Yabloko
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Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko"
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| Leader | Emilia Slabunova |
| Founder |
Grigory Yavlinsky Yuri Boldyrev Vladimir Lukin |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism, Pro-Europeanism, Anti-communism, Anti-Putinism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Colours | Green, Red |
| State Duma |
0 / 450
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| Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
12 / 3,980
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| Website | |
| http://www.yabloko.ru/ | |
The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" (Russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко» Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko" (Russian: Я́блоко – "Apple") is a Russian social liberal party founded by Grigory Yavlinsky and currently led by Emilia Slabunova. The party logo consists of a red circle and a green isosceles triangle, suggesting an apple in a constructivist style. According to the information on its website, Yabloko’s party platform stands for a social market economy, fair competition in politics and the economy, for inviolability of private property, and for equal opportunity.
The party dates back to early 1990s. The immediate predecessor of the Yabloko party was the electoral cartel Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin, formed for the legislative elections of 1993. "Yabloko" is an acronym of the names of its founders: "Я" (Ya) for Grigory Yavlinsky; "Б" (B) for Yuri Boldyrev, and "Л" (L) for Vladimir Lukin, the name meaning "apple" in Russian. The party stands for free markets and civil liberties in Russia, better relations with the United States and membership in the European Union. The party opposed president Boris Yeltsin's and his prime ministers' policies, earning the reputation of a determined opposition movement that nevertheless was devoted to democratic reforms (in contrast, most of the opposition was communist or liberal democratic at that time). Similarly, it has continued to oppose Vladimir Putin for what they see as his increasing authoritarianism and has called for the removal of his government "by constitutional means."
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