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Sergei
Mitrokhin and Barak Obama discussed the Russian ABM
system
Press Release, July 7, 2009
“I am currently reconsidering the issue of ABM deployment
in Europe. I can not rule out joint actions with Russia
in this field. But that will be another security architecture,”
that’s how US President reacted on the proposal of
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin to abolish plans
of unilateral deployment of ABM systems in Europe
and consider organisation of a joint Russian-American
ABM system.
YABLOKOs
leader proposes a joint Russia-US BMD project at the
meeting with Barak Obama
Press Release, July 7, 2009
Strategic partnership and a joint Russia-US BMD system
were the key points of Sergei Mitrokhin’s speech at
the meeting with US President Barak Obama which took
place in Moscow today, on July 7.
Speaking about the possibilities of implementation
of the strategic partnership idea Sergei Mitrokhin
noted that “today we have a favourable moment for
supporting the idea with real actions”.
From
a joint ABM system to strategic partnership
Press Release, July 7, 2009
Supporting declarations of strategic partnership by
definite actions and improvement of understanding
of each other represent the urgent tasks of Russia-US
relations from the point of view of the YABLOKO party.
Such statements are made in the document handed by
Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO’s leader, to President of
the USA Barak Obama during their meeting on July 7.
Position
on Some Important Strategic Issues of Russian-American
Relations
Moscow, July 7, 2009
Certainly, there are prerequisites for full-scale
cooperation, as both Russia and the USA largely belong
to the European culture and civilization. The tragedies
of the 20-th century have split our world, however,
the policies of the 21st century have to bring it
together again on the basis of shared values. This
requires much effort, but the result is worth it.
The good will of our society (rather than a history’s
whim or a blind chance) made possible the deconstruction
the totalitarian system. This fact demonstrates that
freedom and democracy are as important for the Russian
citizens, as for the Americans. Whatever complicated
situations we have to face in the future, it should
be borne in mind that Russians are the people capable
of understanding Americans. The main thing which the
US President can do here is to try to understand Russia
and its people.
SERGEI
MITROKHIN’S SPEECH AT THE MEETING WITH US PRESIDENT
BARAK OBAMA Key Notes
Moscow, July 7, 2009
Discussion of strategic partnership
between our countries has been held for a long time,
however, little has been done for realization of this
goal. Today we have a favourable moment for
filling the idea with real actions. Cooperation in
solution of international and global problems in many
fields is on the agenda now. We think that such cooperation
could become a real alternative to the neoimperialist
projects and approaches that are today “en vogue”
with the Russian political and military elite.
Vladimir
Lukin advocates development by Russia of an Euro-Atlantic
integration policy
Press Release, May 30, 2002
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma from the Yabloko
faction Vladimir Lukin, thinks that the recent summit
meetings between Russia and the USA, NATO and the
European Union represent a "step forward rather
than a breakthrough."
Grigory
Yavlinsky: implementation of the agreements between
the US and the RF presidents will open doors to Europe
for Russia
Press Release, May 28, 2002
The leader of the Yabloko faction of
the State Duma of the RF Grigory Yavlinsky thinks
that the agreements reached during the Moscow summit
of the US and the RF presidents "will open doors
to Europe" for Russia.
Grigory
Yavlinsky stresses the importance of the Russian-American
agreements signed in Moscow
Press Release, May 16, 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky,
leader of the Yabloko faction of the State Duma of
the Russian Federation, thinks that the fact that
agreements signed during the Moscow summit of presidents
of the RF and the USA Vladimir Putin and George Bush
are subject to mandatory implementation represents
"a victory of the Russian diplomacy".
Grigory
Yavlinsky expresses his concern with the criticism
by the Russian "military-and-political bureaucracy"
of President Putin's foreign policy
Press Release, April 24, 2002
The leader of the Russian Democratic
Party YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky thinks that pressures
on President Putin's foreign policy imposed by certain
political and bureaucratic forces aimed ensuring changes
to the present course have increased recently. |
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Grigory
Yavlinsky, "It’s good that Barak Obama and Dmitry
Medvedev have begun talking, however, I don’t think
that they can reach any special agreements here”
Inopressa.ru after ABC.es, July 6, 2009
ABC.es, Spain, published an interview with economist
and member of the liberal Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky.
