Press Release, 31.01.2019 An interesting and important discussion is unfolding in Yabloko about attitudes in Russia towards discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people, same-sex marriages, etc. However, we can observe that mainly personal views on human sexuality, nature, history, and religion are […]

Press release, 29.01.2019 St. Petersburg authorities promise to make a new rent contracts with the Memorial human rights group on 1 March, 2019. St. Petersburg Vice-Governor informed Boris Vishnevsky, Yabloko MP in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, about the decision.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.01.2019 The past year, 2018, recalled the global financial crisis, and not only formally in the spectre of its tenth anniversary. The abrupt decline in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ stock market indices at the end of the year were the most significant since 2008. Pre-Christmas indicators for global stock markets came […]

Greetings, 28.01.2019 Andrei Babushkin, Chair of the For Human Rights Committee and member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, is celebrating his birthday today. Greetings from Emilia Slabunova ,Yabloko Chair: Dear Andrei Vladimirovich! Happy Birthday! You dedicated your life to defending human rights. You are helping those who found themselves one on one with […]

Press release, 25.01.2019 Yabloko’s Liberal Club will discuss the experience of German and European liberals on 30th January, Wednesday. The Free Democratic Party of Germany had been either part of the ruling coalition or parliamentary opposition since the end of World War II. However, the party did not pass the 5 per cent threshold in […]

Press release, 25.01.2019 The Yabloko party has launched a draft of Russia’s electoral system reform inviting the main experts in the field to discuss it. The draft was launched by Elena Dubrovina, member of the Central Election Commission (1999-2016), head of Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives and member of the Federal Political Committee. According to […]

Emilia Slabunova to meet the staff of the music college that is being evicted from its premises and make a speech at a rally against closing the hospital in Shimsk Press release, 24.01.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will arrive in Veliky Novgorod for a two days business trip. On 25th January Yabloko Chair will have […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram channel, 24.01.2019 On 23 January, Juan Guaido, leader of the Venezuelan opposition parliament, declared himself acting President of the country. This happened in Caracas during a demonstration when many thousands people protested against President Nicolás Maduro, and a disastrous economic situation developed in Venezuela during his presidency.

Press release, 23.01.2019 Irina Safronova, Chair of the Rostov branch of Yabloko, came to a court hearing on what measure of restraint was to be applied for Anastasia Shevchenko, an activist of the Open Russia organisation. Anastasia is accused of being an active member of an organisation which is classed as “undesirable” in Russia.

Such decision was adopted at the general meeting of the Moscow Helsinki Group on 21 January Press Release, 22.01.2019 Three Co-Chairs of the Moscow Helsinki Group were elected at the general meeting of the organisation. Valery Borschyov, leader of Yabloko’s Human Rights Faction and member of the Human Rights Council of Russia, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, founder […]

Yabloko Deputy Chair on the top-down policy of the Kremlin and the creation of the all-Russia waste operator Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post at the Echo Moskvy website, 18.01.2019 It seems that everyone has finally understood what the reform of the municipal solid waste treatment is about and why it is not going to be effective. […]

Press release, 22.01.2019 On 29th January, Yabloko will hold a lecture “Urban Policy in the Baltic States. Life-hacks for Moscow and Russia”. We will find out: – The first “green” president in Europe: who is this person and why they will not be reelected – How Perestroika and the Singing Revolution gave a start to […]

Press release, 22.01.2019 The City Hall of the Shimsk municipal district, the Novgorod Region, authorised Yabloko’s rally against healthcare optimisation and the closure of the local hospital. The protest action will take place on 26th January. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will make a speech at the rally.

Press Release, 22.01.2019 Statements of the Saratov regional branch of Yabloko on the situation in Russia’s health care in connection with the attempt of the authorities to close Children’s Out-Patient Hospital No 10 in Saratov The practices of “optimisation” of health care institutions go on in Saratov, these come down to reduction of the number […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.02.2019 For a month now Trump has refused to approve any budget that does not include funds for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. The democrats have rejected his request for the allocation of USD 5.7 billion for these purposes. As a result, the American government has not been […]

Press release, 19.01.2019 Today Yabloko activists and leaders have laid flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed – at 3 Prechistinka Ulitsa. “Nationalism and neo-Nazism are a serious threat to public security,” Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, said. The politician recalled Markelov’s speech two months before he was murdered. […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 13.01.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky on the hidden causes of the global financial crisis At the end of 2018 global stock markets fell to their lowest levels in December since the Great Recesson at the end of the 1920s.  In 2018 world markets lost almost $7 trillion. Ten years have passed since the […]

Press release, 15.01.2019 Boris Vishnevsky, Yabloko MP in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, addressed Andrei Bakumenko, head of the National Guard Troops in St. Petersburg, with a suggestion to commission the service to shovel snow in the city instead of dispersing rallies and pickets. In his letter Vishnevsky writes that there is a serious problem […]

Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were murdered ten years ago Press release, 16.01.2019 On 19th January, Yabloko activists and leaders will lay flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by – at 1 Prechistinka Ulitsa. Ten years ago Markelov and Baburova were murdered in the centre of Moscow […]

Yabloko condemns harassment and discrimination of citizens on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity Statement, 15.01.2019 Since late December 2018, persecution of LGBT people has resumed in the Chechen Republic. According to the Russian LGBT Network, about 40 people were detained, two of whom died of torture. For the first time, information about […]