Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 09.12.2015 The reaction of the Russian leadership on the tragic death of Russian military Oleg Peshkov and Alexander Pozynich turned out to be asymmetric and strange. The [authorities] chose to strike a blow on cultural and educational ties between our nations. Such negative developments in the relations between Russia and Turkey […]

Press Release, 3.12,2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation demonstrated that there would be no qualitative changes in the country: the course towards militarization would remain and the policies of “tightening the screws” would go on. The President underestimated the crisis tendencies in […]

Statement by YABLOKO Political Committee, 16.11.2015 Russia’s political leaders initiated a one-sided interference into the Syrian armed conflict on one of the sides without coordinating it with the potential allies. This interference is accompanied by tough ideological anti-Americanism, anti-European and self-isolating foreign policy, and a sustainably antidemocratic model within the country, when the propaganda firmly […]

Vedomosti, 16.11.2015 By Grigory Yavlinsky First, we can hope that now it is clear to all where the enemy is. Everyone in Russia (except those who complete lost heads in their hatred of the West, but there are not so many such people) feels the blows of mortal danger coming to us from the Paris […]

Condolences from Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 11.11.2015 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO expresses deep condolences at the death of Helmut Schmidt to the German people, his family, friends and his colleagues on the social-liberal coalition in the German government.

Press Release, 02.11.2015 YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on another victory in passing to Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds.

Alexei Melnikov’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 31.07.2015 Probably, reasonable people, both in Russia and abroad, realize that MH17 flight was shot down by the Russian military. Probably, many people understand that the Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea which launched a war against Ukraine, where a plane shot down by Putinistas was a […]

Press release, 17.07.2015 Activists of the Moscow branch of Youth Yabloko laid flowers to the Dutch Embassy on the anniversary of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Press release, 16.06.2015 Public activists challenged Putin’s decree classifying war losses sustained during peacetime special operations a state secret in the Supreme Court. These nine applicants are YABLOKO’s MP in the Pskov Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg, human rights defender Ivan Pavlov, journalist Grigory Pasko, Timur Olyevsky and others. The applicants claim that the decree violates […]

Herewith support the key programme principles of the Coalition of the Political Alternative

Press release, 10.06.2015 Yesterday YABLOKO Bureau approved the text of the Memorandum which each candidate intending to run from YABLOKO at the forthcoming regional elections in September has to sign. The Memorandum of the Political Alternative contains the following ten key points:

08.06.2015 YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on entering Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds

Dear Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş, Dear Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, I am pleased to congratulate the Peoples’ Democratic Party protecting the rights of the Kurds with entering the Turkish parliament!

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 26.05.2015 The YABLOKO party expresses protest against the refusal of entry to the Russian Federation to Karl-Georg Wellmann, MP of the German Bundestag deputy from the Christian Democratic Union (SDU).

Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 05.05.2015 On 10 May German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to Moscow to pay tribute to all the Soviet soldiers who fought in World War II and to honor the memory of all the killed Soviet citizens.

Argumenti.ru, 21.03.2015, Interview by Valentina Karyelova For the past three months, the volume of industrial production in St. Petersburg dropped by 9.3 per cent, and the reduction in a number of important industries amounted to 27-29 per cent, wage arrears grew by 19 times, construction of apartments fell by 13 per cent – this is the […]

Press release, 06.03.2015 Activists of Moscow Youth Yabloko conducted a series of one-person picketing in support of Nadezhda Savchenko outside the Investigative Committee. Nadezhda Savchenko is the Ukrainian helicopter pilot, deputy of Verkhovna Rada and PACE delegate who is being kept in Moscow pre-detention centre on suspicion of having abetted the killings of two Russian […]

Press release, 26.02.2015 On March 1 YABLOKO will conduct an antiwar action under the slogan “No war with Ukraine” at Tverskaya Street, Moscow.

Liberal International, 19.02.2015 Ahead of opposition rallies organised by Russia’s liberals, Yabloko, to protest President Putin’s meddling in Ukraine, party’s Political Committee has charged Russia’s present regime with “national-imperial neo-Bolshevism.” 

Press release, 19.02.2014 On March 1st, the YABLOKO party will form its own column at the opposition march, its slogan will be “No war with Ukraine”. YABLOKO will also conduct anti-war actions in a number of Russia’s cities: St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Voronezh, Kazan. In St. Petersburg the authorities refused to authorize any of the […]