Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO“I beg you to write to me! It helps me a lot…” Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at Yabloko

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“I beg you to write to me! It helps me a lot…” Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at Yabloko

Press Release, 01.02.2022

Photo: Cheboksary / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at the central and regional offices of the Yabloko party past week and at the beginning of this week. Several hundred postcards and envelopes will go to penal colonies and pre-trial detention centres to Mikhail Afanasyev, Alexei Gorinov, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Alexei Navalny, Alexander Skochilenko, Andrei Boyarshinov, Lilia Chanysheva, Mikhail Krieger, Olga Smirnova, Viktoria Petrova, Natalia Filonova, Sergei Mikhailov and many other politicians, journalists and civic activists who are unjustly deprived of their freedom and are waiting for news and words of support “from the outside”.

Photo: Saratov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

“… It is the duty of every person to push the horizon of freedom by his actions, so that the light illuminates and defeats the darkness… I beg you to write to me! It helps me a lot… I just want to be a journalist, faithful to my profession to the end and defend its values. I am waiting for letters,” Mikhail Afanasyev, a Yabloko member and journalist from Khakassia, wrote in a reply to the activists of the Altai branch of Yabloko.

Photo: Vladivostok / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Yabloko reminds that actions in support of political prisoners are held monthly. In Moscow, 60 civil activists prepared 311 postcards and letters for 63 political prisoners, the participants of the actions in Moscow recited their own poems and poems by political prisoners, live music was played. In St.Petersburg, more than 150 letters were written at the action, also an exhibition of the artist and civil activist Yelena Osipova was opened on this day at the Yabloko office in St.Petersburg.

Photo: St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Yabloko prepared a special guide so that to help those who will write letters to political prisoners to find the addresses and make sure that the letter is not stopped by censors. In Moscow postcards and a mailbox are located on the ground floor at the central office of the Yabloko party (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31 bldg 2), and are available to everyone during business hours. One can also take a postcard from a regional Yabloko office or find out there the date of the next action in support of political prisoners.