Statement by YABLOKO’s Political Committee, 30.10.2014 Submitted by Grigory Yavlinsky Russia’s aggressive policy towards Ukraine is central in the anti-European policies of the Russian authorities. The annexation of Crimea and transfer of the Russian arms to the so-called “separatists”, sending volunteers there, propaganda and military support from Russia – all of this fits into the […]

Synopsis of Grigory Yavlinsky’s speech at Forum 2000, Prague, on October 13, 2014, 14.00 Forum 2000* Prague, October 12 – 15, 2014 1. I and my political supporters are strongly against the present Russia’s policies towards Ukraine: we are against the war between Russia and Ukraine. We do not agree with the annexation of Crimea, […]

Press Release, 29.10.2014 YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the annual memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. The action was organised by the Memorial human rights group on the threshold of October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, established in 1974 by Soviet political prisoners who conducted hunger strikes and […]

Announcement, 28.10.2014 On October 29 YABLOKO leaders and activists will participate in the memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. 30,000 people were shot in Moscow in 1937-1938.

Press Release, 23.10.2014 The Committee Against Xenophobia (YABLOKO is a member of) will participate in preparing a report for PACE on the situation with small and indigenous peoples. Such a proposal was made to the Committee at the round table “Preparing for Monitoring of the Rights of Small and Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Federation” […]

Press release, 26.10.2014 YABLOKO participated in a rally in support of education. More than two hundred participants stood against the merger and closure of schools for special needs children, for eseblishment of free extended daycare groups and demanded the resignation of head of the Moscow department of education Issak Kalina.

Press Release, 22.10.2014 The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party demands from the government to Moscow to abolish its plans on urgent reduction of the number of hospitals and the total number of beds, runs the statement adopted by the Regional Council.

Press release, 22.10.2014 The activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO participated in an action called “Animals aren’t clothes” on October 19.

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Press Release, 20.10.2014 The Blagoveshchensk branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally in support of the journalists who had been attacked by dog hunters and demanded to cancel the municipal contracts with dog hunters company.

Press Release, 18.10.2014 Grigory Yavlinsky’s advisor Semyon Burd collected 24807 signatures against closure of the children’s hospital in the Izmaylovo district, Moscow, and fawarded them to the Presidential Administration.

Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 14.10.2014 On October 10 a journalist, radio and TV reporter, ex editor-in-chief of the Crimean radio station “Electron” Valeri Donskoy died with pneumonia in Moscow. Valeri had been working in Ukraine for the past months and was captured in Eastern Ukriane at the end of September.

Press Release, 15.10.2014 The foundation of true peace between Russia and Ukraine can become only the solidarity of their goals which are the movement to Europe. This was the statement made by the YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference “Forum 2000” which took place in Prague. Yavlinsky claims that Europe needs integration with […]

Press Release, 13.10.2014 2065 signature under the petition demanding Minister for Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev to take the investigation of the attack on YABLOKO’s Lev Shlosberg under his personal control were brought to the receiving office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Press Release, 09.10.2014 Youth YABLOKO’s Nikolai Kavkazsky, Maria Yefimova, Elena Kriven and Igor Bakirov brought claims demanding to investigate the murder of YABLOKO member and opposition journalist Timur Kuashev to Prosecutor General’s office and the Investigative Committee. They also conducted one-person picketing.

Press Release, 11.10.2014 The YABLOKO party participated in a rally against the merger of a boarding-school for gifted children with gymnasium No 1588. The rally was organized by the teachers and parents of the school children.

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Based on blog posts by Boris Visnevsky and Dmitry Florin, 7.10.2014 Today, October 7th, is the eighth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist and human rights activist. Anna wrote a lot on the war in Chechnya calling to stop the war. Those who ordered the murder havn’t been found up to now.

Press Release, 07.10.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin demands to find the actions of the State Duma Council members unethical since they took the decision to give the floor to the representatives of only ten non-parliamentary political parties today. Mitrokhin sent the claim to the State Duma Committee on deputy ethics.

Press Release, 02.10.2014 The activists of the Moscow branch of Youth Yabloko conducted one-person picketing against limiting access to the Internet in Russia. The activists held placards which said “Security Council plans to restrict the Internet: welcome to North Korea”, “Why do we need the Internet when we have Russian Post?”.