Mitrokhin explained to the Russian senators that the law on political parties is adopted in favour of the ruling party
Press Release, March 26, 2012.

YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin believes that the full restoration of the right to form electoral blocs will prevent deepening of the political crisis, which is boosted by mass-scale creation of new parties. He made such a statement at the meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation. On March 26 the Committee examined amendments to the new law on political parties...

YABLOKO's Alexander Shishlov on his nomination for the post of Ombudsman in St. Petersburg
Press Release, March 23, 2012.

St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko introduced candidacy of Alexander Shishlov, YABLOKO Bureau member, for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in St.Petersburg.

Here comes Alexander Shishlov’s statement in connection with the nomination:

I am grateful to St.Petersburg Governor for nomination of my candidacy to the post of Human Rights Commissioner in our great city. I am also grateful to all who supports my candidacy.

In case I am elected, my activities on the post of Ombudsman will be based on close cooperation with civil society institutes, critical and positive interaction with the governments and local self-governments for fair, peaceful and lawful solution of a human rights problems in St. Petersburg. I undertake to be unbiased, impartial and objective, regardless of personal preferences on the post of Ombudsman...

Sergei Mitrokhin in the State Duma: a new law on political parties can not be considered as “a victory of common sense” until formation of electoral blocs is permitted
Press Release, Video, March 23, 2012.

The new law on political parties can not be considered “a victory of common sense” as long as the electoral law bans creation of electoral blocs. This statement was made by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin at the hearings of the State Duma. It was the third and final reading of the draft law on liberalization of establishment of political parties.

"What victory of a common sense can we speak about if voters get their ballots with dozens or maybe hundreds of pages innumerating the names of political parties, or when the voter sees unstructured political area and a register of absolutely unknown names of political parties?” Mitrokhin asked deputies of the Duma.

According to Mitrokhin, if the parties are not allowed to make electoral blocs, they will simply disperse the votes, and "a huge number of voters will remain turn out below a 5 per cent threashold” to the Duma, and thus will get no representation in the parliament...

New Moldovan president elected
LI News Bulletin, Issue 275, March 22, 2012

After 917 days of delay, with the required 3/5 majority, Moldova's parliament has finally elected Nicolae Timofti as the new president of the Republic. The 63 years old Timofti is the chairman of the Supreme Council of Magistrates and has pledged wide-ranging reform, Moldovan military neutrality, and moving the country toward European integration. Mr Timofti was nominated for president and backed by Moldova's ruling pro-Western Alliance for European Integration (AIE). Mihai Ghimpu, one of the leaders of the coalition and president of the Liberal Party in Moldova (LI applicant) expressed his satisfaction saying: “We elected a good president and for the remaining three years of mandate we will have to work harder and show results..."

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YABLOKO's protesters detained by the Ostankino television centre in Moscow are finally released.
Press Release, March 18, 2012.

...Kirill Goncharov, leader of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO, and his colleagues Gleb Sitnikov and Oleg Rumyantsev were detained at a protest action against smearing of the public mass-scale protests against elections fraud in a film produced and broadcasted by the NTV channel. Goncharov, Sitnikov, and Rumyantsev were taken to police stations.

According to the police, about 100 people were detained at the action. about 100 people. Valery Borshchyov, member of YABLOKO Bureau and head of the Moscow Public Observers' Commission condemned the police actions...

Pickets in support of Gazaryan and Dutlov take part in different Russian cities
Press Release, March 17, 2012.

YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who is now in Novosibirsk on a working visit participated in a series of pickets in support of the Suren Gazaryan and Viktor Dutlov. Young activists also joined the action in Novosibirsk.

Solidarity actions with the detained environmentalists took place all over Russia. In Moscow, the police detained dozens of picketers, including four members of YABLOKO – Galina Mikhalyova, deputy head of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, and activists Maya Zavyalova, Gleb Sitnikov and Oleg Rumyantsev...

Maxim Petlin, Chair of YABLOKO’s branch in Ekaterinburg, is granted bail
Press Release, March 16, 2012.

..."I am certainly glad that such a decision was adopted. We know that President Medvedev whom I handed the documents on Maxim facilitated the adoption of such a decision. These documents clearly demonstrate that the case was framed up," Mitrokhin said. He also added that imprisonment was an "inadequate measure showing that the case was purely political".

According to Mitrokhin, obvious inability of Maxim Petlin’s family to pay such a bail is the vest evidence that there was corruption in Petlin’s actions, and this also another indirect proof that the accusation in corruption was absurd...

Maxim Petlin, Chair of YABLOKO’s branch in Ekaterinburg, is granted bail
Press Release, March 16, 2012.

Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court refused to extend arrest for Maxim Petlin, leader of Ekaterinburg YABLOKO, and granted him bail amounting to RUR 5 million. Petlin will come out of prison after the bail will be at the account of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region.

Maxim Petlin took an active part in the fight against illegal construction of a recreational centre in the place where a city park was. The fight between YABLOKO and civil activists with the developer - Forum Group - had loud public resonance. Maxim Petlin was the victim of a provocation on the part of the Forum Group and was accused of extorting bribes...

YABLOKO leaders had a meeting with Bundestag deputies
Press Release, March 16, 2012.

YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhalyova, Executive Secretary of the Political Committee, had a meeting with Bundestag deputies from the Free Democratic Party. The German side was represented by Patrick Kurth, MP, and Serkan Toeren, MP, and Maximilian Spinner, Secretary of the Political Department of German Embassy.

Deputies of German Parliament were interested by the progress and assessment of the Russian parliamentary and presidential elections, growth of public activity in Russia and prospects of Russia’s political development. The discussion also evolved around the Russia-EU relations and Germany’s role in their improvement. "Visa-free regime for the Russian citizens to the EU and an anti-ballistic missile defence system that could be developed jointly with NATO are the initiatives of our party that we put forward as early as in 1990s," Sergei Mitrokhin stressed.

A meeting of YABLOKO leaders with Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Liberal Group in the European Parliament
Press Release, March 5, 2012.

Grigory Yavlinsky said that the main objective of all the opposition forces in Russia should be radical change in the socio-political system rather than simply a replacement of top officials. He said this during a meeting with representatives of the European Parliament's Liberal Group (ALDE). The sides discussed the political situation in Russia after the presidential elections and prospects for further development.

The meeting was held on March 5 in YABLOKO’s office. Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the liberals in the European Parliament and ex Prime Minister of Belgium, Renaldas Vaisbrodas, Political Adviser, ALDE, Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO Chairman, Galina Mikhalyova, Executive Secretary of the Political Council and head of the Gender faction and Olga Radayeva, International Secretary...

Environmentalist Suren Gazaryan and lawyer Viktor Dutlov get ten days of imprisonment on a framed-up case
Press Release, March 14, 2012.

Tuapse. On March 14 Suren Gazaryan, environmentalist and YABLOKO member, and Viktor Dutlov, lawyer, YABLOKO member and activist of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, detained by the country cottage of Governor of the Krasnodar Terriroty Tkachyov a day earlier, got ten days of administrative arrest for “non-obeying to the lawful orders of police”. The judge refused to call the witnesses of the defence, as well as to consider audio and video recordings proving innocence of Gazaryan and Dutlov.

On March 13 Gazaryan and his attorney Dutlov approached the Governor’s cottage so that to inspect the “damages” (graffiti) they had allegedly made to the fence. Such inspection was required for their defence in court (as they were accused in damaging the fence) and was sanctioned by the investigator. When activists approached the fence, the guards came out and put handcuffs on the activists. Gazaryan was beaten by one of the guards...

Liberals re-elected to parliament in Slovakia
ELDR Press Release, March 14, 2012.

On Saturday, snap parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia. Thanks to a great campaign, ELDR’s Slovak member Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS, Freedom and Solidarity) gained some 6 % of the votes and returned 11 MPs to the 150-strong Slovak Parliament. SaS were particularly strong in the larger cities, scoring around 15 % in the country’s capital Bratislava.

“In a difficult political landscape, it is delighting to see SaS Leader Richard Sulík and his party being able to build on young structures and get re-elected”, commented ELDR President Sir Graham Watson MEP, and continued “I will visit Bratislava shortly to discuss projects of mutual interest between SaS and ELDR – as well as to obviously convey my personal words of congratulations to the SaS leadership”...

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European Parliament backs quotas for women
Press Release, ALDE, March 13, 2012

Sophie in 't Veld, (D66, Netherlands), Parliament's rapporteur on the annual report on the state of gender equality in the EU for 2011, is pleased with the result of today's vote, calling on the Commission to table legislation, including quotas, by the end of 2012, to increase female participation in corporate management boards. Measures to combat the lack of women at the top, both in business and in political decision making, were discussed during a heated debate in the European Parliament this week. Progress remains very slow, despite numerous EU policies aimed at achieving a better gender-balance...

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Sergei Mitrokhin asks Public Prosecutor General to investigate the aims and goals of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev with Silvio Berluskoni
Press Release, March 12, 2012.

Today YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin have sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor Generals' office asking to check whether there was a conflict of interests in the recent meeting between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Italian citizen and businessman Silvio Berlusconi.

Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Silvio Berlusconi on March 8-9. It should be also noted that ex Prime Minister of Italy is under investigation in Italy for a number of criminal cases related to corruption. Also he does not occupy any government post at present and is a private person - a billionaire and owner of the FinInvest financial holding...

The Green Russia faction conducted an action commemorating the tragic anniversary of nuclear disaster at Fukushima
Press Release, March 13, 2012.

YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction conducted a memorial action commemorating the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The action was held on the first anniversary of the disaster on the nuclear power plant.

Environmentalists held pickets in Volgograd, Petrozavodsk, Sosnoviy Bor, Ulan-Ude, Ufa, Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Chita, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The participants of the actions tried to draw attention of the Russian citizens to the dangerous consequences of the nuclear industry, and distributed leaflets "Rosatom, shut down your Fukushimas!"

Galina Mikhalyova: in ten years a woman may become President of Russia.

Voice of America, 11 March 2012
...Viktor Vasilyev: President Medvedev complained during his meeting with women (on the eve of the Women’s Day) that in Russia there were very few women in politics. How can we explain such a situation?

Galina Mikhalyova: The system functions in such a way. As a rule there are no women in power in authoritarian regimes, and in democracies there are many of them on the top. There are special mechanisms encouraging such a promotion of women. [President] Medvedev was not going to change anything here. And speaking about Mr Putin, he does not even have it in his thoughts. He's such a super-macho... When he was in power, women’s problems were not mentioned at all.

Viktor Vasilyev: So, you don’t expect any positive changes in the nearest future, do you?
Galina Mikhalyova: No, there are no positive changes, while negative changes are obvious. There are few women in the State Duma. There is no public institution that would deal with our problems, for example, a Presidential Council or a council under the Government or a Commissioner for Women's Rights, as in other countries. Salaries [of Russian women] consitute two-thirds [from those of men]. In several regions people who have small children have to go on hunger strike so that to get a place for their child in a kindergarten. Pregnant women are not paid their benefits or get fired. But the state argues that it has nothing to do with this disgrace...

YABLOKO leaders Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at a rally in Novy Arbat prospect, Moscow
Press Release, March 10, 2012.

YABLOKO leaders Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at a rally in Novy Arbat prospect, Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin gave his time for the speech to Alexei Sklyarov, Editor-in-Chief the Pulse television company in Azov. It is the only independent television company in southern Russia, however, local authorities began pressing the company after Alexei Sklyarov headed the League of Voters in Azov.

"We together with the League of Voters conducted monitoring and control over voting [at elections] across the country. And once again I would like to state that the elections of March 4 were rigged. We are not going to make speeches today, we would like to give the time allotted for our speeches to a unique person - Alexei Sklyarov. He is the head of the only free, independent television company in the southern Russia. His television company has been attacked because he together with YABLOKO monitored the elections," Sergei Mitrokhin told to the protesters...

Grigory Yavlinsky addressed the participants of the rally with n a brief speech, "Friends, I am glad to meet you again. It is already my sixth speech at a rally for the past three months. I remember every word I said. We will accomplish all this. The road is long and difficult. The victory in the fight will not come soon, but it will come. Russia will be free. Russia demands changes!"

Grigory Yavlinsky’s statement prepared for the rally in Novy Arbat* on March 10
March 9, 2012.

If I have a chance to speak at the rally on March 10, I would demanded the following from the authorities:
- release of political prisoners;
- show mercy and pardon those who committed minor offenses;
- stop unlawful prosecution of businessman Alexei Kozlov;
- investigate all the cases of fraud at [parliamentary] elections of December 4 and [presidential] elections of March 4, punish the guilty, completely reform the Central Electoral Commission and dismiss Vladimir Churov, head of the commission;
- immediately consider together with the newly emerging public committees for political reform proposals for the radical change of the electoral system and to adopt such proposals.

We continue fighting for what I and Sergei Mitrokhin spoke about at the rallies on December 10, December 17, December 24, demonstration of February 4 and on March 5:
- complete replacement of the present closed authoritarian, oligarchic, inhuman political system and legal removal of the ruling group headed by Vladimir Putin from governing;
- creation in Russia of a system in which law would be the same for everybody, property - inviolable and the court - independent;
- creation of committees for political reform across the country, freedom of media from censorship and uniting of the democratic forces;
- development of a political, economic, moral and personal ALTERNATIVE to the present regime which would be able to win in a peaceful and legitimate political struggle...

