Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018 We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has […]

Press release based on a statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 16.10.2018 The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko released a statement putting forward an initiative to reintroduce mayoral runoff elections. The statement was addressed to Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and city parliament MPs.

Press release, 16.10.2018 On 22 October, Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy will hold a round table on the safety of municipal deputies in Moscow. Yabloko deputies who were elected to municipal councils in September 2017 have faced pressure on behalf of their opponents, government representatives and law enforcement.

Press release, 12.10.2018 Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair and an MP in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, introduced a bill on the repeal of the municipal filter in the gubernatorial elections.

Press release, 12.10.2018 New district electoral commissions which will function over the course of the next five years will be soon formed in Moscow. Yabloko calls upon the party supporters to put their candidacies for election commission members forward.

Press release, 11.10.2018 Anna Cherepanova, a Yabloko MP in the Veliky Novgorod city parliament, put forward an initiative on the reintroduction of direct mayoral elections.

We demand a political reform and the cancellation of the municipal filter Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 11.10.2018 Election campaigns of different levels, including gubernatorial elections in 25 regions of Russia, took place in September 2018. As a result, 19 new governors were elected with the support of United Russia, 2 with the support of LDPR, […]

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 […]

Press release, 27.09.2018 On September 27, deputy of the Pskov Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg (Yabloko faction) introduced a bill on the reintroduction of direct mayoral elections in Pskov and Velikie Luki for the third time. Deputies of the regional parliament voted down the initiative twice (on 6 June 2017 and 25 January 2018). The United […]

Emila Slabonova’s Facebook page, 25.09.2018 Gubernatorial runoff elections took place in Khabarovsk Krai and the Vladimir Region on Sunday. The winners are candidates from LDPR Sergei Furgal and Vladimir Sipyagin who are considered to be “approved” candidates who did not really have an election campaign and did not seriously compete with United Russia’s candidates. Yabloko […]

Grigory Yavlinsky website, 25.09.2018 I did not plan to write another post about the elections because it seems that everything has already been said (Including the latest elections: see ‘Gubernatorial non-elections‘). However, the victory of candidates from LDPR in Khabarovsk Krai and the Vladimir Region produced some inadequate impression on journalists and bloggers: the got […]

Girogry Yavlinsky website, 21.09.2018 Many people discussed Pamfilova’s tears and annulling election results in Primorsky Krai yesterday. What has happened? What was it that upset the head of the Central Electoral Commission so much? It turned out that is was not the breach of legislation, deception of voters or mockery of people who came to […]

Press Release, 20.09.2018 The Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party appealed to the Tatarstan Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding that officials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan be inspected for corruption. Officials are suspected of exceeding their official authority in organising tenders. Information about the illegal actions of […]

20.09.2018 Nikolai Rybakov via YouTube After the scandal [with tremendous fraud by the candidate from the ruling United Russia party] in the election of the governor of the Maritime Territory, the Maritime Territorial Electoral Commission canceled the results of the second round. Two candidates ran in the second round: Andrei Tarasenko (the United Russia party), […]

Press release, 20.09.2018 According to the official results, only one person voted for Yabloko at the polling station No 1170 in the Volgograd Region. However, seven people have already appealed to Yabloko claiming that they voted for the party at this polling station. Chair of the regional party branch Galina Boldyreva appealed to court demanding […]

Press release, 19.09.2018 Anton Gordyuk, Yabloko’s candidate in the elections to the Koltushsky city council, the Leningrad Region, demanded that the Central Electoral Commission annul the voting results. The grounds for this measure is vote-buying and fraud at a large scale.

Press release, 17.09.2018 Deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly and Chair of the Pskov Region branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg made a speech at the 6th Franz Fafka and George Orwell intellectual forum. It is an All-Russia discussion platform where all individuals may take part in the discussion of most topical events and communicate […]

Press Release, 13.09.2018 Processing of the protocols of precinct election commissions is completed and the results of voting in the elections of 2018 in the Pskov region are summed up. These elections turned out to be difficult for the Pskov branch of Yabloko. Vitaly Arshinov, Yabloko’s candidate for the post of governor, did not overcome […]

Lev Shlosberg introduced his legislative initiative to the regional parliament once again Press Release, 13.09.2018 Maya Grishina, Secretary of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, responded to an appeal by Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko’s MP in the Pskov Oblast Assembly. Shlosberg forwarded his appeal in address of Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, on […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 11.09.2018 And more about the latest non-elections [rather than ‘elections’ in Russia]. Some people assess their results as a relative failure of the authorities. In particular, they speak of a protest vote, as an obvious evidence of growing discontent with the authorities in connection with the [government’s arbitrary] raising the retirement […]