Press Release, 17.04.2014 Chair of the Vologda branch of YABLOKO Roman Morozov claims the persecution of the Good People charity foundation is politically motivated. It started after head of the organization Roman Romanenko sent a humorous letter to Vladimir Putin asking to send troops to the Vologda region.

Press Release, 16.04.2014 The Volgograd branch of YABLOKO launched a mobile campaign. Now 11 minibuses with YABLOKO’s logo work in the city. According to the local YABLOKO branch, they already received phone calls of support and positive comments form the citizens.

Press Release, 14.04.2014 On April 10 Nikolai Kavkazsky participated in a round table on tortures in the Russian prisons. According to Kavkazsky, tortures are widespread in Russia. The former political prisoner, who was charged with the Bolotnaya Square rally case, spoke about the prison conditions from his own experience and the cases he dealt with […]

Press Release, 15.04.2014 On April 15 YABLOKO launched a mobile reception office in Moscow. Party activists receive Muscovites on urban issues and, in particular, on the problems of healthcare in Moscow.

Press release , 16.04.2014 Gender Faction has begun its work in the North Ossetian branch of the YABLOKO party. Elona Playeva, lawyer, was elected Chair of the regional branch of the faction and Janna Tarkhanova, journalist, and Luisa Mamukati, environmentalist, were elected Vice Chairs of the regional branch of the faction.

Press Release, 14.04.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin had a working visit to North Ossetia and Ingushetia on April 11-13. He laid a wreath at the monument to 2004 Beslan victims, had a meeting with the activists and participated in the conference where the new chair of the Ingushetia branch of YABLOKO was elected.

Press Release, 15.04.2014 Today YABLOKO activists held a series of one-person picketing (which does not require a special permit from the Moscow authorities) against the amendments to the law “On the General Principles of Local Self-Government” by the State Duma. The activists held a poster “MPs, leave local self-government alone!” YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin also […]

Press Release, 15.04.2014 A working conference on “The problems of memorialization of the participants of the civil war in Russia” took place in the Memorial human rights centre on April 14. The guests of the conference decided to carry education policy on the events and heroes of the anti-Bolshevik resistance and to present a report […]

Announcement 14.04.2014 YABLOKO will conduct a series of one-person pickets against the amendments to the law on local self-government outside the State Duma on April 15. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin will join the action.

Press Release, April 11, 2014 YABLOKO’s activists conducted a picket against the reduction of suburban commuter trains earlier today. Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva participated in the action.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.04.2014 Draft Federal Law № 469827-6 “On Amending the Federal Law “On General Principles of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation” has been submitted to the State Duma. The draft law was developed by the working group of the All-Russia Local-Self-Governance Council and the Congress of Municipalities in implementation of […]

Press Release of the Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO, 08.04.2014 The Regional Council of the Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO took the decision to participate in the coming gubernatorial elections which will be held on September 14, 2014.

Announcement, 07.04.2014 A round table called “Tortures in Russia: failure to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights of the part of Article 3 of the European Convention” will take place on April 10. YABLOKO’s member and former Bolotnaya Square rally case prisoner Nikolai Kavkazsky will participate in the event.

Press Release, photographs, 05. 04. 2014 The second theoretical and practical conference called “The unsolved environmental problems of Moscow and the Moscow region” where YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov participated was conducted in Moscow.

Press release, 07.04.2014 On Sunday, 6 April, an anti-war rally of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and for both Russia and Ukraine joining the European Union was held in Arkhangelsk. The regional branch of the YABLOKO party participated in the action. “Today we have gathered here so that those Russians who welcome annexation of Crimea […]

But this refers only to those opposing the government / / By Boris Vishnevsky, Novaya Gazeta, 07.04.2014 On 15 April, the State Duma is going to adopt in the second reading the amendments to the so-called “anti-terrorism package” [of laws]. It was submitted to the State Duma in January, after the terrorist attacks in Volgograd, […]

Press Release, 04.04.2014 According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Moscow Mayor’s Office requested the Central Electoral Commission for 3000 touchscreen voting machines to provide transparency and publicity at Moscow City Duma elections which will take place in September 2014.