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.

Press release, 23.06.2016 The YABLOKO party is going to hold its election congress in Moscow from July 1 to July 3. It will be the longest congress held among all the political parties that are planning to participate in the parliamentary elections. The delegates of the congress will discuss and adopt the electoral programme, they […]

Alexander Gnezdilov, Deputy Chairman of the YABLOKO party, 9.06.2016 The world around us is changing rapidly. Alternative energy, shale revolution… I want my country to be not simply ready for this changes. I want Russia to become a leader in this process.

Press release, 11.06.2016 From 6 to 10 June Galina Shirshina, Adviser to YABLOKO Chair and ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk, was on a working visit to the Urals. She visited Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen and Yekaterinburg, met with potential candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the State Duma and discussed various issues with activists of […]

Press release, 14.06.2016 An election meeting of the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO Youth took place on 11 June. The incumbent Chairman Daniel Semyonov was reelected for a second term.

Press Release, 09.06.2016 According to Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly, politics led to situation when modern solutions could no longer be taken in the economy and everyday life. He made such a statement at a press conference held in the Rosbalt news agency in St. Petersburg. Grigory Yavlinsky and […]

Press release, 07.06.2016 A meeting of the party Federal Political Committee took place on Saturday, 4 June. The issues of the tactics and strategics of the 2016 election campaign, the federal candidates’ list and the list of party candidates in the single mandate constituencies were discussed at the meeting. The final decisions will be made […]

Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, 06.06.2016 The YABLOKO party continues preparing for the State Duma elections. And a question from our voters on “What will the the presence of the party faction in the State Duma change?” sounds quite correct. At the moment the [ruling] United Russia’s deputies and their obedient […]

Press Release, 6.06.2016 On 1 June, the conference of the Dagestan branch of YABLOKO elected Albert Esedov, famous regional journalist and public activist, Chairman of the party branch.

Press release, 06.06.2016 Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the faction, will summarize the results of the work of YABLOKO faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the V convocation (2011-2016) in the IA Rosbalt press centre, Thursday, 9 June.