Press Release, 10.06.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, and Valery Goryachev, Executive Secretary of the Party Bureau, submitted documents to the Moscow Electoral Commission on nomination of party’s candidates to run in the elections to the Moscow City Duma.

Press Release, 17.06.2019 On 15 June, the conference of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko nominated Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the regional branch, as a candidate for the post of Governor of the Chelyabinsk region. In accordance with the law, the nomination of Shcherbakov was agreed upon by the Executive Committee of the Bureau of the […]

Echo Moskvi in St. Petersburg radio station, 13.06.2019 On 12 June, Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of Yabloko and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the party, spoke on the Echo Moskvi in St. Petersburg radio station about the party’s participation in the upcoming gubernatorial and municipal elections in St.Petersburg, as well as of the party’s […]

Press Release, 6.06.2019 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission documents required for his registration as candidate in the St. Petersburg gubernatorial election.

Press Release, 4.06.2019 On Thursday, 6 June, Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky will meet with new Yabloko members in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The meeting will be held as part of the #MakeYourVoiceLouder campaign. The Yabloko party has been conducting this campaign since February 2019. Over the past months, thousands of people have joined Yabloko […]

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 […]

Press Release, 24.05.2019 The bill on the direct election of the heads of Novgorod and heads of municipal districts was submitted to the Duma of Veliky Novgorod by Anna Cherepanova, MP of the Veliky Novgorod Duma and Chair of the Novgorod Yabloko. A similar bill was also submitted by the deputies of the Duma of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky’s book The Putin System has been published by Columbia University Press, New York. How power works in present-day Russia, how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule for over 20 years — these questions are often misunderstood and the answers remain opaque. In The Putin System, Russian […]

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, 25.04.2019 On 26 April, Friday, Nikolai Rybakov, politician, environmentalist, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, will arrive in Kemerovo. During the visit, Rybakov will meet with members and supporters of the party, as well as with urban environmental activists.

Press Release, 25.04.2019 A meeting of the initiative group on holding a referendum in Tatarstan on the need to hold local referendums in the constructing waste management facilities with a capacity of more than 40,000 tons per year was held by the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan. The initiative group included twenty-five residents of the Republic […]

Press Release, 25.04.2019 A round table discussion on the problems of the Russian health care system was held in the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Chuvashia. Basing on the results of the discussion, representatives of political parties and public associations of Chuvashia adopted a resolution “For Decent Medicine”, which was […]

Press Release, 23.04.2019 Watch the documentary The Optimists dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko with English (or other) subtitiles now. Choose your language in the Settings of the video. The documentary covers the key periods in the history of the Russian Federation and the development of the Yabloko party.

Press Release, 23.04.2019 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted for public discussion the first version of his programme for the election of the governor of St. Petersburg. Vishnevsky plans to amend his programme in accordance with proposals and comments of St. Petersburg residents.

Press Release, 22.04.2019 On 20 April, a rally of the city opposition was held in Vologda under the slogan “We demand!”. The speakers demanded that the authorities abolish their tariffs for garbage collection and revise their project for improvement of the Vologda embankment.   Members of the Vologda branch of Yabloko took part in the […]

Press Release, 18.04.2019 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina On 16 April, Yabloko held a discussion on the Concept of reforming the electoral system of the Russian Federation. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, member of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia in 1999–2016, head of the Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko Party and  member of its Federal Political […]

Press Release, 15.04.2019 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina On Tuesday, 16 April, the Yabloko party will discuss with representatives of other political parties and political technologists its proposals on the reform of the electoral system. The round table where the Concept of Reforming the Electoral System of the Russian Federation will be presented will be held in […]

Press Release, 11.04.2019 A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).

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, 30.03.2019 Chairperson of the Yabloko party, Emilia Slabunova, spoke today at the 6th Congress of the Russian  Association of Political Consultants. The politician took part in the discussion on the topic “A New Period for Political Parties”.