Congratulations from the Yabloko party Chairman, 4.06.2021 Dear residents of Ingushetia, I would like to send you our greetings on the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Ingushetia and wish prosperity to your Republic and its people. During the years of ordeals, showing wisdom and strong will, the residents of Ingushetia fought […]

Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 4.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the President of Russia/ http://www.kremlin.ru The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a depressing sight. Not only because there are many respectable men in expensive suits, traveling in expensive cars in the centre of the city (I saw myself […]

The European Dialogue Expert Group, 3.06.2021 On Monday, 31 May, the first meeting within the framework of the cycle of international online seminars “Time for Women” took place. The topic of the seminars is gender equality and advancement of women, the events are organised by the European Dialogue Expert Group and the Gender Faction of […]

Alexei Chumakov’s blog post, 31.05.2021 Photo: GrinPhoto/depositphotos Many have already heard about the fees for participation in the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021. The topic became relevant after Anastasia Tatulova, Ombudsperson on Small Business, was invited to speak at the forum for 960,000 roubles. This is the cost of a ticket (even for small businesses), […]

Press Release, 28.05.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov declared unlawful the refusal of the authorities to give a permission for Yabloko’s campaign cubes in Saratov and ordered the city administration to review the Yabloko notifications of installation of the cubes again. Earlier, the Saratov administration had not permitted […]

Press Release, 27.05.2021 Photo: Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Uyba. /Photo by kremlin.ru Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party, appealed to the Public Prosecutor General of Russia with a demand to check the legality of actions in the recent event of an oil spill and the ambiguous statements of Vladimir […]

Press Release, 26.05.2021 Photo: Kazan/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Residents of 53 Russian cities will receive the Yabloko party’s newspaper, timed to coincide with the launch of the election campaign. By 15 June, Yabloko plans to distribute 1.5 million newspapers. This issue of the newspaper is devoted to the most urgent topics: the […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 27.05.2021 Photo: Alexei Alexandrov / RIA Novosti On 23 May, 2021, an act of state terrorism was committed in Belarus. On the direct order by Alexander Lukashenko, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was landed in Minsk with the help of deceit (false information about […]

Press Release, 21.05.2021 Full video recording of the opening: An exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the outstanding Soviet academic and human rights defendert Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov opened in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. An exhibition of photographs and quotes of Acad. Sakharov was prepared by the Sakharov Centre * and was to […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]

To the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.05.2021 Photo: Andrei Sakharov. The 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 The prosperity of Russia is possible only if our country develops as a free and democratic state. This condition was once very precisely formulated by Academician Sakharov. Andrei Dmitriyevich […]

Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 17.05.2021 The trade union of the Moscow metro reports mass dismissals of workers – at least 50 people lost their jobs since the beginning of May. However, different figures are quoted: 100 and 200 people. They differ, since not everyone has yet applied to the trade union for protection. The […]

Press Release, 17.05.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Pristensky District municipality The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Kursk Region recognised the refusal of the local authorities to give a permission for a single picket in the village of Pristen as unreasonable and unlawful. The Public Prosecutor’s Office found that the refusal of the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2021 Speaking in the State Duma, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the amount of dividends that Russian companies brought abroad in 2019 amounted to 4.3 trillion roubles (these are passive incomes of companies, dividends, interest, royalties, and rent payments).

Congress Resolution No. 409, published on 14.05.2021 To: The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation The Russian Union of Rectors Heads of institutions of higher education of the Russian Federation Address Persecution of university students for their civic and political activity has become more frequent in Russia. Those who openly express their civil and […]

Press Release, 8.05.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 8 May, on the eve of Victory Day, the Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov and the party delegation laid flowers and wreaths at the memorial to the victims of the siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. “The Piskarevskoye cemetery is a […]

Press Release, 7.05.2021 Leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow in memory of those who died in the Second World War. The ceremony was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of […]

Press Release, 30.04.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, proposing to hold a one-day rather than three-day voting in the elections to be held in September 2021. Rybakov also proposed not to conduct early voting, remote voting and outdoor […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.04.2021 Photo by Yury Belyat / MBKh Media Twenty years ago, a hostile takeover by the state of NTV, the first all-Russian TV channel independent of the state, took place. By common consent, NTV, established in 1993, became a world-class TV channel [in Russia] in a few years. But in 2001, a […]

Condolences, 30.04.2021 Photo by the aldeparty.eu Yesterday night, Hans van Baalen, our colleague and Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), passed away. He was 60 years old. During his political career, Hans was a Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Member of the European Parliament, President of […]