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 […]

Condolences, 8.12.2018 On 8th December, one of the founders and Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 91, passed away. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova and Chair of Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky expressed their condolences: Lyudmila Alexeyeva began fighting for human rights when this activity was far from being popular in the Soviet […]

Press Release, 3.12.2018 Writer Andrei Bitov died in Moscow in the 82nd year of his life. He was considered the founder of postmodernism in Russian literature. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, expressed his condolences on the passing of renowned Russian writer: Andrei Bitov is a writer whose sense […]