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
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
What
does the opposition want: to win or die heroically?
Moskovsky
Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012. Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina.
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
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
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, 18.03.2022
In Pskov, searches are being carried out at the places of residence of several members of the Pskov Yabloko team, including Lev Shlosberg, the leader of the regional branch and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko. The searches started at 6:20 a.m.
Posted: March 18th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 17.03.2022
Photo: Yevgeny Gontmakher / Photo from social networks
On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a Zoom-lecture by Dr. Yevgeny Gontmakher on the topic: “A“special operation” in Ukraine: the consequences for the economy and citizens”. The lecturer is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Economics, Co-Chairman of the Public Constitutional Council, and an expert of the European Dialogue group.
Posted: March 17th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 17.03.2022
Photo: Yelena Izotova and Gulnaz Ravilova / Photo from social networks
Today, the police came with searches to the activists of Yabloko in Tatarstan, Yelena Izotova and Gulnaz Ravilova, as well as to Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan.
Posted: March 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 16.03.2022
Photo: Cars of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine. Photo by Sergei Averin / RIA Novosti
On 2 March, Grigory Yavlinsky put forward a proposal that the Yabloko party should be provided the opportunity to organise a humanitarian corridor for the exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead between Ukraine and Russia. The Yabloko party had such experience during the first Chechen war. The next day, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov formally addressed this proposal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer, head of the Russian Red Cross Pavel Savchuk, and WHO Representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic.
Posted: March 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 5.03.2022
Based on Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel
Photo: Police “inspecting” the office of the Pskov Yabloko
On March 5, the police came to the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko to conduct an “inspection” and seize computer equipment as part of the administrative proceedings initiated today, on 5 March, under the latest “anti-war” Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, to maintain international peace and security”), which was adopted and entered into force yesterday.
Posted: March 17th, 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, 16.03.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, asked Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, basing on Article 21 of the Federal Law on the Human Rights Commissioner in the Russian Federation, to take measures of state protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens in view of information about mass-scale violations of the rights of citizens in St. Petersburg.
Posted: March 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Press Release, 16.03.2022
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social networks
Today, six policemen came to the house of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The law enforcement insisted on taking Nogovitsyn to the police department, where a protocol was drawn up against him under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 (“public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintain international peace and security”).
Posted: March 16th, 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, 16.03.2022
Photo: Denis Bolshakov and Andrei Morev at the Moscow Mayor’s Office / Photo by Andrei Morev
Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, and Denis Bolshakov, a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of the party, filed an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a demonstration on 27 March from 14:00 to 19:00.
Posted: March 16th, 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, 13.03.2022
Photo: Pavel Sychyov / Photo from social networks
In Rostov-on-Don, a search was carried out at the home of Tatyana Sporysheva, a supporter of the Yabloko party. The police seized all the equipment. The lawyer was not allowed into the apartment. The status of Sporysheva in the case is not clear. On 14 March, the activist was summoned for interrogation within the framework of the case of rehabilitation of Nazism because of a repost in Telegram of an article by journalist Sergei Reznik. A journalist involved in corruption investigations was forced to leave Russia.
Posted: March 16th, 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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Chairman of the branch Vitaly Ilyin, activists Valentin Grushevsky, Alexander Kalashnik and Denis Shakin are under pressure
Press Release, 12.03.2022
Photo: Vitaly Ilyin / Photo from social networks
The Chairman of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko and activists of the regional branch were fired from their jobs and fined under the new “anti-war” article, also they received warnings and threats from the security forces for their position on *** in Ukraine.
Posted: March 16th, 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, 15.03.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky sent an appeal to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and deputies of the State Duma demanding to immediately cancel the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, adopted on 4 March, imposing penalties for spreading “fakes” about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, “publicly discrediting the use of the Armed Forces” and “public calls to obstruct the use of the Armed Forces”.
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 7.03.2022
Photo by Valery Melnikov / RIA Novosti
Well-known St. Petersburg influencers in culture and science, politicians and human rights activists appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a petition to immediately begin an exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead with Ukraine on the principle of “all for all”.
The petition was published on the Change.org platform by Anatoly Golov, a member of the Bureau of the Yabloko party.
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 8.03.2022
Photo: Maria Krivenko / Photo from social networks
Maria Krivenko, Chairperson of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko received ten days of administrative arrest for “petty hooliganism”, which she did not commit. Maria and Yabloko will appeal against the decision of the court.
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 6.03.2022
Photo by Alexander Meridonov / Kommersant
At least seven members of the Yabloko party were detained on March 6 in four Russian regions, including chairpersons of the regional branches of the party in Bashkiria, Ivanovo and Rostov regions.
The police detained Maria Krivenko, Chair of the Rostov branch of Yabloko, at the entrance to the party office in Rostov-on-Don in the morning of 6 March. She was taken to police department No 4 of the Leninsky district, where a protocol of a violation was drawn up under Article 20.1 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). Earlier, another activist of the Rostov branch of Yabloko Vladimir Beradze received 15 days of arrest under the same article. Probably Maria Krivenko will stay at the police department for the night, and tomorrow, 7 March, she will appear before the court.
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 5.03.2022
Photo: Svetlana Gannushkina / Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service
Federal Security Service (FSB) officers came to the Civic Assistance Committee on 4 March. Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Committee and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, said that the server and hard drive were taken away during the search, and she was taken for interrogation, which will continue on 9 March (after public holidays in Russia).
Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 5.03.2022
Photo: Peace March in 2014. Moscow
The Department of Regional Security of the Moscow government officially refused the Yabloko party to hold the march “For Peace!” both on 12 and 13 March.
Posted: March 5th, 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, 4.03.2022
Photo: Vladimir Beradze / Photo from social networks
On 3 March, the police in Rostov-on-Don detained Vladimir Beradze, a member of the Yabloko party. He is one of the applicants for the action “For Peace and Friendship Between Peoples”.
The police approached Beradze in the street and checked his documents, and then took away his passport and phone. The police accused the activist of swearing and molesting passers-by, as well as resisting arrest, which was not true.
Posted: March 4th, 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, 4.03.2022
Photo: Kirill Rumyantsev during his single picket
The Press Service of the Yabloko party received was a voice recording of a conversation between Kirill Rumyantsev, an activist of the party and a fourth year student of the Saratov State Law Academy, and Alexander Zemlyansky, the Director of the Academy’s Institute of Justice.
Posted: March 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 3.03.2022
Photo by Marina Movdavskaya / Kommersant
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer, head of the Russian Red Cross Pavel Savchuk, and WHO representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic, urging them to provide an opportunity for Yabloko for practical creation of a special humanitarian corridor for the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead with Ukraine, as well as to provide evacuation routes for the civilian population.
Rybakov refers to Article 110 of the Geneva Convention, according to which prisoners of war are subject to direct repatriation.
The Yabloko leader emphasises that the party has the necessary resources and experience gained during the two Chechen wars.
Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 3.03.2022
The Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted a notification to the Vologda administration about holding a rally in Revolution Square, next to the Eternal Flame monument, on 12 March from 11:00 to 12:00. The purpose of the rally is to express the attitude towards the “special operation” in Ukraine. The declared number of participants is 100 people.
Posted: March 3rd, 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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