Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On conducting an experiment on the organisation and implementation of remote electronic voting at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the seventh convocation”. The proposed system of remote electronic voting is a “black box”, which does not allow for […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 29.04.2019 Today, the Moscow City Duma adopted in first reading a draft law on electronic voting at the elections of Moscow deputies. We are categorically opposed to the introduction [of the law], because it will only worsen the situation with people’s confidence in the elections.

Press Release, 5.04.2019 Yelena Dubrovina, head of Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives and  member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, gave a very negative assessment to the planned introduction of remote voting in elections to the Moscow City Duma – a bill to conduct such an experiment was considered at a meeting […]

Press Release, 27.03.2019 The police withdrew samples of campaign materials from the office of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya 28, Moscow) and intends to check them for extremism.

Press Release, 27.12.2018 The Moscow City Duma rejected the bill of independent municipal deputies, expanding the powers of municipal councils. The authors of the bill proposed to give the Councils of Deputies of Moscow the right to approve the appointment and dismissal of heads of councils in municipal districts.

Election campaign manager Nikolai Rybakov commented on the preparation for the campaign Press release, 4.10.2018 Yabloko is ready to nominated candidates to run in Moscow City Duma elections in all 45 constituencies. We have to collect approximately 5,000 voters’ signatures in every constituency. We understand that signature collection is a way to withdraw candidates who […]