Archive for 'Condolences'
Olga Shnyrova, Director of the Ivanovo Centre for Gender Studies and Yabloko member, has passed away
Condolences, 7.11.2025 Photo: Olga Shnyrova / Photo from social media The Yabloko party announces with deep regret the death of Olga Vadimovna Shnyrova, human rights defender, educator, director of the Ivanovo Centre for Gender Studies, and head of Yabloko’s local branch in Frunzensky District of Ivanovo.
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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“He is the embodiment of honour, principled conviction and unbending civic stance”: farewell to human rights defender Valery Borshchev in Moscow
Press Release, 10.11.2025 Photo: Valery Borshchev was buried at Nikolo-Arkhangelsky Cemetery in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Sunday, 9 November, Moscow held the funeral of one of the most outstanding human rights defenders — of both contemporary Russia and the Soviet era — Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev. He passed away on 3 […]
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“A loyal and sincere friend, our moral compass, an impeccably honest and decent person” Grigory Yavlinsky on the passing of Valery Borshchev
Condolences from Grigory Yavlinsky, 3.11.2025 Photo: Valery Borshchev at his home / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 November, Valery Vasilyevich Borshchev, Soviet dissident, Russian human rights defender, one of the founders of the Yabloko party and leader of its human rights faction, passed away. Yabloko Federal Political Committee Chairman Grigory Yavlinsky expressed […]
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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Human rights defender and Yabloko Federal Political Committee member Valery Borshchev has passed away
Press Release, 3.11.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 November 2025, Valery Borshchev, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, leader of the Human Rights Faction, and co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, passed away at the age of 82, after a prolonged illness. Soviet dissident and Russian politician, human rights defender and […]
Posted: November 12th, 2025 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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He was a man of peace
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.04.2025 Pope Francis has passed away. To die during Holy Week is to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Such a death at such a time may signify eternal life. The spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics since March 2013, Francis was the first Pope from Latin America and the first Jesuit to […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Condolences.
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A brave person who defended the weak. Yabloko bid farewell to Galina Mikhaleva
Press Release, 4.03.2025 Today, Yabloko bid farewell to Galina Mikhailovna Mikhaleva, founder and Chairwoman of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, Doctor of Political Science, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. The farewell ceremony was attended by Galina Mikhaleva’s relatives, friends and colleagues in politics, defence of human rights, academic work, […]
Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Condolences, Gender Faction, Без рубрики.
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Galina Mikhaleva, a recognised leader of the women’s rights movement in Russia, has passed away
28.02.2025 Photo: Galina Mikhaleva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the evening of 27 February, Galina Mikhailovna Mikhaleva, founder and Chairperson of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, doctor of political sciences, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, passed away after a serious illness. Galina Mikhaleva was an outstanding […]
Posted: February 28th, 2025 under Condolences.
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On the 10th anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, Yabloko in Moscow and the regions honours the memory of the politician
Press Release, 27.02.2025 Photo: Yabloko delegation on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge Today is the 10th anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder. In Moscow, Yabloko members came to the site of Boris Nemtsov’s murder on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge by the Kremlin and to his grave at the Troekurovsky Cemetery. In St. Petersburg, Yabloko members brought flowers […]
Posted: February 27th, 2025 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sergei Ivanenko passed away
Press Release, 4.09.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, on 4 September, 2024, Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party and Chairman of the Moscow branch of the party, passed away at the age of 65. Sergei Ivanenko was an MP of the State Duma of the first three convocations (1993 – 2003), […]
Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences.
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20 years since the tragedy in the Beslan school. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Belsan school
Telegram channel by Nikolai Rybakov, 3.09.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service It is 20 years since the Beslan tragedy. Together with the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko party, Kirill Goncharov, I came to the Moscow memorial to the victims of the Beslan [school attack]. On 1 September, 2004, terrorists took more than 1,000 […]
Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko in Moscow to honour the memory of the victims of the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo from open sources Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Human rights defender. Politician. Poet. Man. An event in memory of Andrei Babushkin was held at Yabloko
Press Release, 15.05.2024 On 14 May, on the second anniversary of the death of Andrei Babushkin, an event in memory of the human rights defender, Yabloko member since 1999, Chairman of the public human rights charity organisation Committee for Civil Rights and a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human […]
Posted: May 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko invites all to an Andrei Babushkin commemoration event and the launch of a book dedicated to him
Press Release, 3.05.2024 On 14 May, an event in memory of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin will be held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and a member of the Yabloko Federal Bureau, passed away on 14 […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Condolences, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Moscow and Russian regions paid tribute to the memory of those killed in the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall
Press Release, 28.03.2024 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and members of the Yabloko Bureau, Moscow. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A week has passed since the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall, in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. The Yabloko delegation, consisting of party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and members of the Federal Bureau, paid tribute to […]
Posted: March 28th, 2024 under Condolences, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko expresses condolences to the next-of-kin and friends of those killed in the act of terror in the Crocus concert hall in Moscow
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.03.2024 Photo from social media The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the next-of-kin and friends of those killed in a monstrous act of terror in the Crocus concert hall in Moscow. Their grief is immeasurable, and we are mourning with them. We wish a speedy recovery to those injured during […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2024 under Condolences, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Nine years since the murder of Boris Nemtsov
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 27.02.2024 Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should be a peaceful country. He was a sincere person and a Russian patriot. This determined his political views. Exactly nine years ago, on 27 February, 2015, Nemtsov was shot. In the back. Right next to the Kremlin walls. The authorities bear political responsibility for […]
Posted: February 27th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Navalny became a victim of political repression
Condolences by Grigory Yavlinsky, 16.02.2024 The death of Alexei Navalny is a great tragedy. Whatever its immediate cause, Alexei became a victim of political repression. Navalny was an opponent of the regime and ended up in the penal colony mainly for his political activities. The conditions of his detention, numerous imprisonments in the punitive isolation […]
Posted: February 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny
Statement by the Yabloko party on the death of Alexei Navalny 16.02.2024 The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny. Responsibility for Alexei Navalny’s death lies with the authorities of our country. His death occurred in penal colony conditions that were essentially torture. The death of Alexei Navalny must be […]
Posted: February 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leaders honoured the memory of politician Galina Starovoytova in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 20.11.2023 On the day of the 25th anniversary of the murder of State Duma MP and politician Galina Starovoytova, Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko Alexander Shishlov, and Yury Shein, member of the Registrar Council of the Moscow Yabloko and General Director of the Regional Public Fund for Support of Science, […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2023 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“A prominent Russian scholar, educator and statesman.” Yevgeny Yasin passed away
Condolences, 26.09.2023 Photo: Yevgeny Yasin /Photo by Maxim Kimerling, Kommersant On 25 September, economist Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin passed away. Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky expressed condolences on the death of Yevgeny Yasin.
Posted: September 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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