Cooperation
With U.S. Called Key to Fighting Terror
By Simon Saradzhyan, The Moscow Times, April 23, 2004
Russia and the United States need to institutionalize
their efforts to disrupt agents of international terrorism
and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction before
they link up to carry out attacks of catastrophic
proportions, top security analysts from both countries
said Thursday.
Vladimir
Lukin: A merger between Russian and foreign companies
during Russia's integration into the world economy
is inevitable
FMBusiness, October 20, 2003
"When a new partner appears the world arena,
problems always occur: there is always some inferiority
complex, there are always problems with existing market
proportions, money flows and the system of current
personal relations - this problem should somehow be
transformed and changed. I think this is just a matter
of time," said Lukin.
"The
Defeat of the USA is Our Defeat."
By Kseniya Veretennikova, Vremya Novostei, September
25, 2003
According to Yavlinsky, the defeat of the coalition
troops in Iraq would mean Russia's defeat, as it would
incite terrorism and extremism on a global level.
Patching
Things Up at Putin's Picnic
By Grigory Yavlinsky, The Moscow Times, June 6, 2003.
The top-level meetings held in St. Petersburg last
weekend produced positive results for Russia, Europe
and the entire world.
Potemkin
Democracy
Editorial, Washington Post, May 30, 2003
But while Russia is a far more open society than it
used to be, many of the media are still controlled,
the judicial system is still corrupt and opponents
of the president find it ever harder to maneuver.
If the administration believes this is full democracy,
then it has been fooled by a barely plausible facade.
Russia,
U.S. Remain Divided, Despite Healing of War Rifts
By Gregory L. White, Wall Street Journal, May 28,
2003
But as the two presidents meet in St. Petersburg this
weekend for the first time since the war, there's
still little sign they will be able to get the strategic
partnership, stalled by the war, back into high gear
soon.
Liberal
Leader Expresses Satisfaction With U.S.-Russia Summit
Results
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, May 25, 2003
Yabloko faction leader Grigorii
Yavlinsky told RFE/RL's Russian Service on 25
May that he considers the declaration on Russian-American
strategic cooperation signed last week by Presidents
George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin an even bigger achievement
than the new strategic-arms reduction treaty that
they also signed.
For
Russia, Cold War Relic Becomes a Game of Chicken
By Jeanne Cummings, Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2003
When President Bush heads to Russia for a fence-mending
trip this week, he won't be carrying with him one
thing President Vladimir Putin badly wants: freedom
from the so-called Jackson-Vanik rule, a Cold War
relic that ties U.S. trade relations to the former
Soviet state's treatment of Jews.
A
Nuclear Bomb in Stars and Stripes. Deputies Ordered
to reduce them
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Marina Ozerova, Moskovskiy
Komsomolets, May 15, 2003
Yesterday the State Duma ratified the Treaty on the
Reduction of Offensive Potential, which was signed
a year ago by Presidents Putin and Bush.
Analysts
Warn Against Knee-Jerk Anti-Americanism
By Sarah Karush, The Associated Press, April 17, 2003
Moscow was right to oppose Washington over Iraq, but
Russian leaders must be cautious not to fall into
Soviet-style, knee-jerk anti-Americanism that might
not always serve the country's interests, leading
politicians and experts said Wednesday.
Vladimir
Lukin: "Don Rumata is Doomed…" Literary
and psychological analysis of the Iraqi crisis
Interview with Vladimir
Lukin by Alexander Nikonov, Ogonyok, No 13, April
2003
...The regime is bad and no one will argue with that
statement: however, from the viewpoint of international
law, this does not give anybody the right to bring
troops there...
