Press Release, 31.03.2014 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO participated in a series of one-person pickets against sending Russia’s troops to Ukraine on March 29. The activists protested against such radical measures and held banners which said “Ukraine without Putin”, “Free and indivisible Ukraine for the Russians and the Ukrainians”, “No war! No censorship! No […]

Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Antonida Pashinina, Rosbalt, 26.03.2014   Head of YABLOKO’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky gives his view on how soon the new sanctions against Russia can be introduced and who may suffer in the first place.   – The information on blocking of Visa and MasterCard for the customers […]

Press Release, 26.03.2014 The Smart Power movement in support of Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO conducted an action outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly on March 26. The participants of the action held a banner with the photographs of Deputy Grigory Yavlinsky and Ombudsman of St.Peterburg Alexander Shyshlov which said “A human, citizen, resident of St.Petersburg delegated […]

Press Release, photograph, 25.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Irina Kopkina inspected the Northwest chord and found out that the contraction was frozen. The residents of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district showed the cutover square and an illegal parking space to YABLOKO’s representatives.

Press Release, 26.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Bureau member, the Green Russia faction’s activist Dmitry Rybakov conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the ecologists Evgeny Vitishko and Suren Gazaryan in Petrozavodsk, on March 25.

The ALDE Party, 21.03.2014 On 21 March, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin participated in a panel discussion “Russia, Ukraine, Europe: Today and Tomorrow”, organised by the Austrian liberal party NEOS. The event was held at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. The YABLOKO leader made ​​a report devoted to the analysis of the situation in Ukraine. He […]

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 24.03.2014 That’s the title of the report I presented before a large number of politicians, diplomats, academics and journalists in Vienna last Friday. The system is above all! I would like to begin my remarks with one reminiscence. In 2000, I was among representatives of the YABLOKO […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party A well-known historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, author of a large number of books was dismissed from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, or MGIMO, today for comparing the Russian invasion to Ukraine with Nazi Germany’s Anschluss with Austria in 1938.

“Die Presse”, Print-Ausgabe, 22.03.2014 Die Presse: Am Dienstag annektierte Russland die Krim. Es war ein Feiertag für viele Russen, auch für Sie? Sergej Mitrochin: Das war keineswegs ein Feiertag. Ich habe darauf mit einer Erklärung unter dem Titel „Neoimperialistische Politik führt zur Katastrophe“ reagiert. Danach war in russischen Medien zu lesen, Jabloko sei ein Verräter […]

Press Release, 23.03.2014 On 21 March, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin participated in a panel discussion “Russia, Ukraine, Europe: Today and Tomorrow”, organized by Austrian liberal party NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum. The event was held at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Press Release, photographs, 19.03.2014 YABLOKO’s discussion club conducted a meeting “Ukraine: what has happened and what can be expected?” on March 19. First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva, YABLOKO’s activists, experts and members of the Committee Against Xenophobia took part in the discussion. Different points of view were expressed but […]

Press release, 19.03.2014 The costs of raising salaries and pensions in Crimea, as well as infrastructure development against the background of devaluation of the rouble will significantly affect Russia’s economy, said Grigory Yavlinsky. However, the main problem is not the accession of Crimea is not the economics.

Decision of the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO dated 14 March 2014 Against the background of the deepening global crisis in connection with the situation around Ukraine, when the Ukrainian circumstances and analysis of the events of the past few months have been relegated to the background, the Political Committee of […]

Press release, 19.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to Kalmyk’s Minister of Internal Affairs Andrei Mishagin and Kalmyk’s Prosecutor Alexei Samsonov with the demand to make enquiry on the unlawful retrieval of The Modern Kalmyk oppositional newspaper and the invasion to Chair of the Kalmyk branch of YABLOKO Batyr Boromangayev’s flat.

Announcement, 18.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin will participate in panel discussion on “Russia, Ukraine, Europe: Today and the Day after Tomorrow” conducted by the NEOS party, Austria, on March 21.

Statement by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO, 19.03.2014 The fact that Vladimir Putin signed an international agreement on accedence of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation has determined Russia’s nearest perspective: international isolation and growth of totalitarian repressive tendencies in the policies of the ruling regime.

Decision by the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO, 14 March, 2014 The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO takes the stand for preservation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, implementation of all the international obligations and observance of the rational approaches developed for the past decades as regards […]

“The position and actions of the powers-that-be in Russia in respect of Ukraine and in connection with developments there are a reckless political adventure” Novaya Gazeta, 16.03.2014 The positions and actions of the powers-that-be in Russia in respect of Ukraine and in connection with developments there are a reckless political adventure. We believe that it […]

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 15.03.2014 In a frantic effort to keep its rapidly falling popularity, Vladimir Putin’s regime has been taking unprecedented steps fraught with enormous risks for Russia’s national security and international stability. Russia has been brought on the brink of war with the fraternal Ukrainian nation.

Statement by the Political Committee of the YABLOKO party, 03.14.2014 The position and actions of the Russian authorities towards Ukraine and in connection with the developments there represents a dangerous political gamble. We consider raising the issue of possible introduction of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine be absolutely unacceptable.