Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On conducting an experiment on the organisation and implementation of remote electronic voting at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the seventh convocation”. The proposed system of remote electronic voting is a “black box”, which does not allow for […]

Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 In recent years, a number of leaders of the present Russian government began raising a question of the need to create and legislate a single ideology.   Now, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been switched to the promotion of this idea. An appeal has been made to […]

Press Release, 30.05.2019 On 29 May, Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova took part in a charitable event in support of Yuri Dmitriyev, historian, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, and one of the founders of the Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor memorial complexes where victims of Stalin’s reprisals are buried. Expeditions led […]

Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky, 27.05.2019 On May 27, 2019, Yevgeny Abramovich Bunimovich, member of the Federal Political Committee the of Yabloko party, Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, poet and teacher, turns 65. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, send Yevgeny Bunimovich greetings […]

Press Release, 24.05.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman and environmentalist, visited Kostroma on 23 May. Rybakov met with Valentina Yamshchikova, deputy of the Kostroma City Council and Co-Chair of the regional ecological movement “In the Name of Life”. Rybakov and Yamshchikova discussed environmental problems of the Kostroma region and environmental protection measures implemented in the […]

Press Release, 24.05.2019 The bill on the direct election of the heads of Novgorod and heads of municipal districts was submitted to the Duma of Veliky Novgorod by Anna Cherepanova, MP of the Veliky Novgorod Duma and Chair of the Novgorod Yabloko. A similar bill was also submitted by the deputies of the Duma of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.05.2019 Picture: Yes-No “An exceptionally corporate issue”. This is how the Kremlin explained the dismissal of journalists from the Kommersant newspaper for publishing an article about Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin [the paper wrote about possible dismissal of Matviyenko, Chair of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.05.2019 Inauguration of the new President of Ukraine is taking place in Kiev. Congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky and wishes of success to him. Endlessly difficult and dangerous work is in store for him.

Press Release, 23.05.2019 MPs of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the initiative of Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Karelian parliament and Chair the Yabloko party, on punishment of for disrespect for human rights and freedoms.

Police confiscated the picket placards the activists used in their pickets Press Release, 23.05.2019 On 20 May, Yabloko activists held a series of one-person pickets in the centre of Tula. One Yabloko member picketed by the regional government office.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2019 It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, […]

Press Release, 14.05.2019 Alexei Karnaukhov, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, will launch the first educational anti-corruption course within the framework of the special project Academy. The project is initiated by Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre.  The special project is devoted to the methodology of civil anti-corruption investigations from how to search for information to publication […]

12.05.2019 Today Galina Shirshina, director of the Olonets Dairy Plant and ex-mayor of Petrozavodsk from Yabloko, celebrates his birthday. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, sends birthday greetings to Galina Shirshina:

On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery in Moscow Press Release, 9.05.2019 On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery – the largest military burial in Moscow. The war should never happen again – that was the leitmotif […]

Press Release, 7.05.2019 The delegation of the Yabloko party laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. Photo: Alexander Gnezdilov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Misnik, Nikolay Rybakov, Sergei Mitrokhin and Anatoly Golov.

Condolences, 6.05.2019 Condolences to the families of those killed in the terrible accident at Sheremetyevo. 41 victims! An increasingly terrible price paid for the failures of import substitution, anti-sanctions and a “special [Russian] way”. It is necessary to immediately stop the flights of the SSJ 100 until finding out the causes of the accident and […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.05.2019 They say Kolyma [one of the GULAG places in north-east Russia] is the birthplace of our fear. But no, it is not Kolyma. And neither [the camps of] Magadan, nor Mordovia, nor Norilsk, nor Komi. And not even all 427 camps of the GULAG. Homeland of our fear is the Kremlin.