Yabloko is positive about the results of the discussion of education reform at a meeting of the State Council
RIA Novosti, August 29, 2001
...“atention paid by the President and governors to education issues leads us to hope that the state recognises the importance of the resolution of the problems in education for the development of our country.” Now, noted Shishlov, we “need practical, comprehensive and visible steps, so that talks about the priority of education could be transformed into real deeds.”

State Duma to pass government's variant of the draft budget for 2002 in first reading
RIA "Novosti", August 29, 2001
The State Duma will pass the government draft of the federal budget for 2002 in the first reading and approve the key budget parameters and macroeconomic indicators. This opinion was expressed by Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the liberal Yabloko faction in the Duma. As he said to RIA Novosti, in the present composition of the State Duma "there is a stable political majority which supports the government."

St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko to discuss supporting a single candidate from Fatherland, Unity, the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and Petersburg’s Volya (“Petersburg’s Liberty) at the elections in the 209th electoral district of St. Petersburg
RIA RosBusinessConsulting, August 28, 2001
The head of the political council of the Unity Alexander Mikhailushkin informed journalists that today RPC Yabloko (the Russia’s Party of the Centre Yabloko) plans to conduct a meeting of the political council where the party will consider the address received from Unity in support of the candidacy of Yuri Solonin at by-elections [to the State Duma] in the 209th electoral district of St. Petersburg.

Yuri Solonin gains support of Yabloko
Journalist Investigation Agency, August 29, 2001
The political council of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko decided to support Yuri Solonin, Dean of the philosophy faculty of St. Petersburg State University, at the by-elections [to the State Duma] in the 209th electoral district of St. Petersburg. Yabloko became the fifth political structure to support the member of the Unity party Solonin at the by-elections to the State Duma.

St. Petersburg Youth Organisation of Yabloko fights against racism
Rosbalt Information Agency, August 28, 2001
“...If in the street, in the lobby of your house or in another public place you see graffiti that incites ethnic conflicts, please inform us of their content and precise location (street, house number, definite place of location of the graffiti)...”

Yabloko welcomes the cutback in expenditures on “lobbyist items” in the federal budget for 2002
Samotlor-Express, August 29, 2001
The Yabloko faction of the State Duma welcomes the reduction in financing for so-called “lobbyist items” in the draft budget for 2002, declared the First Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko on Monday August 27, 2001. He also said that one of the positive aspects of the draft budget concern the reduction in financing for “lobbyist items”, in particular agriculture, industry and investment programmes.

The Tyumen Oil Company and administration of the region decide how to divide the profit from the oil extraction
Samotlor-Express, August 29, 2001
The Siberian Research Centre on behalf of the Tyumen Oil Company submitted to Tyumen administration a draft production-sharing agreement for extraction of oil in Uvatsk area. The item on the division of profit is one of the key items in the agreement. The investor gets 80% (The Tyumen Oil Company in this case), and 20% go to the federal and regional budgets, as well as the budget of Uvatsk area (the proportion in this case has still not been defined). The Economic Department of the regional administration forwarded their conclusions to the Deputy Governor Vladimir Yakushev, writes the “Tyumenskaya Liniya” information agency.

Sergei Ivanenko: Yabloko drafts “finetuned” budget
By Olga Tropkina, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, August 16, 2001
...The government budget is a result of different “compromises”. In view of the sober ideas, for example, in the present budget, it obviously represents a result of aggregate pressures from different ministries, lobbyists, economists of different schools and political forces at federal and regional levels. When, however, we draft our version of the budget (something Yabloko has been doing annually since 1994), we proceed exclusively from economic viability, from real economic requirements, irrespective of the various external pressures. This is a “finetuned” budget, if you like, targeted at implementation of the economic policy that we believe to be necessary...

Arbat traffic stops for waste debate
By Ana Uzelac, The Moscow Times, June 4, 2001
Nuclear Power Minister Alexander Rumyantsev showed up at a downtown restaurant Sunday for a cup of tea, a slice of cake and a debate with Yabloko head Grigory Yavlinsky on a controversial plan to import spent nuclear fuel. Yavlinsky and Rumyantsev were guests of the "Bender Show" on Ekho Moskvy radio, which is broadcast live from a restaurant on Arbat and named after Ostap Bender, the charming con-man hero of the classic 1920s novel "Twelve Chairs." Cracking jokes and assisting in the writing of a silly poem about nuclear waste, an unrelenting Rumyantsev maintained that earning billions of dollars by importing spent nuclear fuel was the only way for Russia to clean up areas contaminated by nuclear tests and storage leaks.

Russian Security or NATO Expansion?
By Alexei Arbatov
The project of restructuring the European political system after the Cold War is full of contradictions, a source of intellectual confusion and political uncertainty. Radical changes in the military-strategic situation on the old continent have created great temptations for countries to take hasty, short-sighted steps which could permanently damage the development of a new system of collective security. At the same time, those changes have generated new possibilities for more constructive relations between states. How, then, can we take advantage of these opportunities while resisting the temptations?

New Technologies: Yabloko will control Russian elections through the Internet
Alliance Media, July 19, 2001
The usage of Internet technologies in the organisation of elections has been discussed for a long time [in Russia] already. Now the Yabloko party will hold a conference “Internet at Elections” on July 12–14 looking at this beneficial topic.

Russia to import nuclear waste
BBC, June 6, 2001
Russia will import, store and reprocess other countries' nuclear waste, following the approval of the third and final reading of a controversial bill by the Russian lower house of parliament. Once passed by the upper house and signed by the president, the bill will earn Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry up to $20bn over a 10-year period...