The human rights defender died at the age of 58 on 14 May Press Release, 17.05.2022 Hundreds of people came to the House of Human Rights in Smolensky Boulevard, Moscow, so that to pay their last respects to Andrei Babushkin: colleagues of Andrei Babushkin in the human rights movement, members of the Presidential Council for […]

Condolences, 14.05.2022 Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 May, Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender and a member of the Yabloko party since 1999, passed away at the age of 58. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, and Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Federal Political Committee of the party, express their […]

Press Release, 14.05.2022 Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the night of 14 May, Andrey Vladimirovich Babushkin, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, passed away at the age of 58.

Condolences, 2.04.2022 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and / Photo by Nikolai Rybakov On 1 April, Alexandra Yakovleva, actress and Chairperson of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko in 2012 – 2020, passed away. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov expresses condolences in connection with her death. We are all mourning for Alexandra Yakovleva. She has been our colleague for […]

Press Release, 6.12.2021 Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Civil funeral rite to commemorate Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, and a Yabloko MP in the State Duma of the second convocation (1995 – 1999), will take place at the Yabloko office (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31, bldg. 2) on […]

Press Release, 4.12.2021 Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Boris Grigorievich Misnik, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, died aged 83, following a serious and long illness on 4 December.

Condolences from Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 26.11.2021 Photo by RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky expressed their condolences to the families of the miners and rescuers killed in the accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine, Kuzbass, the Kemerovo region. 51 people died in the accident. Among the dead were […]

Press Release, 26.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 26 October, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Ivan Bolshakov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov, and ex-candidate of Yabloko in the elections Gleb Tumanov laid flowers at the memorial “In Memory of the Victims of Terrorism” by the “Theatre Centre […]

Press Release, 13.08.2021 Photo: the farewell ceremony / Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page On 13 August, the farewell ceremony for Sergei Kovalev, a legendary human rights activist and a member of the Yabloko party, took place in the Sakharov Centre in Moscow. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory […]

Nikolai Rybakov in memory of Sergei Kovalev, 9.08.2021 Photo: Sergei Kovalev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Sergei Adamovich Kovalev has always been a legendary figure for politicians of my generation. His confrontation with the Soviet regime, the struggle for human rights were, certainly, his internal conviction. I think he would have followed his […]

Grigory Yavlinsky in memory of Sergei Kovalev, 9.08.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Kovalev, 2010. / Photo by Roman Kulguskin Sergei Adamovich Kovalev comes from the generation of human rights defenders who constituted the honour of this movement. Absolute self-forgetfulness, love for people and loyalty to humanistic principles, for which Sergei Adamovich, like his friends […]

Obituary, 9.08.2021 Sergei Kovlev, legendary Soviet dissident and human rights defender, the first Ombudsman of Russia and Yabloko member, passed away at the age of 91 this morning.

Press Release, 12.05.2021 The Yabloko party expresses deep condolences to the families of those killed in Kazan School No. 175 and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured.

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 […]

Condolences by Nikolai Rybakov, 1.12.2020 On 1 December, Irina Antonova, President of the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum passed away at the age of 98. She would have turned 99 in March. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov expresses condolences on behalf of the party and himself:

Condolences from Nikolai Rybakov, 23.11.2020 On 23 November, the famous journalist and human rights activist Lidia Ivanovna Grafova passed away at the age of 83. Lidia Ivanovna collaborated with Yabloko in the protection of migrants’ rights. In 2016, she became the party’s accredited agent in the elections to the State Duma, and in 2018 she […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 3.11.2020 Photo: Nikolay Rybakov by the Embassy of France in Russia There have been quite a lot of  mourning events lately, but this is the political reality in which we live. Together with Yabloko members Ivan Bolshakov, Grigory Grishin and Gleb Tumanov I laid flowers at the Embassy of Austria and […]

FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 7.10.2020 Today is [the 14th anniversary from] the day of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. I brought flowers from Yabloko to the place of her death. 14 years have passed – only one year is left to investigate. Customers are not announced and not held liable. And murders continue.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020​​ On 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, set himself on fire in the very center of Prague, in Wenceslas Square. He took this step in protest against the indifference of society, which resigned itself to the end of democratic reforms, known as the Prague […]

Press Release, 4.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” over the tragic death of Irina Slavina, Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press, who set herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy […]