by Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.09.2019 In August 1999 the young director of the Federal Security Service Vladimir Putin was appointed chairman of the Russian Government. By the end of the same year after the early resignation of Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin, he started assuming his duties. Putin’s longstanding opponent Grigory Yavlinsky discusses the phenomenon of […]

Press Release, 24.09.2019 The Kirov branch of Yabloko participated in the rally “For Environmental Rights” conducted within the All-Russian Day of Environmental Protest.  Activists and supporters of the Yabloko party, including Polina Klyucharova, Alexander Amosov and Arthur Abashev, took part in the action. The rally participants opposed the construction of the Maradykovsky complex for processing […]

Deutsche Welle, 24.09.2019 Deutsche Welle talked with Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of the Yabloko party and Doctor of Economics, about why the Russian Federation adopted the Paris climate agreement and what consequences it will have for society and the economy.   Deutsche Welle: Grigory Alexeyevich, more than three years have passed between the signing of […]

Press Release, 24.09.2019 Supposedly amendments were made to the charter of the Municipal Council of the Liteiny District in St.Petersburg so that to prevent of a deputy from Yabloko be elected as head of the council. According to the new charter, now it is possible to elect head of the municipal council with by two-thirds […]

Press Release, 23.09.2019 The municipal council of the sixth convocation of the Vladimirsky municipal district of St.Ptersburg elected Yabloko’s  Denis Tikhonenko head of municipal district on its first meeting on the evening of 20 September, 11 of the 19 municipal deputies present at the meeting voted for his candidacy.

Press Release, 23.09.2019 The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma unanimously elected Maxim Kruglov as its leader. Sergei Mitrokhin, who led the party’s faction in the Moscow City Duma of the fourth convocation (2005-2009), recused himself. Mitrokhin explained this step by the desire to maintain solidarity within the new faction, as well as to […]

Press release, 23.09.2019 The Bureau of the Pskov Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party considered the transfer of mandates of deputies of the Pskov City Duma, the Assembly of Deputies of the Novorzhevsky District and the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District, which became vacant in connection with the election of Arthur Gaiduk as […]

Press Release, 23.09.2019 The team of the Novgorod Yabloko organised and conducted a series of pickets against the imports of garbage from Moscow and St. Petersburg into other regions. The protest action was held in Novgorod and Okulovka. Anna Cherepanova, Chairperson of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and MP in the City Duma of Novgorod, […]

Press Release, 23.09.2019 Activists of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted a series of one-person pickets, that do not require a permission from the authorities, in support of defendants in politically motivated criminal cases instituted as part of the so-called the “Moscow riots” case when people protested against non-registration of opposition candidates in the Moscow […]

Press Release, 21.09.2019 On Monday, 23 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, will arrive in St. Petersburg to meet with the party’s municipal deputies who won the election. Following the results of the elections of 8 September, Yabloko received representation in 31 municipal districts of St. Petersburg, 81 candidates nominated or supported by Yabloko got their […]

Press Release, 20.09.2019 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov. Yevgeny Bunimovich, Deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party and Honored Teacher of Russia, will head the Commission on Education in the Moscow parliament.

Press Release, 19.09.2019 Photo: Boris Misnik, Jan Raczynski and Emilia Slabunova Today, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow decided not to consider the claim of the Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Karelian Public Prosecutor’s Office on checking the legality of the excavations of the graves of the victims […]

Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, 18.09.2019 The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko does not recognise the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg as having taken place. It was nothing more than an act of appointing [acting Governor] Alexander Beglov, sent to our city by President Vladimir Putin, [as Governor]. The procedure when the […]

Press Release, 18.09.2019 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, left the conference hall of the St. Petersburg parliament before the start of the ceremony of inauguration of  Alexander Beglov as Governor of St. Petersburg.

Yelena Vakhtina was elected Deputy Chair of the Housing and Utilities Commission, but she was not delegated to the City Duma Press Release, 18.09.2019 Yelena Vakhtina, deputy from the Yabloko party, formed a faction in the Council of Deputies of the Central Region. The goal of the faction is to implement the Healthy Changes programme […]

Press Release, 17.09.2019 Maxim Kruglov, deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, addressed Valentin Gorbunov, head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, during taking the oath. Kruglov blamed Gorbunov on the reprisals against those protesting in the streets for fair elections and said that the Yabloko faction would seek his resignation.

Olga Pokrovskaya indicated in her dissenting opinion, that the elections were held with numerous violations of the law. Press Release, 17.09.2019 Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from Yabloko, expressed her dissenting opinion, noting that she disagreed with the decision of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission to approve […]

The brochure contains investigations, analytics, and an account of the centre activities. Press Release, 17.09.2019 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre party launched a report on its work in 2018. The brochure presents investigations, examinations and analytics prepared by the Centre.

Press Release, 16.09.2019 Lawyers of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko will challenge the results of municipal elections in the city in 12 electoral districts where they were rigged. At least 24 mandates were stolen from Yabloko only through direct substitution of reals bulletins by fakes and subsequent recounting of ballots.

Press Release, 16.09.2019 The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Karelia for their refusal to examine on merit the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in […]