On behalf of the YABLOKO party, 19.03.2016 On behalf of the YABLOKO party members I bring my condolences to all who lost their loved ones in the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.

Blog post by Alexander Gnezdilov, Deputy Chair of YABLOKO, 18.03.2016 I express my deepest condolences to the the relatives and near of kin of Guido Westerwelle (1961 – 2016), a vivid and courageous politician and person, the most successful leader of the German liberals.

Press release, 17.03.2016 On 16 March, a round table dedicated to the urban issues of Moscow took place in the YABLOKO office. Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the meeting.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 17.03.2016 The military operation in Syria has been stopped suddenly. Why it was put to an end raises as many questions as the reason why it had been started. Nothing has actually changed in Syria: the Islamic State is staying where it was, Bashar al-Assad’s position remains nearly the same, the […]

Press release, 15.03.2016 The activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO conduted a picket demanding to dismiss Dmitry Pegov, Moscow Metro Chief. Deputy Chairs of Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Grigory Semyonov participated in the action.

Press release, 15.03.2016 Member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an appeal to the President of Russia with the demand to dismiss Dmitry Pegov, Moscow Metro Chief.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 15.03.2016 The decision to withdraw the Russian Armed Forces from Syria raises as many questions as the decision to bring them there. The task to liberate 100 per cent of the Syrian territory from the control of the Islamic State, which is outlawed in Russia, and similar terrorist alignments which […]

Press release, 14.03.2016 According to a new survey by the independent Levada Center pollster, Grigory Yavlinsky is the most recognisable democratic politician who can participate in the elections. 44 per cent of those questioned in the poll recognised Yavlinky’s surname.

Press release, 14.03.2016 On 15 March, the sixth ceremony of the Sexist of the Year 2015 award will take place in the House of Journalists (Dom Zhurnalista) in Moscow. The event will be held with the support of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction.

Press Release, 14.03.2016 Present Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson Ella Pamfilova will chair the Central Election Commission and will retire from the post of Ombudsperson which she held since 2014. The issue who will succeed Panfilova in this post has not been resolved yet, but YABLOKO representatives are often mentioned among possible contenders.

Press Release, 11.03.2016 One fifth of the Russian News Service radio audience supports YABLOKO’s stance on Crimea and a quarter is ready to vote for Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election. Such are the results of a telephone survey conducted during broacasting of an interview with Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and […]

Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 09.03.2016 Under the difficult economic conditions in our country the authorities must pay special attention to the support and development of small and medium-sized businesses that can provide millions of jobs, protect the labour market from destruction, give different population groups the opportunity to provide for themselves and their […]

Press release, 10.03.2016 On 21 March, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO will conduct a series of one-person pickets in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko opposite the Kremlin. The pronouncement of the verdict will begin on this day.

Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 10.03.2016 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation introduced a bill on decriminalisation of Articles 115, 116 (intentional infliction of light injury which has temporarily damaged health or caused an insignificant stable loss of general capacity for work and battery) and Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian […]

Press release, 10.03.2016 Today, on 10 March, YABLOKO’s activits have participated in one-person pickets demanding that the attack on the journalists and human rights defenders, which took place on the boarder of the republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya yesterday, must be investigated. The pickets were held outside the Presidential Administration.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.03.2016 The YABLOKO party is outraged with the impertinent attack on the Committee Against Tortures human rights NGO on the border between the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Statement by YABLOKO Human rights defenders’ faction, 06.03.2016 The Russian United Democratic party YABLOKO claims that the trial of Nadezhda Savchenko is revenge and reprisal. Although, the death of the two unarmed people must be investigated carefully and objectively, in practice the trial has zero reputation for a score of reasons: nobody takes it as […]

Press release, 09.03.2016 On 8 March, International Women’s Day, YABLOKO’s Gender faction conducted a rally for women’s rights in the centre of Moscow. Left-wing feminists joined the action.

Liberal International, 08.03.2016 Gender equality and the empowerment of women affects all of us and is an issue Liberal International and our member parties have long since championed. Join liberals from Latin America to Asia in stepping up for International Women’s Day 2016 and share this message. See YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabuniva min 0:48 Head […]

The Moscow Times, 04.03.2016 Grigory Yavlinsky, co-founder of the Yabloko Russian liberal opposition party, said in an interview with the Interfax news agency Friday that he expects to beat current President Vladimir Putin in the presidential race in 2018.