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, 27.09.2023
On 2 October, The Yabloko Party University will host 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” will be held within the framework of the series “Truth Instead of Law”.
Posted: September 27th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 27.09.2023
Photo: Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev / Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko
On 28 September, the Novgorod District Court will hold two trials on administrative cases regarding the “spread of extremist symbols” against candidates for the Veliky Novgorod City Duma Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev.
It should be noted that on 29 August, an administrative protocol was drawn up against surgeon Valery Kochnev, a Yabloko candidate for deputy of the City Duma of Veliky Novgorod, regarding the “demonstration of extremist symbols”. The police found a violation of the law in the publication of a video clip for the song “Zombie” by the Cranberries. The video used chronicle footage from the times of Nazi Germany, and was published by Valery Kochnev on his page in 2021.
Posted: September 27th, 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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Press Release, 26.09.2023
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov speaking at the rally / Photo by Dmitry Chebanov
Past weekend, a rally was held against the closure of the radiological unit of the oncology department of the city hospital in the city of Novomoskovsk, the Tula region. About a hundred people gathered at the rally. The organisers managed to get a permission for the rally only upon the second time. The rally was ignored by local journalists. The leader of the Tula branch of Yabloko, Vladimir Dorokhov, spoke in support of the demands of the protesters.
Posted: September 27th, 2023 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences, 26.09.2023
Photo: Yevgeny Yasin /Photo by Maxim Kimerling, Kommersant
On 25 September, economist Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin passed away. Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky expressed condolences on the death of Yevgeny Yasin.
Posted: September 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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Press Release, 22.09.2023
Photo: Screenshot of Emilia Slabunova’s page on the VKontakte social media running that her page was blocked by the demand of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General of the RF No 27-31-2022 of 25.03.2022
A judge of the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled out that the VKontakte social media administration was not obliged to open access to Yabloko MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova to her blocked page on this social media, even after the user had deleted the posts allegedly containing “unreliable” socially significant information about the special operation on the territory of Ukraine. The politician intends to appeal the decision, despite the position of the Smolninsky District Court.
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko
Adopted on 15.09.2023, published on 22.09.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The political regime that has developed in Russia can be characterised as electoral authoritarianism evolving into a personalistic dictatorship. While the institution of elections was formally preserved, voting lost its true meaning. In the situation of pressure on the institutions of civil society and the apathy of the majority of Russians, election campaigns in Russia do not lead to a change of power, political and personal changes, but formalised the figures chosen by the ruling group, as well as perform the function of “letting off public steam”. However, even under these conditions, elections can still serve as a tool for dialogue between the party and society and a mechanism for citizens to express their opinions.
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 22.09.2023
Borodyanka, Kyiv district, Ukraine. March 2022 // Ales Ustsinau
One and a half years of hostilities have demonstrated that the largest armed conflict in Europe after World War II — the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine — will drag on for years and will be accompanied by never-ending fatalities and more and more destruction. To all intents and purposes this conflict will have no conclusive outcome; this is a no-win situation.
As long as there is no fundamental transformation of the political and economic system created in Russia in the 1990s1, as long as the regime in the country remains authoritarian and immutable, until the Russian Federation actually becomes a democratic state (and unfortunately this is not going to happen any day soon), there will be no material change in the Kremlin’s foreign policy.
Meanwhile the Ukrainian authorities declare that they will not stop and will not back down. Today, however, Ukraine is gradually starting to experience difficulties arising objectively in Western contributor countries: a build-up of budget problems, tension over issues of the combat readiness of the national armed forces and the exacerbation of domestic political differences. Support for Ukraine at current levels is not guaranteed.
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Press Release, 20.09.2023
Photo by the Tula branch of Yabloko
In September and early October, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will again be held at the central office of the Yabloko party and in the offices of Yabloko regional branches. As always, anyone who would like to send kind words and wishes to those unjustly imprisoned is invited to participate. Yabloko will help you understand the intricacies of writing such letters, and will also take care of sending letters by mail. You can read brief instructions on how to write a letter for a political prisoner here.
Posted: September 22nd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 20.09.2023
Photo: Police officers blocking the car of Yabloko candidates on 9 September, 2023 / Photo by Ksenia Cherepanova
Yabloko’s politicians were accused of allegedly planning to enter the premises of the precinct electoral commission at school No. 31 on the night of 9-10 September. That night, Anna Cherepanova, Ksenia Cherepanova, and Viktor Shalyakin were blocked in a car near the polling station. All the three candidates, without leaving the car, showed their documents to a policeman. The policeman asked Anna Cherepanova to get out of the car, but she refused. No demands were made against Ksenia Cherepanova and Viktor Shalyakin.
Posted: September 21st, 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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YouTube channel Zhivoy Gvozd, 18.09.2023
Broadcasted live on 16.09.2023
Over 30 years, the Yabloko party has offered people in Russia a different path eleven times: eight times in parliamentary elections and three times in presidential elections. This path would never have led our country to what is happening now. We proposed to build a state of welfare and human dignity, freedom and democracy with life without fear and war.
