Russia laments Israeli attack on Arafat's residence
Associated Press, March 29, 2002
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Russia expressed concern Wednesday over U.S. plans to MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Friday lamented Israel's attack on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's residence, saying that the spiraling Mideast crisis can't be solved by military force.

Grigory Yavlinsky: federal mass media in Russia subject to political censorship
Rosbalt, March 26, 2002
Pskov, March 25. “People who don’t enjoy freedom of information cannot create a compatible 21st century economy,” stated the leader of YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky in his comments on freedom of speech in Russia for journalists in Pskov.

Deputies Pushing for Seleznyov Dismissal
By Natalia Yefimova, St Peterburg Times, March 26, 2002
MOSCOW - Three top lawmakers called on the State Duma's procedures committee Friday to get the ball rolling for a vote on dismissing the chamber's speaker, Gennady Seleznyov.

Yabloko Offers Alternative Conception of Housing and Communal Reform
RIA "OREANDA", January 25, 2002
Moscow. The Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko" and its faction in the State Duma continue advocating a review of the state programme of housing and communal reform.

Abramova sympathizes with Yavlinsky
"Vecherny Minsk", Janaury 24, 1997(Archive)
"One land. One nation. One life to succeed in assisting people." She decided to establish in Belarus the public union "Yabloko"—an autonomous political movement, similar in principles, goals and objectives to the Russian association "Yabloko".

GRIGORY YAVLINSKY: REAL LIFE IS ONLY TWO HOURS BY FLIGHT FROM HERE
Interview by Svetlana Babayeva, Izvestia December 17, 2001(Archive)
Grigory Yavlinsky rarely appears in the media nowadays. He agreed to meet with this Izvestia correspondent on the eve of Yabloko's congress scheduled to take place one of these days. He did not bother to conceal his sceptical attitude towards the media.

Discussions on Russia and EU expansion provoked calls for the west to open up.
Andrew Cohen reports from Salzburg. September, 2000 (Archive)
Russia and EU expansion were the topics at the forefront of debate and discussion at this year’s Central and Eastern European Economic Summit in Salzburg. While there was disagreement on the best course to develop the Russian economy, European Union enlargement was universally welcomed.

Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy
Transcript of official letter from Russian nuclear authorities to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, dated 23 December 1998.
To Secretary of Energy United States of America William Richardson
(Archive)

Minatom lobby for spent fuel intensifies
By Igor Kudrik, Bellona Foundation, April 23, 1999 (Archive)
Despite U.S. resistance and Russian laws against radioactive waste imports, Russia's Nuclear Energy Minister shows maniacal persistence soliciting support for the idea

Proposal for foreign spent fuel storage in Russia
By Thomas Nilsen, Bellona Foundation, May 30, 1999 (Archive)
A U.S. and German industry group has developed a proposal for shipping foreign spent fuel to Russia for long-term storage. The proceeds of the venture would be a minimum of $4 billion, coming from nations trying to rid themselves of spent nuclear fuel problems. Part of this money will go to help pay Russian pensioners and orphans.

Duma reads spent fuel imports bill
By State Duma holds first reading of a bill favouring spent fuel imports. Russian Federal Envirocommittee grants support for the bill, Bellona Foundation, September 27, 1999 (Archive)
Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of the parliament, held first reading of a bill regarding amendment of the Law on Environmental Protection to allow spent fuel imports to Russia on September 24. The Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy, or Minatom, failed to persuade Russian Cabinet members to approve amendments and forward them to the State Duma for consideration in late August. The Duma took the issue up on its own without waiting for the Cabinet.

Russia: Actions against imported spent fuel
WISE News Communique, November 2, 2001(Archive)
Bellona Foundation - On 18 October 2001, the Russian State Duma passed an amendment to the Law on Environmental Protection, thereby removing the last roadblocks for massive import of nuclear waste. At the same time the environmental group Ecodefense! reported that railroad wagons, destined for Russia, were being loaded with Bulgarian spent nuclear fuel. By the end of 2002 a steady flow of special trains is supposed to arrive in Siberia.

