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, 28.02.2026
Photo: Grigory Gribenko /Photo by Irkutsk Yabloko
On 28 February, Grigory Gribenko, Chairman of the Irkutsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, filed an administrative lawsuit in the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk against the city administration.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Photo: Delegation of Moscow Yabloko
On 27 February, on the eleventh anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, members of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of the slain politician at the site of the tragedy – the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremilin. Since the horrific crime, this bridge has been unofficially known as the “Nemtsov Bridge”.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Photo: Participants of the action of writing letters to political prisoners / Photo by Vyacheslav Radchenko
On 26 February, the Moscow Yabloko party held its traditional the action of writing letters to political prisoners, this time the event was dedicated to women political prisoners and timed to coincide with 8 March, Women’s Solidarity Day. Journalists, artists, human rights defenders, activists… mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and girlfriends – strong and courageous women – need support and letters from outside just as much as male political prisoners, noted the event’s organisers and guests.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Ivan Bolshakov, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, head of the party’s Analytical Centre, and the party’s representative to the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation, received a response from Moscow Mayor’s Office to the Yabloko request to hold a rally in defence of Telegram in Moscow. The letter, signed by Andrei Zakharov, Deputy Head of the Moscow Department of Regional Security and Anti-Corruption, denied the rally due to COVID-19 restrictions in place in Moscow since 2020.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Photo by Sergei Konkov, Kommersant
Irkutsk Yabloko leader Grigory Gribenko received a letter from Alexandra Yegorova, head of the Irkutsk Administration’s Department for the Implementation of Public Initiatives, effectively denying the permission to hold a rally in defense of Telegram and “For a Free Internet,” which the administration had issued earlier. The reason given was the excessive number of people wishing to participate.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov laying flowers /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, on the eleventh anniversary of the assassination of politician Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, along with Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov, Federal Political Committee member Ivan Bolshakov, and other Yabloko members, visited the site of the tragedy — the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin — to honour the memory of the slain politician.
Posted: February 27th, 2026 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 27.02.2026
Photo: Maxim Kruglov before the court hearing on 26 February /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 26 February, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow considered for the fourth time the investigator’s motion to extend the pre-trial detention of Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party. The investigation demanded that the politician remain in custody for “up to six months”, that is, until 2 April (counted from the date of his arrest on 2 October 2025). The case materials, however, indicate that Maxim Kruglov had allegedly conceived his “crime” (he is charged with spreading “fakes” about the Russian Armed Forces under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) as early as in 2020 — two years before the corresponding article appeared in the Criminal Code.
Posted: February 27th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Press Release, 25.02.2026
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev /Photo by Petersburg Observers
On 24 February, the prosecution requested a 12-year prison colony sentence and a fine of one million roubles for political prisoner Vasily Neustroyev, St. Petersburg Yabloko member, historian and elections observer, on charges of leading an “extremist organisation,” spreading “fakes about the army,” and “rehabilitating Nazism.” Today Vasily delivered his final statement in court. The full text of his speech is here.
Posted: February 27th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 25.02.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov speaking at the gathering on 24 February 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 February 2026, Yabloko’s Moscow office hosted a gathering of like-minded people entitled “Four Years After 24.02.2022”. Anyone who wished to attend was welcome to come to the party office, so as not to be alone on the anniversary of the start of the special military operation. The event included a screening of the film “Odna” (“Alone”) by Anna Artemyeva, a documentary filmmaker at Novaya Gazeta.
Posted: February 25th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.02.2026
Photo: Graves of those killed in the course of the special military operation in Ukraine, in the military section of a cemetery on the southern outskirts of St. Petersburg / Photo by Artyom Priakhin, Kommersant
24 February 2026 marks four years since the start of the special military operation. The conflict has reached a profound deadlock from which there is no escape by military means. Yabloko is the only political force that had warned in advance of the consequences of the escalation.
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 24.02.2026
Photo by Sergei Konkov, Kommersant
On 24 February, the leader of Irkutsk Yabloko, Grigory Gribenko, and activist Pavel Kharitonenko met with representatives of the city administration and agreed to the relocation of the rally in defence of Telegram and “For a Free Internet!”.
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 20 February 2026
Photo: Inside the Gulag History Museum / Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant
The Bureau of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party considers the decision to effectively liquidate the exhibition of the Gulag History Museum and replace it with a new museum to be a mockery of the memory of the victims of political repression. This is stated in a statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, published on 20 February.
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 20.02.2026
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov. Photo: Kamchatka Yabloko
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court has denied parole to Yabloko leader in Kamchatka, journalist Vladimir Yefimov, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony. The grounds for refusal were formal violations of the detention regime. First, during a walk Yefimov had removed his jacket, which displayed his full name and prisoner number; second, during an inspection of his cell, convoy officers found a deodorant which is prohibited under colony rules.
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 20.02.2026
Photo: A postcard from the series “Freedom Is Within Us” by artist and former political prisoner Sasha Skochilenko
In accordance with established tradition, Yabloko’s actions of writing letters to political prisoners at the end of February and the beginning of March across the country will be dedicated to women political prisoners. Women – journalists, artists, human rights defenders, and activists, mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and friends, strong and courageous, they are no less in need of support and letters from the outside world than their male counterparts.
Posted: February 24th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.02.2026
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Frank and honest public discourse on politics is rare today. It is difficult to speak about politics in times of chaos, and, moreover, it is dangerous: the risks of falling victim to repression, up to and including imprisonment or a staged “accident,” is very real.
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 19.02.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chair Nikolai Rybakov addressed the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region, where he spoke about how throughout all four years of the military operations Yabloko had been advocating for the earliest possible ceasefire agreement and the preservation of human lives.
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 20.02.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today we have witnessed yet another step in the deliberate dismantling of national memory. The closure of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow and the attempt to “reformat” it [into a museum commemorating the victims of genocide of the Soviet people during WWII] constitute an act of distorting the very idea of preserving the truth about the tragic pages of our past.
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Press Release, 18.02.2026
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov at a meeting of the Yabloko’s Federal Council in 2025 / Photo: by the Yabloko Press Service
The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party has put forward Ivan Bolshakov’s candidacy to the State Duma and the President for appointment to the new composition of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC). He has represented the party on the CEC since 2024.
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Elections, Political Parties.
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Press Release, 18.02.2026
Photo: Round table on the rights of Muscovites / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 17 February, the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party held an extensive round table devoted to the rights of Muscovites. Experts in economics, urban heritage protection, and the electoral and judicial systems gathered at the party’s office to address the central question: are the rights of Moscow residents a genuine instrument of protection, or represent merely fiction?
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 18.02.2026
Photo: Kirill Goncharov, Ivan Bolshakov, and Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, member of the Federal Political Committee Ivan Bolshakov, and Chair of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov have submitted a notification to the Moscow city government regarding a rally in Moscow in defence of the Telegram messenger, access to information, and freedom of speech.
According to the notification, the event is scheduled for 1 March, with an expected attendance of up to 5,000 people.
Posted: February 19th, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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