Yabloko has not conducted and is not holding any talks with Boris Berezovsky.
Press release, January 24, 2002
Today's decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the RF to liquidate the TV6 television company confirms the worst apprehensions on the prospects of independent media in Russia. This decision can be put at the same level as last year's destruction of NTV and the recent verdict on Grigory Pasko.

On the Situation with the TV6 television channel
Press release, January 24, 2002
The Political Council of the Russian Party of the Centre - Yabloko, St. Petersburg, expresses its protest at the liquidation of the TV-6 television channel and considers that this represents a logical continuation of the policies aimed at eliminating all mass media independent of the authorities.

The leadership of the Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO considers the initiative of the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) regarding transition to a six-month term of military service as "counterproductive politically" and unsound generally.
Press release, January 23, 2002
"We consider the initiative of the SPS regarding transition to a six-month term of military service (as a means of maintaining the military reserve) counterproductive politically. Additional studies that we have conducted confirmed that this concept is also unsound generally," Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the State Duma Alexei Arbatov told journalists.

The State Duma refused to investigate the deal on imports of spent nuclear fuel from Bulgaria
Press release, January 16, 2002
On January 16, 2002, the State Duma refused to forward a parliamentary inquiry to Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on observation of the law to import 71 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel from Bulgaria to the processing plant in Zheleznogorsk, Russia.

Sergei Ivanenko: termination of the TV6 broadcasting channel is part of the construction of a manageable democracy in Russia
Press Release January 22, 2002
Termination of the TV6 broadcasting channel “dotted the “i”s and crossed the “t”s and represents a bright example of the construction of a manageable democracy in our country,” said Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Sergei Ivanenko in an interview with journalists on January 22, 2002. This decision “demonstrates to all the citizens of Russia that the numerous talks on the so-called dispute of economic entities, temporary license and protection of rights of the work collective, that have developed for about a year already, that all these talks were a mere screen,” said Ivanenko.

Deputy of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Alexander Shishlov asks to change the restraining order for Grigory Pasko and provides a personal guarantee for Pasko's attendance in the event of court summons
Press Release January 12, 2002
On January 11, 2002, Deputy of the State Duma of the RF, Member of the Committee on Legal Issues and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Alexander Shishlov forwarded a formal request to the Chairman of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Nikolai Petukhov to change the restraining order for Grigory Pasko freeing the journalist for the period of investigation of the appeal with the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Sergei Mitrokhin, Deputy Chairman of the YABLOKO party: Liquidation of TV-6 will lead to the ultimate monopoly of the state on the electronic mass media
Press release, January 11, 2002
Deputy chairman of the Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO and deputy of the State Duma Sergei Mitrokhin sharply criticised the decision of the Praesidium of the RF Supreme Arbitration Court to liquidate the TV-6 television company.

Statement of Chairman of the Russian Democratic Party "YABLOKO" Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation around TV6 January 11, 2002
Today's decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the RF to liquidate the TV6 television company confirms the worst apprehensions on the prospects of independent media in Russia. This decision can be put at the same level as last year's destruction of NTV and the recent verdict on Grigory Pasko.

Members of the YABLOKO party participated in the action in support of journalist Grigory Pasko which took place on January 7 at Lubyanskaya square in Moscow

Moscow, Lubyanskaya square, January 9, 2001

About 40,000 people participated in a civil action in support of the military journalist Grigory Pasko which took place on January 7, 2002, at Lyubyanskaya Square in Moscow opposite the Federal Security Service building.