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, 20.08.2024
Photo from open sources
Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 20.08.2024
Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky outside the Basmanny Court, 2022 / Photo from Nikolai Kavkazsky’s personal archive
The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Nikolai Kavkazsky to a fine of 2,000 roubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazis’ symbols or the symbols of other extremist organisations”). The case was filed because of Kavkazsky mentioning Smart Voting on his personal page on VKontakte social media. Kavkazsky links the case opened against him with the Moscow City Duma elections, in which he did not plan to participate. In 2022, Kavkazsky served a ten-day arrest under the same article, which further led to a prohibition for him to run in the municipal elections.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 17.08.2024
The campaign of registration of Yabloko candidates in elections at various levels has been completed in all regions of Russia and in Moscow. As of today, 73 Yabloko candidates are participating in 31 election campaigns in nine regions of the country under a single party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. In total, Yabloko nominated 300 candidates in 19 regions in this election cycle. In 13 regions of the country, 139 candidates needed to collect voters’ signatures in favour of their registration. The list of registered candidates is available at the link.
Posted: August 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 15.08.2024
Photo: Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of the Golos independent observers movement, at a round table devoted to organization of election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos
On 14 August, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg fined Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, for alleged participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation, expressed in an interview on the YouTube channel of the movement for the protection of voters’ rights Golos. A similar prosecution is being carried out against a member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Alexander Yefimov.
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.08.2024
Photo: Alexander Dudchenko / Photo from Alexander Dudchenko personal archive
In August, the Mayor of the city of Voronezh will be elected. Earlier, the head of the city, Vadim Kstenin, resigned. Direct elections of the Mayor were canceled in 2016, and for six years already, since 2018, the Mayor has been “elected” by the Voronezh City Duma from candidates submitted to the city parliament by a special competition committee. Yabloko does not consider the “election” of the Mayor by the Duma deputies to be a fair and democratic procedure, but believes it is important to present an alternative programme for the development of Voronezh. Therefore, Yabloko supported the nomination of human rights activist and civil activist Alexander Dudchenko.
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 15.08.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky outside the courthouse / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg fined Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation for alleged “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”, i.e. for participating in a live broadcast of a programme by the Golos independent election observers movement on 20 December, 2023. Earlier, Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the party from the Volgograd region, was fined for the same broadcast.
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 14.08.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 13 August, the Novgorod District Court considered the claim of Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate in the by-elections of the Novgorod Regional Duma, against the Ministry of Justice. The politician demanded to be removed from the register of “persons affiliated with a foreign agent”. It emerged at the trial that the Ksenia Cherepanova had been included in the register twice. The judge refused to remove the Yabloko member’s foreign agent status.
Posted: August 14th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 13.08.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The First Court of Appeal in Moscow rejected the appeal of deputy of the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov against the Moscow City Court’s decision to deny him registration as a candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections. The panel of judges needed no more than ten minutes in the deliberation room to make their decision, Kruglov said. The main argument of the judges, who ignored the lack of evidence of “invalid” voters’ signatures for Kruglov, was that there was “no reason not to trust the police”.
Posted: August 14th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 9.08.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates for the 2024 gubernatorial elections Roman Morozov, Vladimir Dorokhov, and Yaroslav Shcherbakov
Yabloko’s election campaigns for the gubernatorial elections have ended. Three candidates from the party in the Kaliningrad, Tula and Chelyabinsk regions did not pass the so-called municipal filter – collection of a certain number of signatures of municipal deputies in support of their nomination. Roman Morozov, Vladimir Dorokhov and Yaroslav Shcherbakov led their signature collection campaigns under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
Yabloko candidates talk about how their signature campaign went, what goals they set and how they evaluate the results. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the party Anna Cherepanova give a political assessment of the party’s participation in the gubernatorial elections under the conditions of the special military operation and the municipal filter.
Posted: August 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.08.2024
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at the Tula Region Electoral Commission / Photo from social media
On 7 August, Yabloko presented its objections to the regional electoral commission concerning the results of verification of 2,361 signatures of city residents in support of the Yabloko list of candidates. Yabloko was going to campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!” The Yabloko team demanded that 86 signatures out of 235 marked as defective by the electoral commission be recognised as valid and, thus, the percentage of defective signatures be reduced to the passing threshold.
