Press Release, 9.03.2023. Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo from social media On 21 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”. The lecturer is Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Centre.

Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 March, the Supreme Court of Karelia held a hearing on the appeal of Emilia Slabunova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko. Slabunova, together with defence lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky, asked to cancel the decision of the Petrozavodsk […]

Press Release, 6.03.2023. Photo by um.mos.ru On 4 March, the Social-Democratic Faction of the Yabloko party held a round table “Lessons of Perestroika” devoted to the 92nd anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev. The round table was attended by members of the Yabloko party, experts and members of the Russian Social Democratic Youth Union. The speakers were […]

Press Release, 6.03.2023 On 3 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Global constitutionalism: integration or fragmentation as a way to construct a new world legal order?”. The lecturer is Andrei Medushevsky, Professor of the Research University of the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Public Constitutional Council.

Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: one of the post cards “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” This week, actions in support of political prisoners continue in regional offices of Yabloko. Yabloko members and activists sign postcards specially printed for women political prisoners  – civil activists, politicians and journalists who are kept behind bars.

Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Nikolai Koshman immediately after the attack Nikolai Koshman, a Chelyabinsk lawyer and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, was attacked in Chelyabinsk in the morning of 6 March. Unidentified people were on the watch for Koshman at the entrance of his apartments block. Nikolai has a broken arm and […]

Press Release, 4.03.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev  / Photo from social media The materials of the criminal case on the dissemination of “fakes about the army” using official position (Article 207.3, Part 2, paragraph “a” of the Criminal Code of the RF) against Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and the editor of the Novy Focus […]

Press Release, 3.03.2023 On 2 March, the traditional Yabloko action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners was held at the central office of the Yabloko party, organised by the Moscow branch of the party with the support of the PolitzekInfo project. The action was dedicated to women – political prisoners, who fell into the […]

Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 28.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to local media, a pensioner from Novoaltaysk was found guilty of “discrediting the use of the Russian army” as part of a “special operation”. A 69-year-old man, put likes under photographs and publications on the topic of “discrediting […]

Press Release, 2.03.2023 Photo: Iya Boronina connecting with the Moscow City Court / Photo from the personal archive On 27 February, the Moscow City Court, as a court of appeal, held hearings on the claim of Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, against the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage […]

Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies / Photo by sobranie.pskov.ru Four MPs voted for the bill, thirteen voted against, and six abstained. Earlier, the Governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, wrote in his opinion on the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war that “a call to commit […]

Press Release, 1.03.2023 Photo by Viktor Karatayev / Kommersant The administration of the President of the Russian Federation believes that there are no legal grounds for issuing a separate decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. This is announced in an official response to the inquiry of Boris Vishnevsky, deputy head of the Yabloko faction […]

Press Release, 28.02.2023 On February 25, the Rostov-on-Don branch of the Yabloko party held the second charity event “A Yabloko Pie” (in Russian “yabloko” means an “apple”). This time, ten pies prepared by Yabloko activists under the guidance of the chefs of the partner restaurant of the Shamaika House were donated through the volunteers of […]

Press Release, 1.03.2023 Photo: Yevgeny Gontmakher / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 13 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Russian Social Policies after 24 February, 2022” by Yevgeny Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics, professor at the Higher School of Economics, a member of the Public Constitutional Council, and a member of […]

Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: “Freedom to all political prisoners!” by Olga Kovalchuk, the Republic of Karelia, Russia On the eve of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the Moscow branch of Yabloko will hold an action of writing letters to political prisoners. We would like to dedicate this action to women political activists, as well as […]

Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, won the second lawsuit against the Russian Federation in connection with the illegal prosecution under the administrative article on “discrediting the army”. On 27 February, the Novgorod District Court […]

Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Kazan / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 February, eight years ago, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by the walls of the Kremlin on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. On the day of the murder, Yabloko annually holds commemorative events in Moscow and Russian regions in memory of Boris […]