LI President and Yabloko leadership on Russian elections
LI News Bulletin, Issue 273, March 7, 2012

LI President Hans van Baalen MEP questioned the democratic character of the Russian Presidential elections which took place on 5 March 2012. Van Baalen characterised them as "neither free nor fair like the parliamentary elections held earlier. Putin rules over a facade democracy. The institutions are in place but the democratic spirit is absent. LI, ELDR and ALDE will support the courageous democratic opposition in Russia which is so much needed today." Leader Grigory Yavlinsky of Yabloko (LI Full Member) called for a "real political, economic and most importantly, moral alternative." "We will create this alternative. We will make them conduct new elections and we will win those elections," Yavlinsky said. Yabloko Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin said that Putin won an unfair game. "This wasn't honest, but cowardice and meanness. It was not only carousels and stuffing of ballots which brought him victory. Putin won ousting the only candidate — Yavlinsky — who had no fear of criticizing him," Mitrokhin commented. The OSCE election-monitoring report concluded that there had been "no real competition".

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Russia's presidential election marked by unequal campaign conditions, active citizens' engagement, international observers say
OSCE Press Release, March 5, 2012

MOSCOW, 5 March 2012 – Although candidates in yesterday’s presidential election in the Russian Federation were able to campaign unhindered, conditions were clearly skewed in favour of one of the contestants, current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the international observers concluded in a statement issued today.

The observers noted that all candidates had access to the media, but the Prime Minister was given a clear advantage over his competitors in terms of media presence. In addition, state resources were mobilized at the regional level in his support. Also, overly restrictive candidate registration requirements limited genuine competition...

"This election showed a clear winner with an absolute majority, avoiding a second round. However, voter's choice was limited, electoral competition lacked fairness and an impartial referee was missing. Due to increased citizen's awareness and involvement elections were more lively, better managed and more seriously observed, whereas structural improvements in electoral regulation were proposed to Parliament – but not yet passed," said Tiny Kox, the Head of the delegation of Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly.

"There were serious problems from the very start of this election. The point of elections is that the outcome should be uncertain. This was not the case in Russia. There was no real competition and abuse of government resources ensured that the ultimate winner of the election was never in doubt," said Tonino Picula, the Special Co-ordinator to lead the short-term OSCE observer mission and Head of the delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly...

Over half candidates nominated and supported by YABLOKO won municipal elections on March 4
Press Release, March 6, 2012.

Over half (44 out of total 86) candidates nominated and supported by YABLOKO and the Democratic Choice won municipal elections in Moscow on March 4; whereas 36 of these 44 newly elected deputies of municipal councils come from YABLOKO and eight people represent the Democratic Choice.

Andrei Babushkin, Vice-Chairman of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO won the race in Otradnoe, Moscow, with 43 per cent of vote and YABLOKO's Zoya Shargatova running in Dorogomilovo, Moscow, won with 46 per cent of the vote...

Russian presidential election: Liberals condemn stacked election
ELDR Press Release, March 5, 2012.

Preliminary results have shown that Vladimir Putin will complete his long-expected return as Russia's president after polling around 63% in yesterday's election, thus avoiding the need for a second round. Commenting on the outcome of the election, ELDR President Sir Graham Watson MEP stated, "there are wide-spread and seemingly justified reservations about the extent to which this was a free and fair contest, not only in the way the procedures were conducted on the day itself, but in the handling of the process from the very beginning, including the refusal to register some candidatures."

Despite much publicised initiatives to make these elections fair and transparent, such as the installation of closed circuit television cameras at polling stations, the electoral process as a whole has been widely condemned as favoring the Putin campaign from the outset.

Evidence of this stretches back to the refusal by the Russian Central Electoral Commission to register opposition candidates, including former YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky on the grounds of perceived irregularities when in fact political engineering of the elections was the more likely reason.

On what the future may hold, Sir Graham added that Putin should not expect the Russian people to blindly accept his rule. "Vladimir Putin might have got his way in so far as the outcome of the election is concerned, but the demonstrations that have taken place since December's parliamentary elections and the increasing criticism that he is facing from significant sections of the population and media show that he will not be in for an easy ride over the next six years. The extent of ill-feeling towards President Putin may even cast doubt on his ability to serve the full-term unless he fundamentally addresses issues related to the rule of law and the democratic, economic and social development of Russian society".

YABLOKO leaders spoke at the rally For Fair Elections at the Pushkin square
Press Release, March 5, 2012.

YABLOKO leaders Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the rally For Fair Elections which took place at the Pushkin square, Moscow.

Sergei Mitrokhin said that statements made by Vladimir Churov, head of the Central Electoral Commission, that elections was fair was a blatant lie. The hot line organised jointly by YABLOKO and the Voter’ League got thousands of calls from observers and voters on violations.

