Press release, 01.12.2016 On Friday, December 2, the committee on legislation of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly will consider YABLOKO’s draft decree on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President.

Press release, 05.09.2016 The Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg approved of YABLOKO’s motion on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President, unanimously. The motion will be referred for consideration of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, which will decide whether the questions proposed by […]

Statement by the St. Petersburg branch of YABLOKO, 04.08.2016 The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO consistently opposes the system of gathering the voters’ signatures as a means of administrative elimination of the political forces and candidates who are out of favour of the government. The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO faced this threshold when it was not […]

Press Release, 09.06.2016 According to Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly, politics led to situation when modern solutions could no longer be taken in the economy and everyday life. He made such a statement at a press conference held in the Rosbalt news agency in St. Petersburg. Grigory Yavlinsky and […]

Press release, 06.06.2016 Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the faction, will summarize the results of the work of YABLOKO faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the V convocation (2011-2016) in the IA Rosbalt press centre, Thursday, 9 June.

Press release, 17.02.2016 The deputies of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly voted against the bill on the election of the city parliament deputies in the third reading because, on the whole, they disapprove of the election concept proposed by the ruling United Russia party.

Statement by the YABLOKO faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 03.02.2016 Dear Deputies! The YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly does not support the bill of St.Petersburg “On the election of deputies of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly” which includes the introduction of a mixed electoral system which was initiated “orally” on 3 February, 2016.

Press release, 02.02.2016 On 1 February, a meeting of the Bureau of St.Petersburg YABLOKO took place. The Bureau nominated Boris Vishnevsky and Andrei Palevich to negotiate with PARNAS and Democratic Petersburg about the conduction of street actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov. According to a number of the Bureau members, the opposition must conduct a […]

Press release based on Elizaveta Belova’s article, ZakS.Ru, 15.01.2015 Boris Vishnevsky, YABLOKO’s deputy in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, won the contest The St.Petersburg citizen in the nomination “historic preservation”. Over 15 thousand people voted on social media and 48,3 percent supported Boris Vishnevsky against Natalia Sivokhina and Marianna Alferova.

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 […]