Press release, 18.04.2016 On 17 April, activist of the Leningrad Region branch of YABLOKO Maria Pavlova caught a car thief after the picket she had conducted was over. Pavlova kept the man until the police arrived.

Press release, 18.04.2016 YABLOKO has launched a special section on the party website to help the families of the Chernobyl victims who were hit by the children allowance cut.

Sut’ Sobitiy (The Essence of the Events), 15.04.2016 By Valentina Karelova Will the elections be fair and transparent with the appointment of Ella Pamfilova head of the Central Election Commission, why Alexei Navalny’s work is inefficient, whether Russia needs democracy, and when have we buried it? Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party, politician and […]

Press release, 18.04.2016 Former Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia, will stand for the elections to the State Duma as YABLOKO’s candidate. She will also support Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy in the presidential elections.

Press release, 18.04.2016 On 18 April, the activists of the Amur Region branch of YABLOKO called the citizens of Blagoveshchensk to participate in the coming parliamentary elections that will take place on 18 September, 2016. The party activists handed out over 2,000 leaflets.

Press release, 13.04.2016 On 12 April, former Minister of the Interior of Germany Gerhart Baum gave a public lecture on freedom and security in the Boris Yeltsin Centre in the city of Yekaterinburg (the capital of the Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals). Leader of YABLOKO’s regional branch Yuri Pereverzev and party activist Elena Krasulina attended the […]

YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov’s speech on Channel One, 12.04.2016 Nikolai Rybakov: I would like to comment on the history books issue. In my opinion, the main idea of teaching history at school is to teach a person to acquire information critically and to analyse the information. Wait a minute, please. My next point concerns […]

Press release, 13.04.2016 Ex leader of the regional branch of the Committee against Torture Vechyaslav Dudin was elected Chair of the Orenburg Region branch of YABLOKO [the region in southern Russia, the Urals].

Press release, 11.04.2016 St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO Youth forwarded an appeal to city Ombudsman Alexander Shishlov calling to protect the rights and lawful interests of an underage student.

Press release, 12.04.2016 On 11 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO conducted a rally in support of Victor Kransnov who is charged with offending the feelings of religious believers. The rally was organised by Kirill Bobro, local YABLOKO Youth leader.

Congratulations from Emilia Slabunova, 10.04.2016 Dear Grigory Alekseyevich! Let me congratulate you on your Birthday on behalf of all YABLOKO members and supporters!

06.04.2016 Nikolai Rybakov: First of all. All the war crimes must be investigated and the guilty must be punished. End of story. There is nothing to discuss here. I believe, it would have been better if the investigation was carried out by the international institutions and, by all means, the Russian Federation must participate in […]

Press release, 05.04.2016 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and YABLOKO Bureau member, claims that the candidacy for the post of Ombudsperson must be discussed by the civil society. The human rights defender forwarded an appropriate application to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Council for […]

Press release, 08.04.2016 On 8 April, YABLOKO Youth activits conducted a series of one-person pickets outside the Presidential Administration protesting against the creation of the National Guard. The activits claim that the true aim of the new structure is to suppress opposition demonstrations.

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 07.04.2016 — You keep money in an offshore! — journalists said. — We know it, — the Russian government responded. And they did not lie here. A rare case. (The style reminiscent of classics: – What happened to the submarine? – She drowned. We have seen this. Creative cynicism.)

Statement by the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 07.04.2016 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has introduced the draft law “On the Russian National Guard Troops” to the State Duma. If the bill is passed, only one person in the country (even if he is the President) will use his own discretion to decide where […]

Press release, 07.04.2016 On 6 April Andrei Sklyarov, leader of Youth YABLOKO in Rostov conducted a picket where he asked Vladimir Putin to follow the example of Prime Minister of Iceland and resign.

Press release, 05.04.2016 YABLOKO Youth activists in Tula joined the federal action of protest conducted by the youth faction of YABLOKO against the conscription system in Russia. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.

Press release, 06.04.2016 On 5 April, the Sverdlovsk region YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the draft system in Russia. The street action of protest took place by the military registration and enlistment office in Yekaterinburg.

Press release, 04.04.2016 The Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the conscription system. The picket took place in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory. Alexander Korovayny, leader of local YABLOKO Youth participated in the street action of protest.