Mitrokhin also reiterated that the December slogan “Churov must go!” emerging after parliamentary elections of December 2011 was still on the agenda. The participants had unanimously chanted this slogan together with Mitrokhin...

Grigory Yavlinsky’s appeal to protesters
Novaya Gazeta, March 5, 2012.

...I am appealing to all the opposition political leaders who are organising protest actions and inviting people to join them: if violence takes place during these days, it will lead to dramatic weakening of the opposition and will cause a long-lasting setback. It is our responsibility and our task to avert violence and prevent provocations. In complex and unpredictable circumstances, in dealing with the authorities who most often do not want any compromises on the substance of the matter and who at the same time possess great experience and traditions of political reprisals, it is possible to preserve people's trust only by avoiding and preventing violence in every way and at the same time advancing steadily toward the goal - peaceful radical transformation of the authoritarian, inoperative and inhuman political system...

On the contrary, we should prove to all our potential supporters that we can be trusted and that we clearly understand the aims and goals of the democratic protest movement not as our own self-expression but as the defence of the interests of citizens who vitally need large-scale, serious and responsible changes in Russia. Only in this case will the number of our supporters throughout the country become ever greater. Only by following this path will we become responsible spokesmen for the opinion of a significant section of Russian society...

An arranged marriage.
Novaya Gazeta, January 25, 2012.

Voters’ signatures to register Grigory Yavlinsky were rejected, because the authorities don’t need an excessive amount of competition in the first ballot.

Russland vor der Whal
Interview mit Galina Michaleva, 2 Maerz, 2012.

In Russland wird ein neuer Präsident gewählt. Rund 100 Millionen Russen sind aufgerufen über ihr neues Staatsoberhaupt abzustimmen. Aussichtsreichster Kandidat ist ein alter Bekannter im Amt des Staatspräsidenten - Wladimir Putin. Nicht nur deshalb gab es im Vorfeld der Wahl soviel Trubel wie seit langem nicht mehr. Vor einem Monat zum Beispiel demonstrierten gleichzeitig mehr als 200.000 Gegner und Anhänger Putins in Moskau. Über die Wahlen und den Kandidaten Putin sprach Nordwestradio-Moderator Tom Grote mit Galina Michaleva, Politikwissenschaftlerin und Gastwissenschaftlerin der Forschungssstelle Osteuropa an der Uni Bremen und Exekutivsekretärin des Politischen Komitees und Vorsitzende der Genderfraktion der liberalen Partei "Jabloko".

Head of Central Electoral Commission decided to "ban" YABLOKO's observers
Press Release, March 2, 2012.

YABLOKO has obtained information that the Central Electoral Commission has been preparing a letter to the subordinate commissions demanding not to let journalists and observers from YABLOKO's paper YABLOKO ROSSII come to the polling stations...

"Such a decision by the Central Electoral Commission would mean that the authorities decided to go for a grand-scale fraud," Mitrokhin said.

According to Mitrokhin, at December parliamentary elections YABLOKO's observers detected most of the violations and fraud. If dozens of thousands of YABLOKO's observes are not allowed to monitor the elections, they will go into the streets on the next day, March 5.

Elections in Russia: this is only the start
By Alexander Shishlov, March 2, 2012.

March 4 marks the date when the people will vote in Russia: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to assume the Russian Presidency for the third time. Unlike the first two times, however, his support is melting on this occasion. A demand for change is building in the country. More and more people are no longer prepared to put up with the lies, corruption, abuses and falsification in the elections.

It is impossible to call what we are witnessing at present free and fair elections. There are no independent courts, while the authorities control all national TV channels. At the same time we can see the administrative pressure on the mass media and the abuses of electoral commissions – the official voting results have little in common with the actual expression of will of the electorate.

Political competition on 4 March has been reduced to simulation – each of the registered “opposition” candidates to the President embodies a specific segment of the political system created by Putin. The only candidate, who represented a democratic alternative to the system – Grigory Yavlinsky, who was nominated by Yabloko – was not allowed to run in the elections on the pretext of casuistic chicanery over the quality of the signatures gathered in his support...

YABLOKO’s observers will work in the Russian embassies and consulates in 36 countries
Press Release, March 1, 2012.

...To date 170 Russian citizens who are currently abroad decided to become observers from the YABLOKO ROSSII paper helping the YABLOKO party to monitor voting in the Russian embassies and consulates on March 4...

In addition, the YABLOKO’s activists will control voting in Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Thailand, Australia, Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Israel, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Kenya, China, Luxembourg , Morocco, Norway, Poland, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Finland, Montenegro, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, South Africa and Japan...