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
Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov, 16.02.2022
On 16 February, Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, turns 91. Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Viktor Sheinis on his birthday:
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Greetings.
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Press Release, 16.02.2022
Chair of the Yabloko Party Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva also signed the letter
Photo by Maxim Bogodid / RIA Novosti
We are women from the United States and Russia who are deeply concerned about the risk of imminent war between our two countries, who together possess over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.
We are mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and we are sisters, one to another.
Today we stand with our sisters in Ukraine, East and West, whose families and country have been torn apart, have already suffered more than 14,000 deaths.
We stand together and we call for peace and diplomacy, with respect for all.
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Press Release, 14.02.2022
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
Over 5,000 people put their signatures under the petition of the Yabloko party against the war between Russia and Ukraine on the first day of the collection of signatures.
Posted: February 15th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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13.02.2022
The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the link to this page on your social networks, send it via instant messengers to your friends, neighbours and colleagues – it is very important that there are many people speaking out against the war.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 13.02.2022
Photo: Tank T-72B3 of the armed forces of the Union State of Russia and Belarus during military exercises at the Brest training ground. Photo by Viktor Tolochko / RIA Novosti
The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. The list of collection points will be published soon.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 14.02.2022
Photo: Alexander Korovainy /Photo from Alexander Korovayny’s social networks
Alexander Korovainy, a member of Yabloko and ex deputy of the Yeisk District Council, was appointed assistant to Alexander Baturints, a current deputy of the Yeisk District Council and a supporter of the party.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 08.02.2022
Photo: Alexander Biryukov, Alexander Korovainy, and Sofia Pilyukova / Photo from social networks
Alexander Korovayny, a former deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, Alexander Biryukov, a Yabloko member and Deputy Chairman of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, and Sofia Pilyukova, a public activist and a Yabloko volunteer in the parliamentary elections in 2021, were included into the ranking of public figures of the Krasnodar Territory based on the results of work in 2021. The ranking was published by the human rights Internet portal Protocol basing on the results of an expert assessment by well-known journalists, members of the regional Public Chamber, the Governor’s Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, municipal deputies, and members of public organisations.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 9.02.2022
Photo: Oleg Mandrykin and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov (left). / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
All the offices of the real estate agency Variant in Severodvinsk, the Arkhangelsk region, headed by Oleg Mandrykin, one of the leaders of the STOP-SHIES coalition [a public movement against organisation of a giant landfill instead of part of the forest in the Arkhalgensk region where waste from Moscow and some of Western Russian regions could be transported and stored], were simultaneously searched. According to the official version, the searches were caused by an inspection under Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on non-payment of taxes. The Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko is confident that the attack of the authorities on the business of the opposition activist represents political pressure.
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Among the candidates are head of the Russian Guard, Minister of Culture, head of the Central Electoral Commission and the governors of Chelyabinsk and Novgorod Regions.
Press Release, 8.02.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has opened voting (https://www.yabloko.ru/lp/brush/ ) for this year’s “Zolotoy Yorshik” (Golden Toilet Brush) Anti-Award. The prizes (golden, silver and bronze colour toilet brushes) are awarded in recognition of the most wasteful budgetary expenditures by government officials. The more absurd the expense, the more likely it is to receive the Toilet Brush.
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 7.02.2022
Photo by wikimapia.org
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Natalia Putilovskaya, Chair of the St.Petersburg Committee on Education, with a request to conduct a check into the actions of Svetlana Lebedeva, Principal of School No. 168, who, according to teacher Serafima Saprykina, forced her to quit school in December 2021 for her reсiting to the students verses by Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, the poets arrested and repressed in the Stalin’s period and labelled “enemies of the people” and tragically died in 1941.
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.02.2022
Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko deputy of the Moscow City Duma, investigated the takeover of the Kolomna Dairy Plant from by Alexei Tkachyov, a State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party. Police helped Tkachyov in taking away the plant from its owner. “Reacting to the appeals of my Moscow voters (during the State Duma elections), I conducted my own investigation. It turned out to be a deputy investigation of a deputy’s takeover of a plant, ” Mitrokhin says.
Posted: February 9th, 2022 under The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 4.02.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo from the website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and deputy chairman of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, with a request to launch prosecutor’s investigation into for signs of crime in the statements of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who publicly called “terrorists” and “accomplices of terrorists” Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Council for Human Rights and Development of Civil Society under the President of the Russian Federation, Yelena Milashina, journalist of Novaya Gazeta, and two media – the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and the Dozhd TV channel. At the same time, Kadyrov said that “we have always eliminated terrorists and their accomplices, and there is no difference between them, and we will go on with this further.”
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 4.02.2022
Photo by iofoto/depositphotos
The Gender faction of the Yabloko party and the European Dialogue expert group are holding an international online seminar within the framework of the Women’s Time project: “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body or vice versa”. The seminar will be held on 8 February at 18.00 (Msk).
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.02.2022
Photo: Campaign co-leader Maxim Kruglov and campaign coordinators Andrei Morev, Sergei Ivanenko and Kirill Goncharov. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko approved the 2022 municipal campaign strategy and the headquarters structure.
The Moscow branch of Yabloko considers the election of a sufficient number of municipal deputies to be the main goal of the upcoming elections, which would allow Yabloko to nominate a candidate for Moscow Mayor. It is necessary to create a single Moscow Deputies Corps of Yabloko, i.e., a network of deputies who identify themselves with the values of the party, effectively interact with each other and influence the city authorities.
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.02.2022
Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant
On 3 February, Nikolai Rybakov demanded from Vladimir Putin to restore the rights of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic.
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 31.01.2022
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko
At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation.
The bill was developed by lawyers of the St. Petersburg and Pskov branches of Yabloko. Earlier, similar projects had been introduced by Yabloko regional MPs in the legislative assemblies of St. Petersburg and the Republic of Karelia. These bills were also rejected by a majority of pro-government deputies.
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 31.01.2022
Photo by the Press Service of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko
The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party presented candidates who will be nominated by the party for by-elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg:
Sergei Loskutov, Chairman of the public movement The Green Front, in electoral district No. 2 (Verkh-Isetsky district) and Alexander Kudelkin, blogger and social activist, in electoral district No. 10 (Leninsky district).
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 25.01.2022
Photo: Timofey Bezugly (in the centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Timofey Bezugly was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk city branch of the Yabloko party. Timofey presented to the local Council of the party his programme for the development of the local branch for the next two years.
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
NEGOTIATIONS
Russia has been conducting negotiations for two weeks with representatives from the US, NATO and the OSCE. In Geneva the head of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has been meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, playing a central role at the international negotiating table, has been articulating vociferously his own claims against the West.
In December 2021, even before the start of the series of negotiations Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov expressed his “concerns” that Russia’s proposals on so-called security guarantees might end up “bogged down” in “endless discussions that the West is famous for and knows how to do”. At the same time, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that Russia was not prepared to agree to any compromises, that the Americans should be the ones finding compromises, as Russia already had set out its position clearly.
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 31.01.2022
The Public Prosecutor General’s Office in its answer to the inquiry by the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre recognised housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal. The Government Decree made an exception in the rules for high-ranking officials, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office stressed. The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre insist that such a norm is corruption prone.
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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