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, 31.01.2022
Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko supported the protest of residents against the increase in prices for the maintenance of housing and the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, as well as unjustified raising of expenses for regional officials.
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 28.01.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation in unauthorized public actions in the centre of Moscow on 27 January, 2021, and a “picket of homeless people” by the Federation Council on 17 March, for which he was fined 300,000 (approx. USD 3,750) and 150,000 roubles (approx. USD 1,875), respectively.
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s call on the Russian society
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 150 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022
Photo: Peace March, Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko calls on the Russian society and the Russian authorities under no circumstances to allow a war with Ukraine and stop preparations for it. We consider this an absolutely urgent, key task for society and the state. Only this currently corresponds to the fundamental national interests of Russia.
Posted: January 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 149 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
The life, health, safety and well-being of millions of people in Russia and Ukraine are under threat. A military clash between the two neighbouring states is becoming more and more likely, fraught with huge casualties. This is a conflict of a pan-European scale, which can develop into a global one.
Posted: January 27th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 24.01.2022
Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war.
Never in the modern history of Russia has the threat of a major war been as close as it is now. Demonstrative troop deployments, large-scale concentration of forces on the western border, articles by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev questioning the statehood of Ukraine and its historical choice, putting forward of ultimatums to the US and NATO with obviously unrealisable demands are the signs that the Russian leadership is losing touch with reality.
The current Russian government, 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, decided to declare its special rights in relation to the former Soviet republics and is trying to apply the doctrine of limited sovereignty to them.
Posted: January 26th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Press Release, 14.01.2022
Photo: Oleg Vinogradov / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
The Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled from the party Oleg Vinogradov, former Chairman of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the party. The reason was his falsification of documents of the primary organisations of the branch, as well as imposture – as early as on 28 June, 2021, the Bureau of Yabloko terminated Vinogradov’s powers, but he continued to sign official documents and make statements for the media as Chairman of the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko.
Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 14.01.2022
Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/Depositphotos.com
The Bureau of the Yabloko party believes that the campaign to abolish elections on a party list basis, which has unfolded in many cities and regions of Russia in recent years, represents an attempt by the bankrupt ruling party to maintain a political monopoly and secure their fabricated majority.
Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 13.01.2022
Photo by bizoon/depositphotos
The Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact of fraud in the elections of deputies of the State Duma in the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region. A voter applied to the headquarters of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko which was engaged in election observation and said that on 19 September, having come to his polling station No. 1213 in the village Berdyaush of the Satkinsky District, he found out that he and five members of his family, including those who had not been living in the village for a long time, had already voted.
Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 10.01.2022
Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Such a decision was made by the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko in connection with the early termination of the powers by Dmitry Permyakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Pskov city parliament.
The Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov Yabloko decided to transfer the mandate of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma to Tatyana Pasman, after Dmitry Permyakov resigned in December 2021.
Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, yavlinsky.ru, 7.01.2022
KAZAKHSTAN-PROTESTS/
Photo: The building of the Mayor’s office in Almaty. 6 January, 2021 // REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev
The events in Kazakhstan have been developing rapidly. Yesterday morning the government was dismissed in order to extinguish the wave of discontent, and by nightfall, fighting began in different settlements of the country. Photos and videos from Kazakhstani mortuaries circulated online testify to a large number of victims.
Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Facebook post by Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the Yabloko party, 11.01.2022
Photo by Igor Yakovlev
Thugs from the SERB group [a nationalistic pro-Kremlin group acting in Russia and Ukraine known for their provocations against opposition] have come to our office. They express their indignation for the camera (in the hands of Tarasevich) that we are “advertising an organisation banned by the court” [meaning the Memorial human rights society].
Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny special for the Yabloko web-site, 10.01.2022
Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The current era has two destructive (and somewhat interconnected) social traits that make it very dangerous. First, the behaviour of people in their everyday life can be compared to that of a primitive bureaucrat, an ignorant functional introvert, filled with defensive reactions, to put it simply, a person following his self-interests. Second, the breaking of ties and contacts, their formalisation, and falling out of the “sentimental” tradition. This leads to the triumph of narrow-mindness, the substitution of content in the most essential issues by daily routine.
Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny special for the Yabloko web-site, 10.01.2022
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant
When the level of general and political culture in society is very low, especially among the numerous restless working youth;
when the entire political agenda consists of a single dominant: which implies unquestioning submission to the government for those who support this government, and the only topic of fight against corruption for those who are in opposition;
Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Без рубрики.
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Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, yavlinsky.ru, 8.01.2022
God forbid that war should happen,
Or else we will make a fool of our grandkids…
Vladimir Vysotsky. Ballad on Departure to Heaven
The anti-Ukrainian propaganda in the Russian mass media continues unabated. The world press is overflowing with information and assumptions on an impending war between Russia and Ukraine at the start of 2022. I personally don’t believe that this can happen. However, let me start with the key issue. If there is a war between Russia and Ukraine and Russia tries to occupy Ukraine, this will be suicidal for Russia.
Russian paratroopers line up before boarding a Il-76 transport plane as they take part in the military exercises «Zapad-2021» staged by the armed forces of Russia and Belarus at an aerodrome in Kaliningrad Region, Russia, September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Vitaly Nevar
The policy of “The Path That Wasn’t There”1 will be taken to its logical conclusion, leaving Russia with no prospects, no opportunities to make any manoeuvres and no leverage or influence. This will not only signal the end of President Putin’s regime, but also potentially the end of Russia as a state and in general our country as it looks today.
The war will resemble fratricide. A lot of blood will be spilled. If we only take the official data of the UN, almost 13,500 people have died during the seven years of military combat in Donbass2 (to put this in perspective: during nine years of war in Afghanistan, the USSR lost 15,000 soldiers and civilian employees). As a matter of fact, this would be the final chord of the period of Russian history which started with the coup d’état in 1917, Bolshevism’s last stand — and would be fatal for us all.
Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 29.12.2021
Photo: Lev Shlosberg (left) and journalist Konstantin Kalichenko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, spoke to the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station about the reasons that force opposition-minded people to leave Russia, and named those who are to blame in this tragedy.
On 24 December, Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, became a guest of the “Countdown” programme of the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station. The discussion was devoted to the political results of the year, including the forced departure from Russia of many political activists. The presenter asked who would build the beautiful Russia of the future if democratic-minded people began to leave the country.
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 29.12.2021
The Yabloko Party Federal Bureau, at its meeting on 28 December, expelled from the Moscow regional branch a number of party members who grossly violated the party by-laws.
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 28.12.2021
Photo: 28 December, 2021. Grigory Yavlinsky by the Supreme Court / Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to liquidate International Memorial [human rights society]. The court revealed the real reason for the liquidation, and, certainly this was not a violation of the requirements of the general labeling of messages with the label of a “foreign agent” [as now required by the Russian law for “foreign agents”]. The Public Prosecutor General’s Office is outraged that Memorial allegedly “has been creating a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state”. But it was precisely the Stalinist state that was terrorist, unleashing terror against dozens of millions of its citizens.
Posted: December 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Boris Vishnevsky and Emilia Slabunova supported Memorial’s Yury Dmitriyev at the trial
Press Release, 27.12.2021
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Emilia Slabunova in the corridor of the city court (centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, and Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, supported Yury Dmitriyev, historian and researcher of Stalin’s repressions and head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, at the trial on 27 December. Vishnevsky and Slabunova consider such a tough sentence to be a political reprisal by the “heirs of the Stalinist regime” confirming the very fact of innocence of the human rights defender.
Posted: December 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Press Release, 23.12.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko
An experimental project of the Yabloko supporter Vladimir Beradze “Tochka Dobreniya” (“Point of Kindness) has started in Rostov-on-Don. The project envisages centralised collection of things for charitable foundations of the Rostov region.
The implementation of the project became possible thanks to the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko, which provided premises for holding a weekly action and storing collected items. The activists of the Rostov-on-Don Yabloko are also ready to help with the logistics and sorting of the donated items.
Posted: December 27th, 2021 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 23.12.2021, St.Petersburg
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Bureau of the Yabloko party, upon the recommendation of the Yabloko party commission, expelled four members of the St. Petersburg branch from the party for violating the party’s by-laws and causing political damage to the party:
Posted: December 27th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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