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Topic: Grigory Yavlinsky


In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Grigory Yavlinsky (2004) - Prize For Freedom - Politics - Liberal International
Yavlinsky was a presidential candidate in the 1996 presidential election, coming in fourth, and in the 2000 presidential election, coming in third.
Grigory Yavlinsky was born on 10 April 1952 in the Ukrainian city of Lvov where his father ran an orphanage and his mother taught at the local forestry school.
Yavlinsky held a number of research and managerial positions in the Institute of Coal Industry and Management, the Russian Institute of Labour, and the USSR State Committee for Labour and Social Issues, before entering politics.
www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=691   (514 words)

  
 No. 91-P 48 (Attachment)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky is working on with Harvard faculty members as the sign of a major change of course by the Soviet leader.
Yavlinsky is in favor of a single plan to get all the republics out of the crisis, assigning to the center an exceptionally important role in economic and political reform.
Yavlinsky is agreeing to the freezing of political reform, evidently allowing the development of the Soviet Union within the "Chinese model." Possibly Mr.
www.security-policy.org /papers/1991/91-P48at1.html   (1181 words)

  
 Grigory Yavlinsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky was born on April 10, 1952, in the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov, into a family of a Russian army officer and a chemistry lecturer.
Yavlinsky's main intention has been to prove that the prospects of Russia's development are not limited to the sole dilemma, the reforms of Gaidar or the restoration of communism, and that there could and should be an alternative to the current government's line.
Yavlinsky told Interfax on 4 December that he intended to use a strong showing in the Duma elections as "a springboard to win the presidential ones." He expected only three forces to emerge from the Duma elections: the present government, the Communists, and himself as the only viable democratic alternative.
www.cs.indiana.edu /hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/gybio.html   (2506 words)

  
 Commanding Heights : Grigory Yavlinsky | on PBS
Grigory Yavlinsky is a leader of Russia's liberal opposition party Yabloko and an author of one of the first programs for Russia's transition to the market.
GRIGORY YAVLINSKY: The general message of this book was that the reason it was very possible for a big crisis in the Soviet economy was because the Soviet economy at the beginning of the '80s was between two chairs.
GRIGORY YAVLINSKY: My vision was that I hoped to do in year and a half -- that's 500 days -- as much as possible to make a transition from the Soviet economy to the market economy, using the system which existed at that time.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_grigoriiyavlinsky.html   (5162 words)

  
 BCSIA - Publication - Assessing Russian Democracy (event summary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Mr Yavlinsky began by thanking the Belfer Center for the invitation and said that the main topic of his talk will be to explore the progress of Russian Democratization.
Yavlinsky said that the situation with the press in today''s Russia is certainly not comparable to the situation in the Soviet Union.
Yavlinsky this ability to manipulate and control is actually one of the main results of the last 10 years: it is not hard to manipulate the choice of the Russian public.
bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu /publication.cfm?program=CORE&ctype=event_reports&item_id=20   (974 words)

  
 JRL 1-31-02 - Russia, Domestic and Foreign Policy, Yabloko, Yavlinksy Remarks at Carnegie Endowment for International ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Grigory Yavlinsky was elected to the Russian Duma in 1993 and was one of the founders of the Yabloko faction.
Yavlinsky began his remarks looking back six months to the summer of 2001, describing it as a time when there appeared to be no hope for liberal democrats or pro-Western forces in Russia.
Yavlinsky stated that the situation for independent media was the worst it has been since 1991, and that this was a deep problem for Russia.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/6049-3.cfm   (1098 words)

  
 Information: Yavlinsky Grigory Alekseevich
In January 1991 Yavlinsky was appointed as economic adviser of the chairman of the Russian Council of ministers.
In August,28 1991 Yavlinsky became the deputy of Ivan Silayev - chairman of the Committee responcible for the USSR national economy and for economic reforms.
On June,22 1922 Yavlinsky, as well as, Sergey Stankevich, Eugeny Ambartsumov, Arckady Volsky and Sergey Yushenkov, became a member of the established Public Council on foreign and defence policy.
www.nns.ru /e-elects/e-persons/yavlin.html   (843 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Yavlinsky ready to join the government
After the president openly sided with Yavlinsky, and at the same time pointedly distanced himself from Yavlinsky’s liberal rival Boris Nemtsov, the sudden change of heart by the Yabloko leadership in its relations with the Kremlin is not altogether surprising.
Grigory Yavlinsky left the most sensational part of his speech until last, stating: ''We are ready for it – to join the government, not the government joining Yabloko.
Yavlinsky’s words could be perceived as a veiled acceptance of Putin’s earlier proposal to the Yabloko leader to become the head of the State Construction Committee, which Yavlinsky politely refused.
www.gazeta.ru /2002/12/23/Yavlinskyrea.shtml   (1119 words)

