Press release, 06.07.2016 Head of the Communists of Russia party Maxim Suraykin claims that YABLOKO’s registration must be revoked, Russian News Service reported yestersay. He forwarded an official enquiry to the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to check YABLOKO’s electoral programme for violation of Articles 280 and 280.1 of the Russian Criminal […]

05.07.2016 The federal part of the YABLOKO list includes ten people: Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder and MP in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chair and MP in the Karelian Legislative Assembly, Vladimir Ryzhkov, famous politician and professor of the Higher School of Economics, Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, ex-deputy […]

Press release, 03.07.2016 About 1000 people came to listen to the leaders of YABLOKO’s federal list for the parliamentary elections. Chair Emilia Slabunova, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, journalist Lev Shlosberg, opposition MP Dmitry Gudkov, Petrozavodsk ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina, party Deputy Chairmen Alexander Gnezdilov and Nikolai Rybakov, head of the party election head-quarters Mikhail Geilikman made speeches […]

The Moscow Times, 04.07.2016 Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March 2014 set the scene for a new collision in Russian politics, as the Kremlin struggles to decide how to deal with those who disagree with the official line on the annexation. Continued on The Moscow Times website

Press release, 04.07.2016 Moscow YABLOKO Deputy Chair, professor Galina Mikhaleva gave a report on the topic “From Europeanisation to re-Sovietisation. The Trends of Modern Russian politics.” at the public discussion platform in Bremen, Germany.

Press release, 03.07.2016 A democratic coalition has taken place, and this is the main result of YABLOKO’s work over the past year and a half, YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky said in his keynote speech at the YABLOKO Congress. “Today I want to announce it to all our country that at this Congress we have founded […]

Press release, 3.07.2016 The YABLOKO party has represented its coalition list of candidates for the State Duma deputies as well as 185 candidates in the single-mandate constituencies. The delegates were discussing the candidatures for 15 hours during the second day of the Congress, July 2. The discussion ended by ballot voting.

Press release, 1.07.2016 The 19th Congress of the YABLOKO party has launched the electoral programme of the party today, on July 1. “The party programme is addressed to all the citizens of Russia and represents a coherent and convincing alternative, the way out of the deadlock. One of the fundamental and distinctive features of our […]

Press Release, 1.07.2016 Famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov addressed YABLOKO Congress with a welcoming speech and expressed his willingness to participate in the forthcoming parliamentary election from the party. The Congress will discuss the lists of delegates on July 2, and the results of the discussion will be announced on July 3.

Press Release, 1.07.2016 The election campaign of the YABOKO party in the State Duma elections will be tough and constructive, said YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova opening the party’s pre-election congress. Constructive proposals, rather than [well-known] criticism will be core of the campaign, she noted.