Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission Valentin Gorbunob sent a letter to district election commissions claiming that the candidates must apply to the district authorities for a permission for each distribution of leaflets or meeting with residents. This means that an application should be made several days before the event itself but the prefecture can […]

Press Release, 30.07.2014 YABLOKO conduced a seminar on the problems of city-planning and housing policy on July 29. Elena Morozova and Vladimir Samoshin appeared as experts. Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva also participated in the meeting.

Press Release,29.07.2014 YABLOKO candidates to the Moscow City Duma Irina Kopkina and Grigory Semyonov together with Moscow Helsinki group conducted a check of local police departments in the Krylatskoye district, Moscow.

Press Release, 29.07.2014 YABLOKO lists of candidates to the sixth Blagoveshchensk City Duma was registered. Chairperson of the Amur branch of YABLOKO and head of the environmental club “Ulukitkan” Natalya Kalinina announced about this.

Press Release, 25.07.2014 Chair of St.Petrsburg branch of YABLOKO Andrei Palevich was denied registration at the municipal elections in two districts at the same time.

22.07.2014 There’s a reason why the information on accusations against Oleg Baronov appeared in mass media erlier than Baronov’s relatives and lawyers learned about it. It happens every time when the investigators are interested not in finding the truth but in discrediting a person. When the case is not about investigation but provocation.

Press Release, 22.07.2014 YABLOKO candidate for deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergei Sitko was removed from the election race due to Just Russia’s application.

Press Release, 21.07.2014 YABLOKO candidate for governor of the Pskov region Lev Shlosberg collected 149 signatures out of 150 to pass the municipal filter which is necessary for registration procedure. He faces difficulties collecting the signatures as the temporary acting governor Andrei Turchak exerts pressure on the deputies. Lev Shlosberg forwarded an open letter to […]

Press Release, 18.07.2014 The YABLOKO party will run in the elections in 34 regions af Russia including gubernatorial elections in three regions. The elections will take place on September 14, the single voting day.

Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 10.07.2014 The Moscow Mayor’s Office has been using journalists and commentators so that to convince Muscovites that elections to the Moscow City Duma will be fair and free of fraud and dirty tricks.

Press Release, 10.07.2014 The residents of the Moscow region participated in a protest action against corruption and in support of fair elections conducted by YABLOKO and Anti-corruption front of the Moscow region. The participants of the action also demanded the resignation of governor Vorobyev.

Press Release, 07.07.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an appeal to the Main military investigation office of the Investigative Committee demanding to conduct a check and take measures against the security officers of a shopping centre who attacked the candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy Vera Kichanova when she collected signatures for the registration.

Press Release, 07.07.2014 Today Anatoly Golov submitted to the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission his documents for registration as candidate for St. Petersburg governor from the YABLOKO party. Anatoly Goalov signed a statement of consent to run in the elections in the Mariynsky Palace, and also handed to the Electoral Commission members the decision of the conference […]

Press Release, 01.07.2014 YABLOKO Federal Bureau nominated candidates to run for duties of the city of Yeysk, Dolzhansky and Kukharivsky urban settlements and for the mayor of the Dolzhanskaya Cossak village.

Press Release, 03.07.2014 YABLOKO activists picketed the administrative board of the Krilatskoye district, Moscow, demanding to return the information materials of Irina Kopkina, YABLOKO’s candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy. Yesterday they picketed the Prefecture of the North-West Administrative District. Last week YABLOKO received an anonymous phone call from a voter who said that the […]

Press Release, 03.07.2014 St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO nominated Anatoly Golov, Co-Chair of the Consumers’ Union of Russia, candidate in St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections.

Press Release, 03.07.2014 Mikhail Petrov, YABLOKO member of the Moscow Electoral Commission said that the decision of Moscow district electoral commissions to check all 100 per cent of signatures put in favour of candidates is targeted against the candidates from the opposition intending to run in the Moscow parliamentary elections. According to the recent law, […]

Press Release, 25.06.2014 An action against amendments to Moscow laws which limit the rights of Moscow City Duma deputies was held outside Moscow City Duma on June 25. The amendments are also called “deprofessionalizing”. The amendments were introduced yesterday and considered today at a special session. The amendments were supported by 32 deputies out of […]

Press Release, 01.07.2014 YABLOKO activists conducted picketing against repressive and absurd laws outside the State Duma today.

Press Release, 27.06.2014 Right now two candidates to the Moscow City Duma from the YABLOKO party – municipal deputies Grigory Semyonov and Mikhail Peskov – are locked in room No 503 of the Prefect’s Office of the North-West District of Moscow.