Reprisals like in Stalin’s period, in 1937, were unleashed against civil society by Vladimir Gundyayev, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Blog post by Sergei Mitrokhin, 14.11.2016 Today at 6 a.m., riot police under the supervision of the Federal Security Service broke into the apartments of civil activists defending Torfyanka Park [located in North-East of […]

Press Release, 11.11.2016 On 10 November, public hearings held in the Yaroslavsky district, Moscow, demonstrated that residents rejected he project of building up the territory adjacent to Losiniy Ostrov (the “moose island”), a national park in the north-east of Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, participated in the hearings.

Press Release, 08.11.2016 According to Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the YABLOKO party and MP in the Pskov regional parliament, the main reasons for the growing alcohol abuse in Russia are poverty and lack of medical care. He said this in his interview of the Rosbalt information agency.

Press Release, 08.11.2016 The first in the new season lecture of the School of Active Citizen will take place on 10 November at 19:00.

Press Release, 08.11.2016 On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasburg unveiled its decision on the complaint of the Karelian branch of the YABLOKO party and several party representatives acknowledging violation of their rights to free election due to the fact that their and the party registration in the election to the […]

Press Release, 07.11.2016 On 7 November, Valery Borschyov, member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission, member of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO party and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and other human rights activists met with Ildar Dadin, tortured civil activist, in the Segezha penal colony.

Press Release, 07.11.2016 On 5 November, activists of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO participated in the All-Russian rally against cruelty to animals organised by the Zoopomosch (Zoo Aid) group for protection of animals. The action as orgnised in protest to abuse of animals that became known after young people in Khabarovsk videoed their torturing and killing […]

Press Release, 07.11.2016 The Novgorod Region Court allowed the claim of the Novgorod branch of YABLOKO on recognition the results of the election to the Novgorod Regional Duma void to proceed.

Press Release, 08.11.2016 Activists of the Tambov regional branch of YABLOKO took part in a charitable action supporting the project Dabraya Tochka (A Point of Kindness). They helped to collect things for the poor and families with many children.

Press release, 04.11.16 On 4 November, police detained eight people during single-person picketing by Penal Colony No 7 in Segezha, notoriously famous for torturing civil activist Ildar Dadin. Activists of St. Petersburg Youth YABLOKO Ilya Smirnov and Konstantin Pokhilchuk were among the detained.

Press Release, 07.11.2016 On 7 November, YABLOKO activists held a traditional action of memory of defenders of democratic Russia – cadets and officers who made armed resistance to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The action was attended by Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO.

Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 02.11.2016 The campaign on banning abortions which started and then subsided in 2011 has resumed with renewed vigor. A group of senators, including Elena Mizulina, Ekaterina Lakhova and Elena Afanasyeva introduced amendments to the law “On Circulation of Pharmaceuticals” prohibiting retail sale of medicinal products intended for medical termination of pregnancy. […]

Press Release, 02.11.2016 On 1 November. Nikolai Kavkazsky, Chairman of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO, Maria Efimova, Deputy Chair, and Nikita Arkin, member of the Regional Council of the organisation, participated in pickets in support of the convicted and tortured dissident Ildar Dadin. The action was held by the Federal Penitentiary Service.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 01.11.2016 The YABLOKO party is outraged by the information about tortures of activist Ildar Dadin in Penal Colony No 7 in the city Segezha in the Republic of Karelia.

Press Release, 28.10.2016 Summing up the results of the election campaign to the State Duma was the key issue of the meeting of the Federal Bureau of the YABLOKO party held in Moscow on 28 October. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova spoke about the objective and subjective reasons of the failure to overcome the five per […]

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.10.2016 It was not so long ago. In our country. This happened to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Millions of innocent people fell victims of political terror on the part of their own state. The Bolshevik system was protecting itself destroying the brightest, bravest and most educated, the best people of the country. […]