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, 9.10.2023
Photo by Vyacheslav Bukharov/Wikimedia Commons
The Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko opens a public reception for the residents of Krasnyarsk.
The legal service will help residents to solve their legal and social problems and will begin work on 10 October.
Posted: October 9th, 2023 under Elections, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.10.2023
Photo: Anastasia Rudenko / Photo from social media
The Yabloko branch in Ivanovo will open a public reception in its office on Saturdays from 12:00 to 13:00. Anastasia Rudenko, lawyer and a Yabloko party member, will provide free consultations on legal issues for Ivanovo residents.
Posted: October 7th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.10.2023
On 27 October, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Causes, Results and Significance of the Superficial Europeanisation of Russia in the Second Half of the 15th – early 16th Centuries”. The lecture is Tatyana Chernikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor of Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Posted: October 7th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Press Release, 5.10.2023
Photo: Monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki / Photo from open sources
Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies from Yabloko, points out that the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov Region, which received for consideration and response his August appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office in connection with the unauthorised installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in the city of Velikiye Luky, ignored the failure of the organisers of the installation of the monument to comply with the requirements of the Regulations of the Velikiye Luky City Duma on the procedure for installing monuments, memorial signs and memorials boards. The Regulations comply with federal law.
Posted: October 6th, 2023 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.10.2023
Photo: Oksana Sergeyeva / Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko
The court hearing on the administrative case against Oksana Sergeyeva, a municipal deputy and candidate from Yabloko in the elections to the Novgorod City Duma, was held on 5 October. A few days ago, the same judge ruled out that another Yabloko candidate, surgeon Valery Kochnev, was guilty of “demonstrating Nazi symbols”. Both the court decisions will be appealed.
Posted: October 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 4.10.2023
On 3 October, a screening of the film “Yablokov” was held at the office of the Yabloko party. The film is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Alexei Vladimirovich Yablokov, an outstanding scientist, public and political figure, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the leader of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party. The memorial event was attended by the widow of the scientist Dilbar Klado, members of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov and Olga Tsepilova, Co-Chairman of the Union of Environmental Organisations of Moscow Andrei Frolov, Executive Director of the non-profit organisation “Council on Marine Mammals” Dmitry Glazov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov and others. Before watching the film, the participants of the event shared their memories of Alexei Yablokov.
Posted: October 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2023
30 years ago Russia was on the brink of civil war. The illiterate “price liberalisation” of state monopolies, carried out literally within a day in January 1992, in a country where there were no private enterprises at all, caused hyperinflation of 2.600% by the end of the year – prices grew by 26 times. At the same time, the Russian government abandoned the Economic Cooperation Agreement with the former Soviet republics, which it had already signed in October 1991, which led to a decline in production and shutdowns of industrial enterprises. Total impoverishment of the population, unemployment and a rapid increase in crime began. However, the authorities ignored the growing indignation of citizens and categorically refused to engage in meaningful dialogue, labelling those who expressed pain and confusion and asked fair questions as “anti-reform forces.”
Posted: October 4th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 4.10.2023
Photo: Valery Kochnev / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
On 3 October, the Judge of the Novgorod District Court recognised Valery Kochneva guilty of demonstration of the Nazi swastika and fined him 2.000 roubles. The defence was denied a linguistic examination of the video for the song “Zombie” by the Irish group Cranberries, which was published on Kochnev’s page on the VKontakte social media: the court was satisfied with the report by Alina Plotnikova, an investigator at the Centre for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who had conducted an “inspection of Valery Kochnev’s page”. The police equated the footage from the times of Nazi Germany used by the creators of the video with propaganda of Nazism. The court’s decision will be appealed.
Posted: October 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 3.10.2023
On 2 October, The Yabloko Party University hosted the fourth lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee and Candidate of Political Sciences. Mitrokhin’s lecture “Russian Political Mentality. The Conditions of Formation and the Key Features” was held within the framework of the series “Truth Instead of Law”.
