Archive for March, 2026
Application for a rally for free Internet filed in Kazan: Yabloko intends to demand free access to information
Press Release, 17.03.2026 Photo: Sofya Fyodorova, lawyer and applicant for the Kazan rally / Photo by the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko Representatives of Yabloko submitted a notification to the Kazan Executive Committee regarding a planned rally in defence of a free Internet, the Tatarstan branch of the party has announced. The stated aim of the […]
Posted: March 18th, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the Concept of Building a Premium-Class Residential Complex on Bolshaya Ordynka street in Moscow
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party, 16.03.2026 Photo: The building of the Automatic Telephone Switching Centre as it stands today (left) and the proposed residential complex (right) / Photo: by @Buegvl/Yandex.Panoramas, Archi.ru The Moscow Urban Planning and Land Commission has approved the concept for the construction of a […]
Posted: March 16th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Demanding free access to information is unlawful: the Office of the Irkutsk Mayor cites the Constitution to justify refusal to approve rally for free Internet
Press Release, 16.03.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Pavel Kharitonenko, activist and organiser of the “For a Free Internet” rally in Irkutsk, has received the city administration’s response to his application to hold the event. The refusal was expected; however, the grounds given are remarkable: demands for free access to information and freedom of […]
Posted: March 16th, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Irkutsk Yabloko has submitted a second notification for a rally “For a Free Internet” and in defence of Telegram
Press Release, 13.03.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, on 13 March, the Irkutsk branch of Yabloko has submitted another notification to the Irkutsk city administration for a rally “For a Free Internet” and in defence of Telegram. This was reported by Grigory Gribenko, Chairman of Irkutsk Yabloko and a member of the organising […]
Posted: March 13th, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow Yabloko demands that the authorities explain the reasons for the total shutdown of the Internet and mobile communications
Press Release, 13.03.2026 Photo by Roman Yarovitsyn, Kommersant Since 6 March, there have been mass shutdowns of the Internet and mobile communications across Moscow, leaving residents of the capital at times completely cut off from the outside world and unable to obtain assistance or services. In addition, regional small and medium-sized businesses have been sustaining […]
Posted: March 13th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Statement by the Bureau of the Yabloko’s Green Russia Faction, 11.03.2026 Photo: A Yabloko party event in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, on the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, 2012 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant has entered the history of nuclear energy as one of the largest […]
Posted: March 13th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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The Federal Penitentiary Service is withholding information about Maxim Kruglov’s prison account, sabotaging his correspondence with the Public Monitoring Commission, and blocking his access to books and newspapers
Press Release, 11.03.2026 Photo: Maxim Kruglov in court on 27 February 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 11 March, Natalia Tikhonova, the lawyer representing Yabloko Deputy Chair Maxim Kruglov, shared several updates relating to her client’s detention in Remand Prison No. 2, Butyrka, in Moscow, where Kruglov is being held on charges […]
Posted: March 13th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A search was conducted at the home of Yabloko member Nikolai Markin in the Moscow Region: he was charged with spreading “Fake News” and released on an undertaking not to leave the town
Press Release, 10.03.2026 Photo: Nikolai Markin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the morning of 10 March, police arrived at the home of Yabloko party member Nikolai Markin, where he lives with his mother in the town of Ramenskoye, the Moscow region. Police had with a search warrant. The phones of everyone present […]
Posted: March 12th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky “2050: Lisbon — Vladivostok. The Future, Politics, The Individual”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 6.03.2026 “First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it”. (William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907) […]
Posted: March 12th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“Equality begins with believing in one’s own worth”: Yabloko presents the first Galina Mikhaleva Prize
Press Release, 6 March 2026 On 5 March, the Yabloko party announced the laureates of the Prize “For Achievements in the Struggle for Gender Equality,” named after Galina Mikhaleva, human rights defender, Doctor of Political Science, and Chair of the Yabloko party’s Gender Faction. The establishment of the Prize was timed to coincide with the […]
Posted: March 12th, 2026 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko’s Deputy of the Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova urges Russian Ombudsperson to help women political prisoners Yevgenia Berkovich and Nika Novak
