Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: A leaflet of the picket / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 22 October, the Sverdlovsk region branch of the Yabloko party will hold a picket in Yekaterinburg against the Russian Federation’s withdrawal of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
On 5 October, Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s possible withdrawal of ratification of the CTBT; on 12 October, it was reported that the relevant State Duma committee had prepared a bill to revoke the ratification. On 18 October, the bill was adopted by the State Duma in three readings.
The Yabloko Party’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre indicated that six deputies and senators may have vested interests in the adoption of the law
Press Release, 18.10.2023
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Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the State Duma and the Federation Council conduct a conflict of interest check on the co-authors of the bill on clear cut of forests in the Lake Baikal area (No. 387575-8) and take liability measures, including depriving them of their mandates. We are talking about senators Sergei Brilka and Andrei Chernyshov, as well as State Duma deputies Alexander Yakubovsky, Sergei Tena, Anton Krasnoshtanov and Viktor Pinsky. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre also developed the concept of a law on lobbying and proposes to label deputies and senators involved in promoting the interests of individuals or corporations as “lobbying agents”.
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
The bills included in the agenda of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg by a faction must be considered at a plenary meeting. It is necessary to prohibit their exclusion from the agenda without the consent of the faction. Such changes to the rules of the city parliament were proposed by Yabloko deputies Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Commentary by Grigory Yavlinsky’s Press Secretary, Igor Yakovlev, on the participation of a Yabloko candidate in the 2024 presidential elections:
— The position of Grigory Yavlinsky is well known. He is categorically against the special military operation and for an immediate ceasefire. Yavlinsky believes that the main thing is human life, freedom, real democracy and an effective modern economy. It was with these programme goals that Yavlinsky participated in the presidential elections three times and came third in the presidential elections in 2000.
Photo: A still from Alexander Sokurov’s film “The Fairy Tale”
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova with a request to reconsider the Ministry of Culture’s decision refusing to issue a distribution certificate for Alexander Sokurov’s new film “The Fairy Tale.” The new film by the outstanding Russian director Alexander Sokurov, “The Fairy Tale,” tells how Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Churchill meet in the afterlife. When creating the film, Alexander Sokurov used footage from documentary chronicles and texts from real speeches of the historical characters. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2022.
Artyom Sakharov, an 18-year-old civil activist and a candidate member of Yabloko, was fined 75,000 roubles for reading poetry which was regarded by the authorities as a “repeated violation of the established procedure for organising or holding a public event” (Article 20.2 Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The decision was made by a judge of the Central District Court of Barnaul.
On 17-19 October, Yabloko will conduct the Forum of Yabloko Deputies on the party’s online platform, 209 deputies from 23 regions of the country were invited to the event to exchange experiences and work on common cases. The speakers of the forum include current parliamentarians of regional legislative assemblies Boris Vishnevsky (the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg), Emilia Slabunova (the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia), Maxim Kruglov, Sergei Mitrokhin and Yevgeny Bunimovich (the Moscow City Duma), city and municipal deputies, as well as the leaders of the party and former deputies Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site and Zhivoi Gvozd Youtube channel, 16.10.2023
Grigory Yavlinsky on the Hamas attack on Israel, repression in Russia and the future world order
Everything on which the world order was based after the end of World War II is losing significance before our eyes. After the extreme horrors of war and colossal sacrifices, the preservation of human life, human freedom and rights was proclaimed the main value of the united nations. The European Union was created on these principles.
30 years ago, on 16 October, 1993, a protocol on the establishment of an electoral bloc for elections to the State Duma was signed, the top three candidates included Grigory Yavlinsky, Yury Boldyrev and Vladimir Lukin. People immediately named the political association “YABLoko” [according to the first letters of the names of the top three candidates of the bloc, also “yabloko” means “apple” in Russian].
Photo: Yabloko candidates Pyotr Kopylov and Maxim Novikov
Yabloko candidates in the by-elections to the Novosibirsk City Council are campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!”. It should be noted that in September, Yabloko already held elections under the same slogan in other regions to municipal councils and city parliaments. Yabloko candidates in Novosibirsk plan that the second topic of their campaigns will be the problems of the city and their districts.
Statement by the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 13.10.2023
Photo: A 300,000-strong anti-war demonstration in Moscow in August 1986 in support of the statement of Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, on the programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons throughout the world / Photo by Andrei Solomonov, RIA Novosti
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on 5 October that Moscow may withdraw ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). A week later, on 12 October, it was reported that the relevant State Duma committee had prepared a bill to revoke ratification. Its consideration in the first reading will take place on 17 October.
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
The Legislation Committee of the St. Petersburg city parliament removed two initiatives of the Yabloko faction from the agenda of the plenary session at a meeting on Friday, 13 October. Both of them concerned the protection of the rights of voters and parliamentary minorities.
Maxim Petlin, Chairman of the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the party and a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, celebrates his 50th birthday on 12 October. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Maxim Petlin on his anniversary:
Photo: A building damaged by rocket attacks on Tel Aviv / Photo by Vyacheslav Tatarovsky, RIA Novosti
War has come to Israel. Terror, which seemed to have been more or less minimised for two decades with the help of a sound military doctrine and the efforts of professional intelligence services and diplomats, broke out with unexpected force and in an absolutely ugly form. It turned out that all the previous security measures were absolutely insufficient and the modern political model in general was not ready for the new circumstances.
It is with alarm and pain that we, together with the entire world, observe the unfolding tragedy in Israel and Palestine. A monstrous massacre carried out by fanatics. A new war, another burning fire on our small planet. We sincerely sympathise with all the victims and those injured, and their families.
Two candidates for deputies were nominated by the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party at a meeting of the regional bureau held on Sunday. By-elections for the electoral districts Nos 40 and 49 will be held on 15-17 December, 2023.
On 9 October, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Russian Regions in the New Economic Conditions”. The lecturer was Natalya Zubarevich, Professor of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University and Doctor of Geographical Sciences.
The General Assembly of the regional branch elected the chairman, his deputy, members of the Bureau and the Control and Audit Commissions of the Kaliningrad branch of the party.
Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 7.10.2023
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by Sergei Pyatakov, RIA Novosti
On 7 October, Emilia Slabunova, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, the third Chairperson of the party, and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia, turns 65. Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky congratulate Emilia Slabunova on her anniversary.
