Press Release, 3.03.2022 The Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted a notification to the Vologda administration about holding a rally in Revolution Square, next to the Eternal Flame monument, on 12 March from 11:00 to 12:00. The purpose of the rally is to express the attitude towards the “special operation” in Ukraine. The […]

Press Release, 3.03.2022 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Nikolai Kuzmin and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party Deputies from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk (the Pskov Regional Assembly), Nikolai Kuzmin (the Assembly of Deputies of the Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District) and Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the […]

Press Release, 2.03.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Unidentified persons broke into the office of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya 7, on 2 March, at about 3:00 p.m. Eight people neutralised the security guard of the building, locked themselves in the office of the party along with […]

Press Release, 2.03.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party officially demands that it immediately be given the opportunity to organise the process of exchanging prisoners and the bodies of the dead. Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky published this on his web-site. “In Russia, the concealing of victims has been […]

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, 2.03.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Every day mass detentions of participants in peaceful anti-war protests take place in St. Petersburg. They are kept in the police for many hours, they are not allowed lawyers, […]

Press Release, 2.03.2022 Today at 6:30 in the morning, the Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory. At that moment, in addition to Zheleznyakova, there were her son and his wife, and her young grandson in […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 1.03.2022 80,000 Russian citizens have signed the Yabloko anti-war petition, one of the first Russian petitions against the war. Probably, yet this number exceeds the number of victims that the war has already brought: civilians and military on both sides. However, if the war continues, it will lead to even greater […]

Press Release, 1.03.2022 Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Andrei Morev co-applicants of the action and deputy chairmen of the Moscow branch of Yabloko in the Moscow Mayor’s Office Yabloko filed a notification with the Moscow Mayor’s Office that an anti-war march would be held in Moscow (from Strastnoy Boulevard to the intersection of Academician Sakharov Prospect […]

Press Release, 1.03.2022 Over the past three days, police have detained at least 19 Yabloko members in Moscow, the Chelyabinsk, the Sverdlovsk, the Saratov and the Samara regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan for their anti-war stance, including Chairpersons of the Bashkirian and Samara regional branches of Yabloko Kristina Abramicheva and Anton Rubin, and Yabloko […]

Press Release, 28.02.2022 Photo: Lenin Square in St.Petersburg, a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities / Photo from topspb.tv The administration of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg banned a rally for peace with Ukraine referring to the anti-COVID decree of the city government, which prohibits holding public […]

Press Release, 28.02.2022 Photo: President Putin’s meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. / Photo from Kremlin.ru The Yabloko factions in the parliaments of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Pskov region and Karelia initiated appeals from their legislative assemblies to President Putin calling him to immediately stop hostilities in […]

Seven years since the murder of tough opponent of the war Boris Nemtsov Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.02.2022 On 27 February, 2015, Boris Nemtsov was killed by the walls of the Kremlin. Russian President Putin is politically responsible for this assassination. Boris Nemtsov has always been a tough and consistent opponent of the war with Ukraine. […]

Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Kudelkin (left) and Maxim Petlin (centre) in a police wagon / Photo from social networks The persecution of members and activists of the Yabloko party continues throughout the country. The reason for the persecution is the tough stance for peace with Ukraine, which the party consistently defends. The pretext for […]

Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Saratov/Photo from social networks Activists of the Yabloko party are participating in pickets for peace with Ukraine in those cities where public actions are not prohibited by anti-COVID restrictions [that imply criminal punishment even for single pickets]. Single pickets were held in Ivanovo, Saratov, Krasnodar, Yeysk, Miass, Chelyabinsk, Pskov, Vladivostok, Ufa, […]

Press Release, 25.02.2022 Over 60,000 people have signed Yabloko’s appeal for peace with Ukraine as of 25 February, 13:30. Almost two thirds of them signed within the past 24 hours.

Nikolai Rybakov’s FB post, 25.02.2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a flagrant violation of international law, it is a crime against humanity. The guilty of this crime will be punished sooner or later. But today every citizen of the country shares the responsibility for what is happening – do not be silent, express your disagreement […]

Statement by the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 24.02.2022 Photo by Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti Yabloko expresses its categorical protest against the outbreak of armed hostilities against Ukraine. This war means Russia’s war against the objective course of history, a war against time, and a tragic fall out from the reality of […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 24.02.2022 Today, after the shocking news, despite interruptions in the website, 18,000 more people expressed their civil stance and signed the petition “No to war!” [as of 18:00].

Press Release, 22.02.2022 Photo: Boris Nemtsov commemorative march in Moscow in 2019. Source: Press Service of the Yabloko Party On 27 February, the day of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko together with PARNAS will hold a commemorative rally against the war with Ukraine in Gagarin Park in Chelyabinsk. The action […]

Press Release, 22.02.2022 Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant Over 20,000 Russian citizens signed Yabloko’s petition for peace with Ukraine on the website of the Yabloko party as of the evening of 22 February. The collection of signatures began on 13 February. The first 10,000 signatures were collected […]