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: Olga Vshivkova/ Photo from the personal of Olga Vshivkova in the VKontakte social network
Olga Vshivkova, a candidate from the Perm branch of Yabloko, won the election of deputies of the Duma of the Kungur Municipal District of the 1st convocation in the two-mandate constituency. Vshivkova, nominated by Yabloko, gained more than 35% of the votes, ahead of the candidate from the pro-government’s United Russia party and the current deputy by only four vote. The second candidate from the Yabloko party in the same district, environmental activist and journalist Yekaterina Burylova, came fourth.
Olga Vshivkova is a Yabloko party supporter and Chair of the “Kungur, the Territory of Goodness” charitable foundation.
Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov and Alexei Arbatov, 10.04.2021
On 10 April, the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party Grigory Yavlinsky celebrates his birthday. Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Alexei Arbatov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Centre for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Russian Academy of Sciences (published in the Kommersant newspaper) congratulate Grigory Yavlinsky on his birthday.
These days, the 14th International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest is being held in different cities of Russia.
This year, the organisers of the festival faced pressure from law enforcement and regulatory agencies, refusal of cinemas to provide venues, provocations of odious nationalist groups and, finally, direct threats of physical violence, which ultimately led to the cancellation of screenings and the transfer of events online.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 13 April, the Chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, will arrive on a working visit to the Ivanovo region. During the visit, the Yabloko leader will meet with representatives of Ivanovo businesses, and discuss the implementation of the federal measures to support small and medium-sized businesses.
Statement by the Yabloko party No 406, published on 8.04.2021
Adopted by the Yabloko Congress on 4 April 2021
Photo by master_18.mail.ru/depositphotos
In the fall of 2018, peaceful protests began in the Republic of Ingushetia, caused by the transfer of part of the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia under the control of the authorities of the Chechen Republic. The corresponding agreement was signed by the heads of the two constituent entities of the Russian Federation on 26 September, 2018 in violation of federal and regional laws, without taking into account the opinion of the residents of the Republic of Ingushetia and secretly from them.
Photo: Ivan Krisanov / Photo by the Press Service of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko
On 5 April, the Ivanovo Regional Court considered an appeal against the ruling of the Oktyabrsky District Court against Ivan Krisanov, a member of the Bureau of the Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party.
In February the court of the first instance imposed a fine on Krisanov in the amount of 20,000 roubles for allegedly exceeding the permissible number of participants in a rally in defence of political prisoners organised by Krisanov in Ivanovo’s “Hyde Park” [a specially designated place in the city where rallies and meetings can be held without any permissions from the authorities] on 31 January.
The Russian authorities intend to conduct a nationwide election campaign in an atmosphere of military hysteria.
I don’t want to repeat once again the phrase about “a small victorious war”, which the Putin regime is once again extremely in need, but we have to – everything is developing too alarmingly around Ukraine, as Russian troops are being pulled up to its borders.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov began his speech at the 21st party Congress by mentioning the victims of political repression, the number of which has increased significantly over the past year. According to the Memorial human rights society, 378 people in Russia are persecuted or imprisoned for their political beliefs.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The key points
On 3-4 April, Yabloko held a new stage of the 21st Congress, which was attended by almost 120 delegates from several dozens of regions. The main topic of the Congress was the reform of Yabloko and the release of political prisoners. Grigory Yavlinsky was one of the first to speak from the rostrum of the Congress. He explained the meaning of the party reform: it should be targeted at preservation of the core of the democratic opposition in Russia under the conditions of an authoritarian mafia regime.
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko, 5.04.2021
Photo by Sergei Averin/RIA Novosti
In early April, there was an exacerbation of the military confrontation in Donbass. In recent days, significant movements of military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been taking place.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the second day of the Congress Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov spoke about some aspects of Yabloko’s upcoming parliamentary election campaign.
Nikolai Rybakov said that to the coalition policy of the party is developing, a large extent, as an alliance of Yabloko and citizens, and the main goal of the work is to create a serious single democratic opposition faction in the State Duma as a result of the elections. Another important task is to nominate a party candidate for the presidency in the next presidential elections.
Photo: Voting for the amendments to the Yabloko by-laws / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The delegates to the 21 st Congress of the Yabloko Party adopted a package of key proposals for reforming the party. Amending the party by-laws required votes of at least two-thirds of the delegates to the Congress.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky /Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
The goal of the reform in the Yabloko party is to preserve the political core of the democratic opposition in the authoritarian mafia state with a chauvinist ideology. Such a statement was made at the Yabloko congress by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko.
Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution made last year formally drew a line under the period of post-Soviet modernisation, Yavlinsky said. Now, the Basic Law enshrines the irreplaceability of Vladimir Putin’s personal power, as well as the foundations of a “corporate, mafia, authoritarian state with a chauvinistic ideology.” Yavlinsky also noted that the “anti-constitutional coup” of 1 July, 2020 [when a plebiscite for the amendments to the Constitution took place] remains outside the scope of public discussion, the society has not realised what happened.
On April 3 and 4, Yabloko is holding the second stage of the 21st party Congress. The main topic of this stage of the congress is the reform of Yablokoy and the adoption of appropriate amendments to the Yabloko by-laws. The congress will also discuss preparations for the federal and regional elections that will take place this fall.
The congress of the Yabloko party, which has to discuss the reform of the Yabloko party and is scheduled for April 3-4, will be held in strict compliance with the recommendations of the Russian Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) in order to minimise the risks of infection with COVID-19.
Photo: Irina Maltseva / Photo from the personal page of Irina Maltseva on Facebook
On 1 April, the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko sent to the regional Duma a letter asking to include Irina Maltseva in the regional electoral committee as a member with a casting vote.
The Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko proposed the party congress to nominate Artur Gaiduk for the Pskov single-mandate constituency and Lev Shlosberg for one of the single-mandate constituencies in Moscow as candidates in the parliamentary elections. The decision was sent to the Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and the election headquarters of the party.
Photo: Svetlana Lelyukhina / Photo from the official website of the Yuzhsky municipal district of the Ivanovo region
The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko intends to appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s office of the Ivanovo region with a demand to remove from office Svetlana Lelyukhina, acting the head of the Yuzhsky district of the Ivanovo region.
The bureau of the Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party disposes of a document signed by the official, addressed to the heads of the structural divisions of the local administration, subordinate institutions, as well as to other officials, somehow dependent on the regional authorities. In the letter, Svetlana Lelyukhina categorically demands to oblige employees to register in the mobile applications Vverkh (Up) and Agitator (Campaigner), as well as to report “on the registration done” by 24 March, 2021.
The Russian government has made changes to the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025. Now Karelia has the status of a region with special opportunities for the development of certain sectors of the economy. Since 2019, the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia has consistently sought amendments to the Strategy from the regional and federal authorities, taking into account the potential of the Republic of Karelia and the requirements of the time.
Photo: Yelena Skvortsova / Photo from Yelena Skvortsova’s personal page in the VKontakte social network
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, called for additional attention to the situation with the expulsion from university of Yelena Skvortsova, a student of the Institute “The Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communications” of St. Petersburg State University. Skvortsova is a journalist in the human rights group Team 29, an association of lawyers and journalists fighting for the Russian citizens’ rights to access and distribute information.
