Press Release, 27.07.2019

Members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyov, Boris Misnik, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Sergei Mitrokhin participate in the a meeting of candidates to the Moscow City Duma with voters by the Moscow Mayor’s Office.

Bunimovich and Mitrokhin are candidates to the Moscow City Duma nominated by Yabloko. Yevgeny Bunimovich was registered in electoral district No. 6, and Sergei Mitrokhin was denied registration in district No. 43.

Yabloko opened its “hot line” for legal assistance to those detained in the action by the Mayor’s Office: tel. +7 985 197 43 41. Party lawyers coordinate their work with the Moscow Helsinki Group and the OVD Info NGO.

Only three out of eight Yabloko candidates who managed to collected the required number of voters’ signatures in their support were registered in the election. District electoral commissions registered Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow, Maxim Kruglov, expert of the Yabloko Anti–Corruption Policy Centre, and Daria Besedina, architect. Five other candidates were denied registration: Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Kirill Goncharov, Editor–in–Chief of the newspaper “We Are Muscovites!”, Yelena Rusakova, head of the municipal council in Gagarinsky District of Moscow, Anastasia Bryukhanova, municipal deputy of Shchukino District, and Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee.

Unregistered Yabloko candidates Yelena Rusakova and Kirill Gontcharov were summoned to interrogation in the Investigation Committee on the threashold of the action. A search was conducted in the parents’ flat of Daria Besedina, Yabloko’s registered candidate.

UPD:

The police detained two activists from the headquarters of Yabloko’s candidate Yevgeny Bunimovich. They were handing out the appeal of Yabloko candidates “The composition of the Moscow City Duma be must be decided at the polling rather than the police station” to passers–by by the Vodny Stadium metro station.

“The composition of the Moscow City Duma be must be decided at the polling rather than the police station.”

UPD 16:30:

Members of the Yabloko party detained in Tverskaya street, in the centre of Moscow, were taken to the following police stations:

1. Vladislav Neymark – police department Krasnoselsky
2. Dmitry Samoilenko – police department Krasnoselsky
3. Andrei Chernomor – police department Airport
4. Kamil Garifullin – police department Kuzminki
5. Stepan Yartsev – police department Shchukino
6. Vladimir Kochergin – police department Vostochnoe Degunino
7. Yuri Tyurin – police department Troparevo-Nikulino

UPD 18:30:

The following Yabloko activists still remain detained in the police departments:

1. Vladislav Neymark – police department Krasnoselsky
2. Dmitry Samoilenko – police department Krasnoselsky
3. Kamil Garifullin – police department Kuzminki
4. Vladimir Kochergin – police department Vostochnoe Degunino
5. Yuri Tyurin – police department Troparevo-Nikulino
6. Yegor Kurasin
7. Fedor Sarafanov – police department Akademichesky
8. Maxim Dolinsky, municipal deputy of the Meshchansky District (is while in the police paddy wagon)

Andrei Chernomor and Stepan Yartsev were released from the police department without protocols of detention being issued by the police.

UPD  20:00:

The following Yabloko activists still remian detained in the police departments:

1. Maxim Dolinsky, municipal deputy of the Meshchansky District – police department Presnenskoye
2. Grigory Tolkachev, municipal deputy of the Gagarinsky district – police department Fili-Davydkovo
3. Vladislav Neymark – police department Krasnoselsky
4. Dmitry Samoilenko – police department Krasnoselsky
5. Andrei Chernomor – police department Tzaritzino, detained for the second time
6. Yuri Tyurin – police department Troparevo-Nikulino
7. Fedor Sarafanov – police department Akademichesky
8. Dmitry Lysenko – police department Krylatskoye
9. Nikolai Asatiani, district electoral commission member – police department Moskovsky

All other detainees, previously reported, were released from the police departments without protocols of detention being issued by the police.