Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 18.08.2023 Photo: Grigory Melkonyants / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Golos [a movement of election observers], has been arrested. The authorities do not even try to hide that this is a political case, a way of settling scores with the wrong people. Vasily Piskaryov, […]

Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The Kirov regional branch of the Yabloko party begins a preliminary recruitment for those wishing to become a Yabloko member or resume membership in precinct electoral commissions with a casting vote in the Kirov region.

Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Logo of the 2018 Russian Presidential Elections In the presidential elections in 2018, activists Olga Sergeyeva and Gulnara Galyautdinova worked at polling station No 409 in Kazan, Tatarastan, as a member of the electoral commission with an advisory vote and an observer. They were taken to the police station during the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]

Decision No 145 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The situation in Russia, in almost all spheres, is currently determined by trends summarising the previous 25 years and set by the 2020 “constitutional reform” [Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution]. This […]

Novaya Gazeta, 13.04.2021 Photo by olegkozyrev/depositphotos Dmitry Peskov’s [Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary] statements that Russia “is not going to move” towards war with Ukraine, but “will not remain indifferent to the fate of Russian speakers who live in the southeast of the country” are not a sign of abandoning the planned scenario, but represent another […]

Press Release, 29.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 March, 2021, the first meeting of the Central Electoral Commission of the new convocation took place. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the meeting. According to the Yabloko Chaiman, it is necessary to increase confidence in the elections, and the fact […]

Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement “On systemic threats […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 18.11.2020 Today in the State Duma was adopting, in the first reading, a bill on guarantees of immunity to the President after his leaving office and members of his family. The main argument was that the President should have a free hand… (!!!)

On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]

Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018 We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has […]

Press Release, 6.12.2017 “Regional leaders should initiate the State Council of Russia to change the system of distribution of fiscal revenues”, Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for presidency in Russia, said during his visit to Tatarstan.

An interview with Sergei Brylyev, Vesti.ru, 20.11.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, has begun his presidential campaign in Tomsk. He ran in the presidential election in the remote year of 1996. He achieved his best result in 2000 coming third. However, he did not manage to became a candidate later on.

Press Release, 16.11.2017 Yabloko’s presidential candidate spoke about the new budget policy in Tomsk On 16 November, Yabloko presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky came to Tomsk to present a section of his presidential programme devoted to the new budget policy. Speaking at a press conference for the local media, Yavlinsky formulated the criterion for his successful […]

Press Release, 17.11.2017 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky has become a guest of the federal television channel for the first time in a long time. In a live broadcast of the Russia-24 channel Yavlinsky spoke openly about inefficient economic and foreign policy and normalisation of relations with Ukraine and Europe, as well as low confidence of […]

Press Release, 11.09.2017 According to data as of 8 am MSK, YABLOKO obtained 180 mandates in 51 municipal councils in Moscow in the elections of 10 September. In the Gagarinsky district, where President Putin voted, all 12 members of the council are now representatives of YABLOKO. In five other districts YABLOKO has a majority.

Press Release, 03.07.2017 Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Tomsk within the framework of the Time to Return Home campaign targeted at allotting federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development , not to foreign policy ambitions and adventures. Time to Return Home is a part of Grigory […]

Press Release, 21.06.2017 Yabloko launches the all-Russian campaign Time to Return Home. The party will collect signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war in Syria. Such a statement was made by Yabloko’s presidential […]

Press Release 21.03.2017 According to Yuri Pivovarov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and historian, Grigory Yavlinsky would be the best candidate from democratic opposition in the presidential elections of 2018.

Press Release, 20.03.2017 The meeting of the Federal Council of YABLOKO, the most representative body of the party, worked in Moscow on 18-19 March. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova and Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov summarised the results of the elections to the State Duma in 2016 and told how YABLOKO should change. The Federal […]