Press Release, August 27, 2013 A round table on Moscow’s environmental problems with Sergei Mitrokhin’s participation was conducted at A.N.Bakh Institute of Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on August 27.

Press Release, August 27, 2013 Moscow Mayoral Candidate Sergei Mitrokhin attended a charity concert in support of political prisoners devoted to the 45 anniversary of the 1968 Red Square Demonstration .

Press Release, August 26, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a meeting with the election campaigners on August 26. More than 150 people came to the office.

Press Release, August 24, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin supported a rally organised by the residents of the Kurkino district who demand from the authorities to make improvements in the district and stop building shopping centres that no one wants.

Press Release, August 22, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee demanding to make an inspection and bring a criminal case against the forcible merger of schools No 363 and No 1294 in the Bogorodskoye district. Mitrokhin held a public inspection of these educational institutions together with the […]

Press Release, August 21, 2013 A round table on the problems of the small business and its development  perspectives after the election of a new Moscow Mayor “Small business goes to the Moscow Mayoral elections” was conducted at International University, Moscow, on August 21.

Press Release, August 22, 2013 The teachers, who protest against the merging of the schools No 363 and No 1294, aren’t allowed to meet Sergei Mitrokhin. The  school principal Ludmila Salonina locked them in the school building.

Lydia Grafova for the Ekho Moskvi, August 21, 2013 Lydia Grafova, journalist and Chair of the Executive Committee of Forum of Migrants’ Organizations [expressed her attitude to the attacks on migrant workers in the Moscow mayoral election campaign]: “This persecution that is observed in the life of migrant workers and mass media in general should […]

Press Release, August 21, 2013 Human rights activists have appealed to the Russian intelligentsia calling that latter to intervene with all available means and pacify the anti-migrant hysteria associated with the Moscow mayoral elections. Lydia Grafova, journalist and one of the authors of the appeal, in her interview at the Echo Moskvi radio station noted […]

Press Release, August 19, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor inspected the construction of a tube station near Bitsevsky forest in the south of Moscow on August 18. The apprehensions about the breach of the environmental protection legislation during the construction were confirmed.

Ludmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, August 19, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin is known for his protection of the rights of Muscovites. Each time he learns that someone’s rights are breached, he rushes to help. One can be surprised at his energy, fearlessness and the ability not to be helpless in the present conditions.

Press Release, August 18, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin examined two illegal constructions in Strogino and Fili-Davidkovo districts at the request of the residents on August 17.

Press Release, August 14, 2013 According to the opinion poll published on August 5 by gazeta.ru, 31 per cent of the polled would cast their votes for Sergei Mitrokhin at the Moscow mayoral elections. The respondents answered the question: “Do you admit that you will vote for this candidate?”.

Press Release, August 14, 2013  Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin had a meeting with the residents of the Kotlovky district.

Press Release, August 13, 2013 A campaign picket in support of Sergei Mitrokhin was conducted outside a tube station on August 13. Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin was present. He talked to the citizens and answered their questions. YABLOKO’s activists gave out Mitrokhin’s electoral programme and the report “Ten Years at the Service of […]

Press Release, August 11, 2013 On August 11, candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin visited the tent camp for illegal immigrants in Moscow’s Golyanovo district. As a result of the inspection he considered the conditions at the camp satisfactory. Mitrokhin is determined to find out the names of the illegal immigrants’ employers and achieve the […]

Statement by the candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin August 12, 2013 On August 13, 89. 94 per cent stoke of the Moscow United Energy Company, or MOEK, will be sold by the auction. Gazprom and Sberbank (Russia’s largest state-controlled bank) bid to buy MOEK.

Press Release, August 6, 2013 Pro-government activists picketed YABLOKO’s office. First they stood in front of the main entrance, but the police asked them to move to the pavement where the picket was authorized. The pavement is very narrow in this place and it’s difficult to dispart even for 2 people. The authorities never allow […]

Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow July 30, 2013  I express my categorical protest in view of the decision of [Moscow] television channels to broadcast the debates [conducted within the framework of the Moscow mayoral elections] in recorded transmission. The explanation for this unusual decision looks simply ridiculous.

Novaya Gazeta turned to all the candidates registered for Moscow mayoral election with a request to answer a candidate’s questionnaire. To our surprise, all the candidates gave their agreement. We are going to publish the answers as soon as the candidates send them to us. A questionnaire from YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin came first. July […]