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 […]

Condolences, 28.09.2020 Yury Orlov was a real hero. His whole life has been evidence of this: he participated in the war, was an outstanding physicist and, like the best people of his time, advocated human rights, gradually making it his main task in life. The Moscow Helsinki Group, of which Yury Orlov was one of […]

17.06.2020 We deeply grieve over the death of Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov, a wonderful person and a great doctor, who was close to us. Sincerely, the Yabloko party *** Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (November 1, 1928 – June 15, 2020) – Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the […]

Press Release, 8.06.2020 Colleagues of Larissa Yudina, members of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina, opposition journalist, human rights activist, politician and Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia.

Condolences by Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 4.02.2020 Photo: Teodor Shanin Today, Teodor Shanin, outstanding social scientist and founder of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (“Shaninka”) passed away in his 90th year.   Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party: Teodor Shanin was an amazing person, with a fate extraordinary even […]

Press Release, 10.12.2019 On 10 December, ex-Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov died aged 83. The condolences to the family of the deceased were expressed by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, who worked with Luzhkov in the Committee for the Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR which exercised […]

Condolences from Yabloko leaders, 12.11.2019 On 12 November, Vladimir Gridin, leader of the Mordovian branch of Yabloko, passed away at the age of 65. Yabloko leaders expressed condolences in connection with the death of the founder of Mordovian Yabloko: We have lost our faithful comrade, Vladimir Yevgenievich Gridin, founder and leader of the Mordovian branch […]

Grigory Yavlinsky pays tribute to the memory of the legendary human rights defender Condolences from Grigory Yavlinsky, 28.10.2019 Vladimir Bukovsky, legendary human rights defender and Soviet dissident died at the age of 76. In 2007, Bukovsky supported Yabloko in the State Duma elections; in 2008, Yabloko supported Bukovsky’s nomination for the presidency of Russia. Grigory […]

9.10.2019 Today Boris Nemtsov could have turned 60. In February 2015, Boris was killed, shot right by the walls of the Kremlin… We have known each other since 1990. We worked together, were friends. Boris was a very sincere and very free person. In recent years, he openly, vividly and sharply opposed the authorities. And […]

Condolences, 28.07.2019 Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr. was a very good person and journalist – serious and deep. The best of his creative years fell on the time of our common hopes for change. He in many ways personified the true freedom of speech. Let his memory last forever. Sincerely, Emilia Slabunova

Condolences, 6.05.2019 Condolences to the families of those killed in the terrible accident at Sheremetyevo. 41 victims! An increasingly terrible price paid for the failures of import substitution, anti-sanctions and a “special [Russian] way”. It is necessary to immediately stop the flights of the SSJ 100 until finding out the causes of the accident and […]