“We Must Avert Nuclear Armageddon”

An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky. Grigory Yavlinsky of Russia’s Yabloko Party takes part in a march to commemorate the death anniversary of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, on February 24, 2019, in Moscow.(Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of Russia’s Yabloko Party, comes in the run-up to national, regional, and local elections scheduled for September 20. The regime’s failure to achieve its goals in Ukraine and the increasing costs incurred by its retaliatory strikes across Russia, on cities and facilities that were not impacted even by World War II, is making the regime increasingly insecure, and its response to any critique is rapidly hardening. Since the start of the military operation, five members of Yabloko,