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, 22.12.2021
An exhibition Citizen Poster has opened in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. The exhibition features posters of Russian artists Yuri Leonov, Konstantin Geraimovich, Ivan Ostrovsky, Yevgeny Dobrovinsky, Mark Levin and Maria Novikova, representing the creative group Poster Square.
Posted: December 23rd, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 22.12.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko
Activists of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko sent letters to political prisoners. Yabloko members and political activists, including Vladislav Mordasov, the recently released political prisoner and a defendant in the so-called Rostov case, participated in the action. The participants signed about forty letters to Russian and eight letters to Belarusian political prisoners.
Posted: December 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 16.12.2021
The position of the Yabloko party on government bills on QR codes and necessary priority measures to combat the spread of coronavirus infection
Update. The party’s position was sent to the Government of the Russian Federation and the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Photo by Artyom Krasnov / Kommersant
The Yabloko party declares that a person’s right to a healthy life, without an increased risk of infection and infecting his/her loved ones, must be protected. Deliberate refusal from vaccination, often based on pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories, turns into a “right” to infect other people and expose their lives and the lives of their loved ones to danger, and runs counter to the fundamental value – the human right to life.
Posted: December 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 21.12.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko
On 19 December, the Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party held a debate with the participation of civil activists. The topic was the use of coercive measures in the fight against COVID-19. The participants in the debate spoke about the need to coerce vaccinations and the introduction of QR codes, and also discussed their effectiveness and impact on the epidemiological situation. The viewers of the debates asked the participants questions, and also voted for the position they shared.
Posted: December 21st, 2021 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.12.2021
Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan / Ronald Ayrapetyan’s Telegram channel
Ronald Hayrapetyan, a member of the Yabloko party from Kislovodsk, South Russia, asked for political asylum in the Netherlands.
Ronald Ayrapetyan decided to leave Russia after he was abducted by unidentified persons on 25 November. According to Ayrapetyan, three men grabbed him as he walked out of the store, pushed him into a black minivan and took him to a forest in the Lazarevsky district of Sochi. Taking out a pistol the men threatened the activist with murder and demanded that he remove his Telegram channel with about 300 subscribers. Then they kicked Ayrapetyan in the stomach and sprayed with pepper spray in his eyes, leaving him in the forest.
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 20.12.2021
Photo: A Poster Square. “We will stop growth of prices”.
An exhibition Citizen Poster will be held in the Yabloko party office from 22 December to 22 January.
In the context of a complicated social and political situation in Russia, the exhibition of Moscow artists of the Poster Square creative group touching upon many sensitive topics is in demand and very timely.
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 17.12.2021
Photo from the official web-site of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region
The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Chelyabinsk Region has suspended the auction of the Magnitogrosk Mayor’s Office for the purchase of an expensive car for the needs of officials. Earlier, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, filed a complaint with the Federal Antimonopoly Service about the purchase. The auction is suspended until consideration of the complaint on the merits. By 21 December, the administration of Magnitogorsk must submit to all the documentation for the expensive procurement to the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 17.12.2021
Photo by Yulia Suguyeva / Mediazona
The trial of the leaders of the civil protest in the Republic of Ingushetia, which lasted more than two years, ended in an extremely tough sentence. Civil activists were equated with terrorists and given sentences comparable to the punishment for murderers and rapists.
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.12.2021
Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow City Duma
The Moscow City Duma adopted a bill submitted by Yevgeny Bunimovich, a member of the Yabloko faction and Chairman of the Education Commission, according to which children under investigation and kept in pre-trial detention centres are guaranteed secondary education.
Posted: December 15th, 2021 under Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 15.12.2021
The Yabloko party joins the annual action “Mandarins and canned meat” from the Nochlezhka charity organization helping homeless people. On New Year’s Eve Nochlezhka collects the most essential food-stuffs for the homeless people of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
We call on all members of our party, our supporters and all unindifferent people to bring essential food-stuffs and daily goods from the list published by Nochlezhka (below) to our offices by 23 December, 2021. Our representatives will take all the collected goods to Nochlezhka. Before the New Year, volunteers will pack all collected food-stuffs and utensils into gift sets, and on the eve of the holiday they will distribute them to homeless people at the Night Bus parking lots, heating points, the consultation service and at the Nochlezhka shelter.
