Archive for August, 2025
“Tregua subito con l’Ucraina o rischio guerra nucleare”: parla l’ultimo leader dell’opposizione in Russia
29.08.2025 Da Mosca, in un’intervista esclusiva con Fanpage.it, Grigory Yavlinsky avverte: “I leader europei devono convincere Trump a perseguire un cessate il fuoco immediato in Ucraina, per scongiurare Armageddon”. Il leader social-liberale accusa le fallimentari riforme degli anni ’90: “La Russia di oggi e quel che accade in Ucraina ne sono il prodotto, anche l’Occidente […]
Posted: August 29th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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“Now there are nuclear weapons — such a solution as before no longer exists”
Interview to the “I Gryanul Gram” YouTube channel Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 11.08.2025 Broadcast of 8 August 2025 First, about the most important thing. If we set the task of developing not just an agreement on a temporary ceasefire, but a strategic solution on the ways and methods of advancing toward stable and long-term peace, then […]
Posted: August 27th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Head of Tatarstan criticises anti-migrant law opposed by Yabloko. Commentary by Maxim Kruglov
Press Release, 25.08.2025 Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant Not taking a foreign child into a Russian school because they don’t know Russian is stupid. This is the view not only of the Yabloko party, but also of Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov. The speech of the President of Tatarstan at a meeting of education and science […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights.
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On persecution of independent cultural initiatives in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 22.08.2025 Photo: Bookshop Podpisniye Izdaniya (Books by Subscription) in St Petersburg. Photo by Nikolai Rybakov In recent years, repressions in the cultural sphere have intensified in the country. Contrary to the direct prohibition in the Russian Constitution (Article 29 item 5), state censorship is rapidly […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko honored the memory of the defenders of democracy who died under tanks during the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 22.08.2025 On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. The traditional party action was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, his Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov, Federal Political Committee member Ivan Bolshakov, Adviser to Yabloko Chairman Grigory Grishin, party apparatus head Yevgenia […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded compensation for unlawful removal from 2023 elections of the Yabloko candidates list in the Strugo-Krasnensk District
Press Release, 22.08.2025 Photo: Pskov Yabloko representative lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Strugo-Krasnensk District Court granted Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuit against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation in connection with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruling of 18 March 2025, which confirmed constitutional violations in cancelling registration […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Summing up the Yabloko candidate registration campaign for the 2025 elections
Press Release, 22.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In total, 172 Yabloko party candidates are participating in 39 electoral campaigns in 19 regions of the country under the unified party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire agreement!”.
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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No to attacks on citizens’ rights and control over their communications! Yes to freedom of choice and technological development!
Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 21.08.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant What is happening today will go down in Russian history as a period when our society was thrown back in technical progress by years by decisions of the executive and legislative authorities. We are faced with restrictions on the […]
Posted: August 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko continues its monthly campaigns in Moscow and regional offices to support political prisoners
Press Release, 20.08.2025 “Dear friends and colleagues, St. Petersburg Yabloko members! Thank you for the long letter and postcards with words of support and caring. Touched,” imprisoned historian and head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriyev wrote in a response to the St. Petersburg Yabloko. Yuri Dmitriyev is sentenced to 15 years in prison and […]
Posted: August 20th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded compensation for unlawful removal from 2023 elections of party list in Loknya District, the Pskov region
Press Release, 18.08.2025 Photo: Leader of Loknya Yabloko list in the 2023 elections Maria Skorodumova and party lawyers Vitaly Isakov and Maxim Kopytov in front of the courthouse in Loknya settlement / Photo by the regional branch of the party Bezhanitsy District Court (court presence in Loknya) satisfied Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuit against the Russian Ministry […]
Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Arthur Gaiduk asks Federal Antimonopoly Service to check legality of restricting calls in Telegram and WhatsApp
Press Release, 15.08.2025 Photo: Arthur Gaiduk / Photo by Pskov Yabloko Pskov Regional Assembly deputy from Yabloko Arthur Gaiduk sent an appeal to Federal Antimonopoly Service head Maxim Shaskolsky requesting a check of the legality of Roskomnadzor’s (Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications) decision to restrict calls for Russians in foreign messengers Telegram […]
Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “What are the expectations from the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska?”
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 15.08.2025 Photo: Screenshot from LIDOVE NOVINY website The meeting of the leaders of the US and Russia will be the seventh in total and the first since the beginning of Donald Trump’s new presidential term. Before this, leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump met six times. The last was at the […]
Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025 Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025. The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded first compensations for unlawful removal of party lists from 2023 elections
Press Release, 13.08.2025 Photo: Pskov Yabloko candidates in the 2023 elections Nikolai Barkhatov and Lyudmila Kochneva, and lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 12 August, Opochka District Court and Pushkinogorsk District Court satisfied Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuits against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation for cancelling registration of the […]
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Materials revealed that led to Ksenia Cherepanova being recognised as “foreign agent”: among them news about repressions against Yabloko and criticism of local self-government reform
Press Release, 13.08.2025 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo: Novgorod Yabloko The Novgorod Region Ministry of Justice Department has drawn up an administrative protocol against member of the Novgorod Yabloko Bureau Ksenia Cherepanova for failing to self-report as a “foreign agent”. The protocol lists materials whose publication on Ksenia Cherepanova’s Telegram channel allegedly occurred with foreign […]
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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25 years since the tragedy. Nikolai Rybakov on the submarine Kursk disaster and the drowned sailors
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 12.08.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Vladimir Dorokhov and Kirill Goncharov at the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow / photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, together with colleagues, we came to the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow to […]
Posted: August 13th, 2025 under Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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ALASKA: THE ISSUES THAT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DISCUSSED BY RUSSIA AND THE USA
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.08.2025 Picture: ChatGPT The international press is in state of disarray and chaos, including even the most authoritative publications: discussions of the forthcoming meeting of the leaders of the Russia Federation and the United States of America in Alaska are accompanied by utter incomprehension and irritation, derogatory comments, irrelevant and inappropriate wishful […]
Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Trilogy of lawlessness: municipal filter destroys political alternative
Statement by the Bureau of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 11.08.2025 Photo: Yabloko candidate Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko On 8 August 2025, the Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region refused to register Yabloko Party candidate Viktor Shalyakin for the Governor elections under the pretext of “insufficient signatures from municipal deputies”. We consider […]
Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg is accused of posting videos but the links lead to another person’s page, not his
Press Release, 8.08.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by the regional branch of the party On 7 August, the 38th magistrate’s court in Pskov held another, already eighth hearing on the criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg for allegedly evading “fulfilment of foreign agent obligations”. The investigation believes that the politician […]
Posted: August 8th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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