Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: Mariupol, July 2022 / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party formulated the party’s position on what is happening during the “special military operation” and the challenges that the party is now facing.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 161 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo: Flags of Russia and the European Union / Photo by Vladimir Sergeyev, RIA Novosti
The mission of our party today and its main task is to overcome Bolshevism, the oligarchic nature of the state, the irremovability of power and militarism, create prerequisites and implement a real modernisation of Russia founding a modern political and economic system in our country.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 160 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko is the only socio-political institution left in Russia that opposes war, totalitarian transformation of the state, and disintegration of society.
Over the three decades of post-Soviet Russia, we have many times offered meaningful alternatives to the erroneous and corporate-selfish decisions that brought our country to the current situation. There was an opportunity to choose an alternative in all 11 federal election campaigns in which Yabloko participated.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 159 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo: Moscow, Novy Arbat street, February 2022 / Photo by Vitaly Smolnikov, Kommersant
The main reason for the current situation in our country is the failure of post-Soviet modernisation, which, in turn, was due to the refusal of the Russian authorities over the past 30 years to consider society as a subject of politics and regard the freedom and real well-being of people as the main goal of the state.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 158 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by Sergei Averin, RIA Novosti
The tragedy, which has been going on for eight months already, makes it absolutely obvious that [all] should realise as soon as possible the need (the obligation) for a ceasefire as the first step towards preventing a real impending nuclear catastrophe.
However, the Russian government continues the policies towards escalation, that lead only to new victims and destruction, and further international isolation of Russia. Threats of the possible use of nuclear weapons have been voiced increasingly more often.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 157 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
A military conflict between Russia and Ukraine with a huge potential for escalation up to the use of nuclear weapons is going on. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that the end of the armed conflict is approaching. What is happening is a disaster for our country on the scale of a national catastrophe.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 156 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo (left to right): French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Anthony Blair at the Kurhaus complex in Heiligendamm / Photo by Dmitry Astakhov, RIA Novosti
The legacy of late Stalinism, combined with the collapse of the USSR in Belovezhskaya Pushcha [by the Belvezh Accords], illiterate and voluntaristic economic reforms, and Boris Yeltsin’s stake on power politics, made in the early 1990s, led to the formation of a system of peripheral authoritarianism in Russia – a neo-Bolshevik model of the state with an eclectic populist ideology of “political Eurasianism”. In such a system, all institutions and understanding of social justice are subordinated to the “state interest”, personalised in the leader.
Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from the family archive
Regional branches of the Yabloko party in Novosibirsk and Tatarstan propose to perpetuate the memory of Soviet human rights defender Anatoly Marchenko, the last deceased Soviet political prisoner. Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile due to the efforts of Marchenko and then a state decision was made to release all political prisoners of the Soviet Union. The joint statement was signed by the Chairmen of the two Yabloko branches Natalya Chubykina and Ruslan Zinatullin.
Past week, regional branches of Yabloko over Russia held actions in memory of victims of political repressions and in support of the present political prisoners. Yabloko party members and supporters organised actions of writing letters to political prisoners, laid flowers at memorial complexes, held lectures on the history of political repressions and excursions to memorable places, as well as participated in commemorative rallies and readings of the names of the repressed.
On 9 November, the Yabloko party in Moscow will host a round table “Lessons of the October Coup of 1917 and Modern Times” in its Moscow Office. The event is timed to the 105th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’etat.
On 30 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, a launch of the new edition of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations” by the famous Russian photographer and historian Yuri Brodsky took place at the office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The book launch was conducted by Nadezhda Azhgikhina, a journalist and Director of the PEN-Moscow NGO joining together writers, journalists and bloggers.
On 25 October, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Truth Instead of Law” by Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, MP of the Moscow City Duma and Candidate of Political Sciences. Has capitalism come to Russia? What is Russia’s “special path”? Is our country a separate civilisation? Sergei Mitrokhin touched upon these and other issues questions in his lecture.
Photo: Maxim Petlin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights satisfied my complaint against the Russian Federation and declared the Resolution of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court dated 16.11.2010 unlawful and violating Article 8 of the European Convention. In November 2010, the regional court, on the basis of the submission of the Federal Security Service for the Sverdlovsk region, considered it possible to deprive me of a number of constitutional rights, including the inviolability of my home, the secrecy of telephone conversations and correspondence, and also allowed Federal Security Service officers to conduct surveillance on me in order to collect information and subsequently initiate a criminal case.
Photo: Polina Kuskova at the meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region on 27 October, 2022. / Photo: a screenshot of the video broadcast
Polina Kuskova, a Bureau member of the Kirov regional branch of the Yabloko party, spoke at the plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region on 27 October, 2022. In her speech, Kuskova spoke about the formation of the Youth Parliament in the region.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 October, police conducted an “additional inspection of the scene” at the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Yakutia, as part of a criminal case filed under of Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The case was filed against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko in Yakutia. During the “inspection”, police officers confiscated a computer system unit, memory drives, as well as Nogovitsyn’s clothes – a white shirt and cardigan which he kept in the office for formal events. The police have already returned the equipment and flash drives, but decided to keep Nagovitsin’s clothes for now.
In October 2022 Yabloko party’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky answered the questions of BBC News about the perspectives of Russia’s special military operation against Ukraine, the West’s role in the current situation and the threat of nuclear weapon use.
— In this month we`ve seen an escalation in Ukraine, we`ve seen the wave of Russian missile attacks, devastating attacks. What does this tell us about president Putin and about his objectives in Ukraine now?— I think it is clear that this escalation is the continuation of what he started on February 24th. I think that he has three goals. One of them is territories, annexation of some territories in Ukraine. The second one is the capitulation of Kiev, I mean the current government, and “de-ukrainization”. And the third one is a kind of destabilization in the West, I mean in Europe, in the UK, maybe in the United States, as a result of the economic problems’ growth along with the changes in gas and oil policies. The aim of this is to enhance the instability in the West and to replace the ruling elites in “unfriendly countries”. Read more »
Savva Karpov, a former Yabloko candidate for Moscow municipal elections in September 2022, is being charged today under Article 20.3 for “distributing extremist symbols” of the Code of Administrative Offences. Yesterday, the police detained him and took him to the Basmanny police station in Moscow.
Photo: The participants of the 6th Alexei Yablokov Readings, members of the Yabloko party /Photo by the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party
On 26 October, the 6th Alexei Yablokov Readings dedicated to the memory of Alexei Yablokov, environmental scientist and politician who headed the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, were held in St. Petersburg. The event was held for the sixth time by the joint efforts of leading environmental non-governmental organisations, the academic community and the Yabloko party. Yabloko members Olga Tsepilova, Chair of the Green Russia faction, Alexander Kolotov, an environmental activist from Krasnoyarsk, Lina Zernova, an environmental journalist from St. Petersburg, and others participated in the readings.
On 30 October, the Yabloko party will hold an online marathon “People, Do Not Kill Each Other!”, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the State Terror. Members of the Yabloko party from over 50 regions of Russia will take part in the action and read out the names of the victims of Stalinist repressions online. Anyone interested can connect to the online broadcast through the link on YouTube.
Photo Ruslan Zinalullin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Samara overturned the decision of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, which declared the search at the home of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, unlawful. The Sovetsky District Court, for the third time, will consider the motion of the investigation to conduct a search seven months ago.