  
 Dr Grigory Alexeevich Yavlinsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Grigory Yavlinsky was born on April 10, 1962 in Lvov, Ukraine and is the son of an officer.
Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, thinks that the president's plan to take control of regional gubernatorial elections is "anticonstitutional".
Yavlinsky said that a distribution, where 62% of the funds remain with the federal center, while the regions obtain only 38% of the funds is unjust.
www.eng.yabloko.ru /People/YAVL/Yavl.html   (5768 words)

  
 Meet Putin's Opposition - Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Grigory Yavlinsky has been recently described as the "last liberal economist left standing in Russia." As founder of Yabloko, Russia's leading democratic political party, Mr.
Yavlinsky has served as a figurehead for pro-Western factions in Moscow and has been a leading voice for reform over the last decade.
Grigory Yavlinsky: First of all, it is difficult to make such a prediction nowadays because the events that are happening are very unusual if you look at them through the eyes of the previous century.
www.hpronline.org /media/paper450/news/2002/04/01/Interviews/Meet-Putins.Opposition-219071.shtml   (1070 words)

  
 Surprising Russian Stir on Unsurprising Issue: Corruption
The accuser is Grigory Yavlinsky, a respected if ideological reformer and legislator who was the first politician to tout Yevgeny Primakov for the post of prime minister last month.
Yavlinsky is one of them, and there was speculation that he was campaigning against corruption to set himself apart from the pack.
Yavlinsky has said he still supports Primakov, who draws support from both Communists and liberal reformers, as the best choice to unite Russia in a time of turmoil.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/110398russia-politics.html   (860 words)

  
 NCSJ - Rivalry Fragments Russia's Liberals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky blames the Union of Right Forces for helping what he calls the criminal concentration of the nation's wealth in the hands of the business leaders known as "oligarchs." Both Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais, co-founder of the Union of Right Forces, helped steer the transition to capitalism under Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.
Yavlinsky, he claimed, is sidling up to the Kremlin instead of uniting with other liberals.
Nemtsov says Yavlinsky is seeking the Kremlin's favor so he won't be banned from the state-controlled broadcast networks or face another Kremlin-sponsored campaign against his party in the upcoming elections.
www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/020703WPost.shtml   (1163 words)

  
 Demokratizatsiya: Putin Represents an Imperial Course for Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
INTERVIEW WITH GRIGORY A. A leading democratic figure in Russia, Grigory A. Yavlinsky is the cofounder and chairman of Yabloko, a liberal party.
Yavlinsky is an economist who became widely known in 1990 when he co-authored the radical "500 Days" economic program with Stanislav Shatalin that was eventually rejected by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Yavlinsky: The answer is a kind of state ideology, a kind of derzhavnaya ideologia [ideology of great power], an imperial ideology.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200401/ai_n9358355   (1457 words)

  
 JRL 3-23-02 - Russia, United States, Political Reforms, Yabloko, Yavlinsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
It is my great honor and pleasure to welcome back to Harvard Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Russian Democratic Party, Yabloko, a Russian presidential candidate, and one of the great political leaders in the Russian democratization process over the past decade.
Ten years ago, literally last spring, Grigory Yavlinsky, who was a young Russian political leader, came to Harvard, bringing with him seven or eight members of his EPICenter, which was a research group in Moscow, to work with a group that I organized and he and I co-chaired.
Grigory has already covered many questions that people might otherwise have asked, and he has raised so many issues that if we ask all the questions, we would be here all night.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6151-2.cfm   (7757 words)

  
 Yavlinsky calls for holding peace conference on Chechnya :. News :. THE CHECHEN TIMES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky calls for holding peace conference on Chechnya :.
Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky has put forward the initiative to hold a peace conference on Chechnya to settle the situation in the republic.
Asked who can be regarded as a war criminal, Yavlinsky replied that an international commission should be put together before a peace conference to resolve this issue.
www.chechentimes.org /en/news?id=8634   (207 words)

  
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Grigory Yavlinsky is the leader of the centrist Yabloko bloc of the Russian parliament, made up of various small political parties.
Yavlinsky, a critic of Boris Yeltsin's policies, waged an unsuccesfull campaign for the presidency in 1996.
Yavlinsky served as an economist in the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. in 1990 and as deputy director of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation in 1991.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/keyplayers.htm   (2030 words)

  
 Russian Yabloko Leader Yavlinsky May Become Ukraine PM — Report - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal-oriented Yabloko party and harsh critic of the Kremlin, may become the new prime minister of Ukraine, Russian newspaper Russky Kurier reported Tuesday.
Rumors were fuelled by reports that Grigory Yavlinsky spent his winter break in his native city of Lviv, in western Ukraine.
Yavlinsky, reportedly, turned down the proposal, believing that he was needed in Russia.
www.mosnews.com /news/2005/01/18/yavlukr.shtml   (615 words)

