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An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina
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Moscow—On January 26, The Nation’s correspondent Nadezhda Azhgikhina interviewed Grigory Yavlinsky at his Moscow offices. Yavlinsky is a member of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the Yabloko Party, and the chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Moscow. An economist by training, he held a series of high positions during 1990–91 in the governments of the Russian Republic and the USSR. In June 1996, he was a candidate for the presidency of Russia. Azhgikhina is an independent journalist and writer and a frequent contributor to The Nation.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina: What do you find memorable about 2025?
Grigory Yavlinsky: Twenty twenty-five continued the winding down of an era that had lasted for 80 years, starting from 1945. We are at the start of a new era—in which human beings, their rights and freedoms, are ceasing to be the defining factors and often are altogether irrelevant. Disorganization, chaos, and cruelty are expanding while human lives are losing their value and worth.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine goes on, with a huge number of casualties and large-scale wreckage. Thus far, the “summit” in Alaska has not led to any changes. Today’s politicians have no idea how to resolve the situation.
The new “security strategy” of the United States that is taking shape—the Monroe-Donroe Doctrine of sorts—is devoid of human values and humanistic principles. Accordingly, the role of the UN and several other international institutions is being sharply devalued. With his doctrine and strategy, Trump is radically altering the US foreign policy direction of many years and the place of the US in the world. Washington is building relationships only with those it perceives to be strong—that is, with China and Russia. Meanwhile, it has no interest in those who are of average strength or weak—such as Canada, Europe, Venezuela, Cuba, and others. Its message to them is to acclimate to this reality. It effectively rescinds globalization and transnational interests, while proclaiming that might makes right. It is altering the foundations of the post–World War II world that had been the norm and the formative experience for people.
Every ideology that we’ve been accustomed to—liberalism and conservatism, the right and the left—keeps eroding and disintegrating. We are facing political, …
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Grigory Yavlinsky attends a memorial service for Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on September 3, 2022.(Evgenia Novozhenina / POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Moscow—On January 26, The Nation’s correspondent Nadezhda Azhgikhina interviewed Grigory Yavlinsky at his Moscow offices. Yavlinsky is a member of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the Yabloko Party, and the chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Moscow. An economist by training, he held a series of high positions during 1990–91 in the governments of the Russian Republic and the USSR. In June 1996, he was a candidate for the presidency of Russia. Azhgikhina is an independent journalist and writer and a frequent contributor to The Nation.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina: What do you find memorable about 2025?
Grigory Yavlinsky: Twenty twenty-five continued the winding down of an era that had lasted for 80 years, starting from 1945. We are at the start of a new era—in which human beings, their rights and freedoms, are ceasing to be the defining factors and often are altogether irrelevant. Disorganization, chaos, and cruelty are expanding while human lives are losing their value and worth.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine goes on, with a huge number of casualties and large-scale wreckage. Thus far, the “summit” in Alaska has not led to any changes. Today’s politicians have no idea how to resolve the situation.
The new “security strategy” of the United States that is taking shape—the Monroe-Donroe Doctrine of sorts—is devoid of human values and humanistic principles. Accordingly, the role of the UN and several other international institutions is being sharply devalued. With his doctrine and strategy, Trump is radically altering the US foreign policy direction of many years and the place of the US in the world. Washington is building relationships only with those it perceives to be strong—that is, with China and Russia. Meanwhile, it has no interest in those who are of average strength or weak—such as Canada, Europe, Venezuela, Cuba, and others. Its message to them is to acclimate to this reality. It effectively rescinds globalization and transnational interests, while proclaiming that might makes right. It is altering the foundations of the post–World War II world that had been the norm and the formative experience for people.
Every ideology that we’ve been accustomed to—liberalism and conservatism, the right and the left—keeps eroding and disintegrating. We are facing political, …
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Nadezhda Azhgikhina
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Grigory Yavlinsky attends a memorial service for Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on September 3, 2022.(Evgenia Novozhenina / POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Moscow—On January 26, The Nation’s correspondent Nadezhda Azhgikhina interviewed Grigory Yavlinsky at his Moscow offices. Yavlinsky is a member of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the Yabloko Party, and the chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research in Moscow. An economist by training, he held a series of high positions during 1990–91 in the governments of the Russian Republic and the USSR. In June 1996, he was a candidate for the presidency of Russia. Azhgikhina is an independent journalist and writer and a frequent contributor to The Nation.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina: What do you find memorable about 2025?
Grigory Yavlinsky: Twenty twenty-five continued the winding down of an era that had lasted for 80 years, starting from 1945. We are at the start of a new era—in which human beings, their rights and freedoms, are ceasing to be the defining factors and often are altogether irrelevant. Disorganization, chaos, and cruelty are expanding while human lives are losing their value and worth.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine goes on, with a huge number of casualties and large-scale wreckage. Thus far, the “summit” in Alaska has not led to any changes. Today’s politicians have no idea how to resolve the situation.
The new “security strategy” of the United States that is taking shape—the Monroe-Donroe Doctrine of sorts—is devoid of human values and humanistic principles. Accordingly, the role of the UN and several other international institutions is being sharply devalued. With his doctrine and strategy, Trump is radically altering the US foreign policy direction of many years and the place of the US in the world. Washington is building relationships only with those it perceives to be strong—that is, with China and Russia. Meanwhile, it has no interest in those who are of average strength or weak—such as Canada, Europe, Venezuela, Cuba, and others. Its message to them is to acclimate to this reality. It effectively rescinds globalization and transnational interests, while proclaiming that might makes right. It is altering the foundations of the post–World War II world that had been the norm and the formative experience for people.
Every ideology that we’ve been accustomed to—liberalism and conservatism, the right and the left—keeps eroding and disintegrating. We are facing political, …
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