Press release, 21.10.2015 YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person picketing outside the State Duma against the adoption of the bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners. Human rights defenses call the bill the sadists’ law. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and ex political […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 20.10.2015 The bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners, which the State Duma is planning to pass in the first reading, is nothing but the revival of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs methods in the Russian […]

Press release, 16.10.2015 Enviromnmentalist Evgeny Vitishko submitted another application on release on parole to the Kirsanovsky district court of the Tambov region. The Federal Penitentiary Service supported Vitishko’s motion for the first time.

Press release, 14.10.2015 A group of deputies of the Karelia Legislative Assembly appealed to the Constituional Court demanding to aknowledge that the law on cancelling mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk, capital of the Republic, and the Kostomushka city is unconstitutional.

Press release, 09.10.2015 Today, on October 9th, the politician and public person Boris Nemtsov would have turned 56. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, the party founder Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO Political Committee member Sergei Ivanenko and Secretary of the Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva laid flowers to the place where Boris Nemtsov had been murdered on the Bolshoi […]

11.10.2015 On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me express our deep condolences to the families and next of kin of those killed in the brutal attack during a peaceful demonstration in Ankara.

Press release, 09.10.2015 Chair of the Penza branch of YABLOKO Sergei Oleynik demanded that the head of the Communist Party regional branch Georgy Kamnev should apologise for mentioning the political repressions victims where the word “victims” was intentionally put into quotation marks.

Press release, 08.10. 2015 Today, October 8, the Tambov regional court annulled the decision of the inferior Kirsanovsky district court (court of the first instance) on the refusal to release on parole Evgeny Vitishko, environmentalist from the Sochi region and YABLOKO member, and the refusal to amnesty him in connection with the 70th anniversary of […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 07.10.2015 The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) proposed an initiative of closing public access to public registers of property rights, including real estate, aviation and water transport. At present register information is available to all, but tomorrow it will be available only to the “competent authorities”. YABLOKO considers this […]

Press Release, 03.10.2015 On 3 October, on the day of celebration of the 120th anniversary of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin in his hometown Konstantinovo, police detained Valentin Gavrilov, 77, honorable architect of Russia and a person who survived the siege of Leningrad in 1941 – 1944. Gavrilov was charged with resisting the police and […]

Announcement, 01.10.2015 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 executed in Moscow in 1937-1938.