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Memorandum of Political Alternative, an updated version of 1.03.2019

Memorandum of Political Alternative

YABLOKO's Ten Key Programme Issues

THE DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO

YABLOKO's Political Platform Adopted by the 15th Congress, June 21, 2008

The 18th Congress of YABLOKO

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:

YABLOKO’s Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible business corporation conducting anti-environmental policies

 

Overcoming bolshevism and stalinism as a key factor for Russia¦µ™s transformation in the 21st century

 

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

 

The 17th Congress of YABLOKO

 

 

 

The 16th Congress of Yabloko

Photo by Sergei Loktionov

The 12th congress of Yabloko


The 11th congress of Yabloko


The 10th congress of Yabloko

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

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Programme by candidate for the post of Russian President Grigory Yavlinsky. Brief Overview

My Truth

Grigory Yavlinsky at Forum 2000, Prague, 2014

YABLOKO-ALDE conference 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

The Road to Good Governance

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

Realeconomik

The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)

by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky

Resoulution
On the results of the Conference “Migration: International Experience and Russia’s Problems” conducted by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (the ALDE party)

Moscow, April 6, 2013

International Conference "Youth under Threat of Extremism and Xenophobia. A Liberal Response"
conducted jointly by ELDR and YABLOKO. Moscow, April 21, 2012. Speeches, videos, presentations

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

Reform or Revolution

by Vladimir Kara-Murza

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

Mitrokhin proposed a visa-free regime between Russia and EU at the European liberal leaders meeting
June 18, 2009

Demodernization
by Grigory Yavlinsky

European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky!
Your vote counts!

Reforms that corrupted Russia
By Grigory Yavlinsky, Financial Times (UK), September 3, 2003

Grigory Yavlinsky: "It is impossible to create a real opposition in Russia today."
Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003

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

IT IS IMPORTANT!

 

Yabloko: Liberals in Russia

By Alexander Shishlov, July 6, 2009

Position on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American Relations

Moscow, July 7, 2009

The Embrace of Stalinism

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

Yabloko launches admission of students for a new semester in the Federal Party School

Press Release, 11.09.2024

he theme of the fourth class of the School will be “Politics as a Search for Essence and Meaning”. The lecturers and tutors of the Party School include the leaders of the Yabloko party.

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“There is always a place for a choice.” Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview for the documentary “The Unfinished Time”

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 8.10.2024

Complete interview with English subtitles

Since the late 1980s, Russia has repeatedly found itself at critical crossroads. There was a choice, there was an opportunity to fundamentally change the country’s future for the better and avoid another tragedy. In other words, over the past 35 years, Russia has repeatedly had a real alternative – to move along the path of creating a modern law governed state that protects life, freedom and human rights, build a highly efficient modern world-class market economy, follow the path of peace, not war (more on why and how the political system that led to 24 February, 2022 appeared in Russia: “Russia-2022: Underlying Causes” ).

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“There will be no winners, everyone has lost.” Nikolai Rybakov on the NTV television channel about why it is necessary to stop the bloodshed now

Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 8.10.2024

The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for two and a half years. Politicians continue talking about “victory”. But no one understands that when there are so many victims, no one has won, everyone has lost.

Politicians have proven that they failed to do their job by allowing so many people to die in the 21st century.

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Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of two murdered journalists – Anna Politkovskaya and Irina Slavina. An hour later, the memorial was destroyed

Press Release, 7.10.2024

On 5 October, the Yabloko party activists in Tatarstan laid flowers at the monument to the victims of political repression in memory of journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Irina Slavina. Yabloko in Kazan annually honours the memory of the murdered journalists. This year, the memorial event was obstructed by police officers and the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism.

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The Kirov branch of Yabloko a conference and elected its governing bodies. Artur Abashev was elected Chairman of the regional branch for a second term

Press Release, 7.10.2024

Photo: Artur Abashev, Polina Kuskova and Tatyana Naumovich / Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko

Past weekend, the regional branch of Yabloko in the Kirov region held a Conference, where they discussed the results of their work over the past two years, elected new leadership and decided on a work plan for the coming months.

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Lev Shlosberg: Thank you for your solidarity

From Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 2.10.2024

Friends, here is the afterword of this morning’s events. My heartfelt thanks to everyone who, during those hours, was worried, messaged, called, offered their support, and at present, are worried, messaging, calling, and offering their support. I’ll get back to you personally, albeit my response may be slightly delayed.

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Statement by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov regarding the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg

2.10.2024

Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Today’s searches at Lev Shlosberg’s and his father’s apartment represent a continuation of the political intimidation campaign by the authorities against our comrade and the entire Pskov branch of our party.

When the authorities cannot, are not capable of conducting an honest competitive struggle with their opponents, they resort to such methods.

Yabloko will provide Lev Shlosberg with all possible support. However, I would like to note that the wheel of repression will stop only when society forms an absolute rejection and non-acceptance of the very strategy of eliminating opponents, defamation of those who disagree with the authorities and the search for enemies, internal and external.

