Press Release, 20.06.2023

Photo: Letter from political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov to Boris Vishnevsky

Yabloko goes on conducting in its regional offices traditional actions in support of Russian political prisoners. Political prisoners do not have summer season or holidays. That is why it is so important not to stop supporting those behind bars. Yabloko has developed an instruction for writing and sending letters, so that people can get in touch with political prisoners even if they do not have the opportunity to come to one of the Yabloko offices for the action.

The importance of supporting those deprived of their liberty is confirmed by political prisoners themselves, who answer our letters with words of gratitude and good wishes.

Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party, received a letter from politician Andrei Pivovarov, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony in Karelia. Pivovarov expresses his gratitude to all who write to him and says that Yabloko has remained the last stronghold of freethinking and democracy in Russia.

“I would like to wish you strength and patience, you now need them in freedom no less than we here [in prison].”

Here go the dates and places where Yabloko will hold actions in support of political prisoners in June.

21 JUNE, WEDNESDAY:

The action will be held in the regional offices of Yabloko in St. Petersburg and Smolensk.

JUNE 23, FRIDAY:

The action will be held in the Stavropol regional office of Yabloko.

JUNE 27, TUESDAY:

The action will be held in the Yabloko office in Vladivostok.

THURSDAY 29 JUNE:

The actions will be held in Voronezh, Tomsk and Moscow. In Moscow the action of writing letters will be combined with a poetry evening and a concert.

JUNE 30, FRIDAY:

The action of writing letters will be held in the party offices in Novgorod, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan and Chelyabinsk.