Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Moscow City Duma rejected two bills with amendments to the Constitution submitted by the Yabloko faction. The bills were proposed to be adopted as a legislative initiative and sent to the federal parliament – the State Duma. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of nine bills […]

Press Release, 11.09.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime. Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation […]

Press Release, 28.08.2020 Natalya Pochinok, Rector of the Russian State Social University, had to cancel her order on the expulsion of Anton Ocheretin and Danila Petrov from the university, after the Public Prosecutor General’s Office proposed her to eliminate violations of the legislation on education. Students were expelled in April this year for trying to […]

Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]

An appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 27.05.2020 The Federal Bureau of Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General of Russia after more than 200 students were unlawfully expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University during the pandemic when they could not even appeal the decisions of the university management. One of the expelled […]

Press Release, 15.04.2020 The Yabloko faction in Moscow City Duma appealed to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, in connection with large queues of passengers to enter metro stations and traffic jams at entrances to Moscow that emerged on April 15 after the introduction of digital […]

Press Release, 11.04.2020 The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma made a package of proposals to the Moscow government aimed at providing socio-economic support to residents of Moscow in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. The document proposes to redistribute the funds envisaged in the budget for 2020 from long-term infrastructure and entertainment projects to […]

ALDE party, 30.03.2020. This op-ed is written by Nikolai Rybakov, who has been serving as chair of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko since 2019. Yabloko is the oldest democratic party in Russia and continues fighting for a modern European state. Read more

Press Release, 27.01.2020 The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma proposes that the Moscow parliament should have the right to approve appointment and dismissal by the Mayor of top Moscow officials such as Vice Mayors, ministers of the city government, districts heads, heads of local administrations, while the same candidacy cannot be submitted for […]

Press Release, 23.12.2019 Tomorrow the Commission of the Moscow City Duma on Urban Economy and Housing Policies will consider the bill of deputy Sergei Mitrokhin on amendments to the law “On provision of urban amenities in Moscow”. The amendments oblige the Moscow government to coordinate with Muscovites improvement projects for courtyards, streets and squares.

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 16.12.2019 The Commission on the organisation of the work of the Moscow City Duma rejected the question of the Yabloko faction to the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Daria Besedina, Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, was going to ask the Moscow Mayor if he […]

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 29.11.2019 Searches have been going on throughout the country at the offices of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) for several months already. The equipment and property of the organisation are seized, employees are summoned for endless interrogations. It is clear that such actions by the authorities […]

Press Release, 28.11.2019 The administration of the Russian State Social Sciences University canceled the meeting of Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, with students. Kruglov wrote about this on his Facebook page. The meeting was to be held this afternoon in the main building of the Russian State State […]

Press Release, 26.11.2019 Formally, Yelena Zyabbarova, head of the Moscow Finance Department, proposed to reject all the amendments of both the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma and its deputies, however, in fact, two amendments to the faction and four amendments of deputy Sergei Mitrokhin were nevertheless taken into account. Thus, the amount allocated […]

Press Release, 14.11.2019 Yabloko party, Emilia Slabunova, asked Denis Popov, Moscow Public Prosecutor, to check the work of Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow Mayor. Back in July of this year, Slabunova asked the Mayor to explain why Moscow did not have a socio-economic development strategy which is must according to the  federal law, but has still […]

Press Release, 12.11.2019 Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent a deputy request addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to initiate an investigation into corruption of Denis Popov, Moscow Public Prosecutor, who became the protagonist of the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). The FBK investigation runs […]

Press Release, 5.11.2019 The opposition in the Moscow City Duma has made the Moscow authorities to conduct public hearings on the draft budget for Moscow for 2020. The hearing will be held in the Public Chamber of Moscow today, on 5 November. The lack of a public hearing was one of the reasons why the […]

Press Release, 21.10.2019 On Tuesday, 22 October, a meeting of the Yabloko’s faction in Moscow City Duma with Moscow municipal deputies will be held in the Yabloko office. The topic of the meeting is as follows: What the budget of Moscow for 2020 should be. On 15 October, the Moscow Mayor’s Office submitted to the […]

Press Release, 17.10.2019 Today, Yevgeny Bunimovich, Yabloko deputy of the Moscow City Duma and member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and an initiative group of residents brought to the Moscow Mayor’s Office signatures of Muscovites for preservation of the park and creation of a cultural centre in Khovrino  presenting Moscow with the goal […]

Press Release, 23.09.2019 The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma unanimously elected Maxim Kruglov as its leader. Sergei Mitrokhin, who led the party’s faction in the Moscow City Duma of the fourth convocation (2005-2009), recused himself. Mitrokhin explained this step by the desire to maintain solidarity within the new faction, as well as to […]