Posted: August 8th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko sends its warmest congratulations to the Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the party
Press Release, 7.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 7 August,Viktor Kogan-Yasny, Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, head of the public organisation “Regional Civil Initiative – the Right to Life and Civic Dignity” and candidate of chemical sciences, celebrates his 65th birthday. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Viktor Kogan-Yasny on his anniversary on behalf of the party.
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Greetings.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024
We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow and Washington negotiated directly, then it means that with the slightest understanding of the essence of today and the hopelessness of what is happening, it is possible to negotiate on saving the lives of many thousands of people, that is, on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Pavel Kharitonenko / Photo from social media
Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma, Pavel Kharitonenko, will seek his registration in the elections in court. Earlier, District Electoral Commission No. 28 invalidated eight signatures out of 67 provided by the Yabloko candidate in support of his nomination, with six acceptable defective signatures. The candidate is confident that five of the eight “invalid” signatures should have been accepted by the electoral commission. Kharitonenko’s lawsuit against the district electoral commission will be considered by the Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk on 8 August. Kharitonenko is campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”.
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Vitaly Isakov and Boris Vishnevsky at a meeting of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, is challenging the status of “foreign agent” unlawfully assigned to him by the Ministry of Justice. The hearings take place in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Peterburg. At the last meeting, the politician submitted a petition for the district court to appeal with a request to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the constitutionality of a number of provisions of the Federal Law “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”.
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.08.2024
The Tula Region Electoral Commission is going to refuse registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the elections to the Tula City Duma. The working group of the electoral commission, based on the results of checking 2,316 signatures in support of the nomination of the list, considers 256 signatures invalid, i.e. more than 11% which allows it to reject the list. Tula Yabloko insists that it provided the commission a sufficient number of valid and reliable signatures, and the decision to remove Yabloko from the elections is political in nature. The evidence that the commission adjusted the percentage of defects to the desired result is in the photographs above.
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Artur Gaiduk at the conference on nominating candidates / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Registration certificates were handed to Yevgeny Vasiliye, Yablooko’s candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district, captain of the first rank in the reserve, head of the construction, architecture and utilities department of the Gdovsky district administration, and entrepreneur and design engineer Alexei Kanishchev, Yabloko’s candidate for the by-election of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma in electoral district No. 5.
Yabloko party lists and candidates in single-mandate constituencies for the elections of assemblies of deputies of the Bezhanitsky, Dnovsky, Plyussky, Porkhovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts, as well as candidates for deputies of the Karamyshevskaya and Seredkinskaya volosts of the Pskov district, the Shelkovskaya volost of the Velikoluksky district and the rural settlement Sebezhskoye of the Sebezhsky district were registered.
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 5.08.2024
Photo: Anatoly Razumov, head of the Centre for Returned Names at the Russian National Library, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov
A delegation of the Yabloko party, led by party leader Nikolai Rybakov and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, visited the Sandarmokh – the site of mass executions during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in the Joseph Stalin’s period.
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 2.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Conference of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party decided to nominate seven Yabloko candidates for the snap elections of municipal deputies in the Kurkino district of Moscow. Each of the candidates will have to collect 14 signatures of district residents in support of their nomination by 10 August. The candidates will conduct a campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 2.08.2024
Photo: Delegates of the Moscow Regional Yabloko Conference / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
On 2 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of Sergiyev Posad will decide to refuse to register the Yabloko list of six people and two candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections of deputies of the District Council. Three more single-mandate candidates have already been refused registration. Court hearings are also taking place in the Leninsky urban district, where they are trying to remove three already registered Yabloko candidates from the elections. Yabloko fears that the Moscow Region authorities have decided to remove all 23 Yabloko candidates from the elections.
Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 2.08.2024
Photo by Andrei Zhdanov, Kommersant
The State Duma has adopted amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, which will increase the amount of state fees for court cases for both individuals and organisations. For example, the fee for challenging a decision or action of a government agency will increase tenfold for individuals – up to 3,000 roubles, for filing an appeal – by twenty times, also up to 3,000 roubles, and for filing a complaint to the Supreme Court – by 47 (!) times – from 150 to 7,000 roubles.
Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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