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Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg is a suspect in a criminal case on violating the law on “foreign agents”

Press Release, 2.10.2024

Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, is a suspect in a criminal case under Article 330.1 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Evasion of duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents”).

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Chelyabinsk Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the Mayak nuclear tragedy in 1957

Press Release, 30.09.2024

September 29 marked 67 years since the Kyshtym nuclear accident – a nuclear explosion at the Mayak chemical plant. The explosion was the result of a violation of the cooling regime of the storage tank for radioactive waste. In its severity, the accident is second only to the Chernobyl and Fukushima-1 accidents. 1,007 personnel of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were guarding nuclear industry facilities, were exposed to radiation. 12 years ago, a stone was laid in Chelyabinsk for a monument to the victims of radiation, but the authorities have not yet found a way to install it. The Chelyabinsk Yabloko activists visited the site of the future memorial and honoured the memory of the victims of the Kyshtym accident.

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St. Petersburg Yabloko elected new leadership of the branch

Press Release, 29.09.2024

Photo: Olga Tsepilova at the Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party

On 28 September, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. Olga Tsepilova, who previously held the position of a Deputy Chairperson, became the Chairperson of the regional branch (in 2022-2024, the branch was headed by Alexander Shishlov, who proposed to elect Olga Tsepilova to this post). Dmitry Anisimov, Yegor Karpenkov, Alexander Kobrinsky, and Ilya Kiselyov were elected as Deputy Chairs. This time the leaders of the St. Petersburg branch are noticeably younger. The average age of the previous composition was 70 years old, and now it is 44.

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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024
Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles.
Hopes for internal change in Russia, whether related to Prigozhin’s rebellion, Ukraine’s invasion, or outright bets on a revolution, all concern the same fundamental issue: the permissibility of violence in politics. Attitudes toward the use of violence in politics are a crucial dividing line when it comes to collaboration, alliances, and coalitions.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin

Press Release, 25.09.2024

Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media

An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the army.” Yabloko invites all to take part.

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Yabloko raised 1.7 million roubles at an auction in support of political prisoners and continues to accept donations

Press Release, 25.09.2024

Photo: Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky introducing his lot / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The auction featured 28 lots: works of art and personal belongings of politicians, political prisoners, writers, publicists and journalists, musicians, artists, etc. The most expensive lots of the auction were a drawing by Alexandra Skochilenko, ex-political prisoner who has been recently exchanged, a painting by the famous artist Alexei Rychkov – a gift to Grigory Yavlinsky, a bottle of 100-year-old cognac, a gift from the Yabloko politician Sergei Ivanenko to Sergei Mitrokhin, a statuette of musician Yuri Shevchuk and a disc with the new album of the DDT group, and manuscripts by Ekaterina Shulman. The total amount raised was 1.712 million rubles.

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Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district in the Pskov region to challenge the voting results in court

 

Press Release, 23.09.2024

Photo: Yevgeny Vasiliyev / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko

Yevgeny Vasiliyev, a Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district of the Pskov region, filed a lawsuit challenging the voting results at 17 polling stations out of 20 and demanded that video recordings be provided to him.

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“We just wait for any news every day.” Yabloko invites all to a charity auction and its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners

Press Release, 20.09.2024

Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko

Yabloko continues to support Russian political prisoners. On 24 September, a charity auction will be held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. In the coming weeks, actions of writing  letters to political prisoners will be held in the Moscow branch and regional branches of the party.

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Yabloko hosted a book launch about Nikita Khrushchev

Press Release, 18.09.2024

“Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System” is a new biography of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953-1964), written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at the New School in New York. On 17 September, Nina Khrushcheva spoke about the book at the Yabloko party office.

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The first court hearing on the merits of the case of Vasily Neustroyev from the St. Petersburg Yabloko has been scheduled on 25 September

Press Release, 18.09.2024

Photo: Vasily Neustroyev/ Photo from social media

The hearing on the merits of the case against Vasily Neustroyev will take place in the St. Petersburg City Court on 25 September, after 15 months of his imprisonment. The case will be heard by a judge only, since all the defendants in the case refused to have the case heard by a jury.

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Sleepwalkers and the World

Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024

It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing that can and should be done now is to conclude a ceasefire agreement and stop killing people. But to take this vital step, it is necessary to understand the irreversible tragedy and strategic futility of what is happening, the will and diplomatic wisdom of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain, the European Union, and perhaps also China, India and Brazil are required.

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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”

Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024

Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the best experts arms control in Russia. Who better than him can answer our questions about the risks of World War III?

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The Pskov branch Yabloko gets new deputies in Plyussky, Dnovsky, Usvyatsky and Porkhov municipal districts

Press Release, 16.09.2024

At the September elections in the Pskov region, four lists of candidates from the Yabloko party managed to overcome the threshold, receiving from 5.46% to 13.63% of voters’ support. The interests of citizens in the deputies’ assemblies of municipal districts will be represented by seven new deputies from Yabloko. The elected candidates of the Pskov regional branch of the party are as follows:

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