by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]

Press release, 2.09.2018 Yabloko activists participated in protest actions against raising the retirement age in 14 cities of Russia. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova made a speech at the rally in Omsk while Yabloko’s Political Committee member Sergei Mitrokhin delivered his address in Moscow.

01.09.2018 Dear friends! The 20,000 rubles [approx. 250 euros] rate of pension by 2024 which the President promised in his latest address is a shame! It is really hard to survive on 20,000 rubles a month even now not to mention what will be in 6 years time. https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1955130144785394/

Press Release, 29.08.2018 Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on the need to direct additional oil and gas revenues to the elimination of third and second shifts in Russian schools.

Press Release, 30.08.2018   On Sunday, 2 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will come to Omsk to address the rally against raising the retirement age. The Omsk branch of Yabloko is a co-organiser of the rally. Yabloko’s Tatyana Nagibina will be the anchor at the rally.   The rally will take place at the address […]

The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]

Press Release, 28.08.2018 On Sunday, 2 September, the Yabloko party will take part in the all-Russian action against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committee of the action.   The geography and format of the actions is as follows (more details will be […]

Press Release, 20.08.2018 On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action […]

Press Release, 21.08.2018 On 21 August, a series of single-person pickets against raising the retirement age were held by the State Duma. The picketing was timed to parliamentary hearings on the pension reform. Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin   Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Chairman of the Moscow Rescue Committee, participated […]

Press Release, 03.08.2018 On 3 August, the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party, together with the representatives of the libertarian movement, held a picket at the public reception of the ruling United Russia party. Deputies of this party voted for adoption in the first reading of the law on raising the retirement age.

Rallies and demonstrations will be held in Moscow and Russia’s regions on 2 September Press Release, 08.08.2018 The second wave of actions against government’s plans to raise the retirement age will begin on 2 September. The Confederation of Labour of Russia coordinating part of the protests reports that actions against the government’s reform took place […]

Rallies against the pension reform were held in Moscow and Russia’s regions Press Release, 30.07.2018 Rallies against raising the retirement age were held in many regions of Russia past weekend. The Yabloko party participated in the organisation of the events. In Moscow, the action in Sakharov Prospect gathered about 6,000 people. Anastasia Bryukhanova, 24-year-old municipal […]

Visas should be cancelled also for tourists from OECD, EU and BRICS countries Press Release, 20.07.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans, but also for residents of countries that give Russia the largest number of tourists. According to Yabloko, visas for tourists from OECD, […]

Press Release, 19.07.2018 On 18  July, the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party held a second mass rally against raising the retirement age. About 300 people took part in it. The participants unanimously adopted a resolution in which they expressed no-confidence of President Putin, demanded the resignation of  Dmitry Medvedev’s government and labelled the ruling […]

Press Release, 19.07.2018 On 19 July, State Duma deputies in the first reading supported the bill to raise the retirement age: 328 votes in favour and 104 – against. Before the plenary session, activists of Yabloko picketed the entrance to the State Duma building with a demand to dismiss the bill. Protest actions will continue […]

Press Release, 19.07.2018 Exactly one month ago, Sergei Mitrokhin was detained by the State Duma at a picket against the government’s pension reform, and was fined for violating Putin’s decree prohibiting citizens to protest [during the World Cup] until 25 July. A month later – the same place, the same action and the same police […]

Yabloko is filing a lawsuit Press Release, 17.07.2018   The Yabloko party received a refusal from the Prefect’s Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow to hold 33 pickets against the pension reform. Yabloko intends to appeal the refusals of the Prefect’s Office and Putin’s decree banning all the street actions during the World […]

Press Release, 11.07.2018 The Moscow Mayor’s Officel refused to give a permission to hold a protest rally on 18 July organised by Yabloko together with the Russian Confederation of Labor and a number of political parties against the government’s bill of raising the retirement age. The action was planned to be held in one of […]

Press Release, 12.07.2018 The Yabloko faction in the Karelian parliament voted against the government’s bill on raising the retirement age. However, most of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia (24 votes against seven)  ​​supported the government’s bill. The Legislative Assembly also rejected Yabloko’s appeal to the State Duma deputies calling them not to […]

Press Release, 09.07.2018 On 18 July, the Vologda branch of Yabloko will hold a picket against the government’s bill on raising the retirement age and the increase of VAT.