YABLOKO will not support government draft for reforming RAO UES
Press Release. July 18, 2002
The YABLOKO faction will not support the draft for reforming RAO UES proposed by the RF Government. This statement was made by Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma Igor Artemyev to Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andrei Sharonov during a meeting between representatives of the Ministry for Economic Development and deputies and experts of the YABLOKO faction held on July 18, 2002.

The court has satisfied the libel suit filed by the leader of the YABLOKO party Grigory Yavlinsky against APN Agency of Political News
Press Release July 10, 2002
Zamoskvoretsky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow satisfied the libel suit filed by the Chairman of the Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky against the Internet Agency of Political News (APN).

The court recognised the information spread by the Noviy Peterburg newspaper about Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO to be libel
Press Release July 3, 2002
Dzerzhinsky Federal Court of the Central District of St.Petersburg satisfied the libel action filed by the Chairman of the Russian democratic Party YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky against the Noviy Peterburg newspaper.

Representatives of the democratic forces created a Coordination Committee to oppose fascism, extremism, xenophobia and nationalism
Press Release, July 4, 2002
Representatives of democratic forces created a Coordination Committee to organise and coordinate a mass-scale campaign of non-violence to oppose fascism, extremism, xenophobia and nationalism.

Igor Artemyev joins the working group responsible for the development of laws to reform the electricity sector
Press Release, July 4, 2002
On the instructions of the Yabloko faction, Igor Artemyev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Credit Organisations and Financial Markets of the State Duma and Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction, joined the working group (created jointly with the Government and the Federation Council) responsible for the development of agreed variants of the package of draft laws for state regulation of electricity and heat, as well as reforms in the electricity sector.

YABLOKO: Federation Council members should be elected
Press Release, June 28, 2002
On June 28, 2002, draft law "On the procedure for forming the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation" prepared by deputies of the Yabloko faction Sergei Ivanenko, Igor Artemyev and Sergei Mitrokhin was submitted to the State Duma.