Anti-war Yavlinsky is Russia's real patriot

The Russian Journal, By Michael Heath

January 17, 2000

To call for a halt to a hugely popular war in the midst of an election campaign, as liberal Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky did late last year, would normally amount to political suicide.

Russia: Yabloko Criticizes Proposed EU Sanctions

By Sophie Lambroschini, Radio Liberty, January 28, 2000

Russia's reformist Yabloko party has criticized an EU proposal to slap mild sanctions on the country over Chechnya. RFE/RL's Sophie Lambroschini reports from Moscow that the party could be trying to broaden its support base by criticizing both the war and the West's opposition to it.

SPS Looking Weaker Next To Yabloko

THE MOSCOW TIMES

Boris Nemtsov declared a victory Wednesday after the State Duma installed him and Yabloko's Vladimir Lukin as deputy speakers. He called it a defeat for the Communists, who had helped block the nominations. "Centrist and center-right factions in the chamber have a chance in the near future to work constructively, without the Communists, on a range of key laws for our country - land and tax codes, passing a responsible and honest budget," Reuters quoted Nemtsov as saying.

Putinism Looms Related