Grigory Yavlinsky: The ceasefire is now talking about the ceasefire in Moscow, and in Kyiv, and in Washington, and in Brussels. But everyone understands this in their own way Photo: Alexander Lieutenko / TASS This text will be released in the first issue of New Review magazine. For the first time, we spoke on February 24, 2022, a few hours after the beginning of the start of the start of February. The appeal was addressed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Grigory Yavlinsky: “Now the highest justice is to stop taking the lives of innocent people. Everything else comes later." Photo: Valery Melnikov / Kommersant What's happening? The Russian army is advancing in Donbass. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their operation in the Kursk region. Russia launches missile attacks on Kharkov, Poltava and Lvov... Ukraine shells Donetsk and Belgorod... Russian missiles destroy energy infrastructure on Ukrainian territory.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

In the studio, the presenters are the writer Anastasia Gosteva, politician Grigory Yavlinsky and actor Sergei Yursky - about the life of the country from the point of view of people of different generations. For the first time on the air of January 31, 2004.

There is only one option when you can do without new colossal victims Grigory Yavlinsky. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta"

There is only one option when you can do without new colossal victims Grigory Yavlinsky. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" When the large -scale military operations of Russia in Ukraine were already impending absolutely obviously, what Putin himself now called the war, many in the Russian elites and opposition media did not believe this for a long time in the real opportunity. In 2021, when everything seemed to be clear, they did not believe.

He gave us freedom, and we did not manage to use it. Essay Grigory Yavlinsky (fragment) Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo: Gorbachev-Fund Was the last Secretary General when making fateful decisions a certain strategy or momentary considerations? How consciously and thoughtfully did he act? Most likely, Mikhail Sergeyevich simply did not imply such a rapid development of events, such a decisive rejection of the Soviet system.

He gave us freedom, and we did not manage to use it. Essay Grigory Yavlinsky Photo: "Gorbachev-Fund" “But how can we be with the eras of the decline, when the time of development and flowering passed and the place of disappeared devotion and faith took the false phraseology, when the celebrations replaced magnificent performances, and the principle of trust in power turned into stupid indifference or Machiavellism? Alas!

He gave us freedom, and we did not manage to use it. Essay Grigory Yavlinsky (fragment) Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo: Gorbachev-Fund Was the last Secretary General when making fateful decisions a certain strategy or momentary considerations? How consciously and thoughtfully did he act? Most likely, Mikhail Sergeyevich simply did not imply such a rapid development of events, such a decisive rejection of the Soviet system.

On the need to create a public commission that controls the use of digital technologies by the state Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / TASS In the fall of 2013, as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, I submitted a bill to the city parliament, which provided for amendments to the Federal Law “On Police”.

Putin's amendments - outlawed. This means that we all have to do politics Vladimir Putin at a plenary meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (March 10, 2020). Photo: Alexey Nikolsky / RIA Novosti The Kremlin’s special operation in relation to the Constitution reached, apparently, to the finish line.

It is necessary that the amendments are developed by those who live here The package of presidential amendments to the Constitution can be crushed by different points of view - it is unclear, internally contradictory, has nothing to do with the provision of civil freedoms, the separation of powers, the security and well -being of Russians.

Putin system: adjust or change? Article Grigory Yavlinsky Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" A little more than 20 thousand people gathered for the last from a series of protests in Moscow (and an hour after the start of the rally, according to the “white meter”, the flow of the departing was much more intensively more than the incoming flow). As early as August 10, more than 50 thousand people came to the same Academician Sakharov Avenue Academician Sakharov.

Grigory Yavlinsky-to the 20th anniversary of the reign of Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin in 1999. Photo: TASS In August 1999, the young director of the FSB Vladimir Putin was appointed chairman of the Russian government. By the end of the same year after early departure from his post, the first president of the country Boris Yeltsin, he began to fulfill his duties.

Participate in politics here and now. Software article by Grigory Yavlinsky Photo: press service "Yabloko" What will happen? Problems in Russia grow like a snowball. The Putin system has unchanged approaches to the economy, to foreign policy, in relation to domestic subjects - regional and professional elites. Life is changing, threats are changing, but politics - no.