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 […]

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.

Press Release, 11.07.2018 Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Andrei Rogalevich submitted to the Karelian parliament an appeal to the State Duma against raising the retirement age. It will be considered at the final meeting of the Legislative Assembly in this political season tomorrow, on 12 July.

Based on RIA Omsk-Inform information, 09.07.2018 The Omsk branch of the Yabloko party took part in the rally for the resignation of the Russian government. The rally was held on 8 July. Despite the fact that the Omsk City Hall tried to hinder holding of the rally, all the participants of the action were able […]

Activists of the party went into the streets together with thousands of fellow citizens Press Release, 04.07.2018 Since the end of June, a protest movement against raising the retirement age in the absence of any other measures of social protection of pensioners has been growing in Russia. Yabloko was the first political party that opposed […]

The World Cup in Russia began with a defeat: 5:0! The authorities scored five unanswered goals to the people. Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.06.2018 Even before the starting whistle, the account was opened by Russia’s Investigation Committee with a final arrest of long-resisting leader of the Serpukhov district [of the Moscow region] Alexander Shestun. At the […]

Statement by Yabloko’s Bureau Press Release, 21.06.2018   The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party adopted a statement on the government’s initiative to raise the retirement age. The statement runs that President Putin is really responsible for the consequences of the reform. As an alternative, Yabloko proposes to implement the proposals outlined in the presidential […]

Yabloko’s FB page, 25.06.2018 As an alternative to the Putin-Medvedev’s pension reform, Yabloko proposes to transfer dividends of state corporations to the pension fund. And Alexei Yetmanov, founder of the most successful independent trade union of Russia and member of the Yabloko party voiced another civilised recipe:

Grigory Yavlinsky on the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.06.2018 Why did the government decide to raise the retirement age so rudely and so radically? Are they so brave that they are ready to go against the whole people? Look, already more than two million Russians have signed a petition […]

In Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk Press Release, 22.06.2018 The authorities turned down Yabloko’s applications for rallies against raising the retirement age in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk and proposed the party to hold rallies on the outskirts of the cities. The Yabloko party planned to hold a rally in Moscow on 3 July in the city […]

Sergei Mitrokhin detained and taken to the police station Press Release, 19.06.2018 On 19 June, the Yabloko party launched protest actions against a pension reform proposed by the government and envisaging raising of the retirement age. Members of the Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted a series of single-person pickets (which do not require any permission […]