Press Release, 5.03.2026 Photo: Imprisoned journalist Nika Novak (left) and theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich (right) / Photo from Telegram channels Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Novgorod City Duma, is demanding that the rights of political prisoners Yevgenia Berkovich and Nika Novak be upheld. She has submitted formal parliamentary […]
Posted: March 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov calls on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to lift the “covid” ban on public rallies in force since 2020
Press Release, 5.03.2026 Photo by Moscow Yabloko A letter to this effect was sent on 5 March. In the letter, Kirill Goncharov reminds the Moscow Mayor that Moscow is regarded as a modern and dynamically developing metropolis whose residents are noted for their high level of civic and political engagement. Nevertheless, “for the past four […]
Posted: March 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We will tell the truth. Full stop”: Yabloko hosts screening of film about journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, “And the Ship Sails On”
Press Release, 4.03.2026 Photo: Screening of “And the Ship Sails On” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 March, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted the première of a documentary film by Yulia Mavrina, “And the Ship Sails On” — about Yuri Shchekochikhin, a legend of Russian journalism, a politician, and […]
Posted: March 5th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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An appellate court upheld the ruling of the St. Petersburg City Court declaring a collection of articles by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky “extremist”
Press Release, 4.03.2026 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by Konstantin Lenkov On 4 March, the Second Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the St. Petersburg City Court, which last November deemed a collection of articles by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky “extremist material”. The book “Chronicles of the Reborn Arkanar” was published eleven years […]
Posted: March 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Russia is Europe
Grigory Yavlinsky on political prisoners, the 95th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s birth, and the shared future of Russia and Europe Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 2.03.2026 Watch the video on YouTube switching into English subtitles Mikhail Gorbachev was born 95 years ago, a man who freed everyone in our country from fear and gave liberty not […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2026 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Gribenko, leader of the Irkutsk branch of the Yabloko party, filed a lawsuit against the Irkutsk Mayor’s Office over the revocation of a permit for a rally in defence of Telegram
Press Release, 28.02.2026 Photo: Grigory Gribenko /Photo by Irkutsk Yabloko On 28 February, Grigory Gribenko, Chairman of the Irkutsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, filed an administrative lawsuit in the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk against the city administration.
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Leaders and activists of Moscow Yabloko laid flowers at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s murder on the eleventh anniversary of the tragedy
Press Release, 27.02.2026 Photo: Delegation of Moscow Yabloko On 27 February, on the eleventh anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, members of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of the slain politician at the site of the tragedy – the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremilin. Since the horrific crime, this bridge […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In Moscow, guests at the action of writing letters to political prisoners signed 500 postcards for women prisoners of conscience
Press Release, 27.02.2026 Photo: Participants of the action of writing letters to political prisoners / Photo by Vyacheslav Radchenko On 26 February, the Moscow Yabloko party held its traditional the action of writing letters to political prisoners, this time the event was dedicated to women political prisoners and timed to coincide with 8 March, Women’s […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow Mayor’s Office denied Yabloko a rally in defence of Telegram due to COVID-19 restrictions
Press Release, 27.02.2026 Ivan Bolshakov, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, head of the party’s Analytical Centre, and the party’s representative to the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation, received a response from Moscow Mayor’s Office to the Yabloko request to hold a rally in defence of Telegram in Moscow. The letter, signed […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Irkutsk authorities revoked their permit for a rally in defence of the Telegram messenger due to the large number of people wishing to participate.
Press Release, 27.02.2026 Photo by Sergei Konkov, Kommersant Irkutsk Yabloko leader Grigory Gribenko received a letter from Alexandra Yegorova, head of the Irkutsk Administration’s Department for the Implementation of Public Initiatives, effectively denying the permission to hold a rally in defense of Telegram and “For a Free Internet,” which the administration had issued earlier. The […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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