Press release, 22.07.2016 Today the Electoral Commission of the Leningrad Region has made a decision to cetify YABLOKO’s list of candidates for the elections to the Leningrad Region Legislative Assembly.

Press release, 20.07.2016 The Tambov branch of YABLOKO brought the lists of candidates for the regional parliament elections to the Electoral Comission, on July 19.

Press Release, 20.07.2016 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the YABLOKO party and MP in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia at present, topped YABLOKO list in the elections to the parliament of the Republic of Karelia. This decision was adopted yesterday by the conference of the Karelian branch of the party.

Press release, 18.07.2016 The Central Electoral Commission has certified YABLOKO’s lists of candidates for the elections to State Duma of the 7th convocation today. The Commission members voted solid. This way, YABLOKO is officially admitted to participation in the election campaign.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s answers to questions of the readers of Znak.com, 13.07.2016 Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder and Chairman of its Federal Political Committee, participated in the presidential elections in Russia twice – in 1996 and 2000, respectively (in 2004 he boycotted the presidential campaign, due to the impossibility, in his opinion, to have free and fair […]

Press release, 13.07.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and representatives of the party have submitted the party lists of candidates for the State Duma to the Central Electoral Commission today, on 13 July. The lists and the supporting documentation are to be checked and registered by the Central Electoral Commission.

Novaya Gazeta, 12.07.2016 On 8 July, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper held a public opinion poll among the paper staff on the upcoming elections. Journalists were choosing by means of secret ballot the party list they would support, if the election took place next Sunday. In general 52 out of total 142 people of the staff […]

Statement by the 19th Congress of the YABLOKO party, 11.07.2016 Summing up the results of the work of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, the Russian United Democratic YABLOKO party states the negative influence which the deputies made on the public, political and economic life of the country. The State Duma of the sixth […]

Press release, 12.07.2016 The conference of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO nominated the candidates for Moscow Region Duma. The nominees are the leaders of the regional party branch, local deputies and members of Alexei Navalny’s Progress Party.

Press release, 11.07.2016 The Leningrad branch of YABLOKO held a conference where the candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region were nominated.

Press Release, 11.07.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and representatives of the party will submit the party lists of candidates for the State Duma to the Central Electoral Commission on 13 July at noon. The lists and the supporting documentation have to be checked and registered by the Central Electoral Commission.

LI, 07.07.2016 Launching their electoral programme ahead of national elections in Russia on 18 September 2016, the Russian United Democratic Party (YABLOKO – LI full-member) held their 19th Congress from 1-3 July, where they presented a viable, liberal alternative to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism brand of politics.

Press release, 06.07.2016 Head of the Communists of Russia party Maxim Suraykin claims that YABLOKO’s registration must be revoked, Russian News Service reported yestersay. He forwarded an official enquiry to the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to check YABLOKO’s electoral programme for violation of Articles 280 and 280.1 of the Russian Criminal […]

05.07.2016 The federal part of the YABLOKO list includes ten people: Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder and MP in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chair and MP in the Karelian Legislative Assembly, Vladimir Ryzhkov, famous politician and professor of the Higher School of Economics, Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, ex-deputy […]

Press release, 03.07.2016 About 1000 people came to listen to the leaders of YABLOKO’s federal list for the parliamentary elections. Chair Emilia Slabunova, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, journalist Lev Shlosberg, opposition MP Dmitry Gudkov, Petrozavodsk ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina, party Deputy Chairmen Alexander Gnezdilov and Nikolai Rybakov, head of the party election head-quarters Mikhail Geilikman made speeches […]

The Moscow Times, 04.07.2016 Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March 2014 set the scene for a new collision in Russian politics, as the Kremlin struggles to decide how to deal with those who disagree with the official line on the annexation. Continued on The Moscow Times website

Press release, 3.07.2016 The YABLOKO party has represented its coalition list of candidates for the State Duma deputies as well as 185 candidates in the single-mandate constituencies. The delegates were discussing the candidatures for 15 hours during the second day of the Congress, July 2. The discussion ended by ballot voting.

Press release, 1.07.2016 The 19th Congress of the YABLOKO party has launched the electoral programme of the party today, on July 1. “The party programme is addressed to all the citizens of Russia and represents a coherent and convincing alternative, the way out of the deadlock. One of the fundamental and distinctive features of our […]

Press Release, 1.07.2016 Famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov addressed YABLOKO Congress with a welcoming speech and expressed his willingness to participate in the forthcoming parliamentary election from the party. The Congress will discuss the lists of delegates on July 2, and the results of the discussion will be announced on July 3.

Press Release, 1.07.2016 The election campaign of the YABOKO party in the State Duma elections will be tough and constructive, said YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova opening the party’s pre-election congress. Constructive proposals, rather than [well-known] criticism will be core of the campaign, she noted.