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 […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 11.09.2021 THE PERM TERRITORY Photo by the Yabloko Press Service KUNGUR The long-awaited meeting with Olga Vshivkova, the head of the “Kungur – the Territory of Goodness” charitable foundation, last year she became a deputy of the City Duma, and has been representing Yabloko there. The Foundation helps people in hardships. […]

Press Release, 10.09.2021 Photo from Sergei Mitrokhin’s personal Facebook page Nina Ostanina, a candidate for State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Central electoral district No. 208, appealed to the District Electoral Commission with a complaint against Sergei Mitrokhin, her rival in a single-mandate constituency from Yabloko.

Press Release, 9.09.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 9 September, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with young entrepreneurs in Moscow. The theme of the event was “Startups. Hope for the Future”. The speakers were Efim Kolodkin, the founder and CEO of the Uprising Agency (the web design and development agency) and the startup […]

Press Release, 8.09.2021 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by Ksenia Cherepanova The Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region recognised Ksenia Cherepanova as a candidate affiliated with a foreign agent organisation. The organisation Ksenia Cherepanova is associated with is the Golos electoral rights movement. Before the elections, this movement was recognized a “foreign agent”. Ksenia Cherepanova […]

7.09.2021 Signed by candidates from the Yabloko party to the State Duma of the Russian Federation September 07, 2021   Signed by citizens of the Russian Federation during voting at polling stations September 19, 2021 DEPUTIES WITHOUT BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES We, the candidates for deputies of the State Duma of Russia, nominated by the Yabloko […]

3.09.2021 Photo: Vladimir Ryzhkov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 September, Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent politician, Professor the Higher School of Economics and Yabloko candidate for the State Duma, turns 55. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Vladimir Ryzhkov on his birthday.