Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 19.06.2016 The Forum in St. Petersburg demonstrated several things. This forum was not about investment or even the economy… All were speaking about the economy, but told nothing new – neither [Finance Minister] Anton Siluanov nor [Chair of Central Bank] Elvira Nabiullina, nor [Deputy Chair of the Economic Council under the President […]

Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 01.06.2016 The decision by the Russian government’s to extend the “anti-Western” food embargo until the end of 2017 can not be regarded otherwise than economic stupidity. “Beat your people to frighten all the other”. This is a familiar logic – to punish one’s own citizens for serious foreign policy errors […]

Press release, 13.04.2016 On 12 April, former Minister of the Interior of Germany Gerhart Baum gave a public lecture on freedom and security in the Boris Yeltsin Centre in the city of Yekaterinburg (the capital of the Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals). Leader of YABLOKO’s regional branch Yuri Pereverzev and party activist Elena Krasulina attended the […]

Press Release, 23.03.2016 YABLOKO leaders and activists brought flowers to the building of the Embassy of Belgium in Moscow. Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky left records in the book of condolences, and also met with the staff of the diplomatic mission to say the words of sympathy and support.

Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 15.02.2016 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO welcomes the proposal of Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, on recognition of the Russian language as an official language of the European Union. We consider this idea as […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 14.02.2016 “We rolled back to the times of a new Cold War,” such a vauge statement was made by Dmitry Medvedev in Munich, and all media wrote that Dmitry Mededev “had declared the start of the Cold War”. This means that the society is already prepared for a war, it is […]

Statement of YABLOKO Bureau, 18.12.2015 On 25 November, 2015, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the draft resolution entitled “Recognizing the role of human rights defenders and the need for their protection”. The UN General Assembly resolution urges the states to recognize the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders, condemn […]

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 […]

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.

Synopsis of Grigory Yavlinsky’s speech at Forum 2000, Prague, on October 13, 2014, 14.00 Forum 2000* Prague, October 12 – 15, 2014 1. I and my political supporters are strongly against the present Russia’s policies towards Ukraine: we are against the war between Russia and Ukraine. We do not agree with the annexation of Crimea, […]

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Press Release, 15.10.2014 The foundation of true peace between Russia and Ukraine can become only the solidarity of their goals which are the movement to Europe. This was the statement made by the YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference “Forum 2000” which took place in Prague. Yavlinsky claims that Europe needs integration with […]

Press Release, 11.09.2014 The all-Russia Peace March will take place on September 21 in Moscow. The YABLOKO party is the co-organiser of the march. The march is authorized for 50 thousand people and will start from Pushkinskya metro station and proceed to Prospekt Akademika Sakharova.

SVT, 08.09.2014 Ryssland fortsätter att förneka att man sänder soldater till kriget i Ukraina. Men nu börjar makthavarna få problem på hemmaplan med uppgifter som sprids via sociala medier om sårade soldater, hemliga begravningar och hela försvunna kompanier. SVT:s korrespondent besökte Sankt Petersburg och Pskov för att ta reda på mer om det hemliga kriget.

OSCE, 30.08.2014 VIENNA, 30 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called for the Russian authoities to fully investigate and prosecute all attacks on journalists following an attack against journalist Lev Schlosberg in Pskov, in western Russia.

Press Release, 08/31/2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the decision of the interior of the Pskov region to file a criminal case on the attack on YABLOKO’s Lev under “hooliganism” represented a “mockery” of an investigation.

30.08.2014, Mediapool.bg Лидерът на опозиционната партия “Яблоко” в Псковка област и депутат от местния парламент Лев Шлосберг е бил пребит в петък вечерта и има тежка черепно-мозъчна травма, съобщават руските медии, цитирани от ”Дневник”.

Press Release,25.08.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and the activists of the party laid flowers to the Dutch Embassy in memory of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing crach victims. Forty days went by since the tragedy.