If you want to have a harvest in autumn, you have to plant in spring - even if the weather is bad. Now Russia is having bad weather, but it's definitely spring.' Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky).
Equipment Rental in Russia, February 2002
Editor's Note: Through the efforts of our researcher and interpreter, Svetlana Frantova, Rental Management was granted a rare interview with Grigory A. Yavlinsky, chairman of the Yabloko Party in the Duma (the Russian parliament). We met for an hour in Yavlinsky's cavernous office, in a relaxed conversation covering the political climate and the promise ahead for the Russian economy - which Yavlinsky regards with qualified optimism, and cautions that the promise cannot be realized without patience, perseverance and a clear sense of the realities unique to Russia, some of which linger from the past. His comments are presented verbatim, from the taped conversation.

Tallying Putin's Midterm Results
The Moscow Times, March 27, 2002
President Vladimir Putin's term hit its halfway mark Tuesday, with politicians and pundits weighing in on the ups and downs of the unusually popular president's first two years in office.

YABLOKO: SS Division Members Must Not Be Rehabilitated
RIA "Novosti", March 22, 2002
MOSCOW, 22 March, 2002 /Correspondent RIA Novosti/--First deputy head of the right-wing Yabloko parliamentary faction Sergei Ivanenko announced on Friday that the faction believed that members of the SS Galichina division should not be rehabilitated.

Duma Deputies Call for Seleznyov's Head
The Moscow Times, March 25, 2002
In what would amount to opening a new front in its war on terrorism, the United States is considering sending 100 to 200 U.S. special operations soldiers to Georgia, adding to the U.S. helicopters and handful of advisers already in Tbilisi to help the Three top lawmakers called on the State Duma's procedures committee Friday to get the ball rolling for a vote on dismissing the chamber's speaker, Gennady Seleznyov. The move was one of several attacks against Seleznyov by fellow deputies over the past week, but politicians and analysts said the campaign to unseat the Communist speaker could prove successful only with the blessing of the Kremlin, which has thus far remained neutral on the issue.

New Year under the Sign of Euro
"Ekonomika Rossiyi. 21 vek" No 1(6), March 2002
Today we can assess the prospects of transition of Western countries to the Euro. The Euro has played a considerable role at some of the financial markets during the past month. For example, if we take the newly distributed issue of state bonds, i.e. loans performed by the government, and corporate loans, i.e. securities issued by corporations to attract investments, Euros account for about 40% of the new issues. This is considerably higher than the Euro's role in international payments and hard currency reserves.

How to Manage the State Property?
"Ekonomika Rossiyi. 21 vek" No 1(6), March 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction of the State Duma of the Russian Federation:

In general state property is governed by the Presidential Administration. Therefore, no one knows how much property we have today, who owns it, who receives incomesfrom this property, which share of the property is governed by the Presidential Administration and which is owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; which part is under the jurisdiction of the Government and which is under the Defence Ministry. In other words, management of the state property is organised in such a way, that there is no clarity at all.

YABLOKO party to submit to the President of the Russian Federation its concept of support for small businesses
Alians Media, March 7, 2002
Next week the YABLOKO party will submit to the President of the Russian Federation its concept of support for the small business sector, noted Deputy of the State Duma Igor Artemyev during a press conference on March 3, 2002. According to Artemyev, the meeting of the expert council of the party last week developed the concept.

Igor Artemyev compensates for dollars lost on oil deals with a single tax on concessions
Valery Leonov, Commersant, March 1, 2002
Yesterday in the Interfax office Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee for Credit Institutions and Financial Markets, Igor Artemyev, tried to answer the question "How can we compensate for dollars lost after the fall in oil prices?".

Duma to Change the Status of the Speaker
Viktor Khamrayev, Vremya Novostei, March 21, 2002
Gennadi Seleznyov was stripped of his voting rights in the Duma yesterday and may soon lose his post as speaker: that was how the majority of Duma members interpreted Unity's move. As a curtain-raiser, the speaker only lost his casting vote in the Duma Council. Afterwards the Protocol Committee was instructed to study the feasibility of replacing the speaker of the lower house.

The analysis of the programmes of YABLOKO and the Russian Social Democratic Party
Vladimir Shweitzer, Novoe Vremya, No. 11, March 2002
Expressed in the Democratic Manifesto, YABLOKO's "Europeanism" stipulates the establishment of a state of general prosperity that is "approximate in parameters with European standards". It sets a strategic task as well - "accession as a fully-fledged member to the European Union and other political, economic, and defence organizations of Europe." A special part of YABLOKO's program is entitled Russia's European Way.

