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
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 24.02.2022
Today, after the shocking news, despite interruptions in the website, 18,000 more people expressed their civil stance and signed the petition “No to war!” [as of 18:00].
Posted: February 24th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 22.02.2022
Photo: Boris Nemtsov commemorative march in Moscow in 2019. Source: Press Service of the Yabloko Party
On 27 February, the day of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko together with PARNAS will hold a commemorative rally against the war with Ukraine in Gagarin Park in Chelyabinsk. The action will be conducted from 14:00 to 18:00.
The rally will be held in the so-called “Hyde Park”, a site approved by the city authorities and intended for holding public events without any permissions or approvals by the authorities .
Posted: February 24th, 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, 22.02.2022
Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant
Over 20,000 Russian citizens signed Yabloko’s petition for peace with Ukraine on the website of the Yabloko party as of the evening of 22 February.
The collection of signatures began on 13 February. The first 10,000 signatures were collected by 19 February. After the situation in Donbass began aggravating, and especially after yesterday’s meeting of the Russian Security Council, the pace of collection has increased dramatically, and in three days the number of signatures has doubled.
Posted: February 23rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.02.2022
Photo: Signing of the agreement between the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the “Luhansk People’s Republic” and Russia in the Kremlin on 21 February, 2022. / Photo from kremlin.ru
President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s recognition of the “independence” of the self-proclaimed “republics” – the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”, signed agreements on “mutual assistance” with them, and sent Russian troops to their territories.
Posted: February 22nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Special for the Yabloko web-site, 22.02.2022
Russian regions have begun introduction of a state of emergency regime in anticipation of an inflow of refugees from Donbass. Up to a million people are expected to be evacuated from the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”. Svetlana Gannushkina, Chairperson of the Civic Assistance Committee and a member of the Political Committee of the Yabloko party, notes that Russia does not have a positive experience in accepting refugees, especially in such large numbers.
Posted: February 22nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 17 January 2022
Photo by Ilya Pitalyev / Kommersant
In actual fact, the war started eight years and has never stopped, leaving over 13,000 dead, and countless refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Donbass residents are actually hostages in Moscow’s geopolitical games. Meanwhile the entire campaign of intimidation and scaremongering about war and appeals for recognition of the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic attest to the actual indifference of the Russian regime to the lives and fate of Donbass residents. The goal is not to protect the people, but instead to bring Ukraine to heel, subjugating it to Russian-controlled Donbass in all key areas. There are good reasons for assuming that this won’t happen.
In autumn 2017 we published a plan “Settlement in Donbass: Ten Points”. This plan could have provided the framework for a discussion on how to restore peace to the east of Ukraine. Today, this plan (with minor adjustments and additions) is still a solution that would guarantee the real and long-term security of the region’s residents and stop the war. This plan was one of the key policy documents of my campaign in Russia’s presidential elections in 2018. The Kremlin is acquainted with this plan. Instead of unleashing war, this plan must be implemented. Admittedly, taking such a step would require political will.
SETTLEMENT IN DONBASS: TEN POINTS
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 21.02.2022
Photo: the Rostov-on-Don region, February 2022. Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant
As of Monday noon MSK, 15,025 people left their signatures under the anti-war petition launched by Yabloko on its website. The number of signatures rose by more than 30 per cent after the aggravation of the situation in the so-called “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk on the evening of 18 February.
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 21.02.2022
Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant
On the eve of the 518th meeting of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament – the Federation Council, – which will be held on February 22, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to all members of the Federation Council with a proposal to cancel the Resolutions allowing the use of Russian armed forces abroad. According to Rybakov, this will be a practical step aimed at the reduction of tensions around Ukraine.
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 19.02.2022
Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in St. Petersburg, 2015. Photo by Alexander Koryakov/Kommersant
Yabloko has collected over 10,000 signatures against the war with Ukraine under a petition on the website of the Yabloko party.
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader addressed citizens of Russia with a statement “No to war!”.
Press Release, 17.02.2022
Nikolai Rybakov:
War means violence, tears and suffering. For some persons war means authority and money. But the death of innocent people is not worth any money.
