Press release, 17.12.2016 Restoration of the local self-government is one of top priorities of the country. We can overcome the crisis only by achieving the balance between the interests of the federal centre, regions and local self-government. The participants of All-Russia Forum of YABLOKO’s deputies adopted the following declaration.

Press release, 13.12.2016 On December 7, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia, member of YABLOKO’s faction Andrei Rogalevich went on a hunger strike during the plenary meeting of the Karelian parliament where the draft of the regional budget for 2017 was being considered in the second reading. According to the deputy, […]

Press release, 13.12.2016 On Saturday, December 17, the All-Russia forum of YABLOKO’s deputies will take place in Moscow. Deputies of regional parliaments and municipal deputies from the YABLOKO party will share their experience and discuss the plan of legislative work, local self-government problems and other issues. YABLOKO leaders and guest experts will join the discussion […]

Press release, 13.12.2016 On December 13, YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov visited the city of Novgorod to hold a meeting with Chair of the regional party branch and activists.

Press release, 05.12.2016 The YABLOKO party will appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission on the facts of election fraud in the city of Mytishchi, the Moscow Region, revealed by newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Today the newspaper has published its investigation demonstrating that the results of the election to the State Duma […]

Press Release, 08.12.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova sent an official appeal to the Central Electoral Commission asking to retain videos from the polling stations for a least a year after the official announcement of the results of elections to the State Duma. Now the regional electoral commissions are allowed to independently determine the term of […]

Press Release, 09.12.2016 Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of Moscow YABLOKO and candidate at the Moscow mayoral elections in 2013, voiced during yesterday’s live broadcast of the Russian News Service radio his desire to run for the Moscow Mayor in 2018. He also noted during that other mayoral candidates for the 2013 election “have now forgotten about […]

Press release, 07.12.2016 YABLOKO detected new evidence of ballot stuffing at Polling Station No 9, in Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortastan. Deputy Chairman of YABLOKO Nikolai Rybakov forwarded a letter toe Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, on these facts.

Press Release, 03.12.2016 On 3 December, Alexander Gunko was re-elected Chairman of the Moscow Regional Branch of the YABLOKO party at the conference of the branch. He was also elected member of the Federal Council.

Press release, 01.12.2016 On Friday, December 2, the committee on legislation of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly will consider YABLOKO’s draft decree on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President.

Press release, 29.11.2016 The Supreme Court refused to sustain YABLOKO’s claim for recognition of the State Duma election results null and void. YABLOKO will dispute the judgement in a higher judicial instance.

Based on the article by the Kommersant newspaper, 28.11.2016 Yelena Shestopal, head of the sociology and political psychology department of Moscow State University, submitted a research according to which Grigory Yavlinsky became the third most popular presidential candidate in Russia after Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. The report was launched at the conference of the […]

Press Release, 23.11.2016 On November 22, the Moscow branch of YABLOKO held the first seminar of the School of Municipal Deputy, a new project launched by YABLOKO, for all the potential candidates to municipal deputies, their teams and volunteers. YABLOKO activists from different Russian regions participated in the seminar via webinar.

Press Release, 17.11.2016 The Moscow branch of YABLOKO invites all the potential candidates to municipal deputies, their teams and volunteers to participate in the seminars of the School of Municipal Deputy, a new project launched by YABLOKO. The first seminar will take place on 22 November.

Statement by the Voronezh branch of YABLOKO, 14.11.2016 The regional branch of the YABLOKO party considers the initiative of the Voronezh City Duma deputies on abolition of the direct mayoral election in the city of Voronezh another step aimed at the destruction of the democratic institutions and forming a hard-line authoritarian and bureaucratic system of […]

Press Release, 08.11.2016 On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasburg unveiled its decision on the complaint of the Karelian branch of the YABLOKO party and several party representatives acknowledging violation of their rights to free election due to the fact that their and the party registration in the election to the […]

Press Release, 07.11.2016 The Novgorod Region Court allowed the claim of the Novgorod branch of YABLOKO on recognition the results of the election to the Novgorod Regional Duma void to proceed.

Press Release, 28.10.2016 Summing up the results of the election campaign to the State Duma was the key issue of the meeting of the Federal Bureau of the YABLOKO party held in Moscow on 28 October. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova spoke about the objective and subjective reasons of the failure to overcome the five per […]

Press release, 25.10.2016 The YABLOKO party will make a report on electoral fraud at parliamentary elections of 2016. Any person who has information on election abuse can report about it on our special website. The report will be forwarded to the Central Electoral Commission and law enforcement agencies.

Emilia Slabunova’s address to the voters, 18.10.2016 Dear friends, The election to Russia’s State Duma took place a month ago. We heartily thank everyone who supported us, who came to the polling station on September 18 and voted for an alternative to the policy of the government – a meaningful, real, sensible alternative. We express […]