Press Release, 07.09.2016 YABLOKO filed 54 complaints of violations to local election commissions and the prosecutor’s office during this election campaign. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova informed the Central Electoral Commission of this on 7 September. The party is going to summarize all the violations and submit a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission.

Previously the Central Electoral Commission registered actor Oleg Basilashvili and poet Igor Irtenyev as YABLOKO election representatives Tass, 07.09.2016 On Wednesday the Central Electoral Commission registered a group of YABLOKO election representatives at the elections to the State Duma – one of them is Vladimir Voinovich, a renowned writer, author of the novels “Moscow 2042” […]

Press Release, 07.09.2016 Svetlana Gannushkina, renown human rights defender and head of YABLOKO regional group in Chechnya in the parliamentary election, and Sergei Kovalyov, her representative, famous human rights defender, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Co-Chair of YABLOKO Human Rights Faction, are going to call Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya and candidate for […]

Press release, 06.09.2016 The use of referendums to solve the issues of public importance in Moscow has become a major topic of YABLOKO election campaign in the capital of Russia. At the moment the officials make any decisions concerning the urban development of Moscow without regard to the opinion of the residents. A discussion on recovering referendums in […]

Press release, 04.09.2016 On September 4, YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova began her two days’visit to Perm. She attended a women’s We-Fest festival and had a meeting with YABLOKO’s candidates.

Debate on the Russia-1 television channel, 03.09.2016 On September 2, the Russia-1 television channel held a debate, the topic of which was creation the equal opportunity environment in the country. The YABLOKO party was represented in the debate by its leader Grigory Yavlinsky. His opponents were Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), Gennady Semigin (Patriots of Russia), Oleg […]

Press release, 01.09.2016 Tomorrow, September 2, head of YABLOKO’s federal list of parliamentary candidates, Grigory Yavlinsky, will have a meeting with the coordinators of the party campaign headquarters in Moscow.

YABLOKO parliamentary candidate visited the cities of Siberia Press release, 25.08.2016 On August 23-24, YABLOKO parliamentary candidate Vladimir Ryzhkov visited Tomsk and Novosibirsk as part of the election campaign. Ryzhkov had a meeting with party supporters, held two press conferences and participated in radio and television programmes.

Press release, 24.08.2016 Today YABLOKO parliamentary candidates have launched the legislative initiatives, which the party is intended to implement if it enters the Parliament. YABLOKO leaders and parliamentary nominees launched the most relevant out of nearly 150 bills, which YABLOKO had drafted.

Press release, 02.08.2016 The Gallery advertising company denied placing 27 YABLOKO’s billboards in six cities of the Altai Territory despite preliminary agreements. The company proposed to place 10 advertising boards in the cities of Barnaul and Biysk instead.

Novaya Gazeta, 12.07.2016 On 8 July, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper held a public opinion poll among the paper staff on the upcoming elections. Journalists were choosing by means of secret ballot the party list they would support, if the election took place next Sunday. In general 52 out of total 142 people of the staff […]

Statement by the 19th Congress of the YABLOKO party, 11.07.2016 Summing up the results of the work of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, the Russian United Democratic YABLOKO party states the negative influence which the deputies made on the public, political and economic life of the country. The State Duma of the sixth […]

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, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Radio KP, programme “The State Duma 2016: Reload”, 19.05.2016 Yakovlev: – Good evening! I am pleased and have the honour to introduce you our today’s guest – Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the YABLOKO party. Emilia Edgardovna, thank you for coming to our studio.

Press release, 20.05.2016 Chair of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky has had a meeting with politician Alexei Navalny today. The coming State Duma election campaign became the subject of the meeting.

Press release, 18.05.2016 On 18 May, four months before the elections to the State Duma, YABLOKO activists conducted campaigning street actions to remind the voters about the importance of participation in elections. The action took place in more than 20 cities of Russia.