Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site 5.09.2019 Muscovites are asking what to do on the voting day of 8 September, because almost all candidates independent of the authorities were not allowed to run for the Moscow City Duma?

Press Release, 5.09.2019 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich Yevgeny Bunimovich, candidate to the Moscow City Duma and Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, appealed to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Russian Minister of Interior, and Yuri Chaika, Public Prosecutor General, with a request to initiate a criminal case on the fact of production and distribution of fake campaign materials through the […]

Press Release, 4.09.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, head of the Yabloko election headquarters, forwarded appeals to Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Interior, and Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, demanding that they take under personal control the checks on Yabloko’s complaints about unprecedented violations during the Moscow City Duma’s election in electoral district No. […]

Press Release, 3.09.2019 Photo: Karina Gradusova / Yabloko Press Service The Investigative Committee has stopped the criminal prosecution of Yabloko activist Valery Kostenok and four other defendants accused of participation in the “riots” in Moscow on 27 July. As follows from the message on the website of the Investigative Committee, “the decision was made by […]

Press Release, 27.08.2019 Photo: Vladislav Barabanov, photo by Vlad Dokshin, Novaya Gazeta The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko collects personal guarantees to change the measure of restraint to Vladislav Barabanov charged under the “Moscow riots” case.

Press Release, 2.09.2019 The stand of the Yabloko party (R-6) will function at the Moscow International Book Fair which will be held in Pavilion No. 75 of VDNKh exhibition (Exhibition of Economic Achievements) from September 4 through to September 8.

Press release, 16.08.2019 After violent beatings of peaceful protesters in Moscow by masked police officers, Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, proposed to “deanonimise” law enforcement officers by placing their individual numbers on uniforms and helmets of police and the Russian Guard officers during public events that […]

Press Release, 15.08.2019 The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against the preventive measure for Valery Kostenok, activist of the Yabloko party, on Wednesday, 21 August, at 12:30. The hearing will take place in the room No. 225.

Press Release, 14.08.2019 Photo: Konstantin Kotov Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, came to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow to personally vouch for the civil activist Konstantin Kotov, who is accused of “repeated violations of the order of  holding public events” under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code envisaging up […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, 9.08.2019 Twelve people have already been arrested on the so-called “mass-scale riots case”. They want to ruin the lives of these young people for general intimidation. I was at all the rallies and processions of recent weeks, including 27 July. I did not see any “mass-scale riots” in the streets of […]

Press Release, 12.08.2019 Regional branches of the Yabloko party took part in the All-Russian Campaign for Fair Elections and Against Arbitrariness of the Authorities held on 10 August. Party members attended rallies and pickets in Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Irkutsk and other cities.

Press Release, 14.08.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, asked Public Prosecutor General to check the lawfulness of the criminal case on the mass riots and the use of violence against representatives of the authorities after the protests in Moscow, as well as the lawfulness of the detention of the persons involved in the […]

Press Release, 14.08.2019 Photo: Karina Gradusova / Yabloko Press Service 20-year-old Valery Kostenok is a third-year student at Kosygin’s Russian State University, Faculty of Standardization and Metrology. He came to Yablopko in 2017. Valery participated in municipal elections, worked in the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in 2018, and was a volunteer in the election […]

Press Release, 13.08.2019 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin at the mass rally for fair elections in Sakharov Prospect, August 10, 2019. “The Moscow City Court made a decision that upheld Mitrokhin’s administrative claim, overruled the decision of the district electoral commission not to register him as a candidate, and ordered the district electoral commission for elections to […]

Press Release, 12.08.2019 The Moscow Basmanny Court sent Valery Kostenok to a pre-trial detention centre for two months, despite the fact that the public prosecutor’s office requested that he is placed under home arrest. Yabloko activist became the 14th defendant in the “mass riots” case in Moscow on July 27.

Press Release, 10.08.2019 Nearly 50,000 people took part in a rally for fair elections and against arbitrariness, which took place in Sakharov Prospect in Moscow on 10 August. Three municipal deputies from Yabloko – Yelena Rusakova, Andrei Morev and Yelena Filina were members of the organising committee of the action.

Press Release, 11.08.2019 Yabloko’s Valery Kostenok is charged with “mass-scale riots” (Article 212 Part 2 of the Criminal Code).  Tomorrow, on 12 August 12 the Basmanny Court will determine a preventive measure for him. Kostenok will spend this night in the detention center.

Press Release, 11.08.2019 According to Valery Kostenok, Yabloko member, eight people rang at the door of the apartment where he lives and presented themselves as the Investigative Committee. They said that they have a search warrant and asked to open, otherwise, they promised to break the door.

Press Release, 8.08.2019 The police came home to Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the party branch. Police officers also came to other political and civil activists in Nizhny Novgorod. The police gave them warnings about participating in an unpermitted rally in Nizhny Novgorod on […]

Press Release, 7.08.2019 The Central Electoral Commission finally removed Yelena Rusakova, candidate from the Yabloko party, from elections to the Moscow City Duma.