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Grigory Yavlinsky: Against Stalinism and the Legacy of the 1990s

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Veteran Russian politician Grigory Yavlinsky, 65, is running in this year's presidential election as the candidate from the social-liberal party Yabloko.

Grigory Yavlinsky first appeared on the Russian political stage in the early 1990s as an advocate for market reforms in what was then the Soviet Union. Following the Soviet breakup, the politician co-founded Yabloko ('Apple'). This is the candidate's fourth time running for president.

Critical of what he has called "hidden Stalinism" as well as "wild capitalism bordering on feudalism," Yavlinsky proposes reforming Russia's economic system to ensure greater respect for private property by the state. At the same time, he supports measures designed to limit the concentration of wealth, and to keep private economic actors and the business community apace with any state plans in the economic sphere. With a platform which concentrates heavily on economic policy, Yavlinsky's main stated campaign promise is to turn Russia into Europe's strongest economy.

In foreign policy, Yavlinsky's program calls for improving relations with the former Soviet countries, and with the West, through a program of gradually aligning Moscow's policies with those of Europe. Yavlinsky has spoken out in favor of another referendum in Crimea, along with discussions with Ukraine and at the UN to determine the peninsula's status.

© Sputnik / Vladimir Pesnya / Go to the mediabankYabloko Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky casts his ballot at a polling station in Moscow during the 2011 parliamentary election.
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Yabloko Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky casts his ballot at a polling station in Moscow during the 2011 parliamentary election.
© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov / Go to the mediabankGrigory Yavlinsky at Yabloko's congress during the nomination of the party's candidate for the 2018 presidential campaign.
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Grigory Yavlinsky at Yabloko's congress during the nomination of the party's candidate for the 2018 presidential campaign.
© Sputnik / V. Chistiakov / Go to the mediabankRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic people's deputy and Council of Ministers deputy chairman Grigory Yanvlinsky during a speech, 1990.
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic people's deputy and Council of Ministers deputy chairman Grigory Yanvlinsky during a speech, 1990.
© Sputnik / A. Varfolomeev / Go to the mediabankGrigory Yavlinsky at a rally in St. Petersburg against the Russian military operation in Chechnya, 1995.
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Grigory Yavlinsky at a rally in St. Petersburg against the Russian military operation in Chechnya, 1995.
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov / Go to the mediabankRussian Central Election Commission chairwoman Ella Pamfilova presenting Yavlinsky with a certificate recognizing him as an official candidate in the 2018 election.
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Russian Central Election Commission chairwoman Ella Pamfilova presenting Yavlinsky with a certificate recognizing him as an official candidate in the 2018 election.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Fomichev / Go to the mediabankGrigory Yavlinsky at the 'Green Forum' in 2007. In the background is Yabloko's mascot, which is appropriately a giant apple.
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Grigory Yavlinsky at the 'Green Forum' in 2007. In the background is Yabloko's mascot, which is appropriately a giant apple.
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov / Go to the mediabankYabloko Party presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky at the Central Election Commission building in Moscow.
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Yabloko Party presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky at the Central Election Commission building in Moscow.
© Photo : Eugeny Kurskov/Official site of Grigory YavlinskyYavlinsky during a visit to the Sheremetyevsky animal shelter outside Moscow.
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Yavlinsky during a visit to the Sheremetyevsky animal shelter outside Moscow.
© Sputnik / Ruslan Krivobok / Go to the mediabankYabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky speaks at the party's 16th congress outside Moscow, 2011.
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Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky speaks at the party's 16th congress outside Moscow, 2011.
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov / Go to the mediabankYavlinsky during his registration as a candidate for the 2018 presidential election.
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Yavlinsky during his registration as a candidate for the 2018 presidential election.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankYabloko party leader and Duma lawmaker Grigory Yavlinsky (center) at the premiere of Russian director Nikita Mikhailkov's film 'The Barber of Siberia' in the Kremlin Palace, 1999.
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Yabloko party leader and Duma lawmaker Grigory Yavlinsky (center) at the premiere of Russian director Nikita Mikhailkov's film 'The Barber of Siberia' in the Kremlin Palace, 1999.
© Photo : Eugeny Kurskov/Official site of Grigory YavlinskyYavlinsky posing next to the Russian city of Perm's 'Happiness is Not Far Off' sign on the bank of the Kama River.
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Yavlinsky posing next to the Russian city of Perm's 'Happiness is Not Far Off' sign on the bank of the Kama River.
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