Press Release, 5.12.2018 Deputies of the pro-government’s United Russia party in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly refused to support the amendments of the Yabloko faction aimed at protection of the St. Petersburg parks and gardens. The majority of parliamentarians from United Russia ignored the vote, did not press any button, which in fact can be equated […]

Yabloko Telegram Channel, 5.12.2018 “It is a police state: Human Rights Defender Lev Ponomarev, 77, was sentences to 25 days in jail for reposting a publication in support of the young people who suffered as a result of a provocation of the “law enforcement”. It’s a shame! Let’s support Lev Ponomaryev!” * Lev Ponomarev was […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 06.11.2018 Need money for a national park in the Arctic? Not enough money for a port complex at Novaya Zemlya [archipelago in the Arctic Ocean]? Don not have 1.5 trillion roubles for a highway from Sochi to Crimea? The government’s 540 billion roubles allocated for the implementation of the May Presidential Decrees […]

Press release, 5.12.2018 The State Duma of the Russian Federation has passed through the first reading a draft of the federal law that will allow to withdraw land plots [from individuals] for governmental and municipal needs.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2018 On what has been happening with liberal capitalism, the “carnival politics”, a change of course in the global economy and the role of Russia in these developments. Smiles and tongue-in-cheek greetings at the recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and the adviser to the President of the United States on national security […]

Press Release, 3.12.2018 Writer Andrei Bitov died in Moscow in the 82nd year of his life. He was considered the founder of postmodernism in Russian literature. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, expressed his condolences on the passing of renowned Russian writer: Andrei Bitov is a writer whose sense […]

Boris Vishnevsky on the decision of the Supreme Court to allow the PIK development group to demolish residential blocks of flats in the Kuntsevo District, Moscow, and build up the area again Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel, 23.11.2018 “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property,” Karl […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.10.2018 Once a year, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, people [in Russia] come to the Solovetsky Stone [monument representing a stone brought from one of the GULAG labour camps] in Lubyanka Square [the office of the Federal Security Service, former NKVD-KGB] to remember […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 04.11.2018 In the Novgorod region, 42 per cent of ambulance stations were closed. In the Voronezh region 40 per cent of libraries were liquidated. In the Saratov region in 30 per cent of houses there is no sewage. The state debt of the Krasnoyarsk Territory only amounts to 109 billion roubles. […]