Press Release, 18.04.2019 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina On 16 April, Yabloko held a discussion on the Concept of reforming the electoral system of the Russian Federation. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, member of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia in 1999–2016, head of the Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko Party and  member of its Federal Political […]

Press Release, 16.04.2019 Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket. Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.04.2019 The power struggle between the groupings [in power] seems to be gaining momentum. Last week, Public Prosecutor General attacked simultaneously the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Investigative Committee and the Interior Ministry. It followed from the report of [Public Prosecutor General] Yuri Chaika that the number of corrupt officials in the […]

Press Release, 17.04.2019 Photo: Organisers of the action: Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Valery Borschyov Valery Borshchyov and Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights activists and members of the Yabloko party, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office to hold a march in the city centre on 1 May “The First of May Against Torture […]

Press Release, 15.04.2019 Photo: Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov The authorities of Ingushetia continue searches and arrests after the March rallies in Magas against the border agreement with Chechnya. Protest leaders Ahmed Barakhoyev, Barakh Chemurziyev and Musa Malgasov have already been arrested for two months. Today, the law enforcement accompanied by military equipment (!) came […]

Press Release, 15.04.2019 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina On Tuesday, 16 April, the Yabloko party will discuss with representatives of other political parties and political technologists its proposals on the reform of the electoral system. The round table where the Concept of Reforming the Electoral System of the Russian Federation will be presented will be held in […]

Press Release, 11.04.2019 A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).

Press Release, 11.04.2019 Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day. Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned […]

Press Release, 10.04.2019 Prosecution of the organisers and participants of the anti-garbage rally of 7 April goes on in Arkhangelsk. On the evening of 10 April, Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the environmental protest in Arkhangelsk and member of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party, was detained for the third time.

Press Release, 10.04.2019 The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia unanimously supported the draft federal law on the right of the family to teach all children in one school. The draft law was developed by  Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Yabloko Chairperson. The initiative was […]

Yabloko Deputy Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the rally Press Release, 8.04.2019 On Sunday, 7 April, a rally against the “garbage reform” was held in Yekaterinburg. The action was organized by the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. Residents are dissatisfied with the unreasonable increase of tariffs for waste disposal and lack of […]

Shlosberg’s draft laws envisage for public persons fines up to 1 million roubles, compulsory community service up to 200 hours, or administrative arrest of up to 30 days Press Release, 9.04.2019 Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov regional parliament, head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region and member of the Federal Political Committee […]

Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky 8.04.2019 Alexei Melnikov, economist, columnist and member of the Yabloko party turns 55 on 8 April. Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the party, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, congratulate him on this anniversary:

Press Release, 8.04.2019 On the evening of 7 April, the court of the Lomonosovsky district of Arkhangelsk arrested Yury Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk  and member of the Yabloko party, for three days.

Press Release, 9.04.2019 The Omsk Public City Council, which the regional branch of the Yabloko party is a member of, held a rally for observance of the Constitution and resignation of the Russian government.

Press Release, 8.04.2019 On 6 April, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko organised an antiwar picket. The action was a response to the arrival of the government’s propaganda train “The Syrian Turning Point”, which goes across Russia demonstrating trophy military equipment from Syria. According to the organisers of the picket, on the day the train stops […]

Press Release, 5.04.2019 Yelena Dubrovina, head of Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives and  member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, gave a very negative assessment to the planned introduction of remote voting in elections to the Moscow City Duma – a bill to conduct such an experiment was considered at a meeting […]

Press Release, 4.04.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, offered to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to set up a state programme to identify diseases related to unfavourable environmental situation. According to Slabunova, the data on these diseases will ensure truly sustainable development of the territories, adequate goals and objectives for the health care system, […]

Press Release, 3.04.2019 The Gender Faction of the Yabloko party welcomes the recommendation on combatting sexism, which has been just adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The recommendation notes that states should intensify their fight against sexism in all spheres of life. In response to the recent #MeToo campaign, other […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 3.04.2019 Every fifth family in Russia does not have access to a centralised sewage system. But neither the government nor the regional authorities are going to do anything about it. Why? Simply because if they allocate money for sewage, they really have to build it, because sewage has specific consumers – millions […]