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[22.06.2010]
Press Release. June 20, 2010
Renown Russian politician and economist, one of the founders of the YABLOKO party and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee Dr.Grigory Yavlinsky will visit Kirov on June 24... подробнее
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[02.06.2010]
Special for YABLOKO's web-site by Robert Woodthorpe Browne. May 25, 2010
For many years, the United Kingdom’s Press has believed that there is a two party system of government and have paid little attention to the smaller parties – Greens, Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom Independence Party (anti-European Union), the British National Party (fascist thugs) and the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists.
In 1951 this might have been justified as the Conservatives and Labour shared 95% of the vote. By 2005 and 2010, the combined figure had dropped to 65%, but still the Press did not learn. One could understand the papers which are owned by right wing oligarchs living outside the country, or those few which are slavishly Labour, but the BBC, which prides itself on its independence, was little better.
Also, the UK has a first-past-the –post electoral system which makes it very difficult for smaller parties to get into Parliament, especially the Liberal Democrats whose support is spread quite evenly throughout the Country. In 2005 with 23% of the vote they received 9% of the seats... подробнее |
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[29.05.2010]
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam
Yavlinsky: ... But 75% of people do not have any prospects under this system. Absolutely no prospects. Neither from the point of view of skilled labour, nor in terms of education or quality of life, or anything else. This system does not offer anything. Secondly, the system creates a very peculiar middle class, which different developed countries do not have. Even in the Soviet Union, which was considered a developed country, however, it fell under the second category of such countries, what people could belong to the middle class? They were teachers, doctors, engineers, military officers, as you all well know. And in the West this category of people also includes entrepreneurs, businessmen and employees of the financial sector. And we at present have a very different middle class, here the middle class includes all who provide services in the field of redistribution of income from the raw exports... подробнее |
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[26.04.2010]
Press Release. April 26, 2010
The key issues on the agenda of discussions between YABLOKO members Grigory Yavlinsky and Alexander Shishlov meetings and PACE politicians are the reforms in PACE and the Council of Europe and drawing public attention to the Babayev case (leader of the Dagestan YABLOKO and candidate to the State Duma Farid Babayev was murdered in 2007, the trial has been still going on)... подробнее |
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[26.04.2010]
Transcript Parts 1-3
Yavlinsky: As you know, there are great difficulties today in presenting the party programme, its aims and goals, the attitude of the party to the present developments and the policies that should be held in the opinion of the party, in such a scope so that most of the citizens of our country could hear us and assess it. This is not news, and everyone in Russia knows that. Different parties are in different positions in Russia. There are parties that have a monopoly both to the access to mass media, presentation of their position and participation in public life. And we think that one of reasons [behind our failure at the past elections] is that we do not always have a possibility to openly, fully, clearly and consistently inform our electorate of what I have just said.
Pozner: This reminds me of Orwell’s Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Yavlinsky: Exactly. We have a fine absolutely equal party, and everyone knows it, and this party is holding a dominating place. However, monopolism in the political sphere leads to very sad consequences. подробнее |
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[23.04.2010]
On April 26-27 Grigory Yavlinsky will have a number of meetings in PACE.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s schedule includes meetings with Mr Thorbjшrn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Melvut Зavusoglu, President of the PACE, rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee on Russia, Mr Andreas Gross and Mr Gyorgy Frunda, Mr Dick Marty and rapporteur on the North Caucasus, as well as a speech at the meeting of the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
The Spring session of PACE will take place in Strasburg on April 26-30 and will be devoted to the consequences of the economic crisis, the war between Georgia and Russia and other issues.
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[06.04.2010 - Коммерсант]
By Maria-Louisa Tirmaste. Kommersant, April 6, 2010
Grigory Yavlinsky, co-chair of the Council of ZaModernozatsiyu.Ru and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, stated that that "discussing enforced modernisation would be a waste of time and effort”. "History shows us that a totalitarian regime can transform an
agrarian state into industrial, however an industrial state can not be transformed into a post-industrial in such a way." “We have a country of total literacy, however why should we seriously discuss Skolkovo (Kommersant: creation of the Russian Silicon Valley there),” Yavlinsky said. “This is like growing corn which we all witnessed once (Mr.Yavlinsky is speaking here about countrywide cultivation of corn initiated by Secretary General of the Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev in early 1960s)! The same thing has been happening with nanotechnologies. Why should we discuss this on a national level?!” подробнее |
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