But even today, in the most difficult conditions, when it became dangerous to campaign for peace and freedom, Yabloko candidates were reaching out to people and told them the truth about the situation in the country. And people only had to vote – secretly, without any risk – for peace and freedom. Every vote was extremely important. But, unfortunately, this did not happen on a serious scale. For the most part, people did not understand that voting was the way to change the situation. And without this understanding nothing can be changed.
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 18.09.2023
Photo: The rally organised by the Tomsk branch of Yabloko /Photo by the Tomsk Yabloko Press Service
The rally was organized by Vladimir Petrov, deputy of the City Council of the city of Seversk from Yabloko. Several hundred people opposed the actions of the administration of the Siberian Federal Scientific Clinical Centre of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (SibFNKTs FMBA). The centre includes the Seversk Clinical Hospital, as well as the Medical Rehabilitation Centre and the Treatment and Prevention Unit in Tomsk. The centre has been headed by Viktor Avkhimenko since February 2021. The protesters are dissatisfied with the quality of health care and the level of salaries of medical workers.
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 18.09.2023
Photo: Viktor Sheinis /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A round table “Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis: Academic, Politician, and Person” was held at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences past week.
The event was dedicated to the memory of Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis (1931–2023), Doctor of Economics, People’s Deputy of the RSFSR and a member of the Constitutional Commission of the Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR (1990–1993), a deputy of the State Duma (1993–1999) and a member of the Political Committee of Yabloko. The participants of the round table spoke about the great contribution of Viktor Sheinis to the creation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the electoral legislation of Russia, his scientific works as an economist, historian and political scientist, and his participation in the political life of the country.
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Condolences, Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 15.09.2023
On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party hosted a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics. Galina Mikhaleva, head of the Yabloko Party University, who prepared the present collection of lectures, and the authors of the lectures participated in the event.
Speakers at the launch were Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko member Yevgeniy Gontmakher, leading researcher at the Centre for International Security Natalia Bubnova, political and social scientist Olga Popova, Director of the SOVA information and analysis centre Alexander Verkhovsky, President of the Humanitarian and Political Science Centre Strategy Alexander Sungurov, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social and Labour Rights Yulia Ostrovskaya, and Candidate of Juridical Science Arkady Lyubarev. Lectures by these and many other authors are published in the book.
Posted: September 15th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Press Release, 15.09.2023
On 14 September, a launch of the books by Eva Merkacheva: “The City of the Doomed. An Honest Report on Seven Penal Colonies for Life-Sentenced Prisoners”, “Who Lives Well in Russia. How Prisons Work in Modern Russia” and “High-Profile Cases. Crimes and Punishments in the USSR” was held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. Eva Merkacheva is a Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, and Valentin Gefter, human rights defender, publicist, and director of the ANO Institute of Human Rights, spoke at the event.
Posted: September 15th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Human Rights.
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Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yaboko adopted on 4 September 2023, published on 14 September 2023
Photo by Oleg Kharseyev, Kommersant
The document was adopted following the results of expert hearings held in Veliky Novgorod on 4 September. Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics and a Yabloko member, participated in the development of the document.
The poverty of Russian citizens is one of the main problems of our rich country. The current state of poverty is a direct result of the policies of Vladimir Putin and his administration. This policy is not aimed at the development of the economy and improvement of the well-being of citizens, but at preservation of the power of the president and increase of the wealth of those close to him. The regime benefits from poverty because with its help it supports paternalism and the demand for a “strong hand” among Russians.
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Collection of donations is going on
Press Release, 13.09.2023
UPD. The total amount collected in support of political prisoners together with donations which came after the auction, as of 14 September at 20:00 (Moscow time), is 3.674.276 roubles.
In total, 23 lots were sold at the auction: works by contemporary artists, as well as things, books, photographs and paintings donated specially for the auction by political prisoners Alexei Gorinov and Sasha Skochilenko, lawyer Mikhail Biryukov, human rights defender Oleg Orlov, musician Vera Musayelyan, politicians Grigory Yavlinsky , Nikolai Rybakov and Sergei Mitrokhin, journalists Ksenia Sobchak and Oleg Kashin, political scientists Yekaterina Shulman and Valery Solovey and others.
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 13.09.2023
Photo: Yelena Mayatnikova / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Yelena Mayatnikova, a member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, wrote a special dissenting opinion on the resolution on the protocol of the results of the gubernatorial elections in the Pskov region.
“The elections of the governor of the Pskov region in 2023 do not allow us to reliably determine the results of the expression of the will of voters in the region due to violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the norms of electoral legislation,” Mayatnikova notes.
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 13.09.2023
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 September, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow will hold the first hearing on the claim of the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, Andrei Morev, against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Morev demands to cancel the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents”.
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, 13.09.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Despite the cancellation of registration of Yabloko’s lists of candidates, three-day and remote electronic voting, and admission of observers to polling stations only in three districts of the region, candidates from the Pskov Yabloko did not stop fighting and showed decent results.
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Summing up the results of the elections
Press Release, 11.09.2023
In the elections held on 10 September, Yabloko managed to retain representation in the city parliamets of Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod and Krasnokamsk (the Perm region), as well as create a faction in the city duma of Yasnogorsk (the Tula region). The team of municipal deputies from Yabloko has also been reinforced. All candidates from the party participated in the elections under the slogan “For Peace!”
Posted: September 12th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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