Press release, 07.08.2015 Deputies of St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Kobrinsky forwarded a letter to President Putin with the request to annul the decree on the destruction of sunctioned food products.

Press Release, 25.06.2015 Grigory Yavlinsky, head of YABLOKO faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, summed up the work of the faction in the spring session.

Press release, 17.06.2015 The YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg voted against the law on the implementation of the city budget in 2014 in connection with the systemic shortcomings of the budget process in St. Petersburg, that YABLOKO pointed at at all the stages of adopting of the budget last year, runs […]

Statement by the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 3.06.2015 STATEMENT On the draft Law on St.Petersburg Budget “On the Introduction of Changes and Amendments into St.Petersburg Law “On the Budget of St.Petersburg for 2015 and for the Period of 2016-2017”

Press Release, 24.05.2015 Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region need to transfer from their competition to a single system of development of this metropolitan area and agree on common interests. Development of a single economic and urban concept for agglomeration of the two regions should become another step towards this. Such a statement was made by […]

Press Release, 16.04.2015 Today, conceptual strategy ” The Greater St.Petersburg. The 21st Century” developed under the guidance of D.r Grigory Yavlinsky has been published in the Internet. In February 2015, the strategy was presented to St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, and yesterday Grigory Yavlinsky discussed the document with representatives of the government and business in […]

Press Release, 15.04.2015 St. Petersburg’s government involves opposition and large-scale businesses for help in amending and improving the Strategy for Economic and Social Development of St.Petersburg until 2030 (Strategy-2030).

04.08.2015 Financial problems of the Lenenergo energy company are caused by inefficiency of the investment programme, as well as lack of the balance for heat and electricity in the St.Petersburg Heating Schemes up to Period 2030. Such a statement was made today by Grigory Yavlinsky head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of […]

Press release, 18.03.2015 The activists of the Smart Power movement, a group of Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO’s supporters, picketed the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg with a placard “Legislative Assembly mustn’t limit the journalists work”. The activists joined the flashmob conducted by the journalists against the restrictions of the journalists’ work in the city parliament.

Press release, 22.01.2015 Deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Grigory Yavlinsky suggested granting the rights of legislative initiative to the citizens of St.Petersburg since this right is a form of the citizens’ exercitation of power on equal terms with referendum and free elections guaranteed by the Constitution.

Press Release, 05.06.2014 The bills should always have a specific author and should be introduced on behalf of deputies not the bodies of St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly. At the moment the bills of the commissions and committees are anonymous which makes the lawmaking process non-transparent and corruptogenic. Head of YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Grigory […]

Press Release, 24.04.2014 According to head of YABLOKO faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Grigory Yavlinsky, he will introduce his own bill on capital repairs of apartment block as well as a programme on the increase of energy efficiency of St.Petersburg heating supply system. The system will allow to cut costs for heating energy and […]

Press Release, 26.03.2014 The Smart Power movement in support of Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO conducted an action outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly on March 26. The participants of the action held a banner with the photographs of Deputy Grigory Yavlinsky and Ombudsman of St.Peterburg Alexander Shyshlov which said “A human, citizen, resident of St.Petersburg delegated […]

Press Release, November 28, 2013 Leader of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to cut the propensity for corruption of the Law on the Federal Contract System. Yavlinsky introduced the draft into the Legislative Assembly.

Press Release, November 27, 2013 YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg proposed to admit the city’s debt on overhaul to the citizens which wasn’t done in the previous years. This means not to demand this money from the citizens.

Press Release, November 26, 2013 According to head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg  Grigory Yavlinsky, the amendments to the Law on Police that he proposed will on the whole increase the citizens’ trust in the state. The draft was introduced  at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Press Release, November 2, 2013 The tenth march against hatred was conducted in St.Petersburg on November 2. It took pace under the slogan “Russia without pogroms”.

Press Release, October 16, 2013 Such situations can take place in any city of Russia until the government refuses to tell the truth about the enormous income they get from the slave labour of immigrants and corruption and until mass media will describe this conflicts as cross ethnic, said leader of YABLOKO faction in the […]

Press Release, September 25, 2013 When discussing the incidents with usage of a weapon in the streets of St. Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction of St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, said that in addition to other measures video cameras should be installed in the streets.

Statement by member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee July 4, 2013 The attempt to force the reform of the Academy of Sciences is another striking example of the government’s complete disrespect for the citizens and an insurmountable rift between the state and society.