Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]

Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko notes the dangerous counterproductiveness of Russia’s policies in the Middle East: the country did not gain allies there but got bogged down in a strange, endless civil war that claimed thousands of lives. In 2015, […]

Achievements of President Putin’s four-year policy in the Middle East by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.10.2019 President Putin agreed to Turkey’s seizure of Syria’s border area and told President Erdogan that he was ready to send Russian soldiers to the Syrian-Turkish border to help the Turks monitor the expulsion of the Kurds from lands […]

Press Release, 14.10.2019 About 4,000 residents of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, came to the rally against the appointment of Dmitry Trapeznikov (who used to be Chair of the Council of Ministers of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine) acting the head of the administration of Elista.  The Kalmyk branch of Yabloko was […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 20.05.2019 Inauguration of the new President of Ukraine is taking place in Kiev. Congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky and wishes of success to him. Endlessly difficult and dangerous work is in store for him.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2019 It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.04.2019 Distributing Russian passports on a mass scale to foreign nationals in a war zone is not the way to peace. If Putin really wants to help the residents of Donbass, then we must stop the war with Ukraine. This will ensure the real and long-term safety of the inhabitants of the […]

Press Release, 22.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, sent a message of congratulations to Vladimir Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine in Ukrainian and Russian.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019 They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”

Press Release, 8.04.2019 On 6 April, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko organised an antiwar picket. The action was a response to the arrival of the government’s propaganda train “The Syrian Turning Point”, which goes across Russia demonstrating trophy military equipment from Syria. According to the organisers of the picket, on the day the train stops […]

Grigory Yavlinsky on the results of the investigation of Russia’s interference into the US elections Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.03.2019 The investigation by Robert Muller, Special Counsel [of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections] ended without charge or justification. Robert Muller did not find evidence of Donald Trump’s collusion with Vladimir […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.03.2018 Five years ago, Vladimir Putin, with mass support of Russians annexed Crimea. Today, they talk a lot about the “price of Crimea”, give figures, the size of subsidies, allocations, expenses for the construction of a bridge, etc. However, this is not so much about Crimea as about the stagnant Russian economy […]

12.03.2019 Interview with Acad. Alexei Arbatov by Fyodor Anaschenkov, special for yabloko.ru The international community has been discussing with concern a new border incident between India and Pakistan. The two countries have been in a state of a “smoldering” conflict for 70 years. At the same time, both the sides possess nuclear weapons. Acad. Alexey […]

Decision No 109 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 12.03.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the party adopted a new version of the “Memorandum of Political Alternative” at its meeting on 1 March. This document is mandatory for signing by party candidates in elections of all levels.

Statement by Yabloko Chairperson, 19.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev The Yabloko party expresses serious concern over the fact that Andrei Morev, Moscow municipal deputy from Yabloko, was summoned for interrogation to the Investigation Committee of the Yakimanka district of Moscow.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019 The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 3.02.2019 The INF Treaty is no longer valid. Moscow announces the start of creation of new types of missiles. The threat to the security of Russia and Europe surges many-fold. Whether Russia was engaged in the development and testing of the rocket in violation of the INF Treaty, which was the […]

Press release, 25.01.2019 Yabloko’s Liberal Club will discuss the experience of German and European liberals on 30th January, Wednesday. The Free Democratic Party of Germany had been either part of the ruling coalition or parliamentary opposition since the end of World War II. However, the party did not pass the 5 per cent threshold in […]