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The Pensioners’ Party joined YABLOKO

Press Release
October 3, 2009

The interregional public organisation The Elder Generation (the former Pensioners’ party) joined the YABLOKO party. Such a decision was adopted by at a joint meeting of the YABLOKO’s Bureau and Presidium of the Central Council of the Elder Generation organisation on October 3. YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin and deputy head of the Elder Generation Alexei Borschenko signed an agreement in the presence of the media.
“It is a great honour for us, as well as recognition of our performance in protection of social rights, and in particular pensioners’ rights,” Sergei Mitrokhin told the journalists.


Alexei Borschenko said that YABLOKO is the only party on the country firmly and consistently solving social problems both in Moscow and in the regions.” Borschenko noted that the Elder Generation movement is the successor of the Pensioners’ Party, as only a few primary organisations of the latter joined the Fair Russia party.


According to Borschenko, 27 regional branches of the organisations will join YABLOKO. The organisation also called all its branches to follow their example. The leader of the Elder Generation is certain that in about 45 days the number of regional branches joining YABLOKO should reach 50. Sergei Mitrokhin also noted that a special faction inside YABLOKO should be created out of 27 regional branches of the organisation that had already joined YABLOKO.


Today YABLOKO has seven factions, including the Green Russia (created on the basis of the same party which joined YABLOKO in 2006) and the Soldiers’ Mothers faction.


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Press Release

October 3, 2009