Press Release, 01.12.2021 Photo: Logo of International Memorial Municipal deputies from the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party Konstantin Smirnov, Maria Rakcheyeva, and Anatoly Kivva signed a petition initiated by the Moscow Association of Independent Deputies against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society, the country’s oldest human rights organization, one of the founders […]

Press Release, 24.11.2021 The Moscow City Duma supported two amendments by the Yabloko faction to the Moscow budget for 2022: on the restoration of historical monuments and on grants for Moscow universities. The financing for the implementation of these two amendments exceeds two billion roubles, they will be financed from the reserve fund.

This stimulates construction of new student dormitories Press Release, 24.11.2021 Photo: A student dormitory in Copenhagen / Photo by BOOKYOURSTUDY.BY The Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment submitted by the Yabloko faction envisaging exemption of non-state universities from an organization property tax. This measure will affect non-state universities with state accreditation that have student dormitories […]

Alexei Chumakov on the trends and consequences of imposing secrecy on information Special for the Yabloko web-site, 16.11.2021 Photo: Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister / Photo from Kremlin.ru The protagonists of the animated film The Secret Life of Pets – Chloe the cat, Max the terrier and Gijit the Spitz – face different adventures. Their […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 12.11.2021 Photo: The office of the Memorial human rights society / Photo by Safron Golikov. Kommersant The Public Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit to liquidate Memorial International, a human rights organisation with more than 30 years of history, conducting research of political repression in the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.11.2021 They invented a new role for Dmitry Medvedev, the current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation [and former President and Prime Minister of the RF] , – explaining the policies of the Kremlin and broadcasting unpleasant ideas. Thus, a month ago, the Kommersant [daily] published a provocative […]

Press Release, 2.11.2021 Photo: Andrei Avtoneyev / Photo by Ivanovskiye Novosti The Frunzensky District Court found Andrei Avtoneyev, Chairman of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, guilty of organising a rally in memory of the victims of political repression. Avtoneyev was fined 21,000 roubles, but he will appeal this decision.

Press Release, 29.10.2021 Leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party took part in the action “Returning the Names” and read out the names of citizens shot during the Great Terror 1936-1938 and Stalinist repressions of 1930 – 1953. The action in memory of the victims of political repression has been annually organised by the […]

Press Release, 29.10.2021 On 29 October, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender faction and party activists and supporters laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone monument in Moscow. The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed […]

Press Release, 28.10.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposed to the Regional Assembly to send a request to the Constitutional Court about the violation of the electoral rights of the so-called “foreign agents” and persons associated with them. The MPs rejected this initiative by […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]

Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 15.10.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Democracy is air. One can ask the question, “Do you need air?” People can answer in different ways, but they will suffocate without air. The situation with democracy in our country is understandable, it is obvious. Democracy is the […]

Anatoly Golov’s blog post, 20.10.2021 Photo by mike_laptev/depositphotos.com Recently, President Putin, speaking of the 13,000 fatalities on the roads of the country in 2020, compared this to losses “in military actions”. True. Russia is losing a lot of people in the war that our drivers are waging against Russian roads. However, there is another war, […]

Press Release, 15.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 October, a closed meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party took place in Moscow, 15 out of 17 members took part in it (Igor Artemyev and Svetlana Gannushkina were absent). The main topic of discussion was the results and lessons of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.10.2021   An article on Ukraine published by Vladimir Putin in July was completed yesterday by Dmitry Medvedev. If someone could still doubt the intentions, now everything has become obvious: Russia is moving towards war. There is no point in discussing either the form or the content of what has been published […]

Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 9.10.2021 Photo: Dmitry Muratov and Lev Shlosberg at the Pskov Yabloko office on 2 April, 2019. / Photo by Artyom Avanesov Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the last defenders of free speech in Russia. The last, not in the sense that defenders of freedom of speech […]

Grigory Yavlinsky Fb post, 8.10.2021 Photo: Dmitry Muratov Not many people know about the contribution of Dmitry Muratov [to protection of freedom of speech] in our country. But now they will learn about it – and not only in Russia, but all over the world. The Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta was awarded the Nobel Peace […]

Press Release, 23.09.2021 Infographics by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Voting at home at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant Blue line: voting for United Russia Red line: voting at home Х: annulment of ballots at precinct No. 686 * Based on the data of GAS Vybory system as of 22.09.2021 Yaroslav Shcherbakov, […]

Press Release, 24.09.2021 Photo: Central Electoral Commission meeting. Photo by Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant The Yabloko party demanded from the Central Electoral Commission to invalidate the results of elections of deputies of the State Duma in the federal electoral district. Violations committed during voting and counting of the election results do not allow to reliably […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 12.09.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today in Yekaterinburg, together with Maxim Petlin, Сhairman of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of the party, and Yabloko’s candidates for the State Duma Alexander Kudelkin, Vladislav Postnikov, Albert Khusnutdinov, and Konstantin Kiselev, head of the Yabloko faction in the Yekaterinburg Duma, I came to […]