Yabloko FB post, 30.01.2018 From the speech of Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for Russian President, in the Central Electoral Commission today after submitting voters’ signatures in favour of his registration in the campaign: “The task at the elections is to create a powerful movement for change and changing the policies in Russia.

Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 30.01.2018 We have submitted signatures to the Central Electoral Commission for [my] registration [in the presidential election campaign]. Collecting these signatures, we met with hundreds of thousands people, and we virtually did not see indifferent people among them. People see blunders and failures in the politics. They take it hard. They […]

The “voters’ strike” will boomerang politicians and society By Lev Shlosberg, Pskovskaya Gubernia 25.01.2018 The Russian civil society is discussing the idea of ​​a “voters’ strike” put forward by Alexei Navalny in response to his non-admission to the presidential elections. The idea looks quite appealing, and the main secret of this appeal is that it […]

Press release, 28.01.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters has begun packing signature lists in favour of Yavlinsky’s nomination to the post of President. On 30 January, the signatures will be transferred to the Central Election Commission. On 29 January, Yavlinsky will personally participate in packing and will call some signature collectors, whose work was most efficient, […]

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Press release, 24.01.2018 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky had a meeting with researchers from the Geotechnics and Engineering Survey Institute. According to Yavlinsky, Russia will become one of the leading countries only if the government respects applied science.

Press release, 24.01.2018 On 23 January, the news broke out that Russia’s culture ministry evoked the release licence of a film The Death of Stalin. In response the activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko conducted a protest action against the decision.

Press release, 27.01.2018 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky made a speech at the meeting of residents of the Borisovskoye village, the Mozhaisk district, the Moscow Region. The residents are protesting against the merger of several rural and town settlements.

Press Release, 25.01.2018 Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’ Anticorruption Policy Centre, filed an application with the Moscow region Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to check the legality of functioning on a paid basis of a school in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, stop discrimination of children and provide a quota for children from low-income […]

Press Release, 26.01.2018 Municipal deputies of the Yakimanka municipal district from the Yabloko party together with the head of the Municipal Council Andrei Morev have initiated a local referendum on a number of issues, including transfer of the monument to Lenin from one of the central Moscow squares to the Museon Park which has a […]

Press release, 24.01.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters conducted a meeting with representatives of election monitoring organisations. The representatives of “Golos”, “Sonara”, “Grazhdanin Nablyudatel” and Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova and Nikolai Rybakov discussed the signature collecting procedure and monitoring at the forthcoming presidential election.

Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 24.01.2018 Vladimir Putin’s policy has exhausted its positive potential, if such has ever been there. This policy led the country to a war with its closest neighbour and isolation. Putin’s policy is leading the country into a deadlock. The policy must be changed. The institution of presidential elections, which has survived […]

Press Release, 24.01.2018 MPs of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly supported in the first reading the bill of the Yabloko faction, which obliges the city government to publish an agreement on public-private partnership envisaging financing from the city budget within seven days after conclusion of such an agreement, thus ensuring transparency of the budget spending.

Press release, 23.01.2018 On 23 January, Grigory Yavlinsky’s Public Campaign Headquarters was launched in Moscow. The initiative to open the headquarters belongs to politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, Novaya Gazeta newspaper publisher Dmitry Muratov and ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina. According to Yavlinsky, their support is a big honour for him. The Public Campaign Headquarters will function […]

Press release, 23.01.2018 On 24 January, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky will have a meeting with researchers from the Geotechnics and Engineering Survey Institute.

Press release, 23.01.2018 On January 23, Russian political scientists had a meeting with Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova and Nikolai Rybakov to discuss the presidential election campaign.

Press release, 20.01.2018 On 19 January, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky had a meeting with Yabloko heads of municipal districts and municipal deputies  in Moscow. At the moment Yabloko is the second largest political force in Moscow’s municipalities after the ruling United Russia party. Yabloko has 189 deputies having a majority in 10 districts. Five municipal […]

Press release, 22.01.2018 On 23 January, Grigory Yavlinsky’s Public Campaign Headquarters will be launched in Moscow. Co-Chairs of the headquarters are politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, Novaya Gazeta newspaper publisher Dmitry Muratov and ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina. They are going to tell about the aims of the headquarters and its working plan.

Press release, 17.01.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters have collected the required 105,000 signatures to register him as a presidential candidate. However, the party will continue collecting signatures.

MEPs supported Yabloko’s statement 22.01.2018 The statement of the Yabloko party about inadmissibility of persecution of the Memorial human rights group in the North Caucasus was supported by members of the European Parliament. Yabloko is member of the key international political liberal organisations. The party participates in the development of liberals’ common stance on the […]