Press Release, 17.03.2020 Members of the Yabloko party and the Golos movement held a series of one-person pickets [that do not require any permission from the authorities] in the centre of Kemerovo against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation on resetting of the presidential terms for Vladimir Putin and unlawful amendments to the […]

Press Release, 17.03.2020 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to accept the Yabloko’s lawsuit against President Vladimir Putin on the cancellation of his order to conduct an all-Russian vote on constitutional amendments. Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov challenged this decision at the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court.

ALDE party Newsletter, 17.03.2020 Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolay Rybakov All across Russia, members of the Yabloko party conducted one-person pickets on 12 March against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. One-person pickets – which do not require any permission from the authorities – were conducted […]

Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 14.03.2020 To: Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation I demand that those detained during one-person pickets [these pickets do not require any permission from the authorities] in Moscow be immediately released and that you order to stop unlawful practices of detentions at one-person pickets.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.03.2020 Apparently, the Kremlin’s special operation with respect to the Constitution has come to the finish line. With the help of the amendment proposed by the deputy-cosmonaut [Valentina Tereshkova], all the terms of the incumbent President are proposed to be “nullified” [or “reset”] so that Putin could remain in power for at […]

Press Release, 13.03.2020 The Yabloko party proposes to supplement the Constitution of the Russian Federation with a chapter on the electoral system, political parties and the rights of the opposition. Regional MPs from Yabloko introduced the corresponding bill to the legislative assemblies of six constituent entities of the Russian Federation – Moscow, St. Petersburg, the […]

Press Release, 13.03.2020 Yabloko deputies voted against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution during their consideration in the legislative assemblies of the regions. In Karelia, the Khabarovsk Territory and the Pskov Region, votes against were cast only by Yabloko’s MPs. In the Moscow City Duma, the Yabloko faction was the only faction which did not support […]

Statement by the Public Constitutional Council Novaya Gazeta, 11.03.2020 The decision on Putin’s irremovability as President of the Russian Federation, adopted at his proposal by the State Duma today, represents usurpation of power. This decision is unconstitutional. The cancellation of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin, that is, allowing Putin to be in the post […]

Press Release, 12.03.2020 Photo: Alexander Gontcharenko picketing the Altai Territory Legislative Assembly in Barnaul On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party are conducting one-person pickets (that do not require any permission from the authorities) against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The […]

Press Release, 11.03.2020 On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party will picket against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The pickets will be held on the day of the approval of Putin’s constitutional amendments by regional parliaments. Yabloko will picket the buildings […]

Press Release, 11.03.2020 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov picketing by the State Duma Today, on 11 March, Yabloko holds pickets by the State Duma and the Federation Council against usurpation of power by Vladimir Putin. It is expected that the parliament will finally approve amendments to the Constitution today, including resetting of the presidential term for Vladimir […]

Press Release, 10.03.2020 Tomorrow, on March 11, the Yabloko party will hold a series of one-person pickets (that do not require a permission from the authorities) by the State Duma (Okhotny Ryad 1) and the Federation Council (Bolshaya Dmitrovka 26) against the reset of Putin’s presidential terms and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. […]

Yabloko leaders on early parliamentary elections and new presidential election rules Press Release, 10.03.2020 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the picket near the State Duma on March 10, 2020 Yabloko leaders held pickets outside the parliament building during today’s consideration by the State Duma of Putin’s constitutional amendments in the second reading. They protested both against […]

Press Release, 2.03.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a package of Yabloko amendments to the Constitution to the President, Speakers of the State Duma and the Federation Council, as well as to the heads of relevant committees of both houses of the parliament. It included four bills that the party had previously submitted through regional […]

Press Release, 28.02.2020 The Public Constitutional Council and the Yabloko party launched the web-site vote.const2020.ru, where one can take a test and find out whose amendments to the Constitution are better for one: those by President Putin or representatives of civil society. The test consists of 15 pairs of cards with 15 amendments on the […]

Press Release, 29.02.2020 More than 22,000 people took part in the Boris Nemtsov March, an action in memory of slain Putin opponent, which took place in Moscow from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect today. The Yabloko party formed its own column headed by the party leaders who carried a banner with the slogan “Fight […]

Facebook post by Nikolai Rybakov, 29.02.2020 Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman: Together with Emilia Slabunova, Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, – all Yabloko Chairpersons are leading thr oarty column at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov today.

Press Release, 28.02.2020 The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies have considered four bills on amendments to the Constitution of Russia. Parliamentary representatives from the Yabloko faction Lev Shlosberg and Arthur Gaiduk made a proposal to the Regional Assembly to put forward such legislative initiatives to the State Duma of Russia. The voted of the Regional […]

Press Release, 20.02.2020 On 20 February, the Duma of the Astrakhan Region considered constitutional amendments developed by the Public Constitutional Council and introduced by Yabloko’s deputy Dmitry Anufriev. The amendments were combined into four separate laws for each thematic block: the President, the Federal Assembly, the Government and the judicial system. From eight to 12 […]

Press Release, 25.02.2020 On 22 February, a mass picket was held in Chelyabinsk as part of the Constitution of Free People campaign organised by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko. About one hundred people took part in the picket.