Press Release, 19.03.2017 “We can elect a wise, witty, cheerful and kind man as President of Russia. And the nature of the entire power in Russia depends on the nature of the President in our state,” Alexander Gnezdilov, Deputy Chairman of YABLOKO, said speaking of Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy on the second day of the Federal […]

Press Release, 19.03.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO presidential candidate, made a statement that if he is elected, the state should gratuitously transfer land to Russian citizens under construction of their own homes, as well as create a system of accounts where revenues from the exports of natural resources and dividends from state corporations would be transferred […]

Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post, 05.03.2017 On the 4th of March, it was exactly five years since the last presidential election. Vladimir Putin has been holding the presidential post for the third term and is going to run for the fourth.

Liberal International, 23.02.2017 The presidential hopeful of Yabloko (LI full member), Grigory Yavlinsky, has set his campaign for the key Russian elections in 2018 into full swing. He received a boost from a well-known opposition leader Vladimir Ryzhkov who, in a public statement, said: “Grigory Yavlinsky meets my political opinions, my stance, my programme better […]

Press release based on the article by Interfax, 09.02.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and a candidate for President of Russia, claims that the sentence given to Alexei Navalny is politically motivated and the absence of Navalny in the presidential election will reduce its representativeness.

Ekho Moskvy Radio Station, 10.02.2017 Politician Vladimir Ryzhkov will support Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election as a candidate who meets his political stance and programme best of all. The politician made such a statement on the air of Ekho Moskvi Radio Station.

Press release, 04.02.2017 The Forum of Young Election Representatives of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky is taking place in Moscow today. Young people from 30 regions of Russia have gathered in YABLOKO’a office in Moscow today.

Press release, 04.02.2017 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky claims that the essence of the coming election of the head of the State is that the country should move forward and stop going round in circles. He made such a statement at the Youth Forum of the presidential candidate’s election representatives which was held in Moscow.

Press release, 01.02.2017 On Saturday, February 4, a forum of young election representatives of Grigory Yavlinsky, a candidate for President of Russia, “Election representatives 2018 – New YABLOKO/ Young People” will be held in Moscow.

14.12.2016 These days the topic of presidential election of 2018 gained the attention of mass media and social networkers. YABLOKO was the first political party to nominate its candidate for the presidential race. In February 2016 YABLOKO Congress officially nominated Grigory Yavlinsky to run for President of Russia. We are posting Grigory Yavlinsky’s full speech […]

Press Release, 18.12.2016 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO party, made a speech in front of the delegates of the congress of the Democratic Choice party, which takes place in Moscow today. Yavlinsky said that the emergence of a responsible and reasonable right-liberal party would be a great benefit for […]

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 […]

Emilia Slabunova’s blog post, 26.09.2016 A lot of people are now asking me about our further plans. What is YABLOKO going to do? Here is the answer. The main thing for us at the moment is to strengthen our regional branches, our party development. We will admit new people into the party, those who cooperated […]

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, 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 […]

Press release, 03.07.2016 A democratic coalition has taken place, and this is the main result of YABLOKO’s work over the past year and a half, YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky said in his keynote speech at the YABLOKO Congress. “Today I want to announce it to all our country that at this Congress we have founded […]

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, 02.06.2016 A meeting between YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and Pavel Sulyandziga, Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises has taken place today. Sulyandziga signed YABLOKO’s Memorandum of Political Alternative. The consent to the document is one of the conditions one […]

Blog post by Vladimir Ryzhkov, 01.06.2016 The federal elections in Russia take place more seldom because of the machinations of the Kremlin and the [ruling] United Russia party. The State Duma elections take place once in five years, presidential – once in six years. Therefore the importance of the elections has increased considerably. If you […]

Press release,  31.05.2016 Today, 31 May, deputy Dmitry Gudkov will introduce the draft amendments to the Federal Law “On Police” made by Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the YABLOKO faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, to the State Duma. The draft stipulates that the premises of all the police units and police cars must be equipped […]