to understand that everything that happened was not inevitable. Over the past 30 years, at every stage, there was an alternative, an opportunity to move along the path of creating a modern state and a modern market economy.
Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Specially for the Yabloko web-site, 19.11.2022
Photo: Sergei Frolov “Nicholas II after the Abdication”
Gathering my scraps of thoughts about 1917 [the February 1917 bourgeois revolution in Russia and the following Bolshevik coup in October 1917] (and what, besides scraps, can a non-specialist have about what happened a hundred and five years ago), I think and would like to tell you about the political dangers of honest, but managerially illiterate decisions that are unable to take into account where the “black swans” may actually come from.
Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 21.11.2022
Photo: Dmitry Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dmitry Rybakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, announced the results of geoecological studies of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, the standing Committee of the Council for Healthcare, Environment and Social Development. The study was conducted by the Institute of Geology of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the period from 2018 to 2022. According to the study, the urban area is contaminated with heavy metals. In particular, there was confirmed the presence of a technogenic geochemical anomaly in the central part of Petrozavodsk, where the former industrial site of the Onega Tractor Plant had been located.
Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 18.11.2022
Photo: Poster for the film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” (USSR, 1988)
On 22 November 22, Yabloko will hold in its Moscow office a screening and discussion of Marina Goldovskaya’s 1988 documentary film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” devoted to the prisoners of the Solovki concentration camp, the archipelago where political prisoners – “enemies of the people” – were exiled to forced labour camps and a prison during Stalin’s Great Terror period in 1920-1930s. After the screening Yuri Brodsky, a Russian photographer and writer, author of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations, will speak about the creation of the film. The screening will begin at 18:00 (Moscow time).
Posted: November 18th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 17.11.2022
Photo by Yevgeny Pereverzev, Kommersant
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a corresponding letter to Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov. Rybakov proposed to include additional hours for learning foreign languages in the educational standards instead of elementary military training.
Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Education and Science, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 17.11.2022
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo from social media
The Abakan City Court returned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the case of Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and editor-in-chief of the Novy Focus online media, who was charged with spreading “fakes about the army” under Article 207.3 Part 2 of the Criminal Code.
Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.11.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin with municipal candidates from Yabloko inspects the improvement of the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo park, August 2022 / Photo: Screenshot of the inspection video
On 17 November, the Moscow City Duma will conduct a meeting of the Commission on Environmental Policy, which will consider a draft resolution of the Moscow City Duma “On the draft federal law “On the Introduction of Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law of November 23, 1995 No. 174-FZ “On Ecological Expertise”. The bill was submitted by Yabloko MP by Sergei Mitrokhin. The commission starts at 10:00, the issue will be considered at about 11:30, the broadcast will take place on the official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@mosgorduma) of the Moscow City Duma.
Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.11.2022
Photo: Boxes with collected humanitarian aid prepared to be sent to the Civic Assistance Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 November, activists of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party delivered 50 boxes of humanitarian aid to the office of the Civic Assistance Committee. Clothes and food-stuffs were collected by Muscovites as part of the campaign launched by Yabloko on 25 October.
Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Charity, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) / Photo by Artyom Krasnov, Kommersant
The Yabloko factions in the Moscow City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent appeals to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, demanding to conduct an investigation and initiate a criminal case into the brutal murder (according to information disseminated on the Internet) of a Russian citizen Yevgeny Nuzhin, a former prisoner recruited by the private mercenary group the Wagner Group. The letters were signed by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, and Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
Posted: November 16th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov and his lawyer Andrei Chertkov / Photo by Dinar Idrisov
A judge of the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision on the fine in the case of “discrediting the army” against Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the head of the regional branch of the party. Shishlov intends to appeal the decision of the City Court to the Third Court of Cassation.
Posted: November 16th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Alexander Makhankov / Photo from social media
The Pushkinsky District Court decided not to prosecute Alexander Makhankovm Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Pushkinsky District of St.Petersburg. The hearings took place on Tuesday, 15 November.
Posted: November 15th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, spoke out against the draft amendment to the federal law “On State Support for Cinematography”, initiated by the deputies from A Just Russia faction in the State Duma.
Posted: November 15th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 14.11.2022
Photo: Ditches across the road dug by Russian soldiers near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine, 7 April 2022 // REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich
Grigory Yavlinsky on war and peace, the future of Russia, as well as the role of the political party at a time of military actions which are precipitating the country’s collapse. This text is based on a speech given on 20 October 2022 at a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party
At present many people have been trying to compare the developments in Ukraine with events of the past century, frequently turning to World War II. However, this is fundamentally an erroneous and incongruous comparison. The world has changed over the past eight decades and in the 21st century a territorial war will never have a winner. Such a conflict will be endless. Germany and France fought over Alsace-Lorraine for 150 years up until the creation of the European Union which brought an end to all wars in Europe. In a territorial war there are no winners: everyone loses. There aren’t and cannot be any winners in a nuclear war, which is the ultimate risk of today’s confrontation between Putin’s Russia and the West and could happen at any point. We already realise that the Russian special military operation against Ukraine is merely the prelude to a global conflict.
Posted: November 15th, 2022 under Economy, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 11.11.2022
Photo by the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko
On 19 November the Rostov-on-Don regional branch of the Yabloko party will conduct an action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners. Yabloko invites all interested Russian citizens to participate. The action will start at 17:00.
Posted: November 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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PLN FM, 11.11.2022
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, Lev Shlosberg, commented on the air of the “Day Watch” programme on the PLN FM radio station on the proposal to resume the work of the commission on perpetuating the memory of victims of political repression, with which Dmitry Shakhov, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Pskov Region, addressed the regional authorities and political parties leaders in the 85 anniversary of the start of the Great Terror in the USSR.
Posted: November 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 11.11.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 22 November, the Yabloko Party University will host a second lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, a deputy of the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences. Sergei Mitrokhin will continue to answer listeners’ questions about Russia’s “special path”, capitalism in Russia and many other issues. The lecture will begin at 18:00 MSK.
Posted: November 11th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, History, Human Rights.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 11.11.2022
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the so-called public discussions on the draft budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2023 (and the planned period of 2024 – 2025) are coming to an end. I have sent a protest regarding the form of conducting such discussions.
Posted: November 11th, 2022 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Gender Faction of the Yabloko Party, 10.11.2022
Photo by Emin Dzafarof, Kommersant
The State Duma unanimously adopted in the first reading the Draft Law No. 217471-8 On Amending the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation (regarding the prohibition of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences). The authors of the draft were almost 400 deputies, headed by the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the leaders of all the factions; 405 deputies voted for the bill.
Posted: November 10th, 2022 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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