Press Release, May 30, 2013 The Volgograd branch of YABLOKO cannot place its banner with an innocent slogan “For Welfare, Peace and Love” in the Kamishin city, the Volgograd region. The advertising company that signed a contract with YABLOKO for placing the banner for a month began dismantling of the banner on the third day […]

Press Release, May 28, 2013 On May 27, the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Green Russia environmental faction of the YABLOKO party and public environmental organisations of the Krasnoyarsk region conducted a round table “Ecological problems of the Krasnoyarsk Region” in Krasnoyarsk. The main topic of the meeting was the discussion of radioactive safety in the […]

Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau May 29, 2013 On the threashold of election campaigns regional electoral commissions have once again initiated signing an agreement on honest elections. They have been practicing such agreements since 2003. In the Sverdlovsk region, the Electoral Commission has sent to the regional branch [of the YABLOKO party] an Agreement on the […]

Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, Press Release, May 28, 2013 On May 28, 2013 police officers of the city of Sochi conducted two searches in the apartment and countryside residence of Vladimir Kimaev, the member of the Council of Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC). Both searches took place in the absence of Vladimir Kimaev. […]

Press Release, May 28, 2013 Police is searching the apartment and country cottage of Vladimir Kimayev, leader of the Sochi branch of YABLOKO. According to Kimayev, his son called him about an hour ago and said that police came to their apartment in the Maliy Akhun district, Sochi, and demanded to let them into the […]

Press Release, May 27, 2013 The visit of YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Krasnoyarsk region began with a scandal. The regional state television channel Yenisei unilaterally terminated its contract with the YABLOKO party on provision of air time by the channel.

Press Release, May 27, 2013 The information circulated by some media that the YABLOKO party will support the candidacy of Konstantin Ilkovsky representing a pro-government Just Russia party at the coming gubernatorial elections in the Baikal Territory is not true. The regional branch of YABLOKO has never adopted a decision on the possible support of […]

 Press Release, the ALDE party, May 23, 2013 Reacting to statements made by a spokesperson for the new coalition government in Iceland announcing that no further negotiation will be held with the European Union and Iceland on future EU membership without a prior referendum, Hans Van Baalen (VVD, NL), on on Iceland for the ALDE […]

Press Release, photographs, May 24, 2013 Yesterday, on May 23, two meetings with Mrs Flo Clucas, Adviser to the Mayor of Liverpool on EU funding programmes, UK, were held in YABLOKO’s office. In the first meeting Mrs Clucas met with members and activists of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction, and in the second meeting she spoke to […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party The website of the State Duma published the draft law on “insulting of the religious feelings” prepared for the second reading. The YABLOKO party notes significant changes introduced into the text since public criticism of the bill. The authorities abolished very dangerous attempts to grant special rights to some religions […]

Press Release, May 22, 2013 On Monday May 20 the YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin said that head of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Grigory Yavlinsky received threats in connection with his work on the improvement of the budgetary process in the city. Answering journalists’ questions today Grigory Yavlinsky said that Sergei Mitrokhin had […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party on reprisals against the Levada Centre The Levada Centre is listed among the organisations forced to register as “foreign agents” after prosecutors’ audits. The admonition came from the Savelovskiy District Public Prosecutor’s Office. Analytical article and sociological surveys of one of the most respected Russian research centres were considered as […]

Press-release, May 17, 2013 On May 17 YABLOKO held the forth meeting with activists and candidates who will take part in the primaries for the Moscow City Duma elections in 2014, as the YABLOKO party provides half of the places on the party’s list of candidates to civil activists. As of today about 140 people […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party Mass audits of hundreds of non-profit organisations (NGOs) across the country by the Prosecutor’s Office that are often carried out with the participation of sanitary-epidemiological and fire protection services [that are also looking for the ‘violations’ of sanitary-epidemiological and fire protection rules so that to fine or close the NGOs], […]

 Press Release   The Regional Council of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO recommended to the YABLOKO conference to nominate Gennady Gudkov, an oppositional politician, ex MP and ex member of the Just Russia party, for Governor of the Moscow Region. Tonight Gennady Gudkov spoke at the Regional Council meeting and answered the questions from […]

On May 26, the Russian Entrepreneur’s Day, YABLOKO will conduct a rally in protection of small business. The part has already applied for a permission for the action to the Moscow Mayor’s Office. Entrepreneurs from Moscow, Samara and Tver will participate in the action. Preliminary it is planned that the rally should take place in […]

Press Release, the ALDE party, May 13, 2013 Reacting to the results of the snap parliamentary elections in Bulgaria held on Sunday 12 May, ALDE Party President Sir Graham Watson MEP today said: “with the lowest turnout in the history of parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, yesterday was a dark day for democracy and a repudiation […]

LI President, Hans van Baalen MEP, has written to leader of the Progressive Party of Iceland (LI Full Member), Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, to congratulate him on his party’s success in the recent parliamentary elections. Iceland’s President, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, invited Mr Gunnlaugsson, who has been made Prime Minister-elect, to form a government following parliamentary elections […]

On the eve of the Victory Day of May 9, activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party paid tribute to the soldiers and victims of the Second World War laying a wreath and flowers at the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow.