Press Release, 27.12.2018 The Moscow City Duma rejected the bill of independent municipal deputies, expanding the powers of municipal councils. The authors of the bill proposed to give the Councils of Deputies of Moscow the right to approve the appointment and dismissal of heads of councils in municipal districts.

Press Release, 27.12.2018 Yabloko’s has detected that the Russian government allocated 4.6 billion roubles for the celebration of the New Year and Christmas; whereas gifts cost 2 billion roubles out of this amount. In almost 50 per cent of the purchases there was no competition. Anti-Corruption Policy Centre experts, gifts to children cost somewhat less […]

Grigory Yavlinsky website, 30.11.2018 For a long time the city of Troy was under siege, Has remained an unapproachable stronghold. Hut the people of Troy did not believe Cassandra – Maybe Troy would have existed to this day. (by Vladimir Vysotsky; translated by Nathan Mer) Russia has come to a stage when an actual open […]

Press release, 25.12.2018 On 26th December, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko Party, will visit the Arkhangelsk Region. The politician is going to Arkhangelsk to get to know the opinion of the local residents concerning the problem of transferring municipal waste from Moscow to this region. Rybakov will address the residents in person to […]

Press release, 25.12.2018 The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko began recruiting candidates for the forthcoming municipal elections. In 2019 the residents of the regions will have to elect 472 municipal deputies.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.12.2018 The President, who has been governing the country for 19 years, in four hours has reported the following: • Russia needs a breakthrough, but an increase in the retirement age is inevitable. • We will not have the developments like in France, and gasoline prices will not price. • The situation […]

24.12.2018 Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chair, is celebrating his anniversary today. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, congratulated him on his birthday: Dear Nikolai! Happy Birthday! You are reaching the best stage of life: you are young, and this proves that Yabloko’s policy is aimed at the renewal of […]

Press release, 24.12.2018 The first showing of the film “The Optimists” dedicated to Yabloko’s 25th anniversary will take place at the Centre for Documentaries on 25th and 26th December. The shooting team interviews about 60 people – Yabloko founders, leaders, activists and supporters.

Decision by Yabloko Federal Council, 21.12.2018 Yabloko’s 25th anniversary takes place at a time that is not festive. At the same time, a quarter of a century is an important line to sum ups the results and estimate our abilities. It is important for us and for the country in general. Our country is involved […]

Press release, 20.12.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov find the residents of Ingushentia who went missing in Egypt. On 14 August 2018 a number of Russian citizens from different regions of the country were detained in Cairo, Egypt. They came their to study religion. After a while some of […]

Decision of the Federal Council No 52, 20.12.2018 The YABLOKO party considers the federal budget for 2019 and 2020-2021 to be a desperate attempt by the authorities to preserve the current state of affairs. The bloated public sector of the economy, total inefficiency and corruption are the basis of the present system and do not […]

Press Release, 20.12.2018 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, offeres to provide an opportunity to vote with a facsimile signature to people who can not sign for receiving the ballot and put a mark in it. Vishnevsky submitted the corresponding amendments to the federal electoral law to […]

Decision of the Federal Council No 49, 19.12.2018  Following the decision of the Tverskoy Distroct Court a renowned human rights defender and political activist Lev Ponomarev was sentenced to a long-term administrative detention. Lev Ponomarev was brought to account for posting on the Internet some information about an event that was organised by the parents […]

Press Release, 19.12.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova appealed to the Moscow parliament (the Moscow City Duma) urging deputies to support a bill that would allow municipal deputies to approve appointment of heads of districts administrations, heads of out-patient clinics and schools and kindergartens principals, heads of the state budgetary institution providing utility services to citizens […]

Decision of the Federal Council No 48, 19.12.2018 The YABLOKO party stands for the priority of education, development of future generations and creation of conditions for their self-realisation. High-quality and affordable education is the foundation of development and prosperity of the country. In the 21st century, it is the education which determines what countries will […]

ALDE, 17.12.2018 Yabloko, ALDE Party member party in Russia, held its Federal Council from 15-16 December in Moscow with more than 150 representatives of all the regional party branches gathering to discuss the situation in Russia as well as the ongoing reform of the party.

A speech by Boris Vishnevsky at the meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko Press release, 17.12.2018 I see the current state of affairs as darkness before the sun rise. I can see that the darkness is falling but I hope that the sun will rise. It is our task to bring it on. We […]

Lev Shlosberg’s speech at the meeting of Yabloko Federal Council Press release, 17.12.2018 Dear colleagues, supporters of our party and citizens of Russia! Millions of people in our country categorically disapprove of what is going on in our Russia now. Tens of millions of people do not believe that there is a way to change […]

Press Release, 16.12.2018 Yabloko will respond to the present challenges and threats with a large-scale modernisation of the party which envisages broadening the party membership and will be  based on Yabloko’s social-liberal values, political, moral and intellectual protest against the political system of lies and imitation formed by Vladimir Putin. This decision was made by […]