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 Yavlinsky
sees no hope for economy before elections
Reuters
August 23, 1999
Russia's economy is unlikely to improve
under new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and will only
pick up after next year's presidential election, leading
liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky said.
 AUTUMN
OF CHANGES?
By Alexander Romanovsky, Komsomolskaya Pravda,
August 22, 2000, p. 5
Observers and commentators cannot complain that
nothing has happened on the eve of the forthcoming
political autumn, which promises to be hot. How
can we assess the regime's relations with the political
elite? After all, the success or failure of the
reforms depends to a large extent on their support.
Yabloko
proposes establishment of a State Duma commission
to investigate the situation around “Kursk”
RBC, 21.08.2000, Moscow 14:12:44
Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in
the State Duma, Sergei Ivanenko, thinks that a special
commission should be formed up in the State Duma to
investigate the situation around the “Kursk” submarine.
According to an exclusive interview with RBC today,
Yabloko will insist on a parliamentary investigation
into this situation to obtain answers to the questions
as to what was decided, who decided and how was it
decided that people's lives should be saved.
The
Yabloko faction is preparing its proposals on the
budget-2001, with an increase in expenditures on anti-terrorist
measures and compensation for the families of the
victims
Tamara Ivanova, the ITAR-TASS
agency Moscow, August 9, 2000
The Yabloko party thinks that the "leadership
of the country bears political responsibility for
the explosion at Pushkin Square".
Deputy of the State Duma from Yabloko, Alexei Melnikov,
made this statement in an interview with an ITAR-TASS
correspondent.
Putin's
Year
Sergei Ivanenko, Vremya Novostei,
No 99, August 9, 2000
The main thing that happened during
Putin's year is that Yeltsin's era ended first in
actual fact and then legally. A new stage of the country's
development was launched. Putin's activity is in public
view: he began an anti-terrorist operation in Dagestan
which grew into a military conflict, he is trying
to implement economic reforms and reform of the federative
structure.
Reaction
of Sergei Ivanenko to the explosion in Moscow
"Echo Moskvi", Moderator
Alexei Venediktov, August 8, 2000, [19:40-19:50]
The leadership of the country and the
law-enforcement agencies bear political responsibility
for today's explosion at Pushkin Square, noted Deputy
Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma of the
RF, Sergei Ivanenko, in an interview with the Echo
Moskvi radio station.
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