Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 09.11.2015 Placing monuments to Joseph Stalin in the regions of Russia is part of the Communist party (CPRF) election campaign. Every day we receive messages about the erection or preparation to install busts to the the executioner in the regions of Russia. The busts were placed in Penza, Stavropol, Liptesk, Shelanger […]

Press Release, 10.11.2015 District Police Department Arbat is charging YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin with violating the rules of conducting “mass-scale events” Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code) and “defiance of a police lawful order or a demand” (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Offences Code). The latter envisages up to 15 days of administrative arrest.

ALDE, 09.11.2015 In another worrying sign that opposition parties in Russia continue to face heavy and undue pressure, Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of ALDE Party member party YABLOKO, was suddenly arrested by the police on Saturday as he was participating in an annual remembrance event in Moscow. YABLOKO managed to get him released later on […]

Press Release, 09.11.2015 On 10 November, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will hear the appeal of public figures against the refusal to recognize the presidential decree to classify military casualties in peacetime unlawful.

Photo, Video Guberniya Daily | 07/11/2015 Residents of Petrozavodsk came to a rally in support of Evgenia Sukhorukova today with the slogans “A sentence to Sukhorukova is a sentence o the whole of Karelia!” , “Evigenia, we are with you!” “[Governor] Khudilainen to dismissal!” Despite Saturday and bad weather about a thousand people came to […]

Liberal International, 08.11.2015 “In Liberal International we are shocked by the short-time arrest of Sergei Mitrokhin, chairman of our member party in Russia – Yabloko,” said Markus Löning, Vice President on the LI Bureau and Chairman of the LI Human Rights Committee, in reaction to this weekend’s news from Moscow.

Press release,07.11.2015 On October 7, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally arrested during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Mitrokhin was released after several hours of arrest only after […]

hro.org, 07.11.2015 Leader of the Russian democratic YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally detained in Moscow on October 7, 2015. He was arrested during the action in memory of the officers and military cadets (junkers) who were killed when defending the democratic Russia in 1917.

Press release, 07.11.2015 Brutal arrest of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917.

Denmark/Russia conference Friday the 25 September at Christiansborg Moderator: Samuel Rachlin, former correspondent in USSR for the Danish Broadcasting Cooperation and Russian born

Press release, 02.10.2015 Today, on November 2, the Pretrozavodsk city court of the Republic of Karelia gave Evgenia Sukhorukova, deputy mayor of Petrozavodsk, member of YABLOKO regional branch team, a three years suspended sentence with one year probation period for abuse of official authority causing heavy consequences as deputy head of the Prionezhsky district, Petrozavodsk.

Press Release, 02.11.2015 Sergei Mitrokhin demands an official investigation on the detention of Natalia Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, on the justification of conducting investigation against her at night time, pressure on her and abandoning her without medical care. YABLOKO leader urges that those guilty of such abuse of power […]

Press Release, 02.11.2015 YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on another victory in passing to Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds.

Press Release, 29.10.2015 YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the annual memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. The action was organised on the threshold of October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, established in 1974 by Soviet political prisoners who conducted hunger strikes and lit candles in memory of the […]

Press Release, 30.10.2015 Today, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky, laid flowers to the Solovetsky Stone in Lubyanka Square in Moscow. Yavlinsky said that the political terror that took the lives of millions of people was “the most terrible crime against Russia, against the future of our […]