Press Release, December 17, 2013 Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva was re-elected Chair of YABLOKO’s Gender faction at YABLOKO’s Federal Council on December 15. Galina Slautina and YABLOKO International Secretary Olga Radayeva were elected Deputy Chairs.

Press Release, December 14, 2013 In twenty years Russia must turn into a true member of the European community. This is the goal set for Russia by YABLOKO’s Federal Council which is taking place in Moscow this weekend. To reach this goal YABLOKO is going to create on its basis an instrument allowing to achieve […]

Press Release, December 13, 2013 Alexei Yablokov, Chair of the Green Russia faction of the YABLOKO party, was included into the short-list of a prestigious journalism award – the Artyom Borovik prize for investigative journalism – in the nomination Publications for his book “Environment and Health of Muscovites”. The ceremony will take place in the […]

Press Release, December 13, 2013 Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Kostroma region together with the regional administration will prepare a joint initiative to amend the legislation in respect of the provision of free plots of land to large families. At present citizens who have three or more children are required to pay for the works […]

December 10, 2013 Statement on Behalf of Liberal Leaders Commemorating the International Human Rights Day 2013 The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties […]

Grigory Yavlinsky made a lecture for the students of St.Petersburg school No 77 on Russia’s fundamental law Press Release, photos, December 12, 2013 At the beginning of the lesson devoted to the Russian Constitution Grigory Yavlinsky said that in the near future the gap between the developed countries and the third world would become permanent […]

Press Release, December 12, 2013 The Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO and Youth YABLOKO conducted a serious of one-person pickets under the slogan “The Constitution is in danger” on December 12.

Press Release, December 12, 2013 Instead of presenting of a development strategy for Russia to the society, Vladimir Putin acted as an economic manager, Sergei Mitrokhin said. Vladimir Putin “even did not touch on the major problems of the country. Obviously, a very low level of non-resource exports is due … to the fact that […]

Press Release, December 11, 2013 The presentation of the collection of articles called “The solutions are in our hands: successful women’s initiatives and campaign” took place in Moscow on December 9. The collection became a result of the international conference “Women’s role in writing a gender agenda for the 21st century” conducted in Moscow on […]

Press Release, December 10, 2013 The round table at the Central Electoral Commission “Reform of the Party System and New Requirements to Legal Regulations of Elections” was marked by a scandal. The event quite unexpectedly turned out to be closed for the press.  

Press Release, December 10, 2013 A second meeting of the Committee for Joint Action against Xenophobia was conducted at Moscow Helsinki Group office on December 9.

Press Release, December 11, 2013 YABLOKO conducted pickets against xenophobia and nationalism in different regions of Russia. The action is confined to the International Human Rights Day and International Migrants Day celebrated on December 18. The event was aimed to attract the attention of the society and authorities to the problem of cross-ethnic relations, growth […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.12.2013 The YABLOKO party assesses the announced amnesty to be necessary but not sufficient. It will ease the fate of dozens of thousands of people who will come back from prison. This amnesty results from the perseverance of the civil society and human rights organisations. Due to their perseverance a […]

Press Release, December 10, 2013 Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia conducted a picket against hatred in Moscow, December 10. Representatives of YABLOKO, Moscow Helsinki Group, trans-regional Uzbek community “Vatandosh”, municipal deputies participated in the action.

LI News, London, 10 December The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties that still remain on the path to achieving social justice and […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 11.12.2013 Today the State Duma is considering the so-called “rubber flats law” law (Ed. The flats where dozens of people may be registered despite their actual place of living) in the second reading.

Press Release, December 9, 2013 YABLOKO participated in the rally against the construction of an underground station in the Sokolniky district, Moscow. The construction will destroy the lime avenue and will create traffic problems for several years. YABLOKO activists participated in the rally.

Press Release, December 6, 2013 Representative of the All-Russia People’s Front Olga Timofeyeva proposed President Putin to liquidate local government in large cities and municipal districts and leave it only in towns and regions of large cities, but divest the local government of nearly all authority allowing them only to “recondition the roads” and “remove […]

Alexey Melnikov, YABLOKO Bureau member, on the choice between the “European way” and the “Eurasian project” Znak, by Alexey Melnikov, 03.12.2013 The “Eurasian project” [promoted by the Kremlin and aiming at taking Russia away from the European values and brining it closer to authoritarian Asian regimes], in various forms and from time to time promoted […]

Press Release, December 6, 2013 The action “For Fair Elections” was conducted on the threshold of early elections which will take place in the Moscow Region on December 22, 2013.