Press Release, 14.05.2016 Vladimir Lukin, one the founder of the YABLOKO party and Russia’s Ombudsman for Human Rights in 2004-2014, resumed his membership in the party. According with the requirements of the Russian law ombudsmen should be non-partisan. Vladimir Lukin stated his wish to resume his membership in YABLOKO at today’s conference of the Moscow […]

Interview by Grigory Yavlinsky, 6.05.2016 In his April interview to several Western media Grigory Yavlinsky told why the position of the present Russian President should weaken at the next election and how the Crimea problem should be solved, assessed the results of the Russian military operation in Syria, and explained why Europe needed cooperation with […]

Press release, 12.05.2016 Chair of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky claims that this year the main tasks of the civil society must be the participation in the parliamentary elections and preparation to start an active presidential campaign. He announced it while making a speech at the jubilee conference of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

Liberal International, 05.05.2016 In an interview with The Essence of the Events, Grigory Yavlinsky, the co-founder of the Russian liberal party YABLOKO (LI full member) has set out his plans to run for the presidential race in 2018.

Video, 22.04.2016 Dmitri Medvedev is going to reform the system of public administration. For this purpose he wants to appoint a commission. Vladimir Putin supports the idea. It would look as if the Prime Minister is going to pull himself out of a mire by his own hair like Baron Munchausen.

Press Release, 24.04.2016 “A cultural curtain is emerging” between Russia and the rest of the world, and “even remnants of understanding are disappearing”, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of YABLOKO Political Committee said at the committee meeting on Saturday, 23 April. It will be “extremely difficult, to overcome it, and it is worse than iron curtain,” he […]

Press release, 19.04.2016 On 18 April, the activists of the Tomsk branch of YABLOKO conducted a picket under the slogan “Your vote counts”.

Press release, 19.04.2016 On 18 April, the Moscow branch of YABLOKO conducted a campaign picket in the centre of Moscow. Deputy Chairs of Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Grigory Semyonov, the Regional Council member Nikolai Kavkazsky and party activits participated in the action.

Press release, 18.04.2016 On 17 April, activist of the Leningrad Region branch of YABLOKO Maria Pavlova caught a car thief after the picket she had conducted was over. Pavlova kept the man until the police arrived.

Sut’ Sobitiy (The Essence of the Events), 15.04.2016 By Valentina Karelova Will the elections be fair and transparent with the appointment of Ella Pamfilova head of the Central Election Commission, why Alexei Navalny’s work is inefficient, whether Russia needs democracy, and when have we buried it? Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party, politician and […]

Press release, 18.04.2016 Former Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia, will stand for the elections to the State Duma as YABLOKO’s candidate. She will also support Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy in the presidential elections.

Press release, 18.04.2016 On 18 April, the activists of the Amur Region branch of YABLOKO called the citizens of Blagoveshchensk to participate in the coming parliamentary elections that will take place on 18 September, 2016. The party activists handed out over 2,000 leaflets.

Press release, 13.04.2016 Ex leader of the regional branch of the Committee against Torture Vechyaslav Dudin was elected Chair of the Orenburg Region branch of YABLOKO [the region in southern Russia, the Urals].

The Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir, 29.03.2016 … Russia’s oldest liberal party, Yabloko, has seen several of its local lawmakers censured or deprived of deputy status for breaking such rules over the past few months. Nevertheless, Alexander Gnezdilov, the party’s deputy chairman, insists that Yabloko will attempt to participate in both local and national […]

Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 28.03.2016 I would like to congratulate all the members of the Central Electoral Commission with the beginning of work. They will face a very serious and complex problem: [they need to] restore public confidence in the institution of elections.

Press release, 28.03.2016 On 27 March, the Chelyabinsk Region branch of YABLOKO held a meeting with the party activits in Magnitogorsk, the city of metallurgists which as an important public and political centre of the Chelyabinsk Region. Local YABLOKO activits have been members of the party since 1993.

Dmitry Gudkov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Dmitry Nekrasov and Yulia Galyamina plan to run for the State Duma in single-mandate constituencies from the YABLOKO party Press Release, 24.03.2016 This week YABLOKO leaders met potential candidates for single-mandate constituencies who are not members of the YABLOKO party: Dmitry Gudkov, State Duma deputy, Vladimir Ryzhkov, ex Co-Chairman of PARNAS, […]

Press release, 23.03.2016 YABLOKO’s candidates got from 9 to 13 per cent at the elections to the Rezh City Duma, the Sverdlovsk Region, on 20 March, 2016.

Press release, 23.03.2016 On 22 March, Chair of the Altai branch of YABLOKO Alexander Goncharenko and Chair of the local branch of PARNAS Gennady Sheida signed a declaration on the formation of the electoral coalition on YABLOKO’s platform at the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Altai Territory. The elections will take place on […]

Press release, photographs, video, 23.03.2016 Vladimir Ryzhkov is going to stand for the State Duma as YABLOKO’s candidate and support Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy at the presidential elections. The politician had explained his “deliberate political decision to support YABLOKO and cooperate with YABLOKO” in a video message which was published on the YABLOKO website.