"Russia and the United States: New Challenges, New Strategies"
Grigory Yavlinsky, Member, Russian State Duma; Co-Founder and Chairman, Yabloko Party and Duma Faction
February 6, 2002
Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project

Council of Europe - The Main European Human Rights Institution
Speech of Alexander Shishlov
at The 5th International Conference on Human Rights organised by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Manila. December 5, 2001
MOSCOW (AP) - Four organizers of a demonstration against a journalist's Hon. Chair, distinguished colleagues, First I would like to thank the FES for this opportunity to address such a representative audience and share my experience in the Regional European Human Rights Institution - Council of Europe.

The Yabloko faction will not support the draft law “On Mandatory Liability Insurance of Car Owners”
RIA "OREANDA", March 13, 2002
Moscow. The Yabloko faction of the State Duma will not support the draft law “On Mandatory Liability Insurance of Car Owners” at the review of the draft in the second reading on March 13, 2002. ...

Russia Outlook: Will Russia Seize the Opportunity?
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting 2002
Synopsis of the speech by Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the Russian Duma and Leader of the Yabloko Movement, expressed some pessimism about Russia's short-term economic prospects...

How Will Europe Look Next Year?
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting 2001
Synopsis of the speech by Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the Russian Duma and Leader of the Yabloko Movement, expressed some pessimism about Russia's short-term economic In his remarks, Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the State Duma; Leader, Yabloko Movement, Russian Federation, also referred to Kaliningrad, suggesting that its development and integration into Europe could serve as a model for what might be possible with the rest of Russia.

The Russian and Chinese patients
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting 2000
Synopsis of the speech by Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the State Duma and Head of the Yabloko Movement, stressed the importance of human rights and property rights if Russia is to reverse its downward spiral. There are significant difficulties. How, for example, can a decent tax system be implemented if 82% of economic turnover is by barter? Banking must be made more transparent.

Deputies See Little New in U.S. Report
By Gregory Feifer Staff Writer, The Moscow Times, March 12, 2002
In what would amount to opening a new front in its war on terrorism, the United States is considering sending 100 to 200 U.S. special operations soldiers to Georgia, Legislators said Monday there was nothing essentially new in reports that the United States is preparing military contingency plans to use nuclear weapons in certain tactical situations against at least seven countries, including Russia.

Yabloko to Join Liberal International
NTV.RU, March 4, 2002
The Yabloko faction will soon submit to the State Duma a law on public television. This was announced by the leader of the Yabloko party and its faction in the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky in an interview with the "Geroi Dnya" (Hero of the Day) The Yabloko democratic party will be a fully-fledged member of Liberal International, an international union of liberal-oriented parties...

Political Twins on the World Stage
By Lilia Shevtsova, The Moscow Times, February 28, 2002
Try to solve this puzzle: Two world leaders that are behaving like political twins. Both have chosen security and order as their priorities and have used war to consolidate society. Both prefer to avoid coalition-building and are fascinated by military might. Neither thought much about the highest office in the country beforehand and both were amazed to find themselves ascending to it.

No One is Responsible for the Nation
Elena Volkova. Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, Vremya MN, January 30, 2002
The leader of the Yabloko faction of the State Duma Grigory Yavlinsky shares his opinion with our readers on ten years of reforms in Russia.

U.S. May Send Troops to Georgia
By Gregory Feifer Staff Writer The Moscow Times, February 28, 2002
In what would amount to opening a new front in its war on terrorism, the United States is considering sending 100 to 200 U.S. special operations soldiers to Georgia, adding to the U.S. helicopters and handful of advisers already in Tbilisi to help the Georgian military combat terrorists in the lawless Pankisi Gorge.

Russia Concerned About U.S. Troops
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer, February 27, 2002
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Russia expressed concern Wednesday over U.S. plans to train troops in Georgia to fight rebels allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network. A Georgian defense official said a few American advisers were already in the former Soviet republic.

Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges in Russia
Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges in Russia
Speech by Grigory Yavlinsky
Thursday, January 31, 2002
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, D.C.
...First of all, I want to explain, if we are talking about the new quality, how we in Russia feel about the West's perception of Russia today and over the past 5-10 years. The West does indeed see Russia as a country which can be an ally in security issues: however, we also clearly perceive that the West sees Russia as an ally that must be contained and controlled This is the view on Russia created in the 18th century when Russian forces and the Russian military potential were used to consolidate the security of European countries: at the same time, everybody was keen to contain and control the country...