The ALDE Party, Press Release, 20/11/2013 After four decades of voluntary measures, EU companies are still failing to fill vacant boardroom seats with women. Despite the growing presence of suitably qualified and experienced women in the recruitment pool, optimism that these talented women would automatically break the” glass ceiling” turned out to be misplaced. Only […]

Press Release, November 15, 2013 Head of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction, Councillor at the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Yablokov made a speech on environmental problems of the Moscow region at the scientific conference. The scientist told about the factors that influence the world population’s health.

“Deputat 29”, Press Release, November 18, 2013 YABLOKO member Polina Shubina made a speech at the rally against abolition of social benefits and reliefs in Arkhangelsk on November 16. The residents of Arkhangelsk and opposition politicians protested against the proposal of the Arkhangelsk authorities to abolish social benefits and reliefs for preschool children and veterans […]

Press Release, November 14, 2013 YABLOKO objects to the use of its second name “The Green Russia” as a name for the government’s environmental movement. The founding congress of this organisation will take place at the Russian Industrial and Environmental Forum ROSPROMECO on November 14.

Press Release, November 14, 2013 The authorities try to demolish a children’s theatre and a theatre school “Igra”(Play) in the Lazarevskoye settlement, Sochi. Several months ago the court resolved that the building of the theatre was constructed illegally.

Press Release, November 11, 2013 Criminal prosecution on negligence was initiated against Victor Pershin, the policeman who did not take any actions to stop an attack against YABLOKO’s activist Yevgeny Artemyev. The criminal case against the policeman is brought under the article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Press Release,14.11.2013 An unsanctioned action in memory of student Timur Kacharava who was murdered by nationalists was held in St. Petersburg.

The ALDE party, Press Release, 14/11/2013 After years of controversies, the Seasonal workers Directive is finally passing through the final phases of adoption.,The Justice and Civil Liberties Committee and the Employment Committee signed off today the agreement reached with Council last month, after two years of negotiations. This Directive presented by the Commission in July […]

Press Release, November 12, 2013 The first meeting of the Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia established by the Forum Against Xenophobia and Nationalism conducted  on YABLOKO’s initiative  on November 4 took place at YABLOKO office on November 12.

Press Release, 13.11.2013 On November 12, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin had a working meeting with Vince Cable, one of the most senior politicians among Liberal Demcorats, ex-deputy leader of the party and current Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Press release, 13.11.2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin acknowledged that the value judgment attributed to Chair of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Andrei Rudomakha and serving as a basis for filing a criminal libel case against Rudomakha (under Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code “Defamation of a Judge”) was made by him. Last week Rudomakha was […]

Press Release, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, November 10, 2013 Following his recent detainment in Sochi, Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO, has been named a suspect in a criminal case by Krasnodar investigators, and is barred from traveling.

Press Release, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, November 9, 2013 Police and FSB operatives detained our deputy coordinator Dmitry Shevchenko today for a total of four-and-a-half hours, in a continuing campaign of intimidation against our environmental activists which has increased drastically as the Winter Olympics in Sochi get closer.

Commentary, 07.11.2013 Sergei Ivanenko, famous economist and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee comments on the government’s plan to fully spend the National Welfare Fund (NWF).

Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 08/11/2013 According to the information from the Rosbalt news agency with a reference to the Social Policy Committee of St. Petersburg, 33 orphans from St.Petersburg who have lost their prospective adoptive parents due to coming into force of the so-called Dima Yakovlev law [prohibiting adoption of Russian orphans by foreigners], […]

Press Release, November 8, 2013 On November 8, 2013, YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction adopted a statement on the destruction of nature in preparing for the Sochi Olympics.

Press Release, November 6, 2013 Trial of Professor and prominent human rights defender Mikhail Savva started in Krasnodar on November 6, 2013.

Press release, photographs, videos, 07.11.2013 On November 7, the anniversary of the October Coup of 1917, the YABLOKO party conducted a memory action paying tribute to those who tried to defend democratic Russia in 1917 – cadets and officers who conducted armed resistance to the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

LI News, November 7, 2013 LI’s Russian full member party, Yabloko, has organized its tenth march against hatred in St. Petersburg, attended by hundreds of supporters under the slogan “for Russia without pogroms.”

Press Release, November 5, 2013 On November 4, Russia’s National Unity Day, YABLOKO and human rights advocates conducted a Public Forum “Russia’s Unity Is in Solidarity of Its Citizens. Against Xenophobia and Nationalism”.