Press Release, October 20, 2013 YABLOKO and the residents of the Fili-Davidkovo district, Moscow, conducted a rally against the infill construction. The construction of a seventeen-storied apartment block can do harm to the nearby apartment buildings.

Press Release, photos, video, October 18, 2013 On October 18, YABLOKO and Sochi’s movement “Law and Order” (Zakon i poryadok) conducted pickets outside the White House against the placing of Olympic construction waste in Akhshtirsky gallop which is situated in the karst block above the field of fresh waters. “Law and Order” leader Roman Shikarev, […]

Press Release, October 17, 2013 Municipal deputy Elena Tkach was beaten during the public hearings on the construction of a new shopping mall in the centre of Moscow and pulling down the two apartment blocks at number 13 and 15 Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane in connection with that. The incident was recorded on a video. 

Press Release, October 17, 2013 A first meeting with YABLOKO’s election campaigners took place at YABLOKO’s office on October 16. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Executive Secretary of YABLOKO Regional Council Mikhail Petrov thanked the participants of the meeting for their work at the […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 Such situations can take place in any city of Russia until the government refuses to tell the truth about the enormous income they get from the slave labour of immigrants and corruption and until mass media will describe this conflicts as cross ethnic, said leader of YABLOKO faction in the […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the Moskvoretsky Park on October 16. He found out serious violations of the environmental legislation and reached the stop of the illegal construction works.

The ALDE party, Press Release, 14/10/2013 In compliance with the political groups’ rotation agreement, ALDE in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has submitted the nomination of Anne Brasseur as candidate for the next Parliamentary Assembly Chairmanship in 2014-2015. This nomination received unreserved backing within the liberal family and was officially endorsed – […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO member, former candidate for the Kemerovo Regional Council deputy Yevgeny Artemyev was beaten during a one-person picket against the election fraud within sight of a policeman in Kemerovo on October 16.

YABLOKO statement on the nationalistic insurgence in Moscow, October 14, 2013 The events that took place in the West Biryulevo district, Moscow, on October 13, make us once again express our concern in connection with the destructive developments taking place in the Russian society.

Press Release, October 15, 2013 An audit by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office held after the inspection conducted by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in the Vorovsky Park, Moscow, revealed embezzlement of funds allotted for renovation of the park in the amount of 22 million roubles.

Press Release, October 14, 2013 Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO supported the rally “Russia against cruelty” organised by the animal advocates on October 12. The rally had taken place for the second time in Novosibirsk.

14.10.2013 The ALDE-PACE is concerned about the recent reports on alleged persecution of Yabloko regional leaders and activists Andrei Rudomakha (Krasnodar), Sergei Pogodin (Tver Region) and Svetlana Chechil (Karelia). On multiple occasions, the ALDE-PACE and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe declared that politically motivated criminal prosecution or termination of employment contracts were […]

Press Release, October 14, 2013 Andrei Babushkin, member of YABLOKO Bureau, head of the “For Human Rights” committee and member of Presidential Council for Human Rights, was invited to Dozhd (Rain) TV channel to talk about the amnesty draft act developed by the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Press Release, October 12, 2013 A concert in support of “The third way”(trety put’) cultural centre, which is under threat of illegal eviction from its premises, was conducted on October 12, at Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s activists came to support the event.

Press Release, October 9, 2013

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Sergei Pogodin, director of School No 4 in Nelidovo, the Tver region, was dismissed from his post on 8 October, 2013, on the basis of an order from the acting head of the district administration, however, the document did not specify any reason for termination of the labour contract. According […]

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Today, on October 10, 2013, law enforcement officers attempted to get into the office of the Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO party (presumably, these were officers from the Center for Combating Extremism). This happened at about 2:30 p.m. The police insisted that they needed Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the regional […]

Press Release, October 8, 2013 An action in memory of the murdered journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya took place in Voronezh on October 7.  The activists placed the portraits of Anna Politkovskaya, murdered journalist and writer Yuri Shchekochikhin,  murdered human rights activist Galina Starovoytova, murdered human rights activist Stanislav Merkelov, murdered journalist Anastasia […]

Press Release, September 27, 2013 September 25 a round table discussion on reproductive rights, health and quality of life of women on the threashold of the International Contraception Day took place at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow. YABLOKO Gender Faction participated in the round table. The event was organised by the “Women Journalists” […]

RBC, 03.10.2013 These days Russia celebrates the anniversary of the events of October 1993. Twenty years ago a bloody confrontation took place in the Russian capital and only miracle helped to avoid a civil war. RBC correspondents spoke to the participants in those events about who was right, what people were dying for and who […]