Interfax, 26.09.2013 Chairman of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin supported the initiative to return the item “Against All” to the voting ballots.

Press Release, September 25, 2013 When discussing the incidents with usage of a weapon in the streets of St. Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction of St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, said that in addition to other measures video cameras should be installed in the streets.

Press Release , September 25, 2013 Leaders of human rights organisations submitted a draft amnesty act for the political prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square case.

Press Release, 25/09/2013 The Moscow authorities supported the initiative of the YABLOKO party and renamed the new metro station formerly named “Ulitsa Dybenko” (Dybenko Street, named after Bolshevik’s executioner Pavel Dybenko) in Hovrino proposed by YABLOKO. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin informed the public about renaming of the metro station at the Moscow government meeting on […]

The ALDE Party, 30/09/2013 Austrian result is a vote of confidence in Liberalism

YABLOKO’s statement, September 25, 2013 Freedom for Greenpeace activists! For environmental safety in the Arctic!

Press Release, September 25, 2013 YABLOKO’s activists Grigory Semyonov, municipal deputy, and Ilya Khandrikov, chair of the All-Russian movement “For fair market”, conducted a serious of one-person pickets outside the Federation Council (upper house of parliament) against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They held the posters which said “The reform of the […]

Press Release, September 24, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin gave an address of the mothers of many children, who started a hunger strike in the Volgograd Region, to Ombudsman Vladinir Lukin.

Novaya Gazeta, 15.09.2013 Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Olga Bobrova    

Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It is a great privilege to be on the panel with such [high level] speakers [as Nobel Prize winners]. That is why I want to simply follow and to develop what has been said before.

Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It’s a great pleasure to be here and I’m very thankful for the invitation to see you and to speak to you. I would start with some quoting of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was asked once by Margaret Thatcher “What about transition in Russia?” And he […]

Press Release, September 19, 2013 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO participated in a mass rally in defence of the city under the slogan “Let’s protect Nizhny Novgorod! Let’s save our city ourselves!”. The rally was organised  by the Nizhny Novgorod civil movement. The citizens stood against the cutting down of the trees and pulling […]

Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 18/09/2013 At present most of Muscovites do not have their representative in the Moscow City Duma. The Moscow City Duma elected in 2009 consists of 35 members representing two political parties only (the ruling United Russia has 32 deputies and the Communist Party has […]

Press Release, September 17, 2013 YABLOKO’a activists Yury Medovar, senior research scientist at Institute for Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Grigory Semyonov, YABLOKO’s municipal deputy, conducted a serious of one-person pickets against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences outside the State Duma on September 17.

Press Release, September 16, 2013 Efficient state governance means not merely a technique or an algorithm, but a vector of development which is determined by the political system and the political elite, it means development of relations in the society based on trust, said YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference Forum 2000 which […]

By Dr. Galina Mikhaleva Special for YABLOKO’s web-site The famous slogan “Democracy minus a woman is not a democracy” can be paraphrased as follows: the greater is the deficit of democracy in a country, the greater is discrimination of women in all spheres of life.

Condolences, September 12, 2013  Our friend, environmental activist and professional biologist Ivan Smirnov passed away suddenly on September 11.

LI News, Press Release, September 12, 2013 LI full member, Yabloko, have won 70 seats in local parliaments and will have two heads of towns after the latest round of regional and municipal elections in Russia.

Yugenia Dillendorf’s blog in the LiveJournal , 10.09.2013 Only climate does not change in our country, that is why I believe that a day will come sometime, and Russian journalists will apologize for their work under Boris Yeltsin (since 1996) [for signing praises to Boris Yeltsin and his fraudulent elections], and Vladimir Putin, as the […]

Press release, September 12, 2013 Anatoly Glazunov, re-elected by a margin of one vote head of the Dobrovsky district of the Lipetsk region, has been threatening bodily harm to his competitor from the YABLOKO party Dmitry Pashinov and his family. It should be noted that all Pashinov’s relatives have already been sacked long before the […]