Commentary 02/12/2013 The Civil Society Development Fund decided that there emerged too many parties in Russia. Renowned economist and member of YABLOKO’s Political Commttee Sergei Ivanenko spoke about the importance of the reform of the party system for Russian voters.

Press Release, November 30, 2013 Mayoral elections in Belorechensk, the Krasnodar Territory, will take place on December 1. United Russia’s Yuri Fesenko and civil activist, editor of an independent newspaper  “Belorechenskaya pravda” Alexander Kuznetsov supported by the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO are the two main candidates for the post of Mayor.

Press Release, November 28, 2013 Leader of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to cut the propensity for corruption of the Law on the Federal Contract System. Yavlinsky introduced the draft into the Legislative Assembly.

Press Release, November 28, 2013 The Saratov branch of YABLOKO sent an appeal to head of Saratov Oleg Grishchenko and deputies of the Saratov City Duma demanding to change the Charter of Saratov which runs that the mayor of the city is elected by deputies of the City Duma.

Press Release, November 27, 2013 YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg proposed to admit the city’s debt on overhaul to the citizens which wasn’t done in the previous years. This means not to demand this money from the citizens.

Press Release, November 26, 2013 According to head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg  Grigory Yavlinsky, the amendments to the Law on Police that he proposed will on the whole increase the citizens’ trust in the state. The draft was introduced  at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

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, […]

Press Release, November 25, 2013 The campaign under the slogan “Let’s return mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod” has started. YABLOKO representatives take part in the campaign.

Press Release, November 2, 2013 The tenth march against hatred was conducted in St.Petersburg on November 2. It took pace under the slogan “Russia without pogroms”.

Press release, 01.11.2013 Yesterday the Pervouralsk City Duma elected director of pipe plant Alexei Dronov City Manager of Pervouralsk. The YABLOKO faction, after consultation with the voters, decided not to take part in the meeting and continue insisting on direct elections of the mayor. YABLOKO believes that the appointed city manager is a puppet of […]

Press Release, October 30, 2013 YABLOKO municipal deputy conducted a one-person picket outside the Federation Council, the upper House of Parliament, against the new bill which allows to conduct the elections to the Moscow City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg only in single-seat constituencies and breaks the equality of the constituent territories before […]

Statement of the YABLOKO party, October 25, 2013 The YABLOKO party expresses it strong disagreement with adoption by the State Duma of the Russian Federation by new changes once again turning inside out the electoral law.

Press Release , 10/18/2013 The Kemerovo Regional Department of the Investigative Committee conducts an investigation into the incident in Kemerovo, when Yevgeny Artemyev, YABLOKO’s candidate to the Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Region from the YABLOKO party, was severely beaten.

Press Release, October 17, 2013 A first meeting with YABLOKO’s election campaigners took place at YABLOKO’s office on October 16. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Executive Secretary of YABLOKO Regional Council Mikhail Petrov thanked the participants of the meeting for their work at the […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 Such situations can take place in any city of Russia until the government refuses to tell the truth about the enormous income they get from the slave labour of immigrants and corruption and until mass media will describe this conflicts as cross ethnic, said leader of YABLOKO faction in the […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO member, former candidate for the Kemerovo Regional Council deputy Yevgeny Artemyev was beaten during a one-person picket against the election fraud within sight of a policeman in Kemerovo on October 16.

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Sergei Pogodin, director of School No 4 in Nelidovo, the Tver region, was dismissed from his post on 8 October, 2013, on the basis of an order from the acting head of the district administration, however, the document did not specify any reason for termination of the labour contract. According […]

Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, October 9, 2013 The Investigative Committee of Karelia opened a criminal investigation on unlawful allocation of land in the Prionezhsky region. The criminal case is politically motivated and has absolutely no legal basis under it, it is targeted at removing Svetlana Chechil from the contest for the post of the head […]

Press Release, October 5, 2013 On October 4, 2013, YABLOKO Bureau summed up the results of the single voting day and assessed the results of Russia’s political development.

Press Release, October 4, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a meeting with the election observers at YABLOKO’s office on October 3. Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva and coordinator of YABLOKO’s election observation programme Evgenia Vlasova participated in the meeting.