Press Release, 03.07.2014 Mikhail Petrov, YABLOKO member of the Moscow Electoral Commission said that the decision of Moscow district electoral commissions to check all 100 per cent of signatures put in favour of candidates is targeted against the candidates from the opposition intending to run in the Moscow parliamentary elections. According to the recent law, […]

Press Release, 25.06.2014 An action against amendments to Moscow laws which limit the rights of Moscow City Duma deputies was held outside Moscow City Duma on June 25. The amendments are also called “deprofessionalizing”. The amendments were introduced yesterday and considered today at a special session. The amendments were supported by 32 deputies out of […]

Press Release, 01.07.2014 YABLOKO activists conducted picketing against repressive and absurd laws outside the State Duma today.

Press Release, 27.06.2014 Right now two candidates to the Moscow City Duma from the YABLOKO party – municipal deputies Grigory Semyonov and Mikhail Peskov – are locked in room No 503 of the Prefect’s Office of the North-West District of Moscow.

Press Release, 19.06.2014 On June 19, the conference of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO nominated candidates to run in 45 election precinct in the Moscow parliamentary elections. The delegates of the conference passed the list of candidates in the course of secret voting.

Press Release, 20.06.2014 Police have just arrested YABLOKO’s activists who work at the mobile reception office of the party in the Strogino district, Moscow. YABLOKO’s municipal deputy Grigory Semyonov have also been detained. The activists have been taken to a police department to give evidence.

Announcement, 16.06.2014 Moscow YABLOKO Regional conference will nominate candidates to run in the Moscow City Duma elections. The list of 45 candidates will be validated by secret voting.

Press Release, 11.06.2014 Sergei Mitrokhin took the decision not to run in the Moscow City Duma elections which will be held on September 14, 2014. Sergei Mitrokhin announced his decision at the meeting of Moscow YABLOKO Regional Council.

by the YABLOKO party and candidate from the party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma 1. The European vector of development based on the values of democracy, human rights, rule of law and inviolability of private property have no alternatives in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s policies towards international isolation of Russia and the conflict […]

Press release, 11.06.2014 The Moscow YABLOKO Regional Council recommended candidates to be considered by the party conference to run in 41 precincts in the Moscow parliamentary elections. The meeting of the Regional Council lasted for seven hours and finished late at night. The candidates represented YABLOKO, other democratic parties and movements and independent candidates.

Nikolai Kavkazsky’s blog at Radio Liberty, 28.04.2014 Now I’m quite certain that I will participate in the Moscow City Duma elections as YABLOKO’s candidate. Why YABLOKO’s candidate? Because it’s the only registered democratic party which successively opposes the present regime and doesn’t make overtures to nationalism. Internationalism and resistance to xenophobia are one of the […]

Statement by the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 22.04.2014 The Moscow authorities conduct absurd “elections before the elections” by means of the so called “coalition of well-known Muscovites” holding “primaries” between the candidates who will be later announced “public” candidates.

Press Release, 21.04.2014 A scientific conference called “Political parties and its institutional environment: innovation, tradition, tendency” took place at Russian State University for the Humanities on April 18.

Press Release, 15.04.2014 On April 15 YABLOKO launched a mobile reception office in Moscow. Party activists receive Muscovites on urban issues and, in particular, on the problems of healthcare in Moscow.

Press Release, 04.04.2014 According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Moscow Mayor’s Office requested the Central Electoral Commission for 3000 touchscreen voting machines to provide transparency and publicity at Moscow City Duma elections which will take place in September 2014.

Press Release, December 10, 2013 The round table at the Central Electoral Commission “Reform of the Party System and New Requirements to Legal Regulations of Elections” was marked by a scandal. The event quite unexpectedly turned out to be closed for the press.  

Decision by the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO,19.11.2013 1. The country and the society have approached a qualitatively new condition The problems accumulated for the past 15-20 year: shifts from the principles and norms of democracy, cynical perversion of democratic ideas and slogans, using them for covering up theft and corruption, […]

Interfax, 26.09.2013 Chairman of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin supported the initiative to return the item “Against All” to the voting ballots.

Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 18/09/2013 At present most of Muscovites do not have their representative in the Moscow City Duma. The Moscow City Duma elected in 2009 consists of 35 members representing two political parties only (the ruling United Russia has 32 deputies and the Communist Party has […]

Press-release, May 17, 2013 On May 17 YABLOKO held the forth meeting with activists and candidates who will take part in the primaries for the Moscow City Duma elections in 2014, as the YABLOKO party provides half of the places on the party’s list of candidates to civil activists. As of today about 140 people […]