Posted: February 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Press Release, 16.02.2022
Attention: the number of regions in the title changes as we open new points of collection of signatures.
Photo: A sign at the collection point in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Regional branches of the Yabloko party launched a collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in their offices. At present Yabloko collects signatures against the war with Ukraine in 36 regional collection points in 35 Russian regions.
Citizens can express their strong protest against the war, that would be disastrous for the two nations, in the following cities: Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Blagoveshchensk, Novgorod, Vladivostok, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Izhevsk, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Makhachkala, Moscow, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Oryol, Orenburg, Perm, Pskov, Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Smolensk, Stavropol, Taganrog, Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tyumen, Ulyanivsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Shakhty, and Yakutsk.
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov, 16.02.2022
On 16 February, Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, turns 91. Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Viktor Sheinis on his birthday:
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Greetings.
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Press Release, 16.02.2022
Chair of the Yabloko Party Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva also signed the letter
Photo by Maxim Bogodid / RIA Novosti
We are women from the United States and Russia who are deeply concerned about the risk of imminent war between our two countries, who together possess over 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.
We are mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and we are sisters, one to another.
Today we stand with our sisters in Ukraine, East and West, whose families and country have been torn apart, have already suffered more than 14,000 deaths.
We stand together and we call for peace and diplomacy, with respect for all.
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Press Release, 14.02.2022
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
Over 5,000 people put their signatures under the petition of the Yabloko party against the war between Russia and Ukraine on the first day of the collection of signatures.
Posted: February 15th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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13.02.2022
The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the link to this page on your social networks, send it via instant messengers to your friends, neighbours and colleagues – it is very important that there are many people speaking out against the war.
Posted: February 14th, 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, 13.02.2022
Photo: Tank T-72B3 of the armed forces of the Union State of Russia and Belarus during military exercises at the Brest training ground. Photo by Viktor Tolochko / RIA Novosti
The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. The list of collection points will be published soon.
Posted: February 14th, 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, 14.02.2022
Photo: Alexander Korovainy /Photo from Alexander Korovayny’s social networks
Alexander Korovainy, a member of Yabloko and ex deputy of the Yeisk District Council, was appointed assistant to Alexander Baturints, a current deputy of the Yeisk District Council and a supporter of the party.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Press Release, 08.02.2022
Photo: Alexander Biryukov, Alexander Korovainy, and Sofia Pilyukova / Photo from social networks
Alexander Korovayny, a former deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, Alexander Biryukov, a Yabloko member and Deputy Chairman of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, and Sofia Pilyukova, a public activist and a Yabloko volunteer in the parliamentary elections in 2021, were included into the ranking of public figures of the Krasnodar Territory based on the results of work in 2021. The ranking was published by the human rights Internet portal Protocol basing on the results of an expert assessment by well-known journalists, members of the regional Public Chamber, the Governor’s Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, municipal deputies, and members of public organisations.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Press Release, 9.02.2022
Photo: Oleg Mandrykin and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov (left). / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
All the offices of the real estate agency Variant in Severodvinsk, the Arkhangelsk region, headed by Oleg Mandrykin, one of the leaders of the STOP-SHIES coalition [a public movement against organisation of a giant landfill instead of part of the forest in the Arkhalgensk region where waste from Moscow and some of Western Russian regions could be transported and stored], were simultaneously searched. According to the official version, the searches were caused by an inspection under Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on non-payment of taxes. The Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko is confident that the attack of the authorities on the business of the opposition activist represents political pressure.
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Among the candidates are head of the Russian Guard, Minister of Culture, head of the Central Electoral Commission and the governors of Chelyabinsk and Novgorod Regions.
Press Release, 8.02.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has opened voting (https://www.yabloko.ru/lp/brush/ ) for this year’s “Zolotoy Yorshik” (Golden Toilet Brush) Anti-Award. The prizes (golden, silver and bronze colour toilet brushes) are awarded in recognition of the most wasteful budgetary expenditures by government officials. The more absurd the expense, the more likely it is to receive the Toilet Brush.
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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