  
 Governor-allied papers attack Yabloko leader
In an article largely devoted to Yavlinsky, the paper described outsider politicians as "varyags," a word used for medieval foreign rulers of Russia that is now comparable to "carpetbagger" in English.
Yavlinsky aims only at the presidential post in 2000 race, the paper said.
If Yavlinsky did run for governor, it would be the continuation of the Moscow liberals' attempts to unseat Nazdratenko, Novosti said.
vlad.tribnet.com /1999/iss190/text/upd2.html   (484 words)

  
 RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/12/10 :: Yavlinsky Doggedly Promises to Soldier On
A day after waking up to life outside the State Duma, Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky was adamant Tuesday that he would preserve his party and its ideals, however "difficult and unusual" that might be.
Yavlinsky refused to comment on whether the party had made mistakes in its election campaign, saying only that United Russia and other Kremlin-backed parties were "too strong to compete with."
Ivanenko sounded more upbeat on the issue of a merger than Yavlinsky, saying that he was in talks with SPS on Yabloko's behalf.
www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/12/10/currentaffairs01.shtml   (606 words)

  
 Election '96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky was born on April 10th, 1952 in the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov, into a family of a Russian army officer and a chemistry lecturer.
Yavlinsky thus found himself in a position to try to launch his "500 Days" plan, which was the first openly declared economic reform program in Soviet history.
Yavlinsky is usually counted among the proponents of market-oriented economy.
www.forerunner.com /predvestnik/x0005_election_96.html   (1453 words)

  
 RUSSIA REACT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yavlinsky predicted he would edge out Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and force a runoff against Mr.
Yavlinsky's Yabloko Party and other democrats had been quarreling for a long time, and, it says, they all died (politically) on the same day.
Berger says Grigory Yavlinsky signed his political death warrant when he publicly criticized the highly popular war in Chechnya.
www.fas.org /news/russia/2000/000328-rus2.htm   (531 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Grigory Yavlinsky Negotiates With The Terrorists
Russian deputy, Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky is inside the theatre where the terrorists hold theatergoers hostages and negotiates with the attackers.
Yavlinsky’s press-secretary Eugeniya Dillendorf told Interfax, that Yabloko leader left the Russian city of Tomsk for Moscow, where he arrived at about 10:00 p.m.
The Yabloko leader’s press-secretary informed with reference to a conversation with Grigory Yavlinsky that the deputy wanted to make some propositions which might take the strain off the hostage situation.
english.pravda.ru /main/2002/10/25/38634_.html   (142 words)

  
 Yabloko. Publications (in English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
...Yavlinsky will, I believe, be appointed to and accept the position of first deputy prime minister in charge of the economy.
We are told Yavlinsky is arrogant; that he simply can’t get along with the other liberals; that he only knows how to complain, not to take responsibility.
The harsh criticism that Anatoli Chubais, the Chairman of RAO "EC-Rossiya", has expressed about the planned peaceful settlement of the conflict in Chechnya, which was proposed recently by Yabloko's leader Grigory Yavlinsky has provoked an extremely negative reaction from the leadership of the Yabloko association...
www.yabloko.ru /Engl   (558 words)

  
 CNN.com
Yavlinsky, your reaction to the fact that the death toll is so high and that so many of these deaths were caused by the gas.
YAVLINSKY: I think he was right because a lot of links between Chechen rebels and Taliban in Afghanistan, and maybe al Qaeda and the camps was clear even before.
YAVLINSKY: I think, yes, it was a very young people who were absolutely prepared to kill everybody -- means 850 people in the theater.
www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/27/sm.29.html   (686 words)

  
 Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Yabloko leader and former Deputy Grigory Yavlinsky warned in a statement that the proposal is an attempt to restore the Soviet prosecution system of the 1930s that effectively became the legal machine for Stalin's purges.
Yabloko head was nominated for the award by the faction Liberals, Democrats and Reformers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
www.eng.yabloko.ru   (927 words)

  
 Grigory Yavlinsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Grigory Yavlinsky is a liberal Russian politician who placed fourth in June 1996 presidential elections.
Grigory Alekseevich Yavlinsky was born on Apr 10, 1952 in Lvov, and was educated at the Plekhanov Institute of National Economics.
Untainted by any role in the Yeltsin administration, Yavlinsky was acknowledged as the leading democratic candidate for high office in a field otherwise dominated by nationalists and communists.
www.fortunecity.com /boozers/ferret/451/profiles/gyavlins.htm   (382 words)

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