Press Release, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, November 9, 2013 Police and FSB operatives detained our deputy coordinator Dmitry Shevchenko today for a total of four-and-a-half hours, in a continuing campaign of intimidation against our environmental activists which has increased drastically as the Winter Olympics in Sochi get closer.

Press Release, November 8, 2013 On November 8, 2013, YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction adopted a statement on the destruction of nature in preparing for the Sochi Olympics.

Press release, 01.11.2013 On October 31, Andrei Rudomakha, leader of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO and Coordinator of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, was arrested by police when he arrived to Sochi from Krasnodar on the pretext that he had not come to an interrogation.

Press Release, Photographs, October 27, 2013 YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction conducted pickets in support of the crew of the Arctic Sunrise and in defence of the Arctic in thirteen Russian cities: Arkhangelsk, Blagoveshchensk, Vladikavkaz, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Saint Petersburg, Sosnovy Bor (the Leningrad region), Sochi, Petrozavodsk, Chelyabinsk and Ulan-Ude on October 25-27. The […]

 Press Release, October 24, 2013 On Sunday, October 27, at 14:00, Alexei Yablokov, Chairman of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and Adviser in the Russian Academy of Sciences, will participate in the national campaign “Freedom to the Defenders of the Arctic” in Pushkin Square in Moscow.

Press Release, photos, video, October 18, 2013 On October 18, YABLOKO and Sochi’s movement “Law and Order” (Zakon i poryadok) conducted pickets outside the White House against the placing of Olympic construction waste in Akhshtirsky gallop which is situated in the karst block above the field of fresh waters. “Law and Order” leader Roman Shikarev, […]

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the Moskvoretsky Park on October 16. He found out serious violations of the environmental legislation and reached the stop of the illegal construction works.

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Today, on October 10, 2013, law enforcement officers attempted to get into the office of the Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO party (presumably, these were officers from the Center for Combating Extremism). This happened at about 2:30 p.m. The police insisted that they needed Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the regional […]

Press Release, October 1, 2013 On the 56th anniversary of the accident at the Mayak plant, one of the largest Russian nuclear facilities, the Chelyabinsk branch of YABLOKO reminded President Putin of the accident in the Southern Urals in 1957.

YABLOKO’s statement, September 25, 2013 Freedom for Greenpeace activists! For environmental safety in the Arctic!

Press Release, September 19, 2013 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO participated in a mass rally in defence of the city under the slogan “Let’s protect Nizhny Novgorod! Let’s save our city ourselves!”. The rally was organised  by the Nizhny Novgorod civil movement. The citizens stood against the cutting down of the trees and pulling […]

Condolences, September 12, 2013  Our friend, environmental activist and professional biologist Ivan Smirnov passed away suddenly on September 11.

Press Release, September 1, 2013 On September 1, Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin and the residents of the Mosrentgen settlement (New Moscow) inspected a big part of the market “Slavyansky World”, which was ostensibly closed by the order of the temporary acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. The inspection found out that the market not only […]

Religion & Science in East and West journal, 7/8 2013, Vol.41 By YABLOKO Bureau member and head of YABLOKO’s Gender (Women’s) Faction Dr. Galina Michaleva New Russia’s nomeklatura, including the top officials, has been actively constructing palaces on the Black Sea cost, mostly in the national reserves, grabbing the shore, including public beaches.

Press Release, August 27, 2013 A round table on Moscow’s environmental problems with Sergei Mitrokhin’s participation was conducted at A.N.Bakh Institute of Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on August 27.

Press Release, August 19, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor inspected the construction of a tube station near Bitsevsky forest in the south of Moscow on August 18. The apprehensions about the breach of the environmental protection legislation during the construction were confirmed.

Press Release, August 14, 2013  Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin had a meeting with the residents of the Kotlovky district.

Press Release, July 29, 2013 Candidate for the Mayor of Moscow Sergei Mitrokhin and activists of the YABLOKO party participated in a series of pickets by the Moscow Mayor’s Office protesting against the barbaric “reconstruction” Prince Volkonsky’s mansion.

Press Release, July 25, 2013 On July 29, 2013, Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, will support the action of Arkhnadzor (Architectural Heritage Control) public organisation held in protest of the destruction of Prince Volkonsky’s mansion at Vozdvizhenka Street in the centre of Moscow. Prince Volkonsky was prototype of Prince […]

ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH ON NORTH CAUCASUS (EWNC) July 22, 2013 This weekend, the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus received an official warning from the prosecutors not to continue operations unless it registers as a “foreign agent”. However the way this warning was delivered harks of spy games of the Soviet era, when secret police invented fake […]