Biography of one of the most experienced politicians in Russia Photo: Vladimir Lukin at the conference of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Today is the anniversary of Vladimir Petrovich Lukin, a man with a unique path in politics. Together with Soviet dissidents, he openly opposed the invasion of Soviet troops to Czechoslovakia in 1968, worked […]

Press Release, 22.06.2017 In the night from June 21 to June 22, the Yabloko party held its annual event “1,418 Candles for Each Day of the War” to commemorate the tragic anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union. Yabloko leaders and activists participated in this anti-war and anti-fascist action.

Press Release, 19.06.2017 In the night from June 21 to June 22, the Yabloko party will hold its annual event “1,418 Candles for Each Day of the War” to commemorate the tragic anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union. Yabloko leaders will participate in the action.

Press release, 10.05.2017 On Friday, 12 May, head of Yabloko’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky will give a lecture on the history of the party.

Press release, 08.05.2017 On 8 May, deputies of Yabloko’s faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and party activists commemorated victims of the Second World War laying flowers at the memorial at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery.

Press release, 05.05.2017 Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.

Party leaders and activists will participate in memorial anti-war actions by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery Press release, 02.05.2017 On 5 May, Yabloko leaders and party activists will lay wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls.

On political parallels and assessment of the events of 1917 Novaya Gazeta, 03.04.2017 In the absence of a modern and honest assessment of what happened [in Russia] one hundred years ago, the Russian public consciousness is doomed to flounder between the idea of a revolution as a blessing and the only way to achieve change, […]

Press release, 07.03.2017 Russia’s key historians will participate in a panel discussion on “100th anniversary of the February Revolution and the aim of political modernisation in the 21st century” which is to take place in YABLOKO’s office on March 14th.

Press release, 27.01.2017 On 27 January, the anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad, YABLOKO representatives laid flowers at the memorial in Moscow and St.Petersburg.

Press release, 17.01.2016 The YABLOKO party will hold a series of forums dedicated to the important historical events on their anniversaries, which will take place this year and in the beginning of next year. They are the 100th anniversary of the February Revolution and the October Coup, the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of mass […]

Press Release, 07.11.2016 On 7 November, YABLOKO activists held a traditional action of memory of defenders of democratic Russia – cadets and officers who made armed resistance to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The action was attended by Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO.

Press Release, 19.10.2016 On October 15, film director Grigory Amnuel visited the Discussion Club of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO.

Press release, 22.08.2016 The initiative group founded by the YABLOKO party appealed to the election commission of St.Petersburg to initiate a referendum against naming one of the city’s bridges after Akhmad Kadyrov, first President of the Chechen Republic, which was done by the authorities despite loud public protests. The application will be considered within two […]

Blog post by Lev Shlosberg, 21.08.2016 One can not forget August 19, 1991. To be exact: one can not forget this long day of 19-20-21 August, which was not interrupted by sleep. The day began early in the morning of 19 August, when breathing seized up from a voice on the radio, and ended on […]

Press release, 19.08.2016 On 9 August, YABLOKO commemorated the August Coup of 1991. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova, parliamentary candidate Vladimir Ryzhkov, and party Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov laid flowers to the place where Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krychevsky and Vladimir Usov died during an incident in the tunnel of the Garden Ring Road, Moscow, overnight into […]

Press release, 18.08.2016 On August 19, YABLOKO will commemorate the victims of the August Coup of 1991. Party leaders will lay flowers to the place where Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krychevsky and Vladimir Usov died during an incident in the tunnel of the Garden Ring Road, Moscow, overnight into August 21, 1991.

Press release, 19.07.2016 YABLOKO activists participated in a picket against the installation of a monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the city of Orel 350km south of Moscow. Over 60 people took part in the action. Leader of the local party branch Sergei Zaytsev was one of the organizers of the protest action.

Press release, 22.06.2016 On the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union the leaders and activists of YABLOKO participated in the 1,418 Candles per Each Day of the War action commemorating the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (the date is commemorated in Russia as the Memory and Grievance Day).

Press release, 17.06.2016 YABLOKO will light 1418 candles to commemorate the victims of the Second World War on the eve of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, 21 June.