Posted: October 3rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Press Release, 2.10.2023
Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia has introduced to the regional parliament an initiative facilitating access to medicines for rural residents in remote villages that do not have pharmacies. Deputies Emilia Slabunova and Inna Boluchevskaya proposed to enshrine the concept of “mobile pharmacy” in the Federal Law “On the Circulation of Medicines” and give pharmacy organisations the right to organise such mobile pharmacies that will provide the population of remote villages with medicines.
Posted: October 3rd, 2023 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 02.10.2023
On 9 October, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Russian Regions in the New Economic Conditions”. The lecturer is Natalya Zubarevich, Professor of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University and Doctor of Geographical Sciences.
Posted: October 2nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 02.10.2023
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
Our team has participated in dozens of election campaigns, representing the interests of Saratov residents in elections at different levels, but to date there is not a single Yabloko deputy in the Saratov region. Our colleagues successfully work in representative bodies of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Pskov region and the Sverdlovsk region, the Perm Territory and other regions.
Posted: October 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 02.10.2023
Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Yabloko is calling its supporters to enroll as members of precinct electoral commissions in the Pskov region.
Electoral commissions are formed according to the proposals of political parties, and the Pskov Yabloko invites residents of the Pskov region to become Yabloko representatives in precinct electoral commissions with the right to a decisive vote.
Posted: October 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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However, the police may appeal the decision of the court
Press Release, 29.09.2023
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social media
On 27 September, the judge of the Yakutsk City Court decided to terminate the proceedings in the case of an administrative offense on “discrediting the army” under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Administrative Code against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, since the case materials were prepared with errors. Nogovitsyn has already been fined twice for “discrediting” under the administrative and the criminal article for a total of 230,000 roubles. He also fears that the police will appeal the court’s decision and asks for help in reimbursing the lawyer’s fees.
Posted: October 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 29.09.2023
Photo: Valery Kochnev (second from left) with a support group awaiting the court hearing / Photo by the Novgorod branch of the party
On 28 September, a wave of false reports about mining occurred in Veliky Novgorod. In addition to schools and kindergartens, the work of the Novgorod District Court, where hearings on administrative cases about “demonstration of extremist symbols” against candidates for deputies of the City Duma of Veliky Novgorod from the Yabloko party Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev, was also paralysed. The court did not consider Sergeyeva’s case at all, and the hearing of the Kochnev case began an hour after the appointed time and then was also postponed.
Posted: September 29th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 29.09.2023
I have received a response from the acting Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region to my appeal, in which I asked to dismantle the [recently erected] monument to Stalin in Velikiye Luki, as violating laws, humanism and common sense.
Stalin’s repressions were recognised as a crime by decisions of the highest bodies of power of the USSR and Russia.
Two kilometers from the place where the monument was erected (in front of the entrance to the Mikron plant), on the territory of the Velikiye Luki fortress, there was an NKVD prison before the war, through which hundreds, if not thousands of innocent Soviet people passed through at the behest of Joseph Stalin in the years of the Great Terror and ended their lives in execution ditches and camps.
Posted: September 29th, 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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Press Release, 28.09.2023
On 3 October, the Yabloko party office will host a screening of the film “Yablokov”, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Alexei Vladimirovich Yablokov, an outstanding scholar, public and political figure, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the leader of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 28th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.09.2023
Photo: Satellite image of a column of refugees leaving Nagorno-Karabakh. September 2023 // MAXAR
There is a continuous flow of information from Transcaucasia about the ongoing tragedy. It is not possible to really comprehend what is happening while in Moscow. But some painful conclusions can be drawn.
Ethnic cleansing of local Armenians is taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Posted: September 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 27.09.2023
Photo: Police in the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Saratov Yabloko
An official caution on the inadmissibility of actions that create conditions for the commission of crimes under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the established procedure for organising or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing) was received by the Deputy Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko, Kirill Rumyantsev. Two police officers came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko today to warn about the illegality of holding an action of writing letters to political prisoners, which was announced for 30 September. According to the police, the action of writing letters in the office represent a public event about which executive authorities must be notified.
Posted: September 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 27.09.2023
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg did not adopt Yabloko’s bill on changes to the law on the budget process at a plenary session on Wednesday, 27 September. Only 14 deputies out of 49 present at the meeting voted for the bill.
Posted: September 27th, 2023 under Elections, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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