The
War against Terrorism and the Transformation of the
World Order, three perpesctives
By Alexei G. Arbatov, CEPS Commentary, November 2001
...two months later after the "Black September",
the weaknesses of the coalition and deficiencies of
the operation are becoming more and more evident,
as well as the confusion and inconsistency of the
United States and other major players in adopting
a new security strategy and still less in implementing
it... (Archive)
Top
Russian MPs advocate early ratification of the US
arms reduction treaty
ITAR-TASS, April 8, 2003
There is no point in delaying ratification of the
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty [SORT], also
known as the Moscow Treaty between Russia and the
United States, irrespective of developments in Iraq,
according to prominent members of the State Duma,
or the lower house of Russian parliament.
Russia-U.S.
ties strained by war
By Anthony Louis, UPI, April 2, 2003
MOSCOW, April 2 (UPI) -- Russia-U.S. ties were further
strained by the war in Iraq Wednesday when the Russian
Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Alexander
Vershbow to protest the continued bombing of an area
of Baghdad, this time near the Russian Embassy.
War
Shows Fragility Of U.S.-Russia Links
By ALAN CULLISION and JEANNE WHALEN, Wall Street Journal,
April 1, 2003
"Even during the Cold War, when Moscow and Washington
hated each other, "ordinary people" really
liked Americans. Now, the sincere feeling on the street
... is taking on a bright anti-American character."
says Alexei
Arbatov
Putin,
Bush ties expected to survive
By Alice Lagnado, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 1, 2003
"The war in Iraq will not be the transition to
a cold war between Russia and the USA, nor will it
ruin the Russian-American strategic relations. This
is not in our interests..."
Russian
liberal politician concerned by attacks on Putin's
foreign policy views
Interfax, April 24, 2002
Moscow, 24 April: The leader of the Russian liberal
party Yabloko, Grigoriy Yavlinsky, expressed his convern
that the foreign policy pursued by President Vladimir
Putin has been under pressure from certain circles
in the political and bureaucratic establishment aimed
at revising this policy.
NEW
RELATIONSHIP
pbs.org, May 22, 2002
"SIMON MARKS: In Moscow this week,
the hottest ticket in town is not for Friday's state
dinner at the Kremlin with President Bush, it's for
"Star Wars. " The new American blockbuster opened
here this past weekend, and is playing on every big
screen in the city. 11 years after the fall of the
Soviet Union, Russian moviegoers are much like moviegoers
everywhere else, captivated by Hollywood and the U.S.
entertainment industry. But stop some of them after
the show, and you'll find that many distinguish between
U.S. fiction and their perceptions of fact."
A
Forum Argues Over Russia's Place
By Gregory Feifer, The Moscow
Times, May. 31, 2002
Experts gathering Thursday on the heels
of three major international summits said the West's
leading policymaking institutions must include Russia
in a broad strategic framework if they want to successfully
tackle the top global priority: terrorism. Despite
that general consensus, there was stark disagreement
on specifics at the two-day conference on Euro-Atlantic
integration, organized by the Washington-based Euro-Atlantic
Institute of International Integration Studies.
Nunn
and Lugar Look To Safeguard Weapons
By Vladimir Isachenkov, The
Associated Press, May 28, 2002.
Worried about the apocalyptic prospect
of international terrorists obtaining nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons, U.S. and Russian officials
and analysts met Monday to help draft possible new
safeguards. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and Richard
Lugar, a U.S. senator from Indiana -- who together
launched the decade-old U.S. effort to help contain
the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the former
Soviet Union -- described the threat of "catastrophic
terrorism" as possibly the gravest challenge
to global security.
Putin's
wager
By Robert Cottrell, The Financial
Times, May 21 2002
Russia and the US will be doing everything
possible to ensure that the May 23-26 summit between
George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin looks good and sounds
good. On the Russian side this will be a relatively
easy task, since the government controls the national
television channels from which the great majority
of Russians will get their information about the meetings
in Moscow and St Petersburg.
The
Door to Europe is in Washington
Grigory Yavlinsky Obschaya
Gazeta, May 16, 2002
After September 11, 200, Russia's foreign
policy abruptly changed. Despite the policy carried
out in summer 2001, symbolised by Kim Chen Ir's travel
by armoured train across Russia, despite the opinion
of the so-called political elite, Vladimir Putin unreservedly
supported the USA in their fight against Ben Laden's
terrorists and the Taliban.
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