Press Release, 19.02.2018

Dmitry Muratov, publisher of the oppositional Novaya Gazeta newspaper, will come to Petrozavodsk, Karelia, as electioneering agent of candidate for the presidency of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky. The visit will take place on 20 February.

At 11:00 Dmitry Muratov will meet with Karelian journalists and representatives of the Journalists’ Union of Karelia. The meeting will be held at the address: Petrozavodsk, Lenin Avenue, 21 (Hotel Severnaya, large meeting hall).

At 15:15 the publisher of Novaya Gazeta will meet with local residents at the address: Petrozavodsk, Alexander Nevsky Ave. 30, “Nevsky Passage”.

At 16:15 Dmitry Muratov will talk with the victims of the construction company SANA. Address: Petrozavodsk, str. Kalinin, 4, room 323 (OOO Gubernia).

At 17:30 he will meet with the residents of the region. The meeting will be held at the Severnaya Hotel (large meeting hall) at the address: Petrozavodsk, Lenin Avenue 21.

During the visit, Dmitry Muratov will also give interview to local media.

Publisher Dmitry Muratov is Co-Chairman of the Public Support Headquarters of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky. The co-chairpersons of the headquarters are  such famous people as politician Vladimir Ryzhkov and Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The public headquarters works in parallel with Yavlinsky’s election headquarters and is focused on explaining the candidate’s programme to voters and attracting more supporters to Grigory Yavlinsky.

Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Research University “Higher School of Economics.” At the 20th Yabloko congress (December 22, 2017) Grigory Yavlinsky was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Russia to run in the March 18, 2018 elections.

Grigory Yavlinsky participated in the presidential elections twice. In 1996, he represented a democratic alternative to the policy of the Boris Yeltsin’s administration, and in 2000 he was the only democratic politician running against Vladimir Putin, Yavlinsky then came third and received 18.6% in Moscow with a turnout of 67.1%. In 2012, Grigory Yavlinsky, who expressed the demands of the civil protest movement, was not allowed to participate in the presidential election for political reasons.

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