Posted: December 15th, 2021 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 15.12.2021
Photo: Yabloko deputies Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
The pro-government parliamentary majority in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg excluded from the agenda of the plenary session the legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging abolishing of the “foreign agent” concept in the Russian legislation. The proposal to exclude the issue from the agenda was made by Alexei Zinchuk, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Thus, 32 deputies voted for the exception, four against, and five abstained. The Yabloko faction intends to introduce the bill once again at the next meeting of the St. Petersburg parliament.
Posted: December 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov Facebook post, 14.12.2021
Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’ Facebook page
Nikolai Rybakov: I have come to the Supreme Court where the hearings on the liquidation of International Memorial [a human rights society engaged in human rights and investigation of repression in the USSR] are being held. Hope is the last to die, however, it is obvious that the Public Prosecutor General could not start a political law suit without coordinating such an action at the very top level.
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Press Release, 14.12.2021
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo from Arthur Gaiduk’s Facebook page
Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, considers the demands of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the Memorial human rights organisation unlawful and essentially unconstitutional, and calls on Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, to abolish the law suit against Memorial.
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Albert Khusainov’s blog post, 13.12.2021
Photo: Albert Khusainov / Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
The Bashkirian branch of the Yabloko party held a meeting of party members and non-partisan civil activists in connection with the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December, 1948, and the subsequent declaration of 10 December as International Human Rights Day.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 13.12.2021
Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Wednesday, 22 December, Acad. Alexei Arbatov will give a lecture in the Yabloko Party University on the topic “Defence and Security of Russia”. The lecture will begin at 18 o’clock.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 13.12.2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJX-hPb6hNQ
At the meeting of the Human Rights Council with President Vladimir Putin the outstanding Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov openly, clearly and very powerfully expressed his deepest concern about the state of affairs and political developments taking place in our country.
The words and stance of Alexander Sokurov can be treated in different ways – one may agree or disagree. However, threats, personal insults and disgusting rudeness addressed to him after the meeting and discussion with the President are categorically unacceptable. What is happening around Sokurov these days only confirms his correctness.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 12.12.2021
Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant
On 6 December, 2021, the Petrogradskiy District Court of St. Petersburgsatisfied the claim of Prof. Alexander Kobrinsky, a member of the Yabloko party, to Sofia Volyanova (Ovchinnikova) and the media Narodnye Novosti (part of the Ye. Prigozhin’s [a businessman connected with Vladimir Putin] media holding).
The court found the article about Kobrinsky on the Kholod web-site containing numerous false defamatory accusations. Despite the fact that the hearings were declared closed, the defendants did not provide any evidence to support what was written in the article.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Press Release, 11.12.2021
Photo: Dmitry Permyakov / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Dmitry Permyakov, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko, resigned as a deputy of the city parliament in connection with the beginning of his studies outside Russia.
“To be even more helpful, I need to learn more. Therefore, I decided to study and will learn new things in another country. This is not a loud emigration or escape from the ship (with a mad captain). It is wrong and impossible to just be a deputy, even more scholarly than before, but from a distance,” Dmitry Permyakov wrote on social networks.
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 11.12.2021
Photo: Sergei Ivanenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, was re-elected Chairman of the Moscow branch of the party for a second two-year term. This decision was made by the delegates of the conference of the Moscow branch of the party, which is being held at the central office of the party on 11 December.
Posted: December 12th, 2021 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 8.12.2021
Photo: Ekaterina Novikova, a new member of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Pskov from the Yabloko party
The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region approved all 22 candidates for commission members nominated by the regional branch of the Yabloko party; whereas 13 electoral commission members from Yabloko are appointed for the first time.
On 28 November, the process of nominating candidates for the formation of 22 out of 26 territorial electoral commissions of the Pskov region was completed.
Posted: December 9th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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