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.

Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO, 31.05.2016 The decision of the St. Petersburg toponymic commission to name [one of the city’s] bridges after Chechnya’s first President Akhmad Kadyrov, which was obviously made in a rush and under the pressure of the St.Petersburg city administration, indicates that the authorities are not interested in the opinion […]

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 21.05.2016 I still can not forget one episode. [It was in] 1989. Academician Andrei Sakharov is making a speech from the tribune of congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR. It is broadcast by television. The audience is yelling, stomping feet, Mikhail Gorbachev presiding [over the congress] calls Academician to leave the […]

Press release, 11.05.2016 YABLOKO member Alexei Nesterenko has conducted a picket by the house where the victims of Joseph Stalin’s terror were executed. He demanded that the house must be turned into a memorial museum.

Press release, 09.05.2016 A memorial anti-fascist ceremony took place at the mass grave at Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow under YABLOKO’s initiative. Thousands of Muscovites – soldiers and officers who died during the Second World War – were buried there. The activists and leaders of the party laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.

Press Release, 06.05.2016 Today the leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party have laid a wreath and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin walls. YABLOKO conducts the memorial anti-fascist action annually.

Press release, 15.02.2016 Today, on 15 February, Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO Yuri Pereverzyev participated in a rally dedicated to the 27th anniversary of the Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. The rally took place in the city of Pervouralsk, the Sverdlosk Region.

Press release, 03.02.2016 On 2 February, the Volgograd branch of YABLOKO laid flowers to the internal flame in memory of the Battle of Stalingrad, 1943, a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, when the Soviet troops defeated the Nazi Germany.

Press Release, 27.01.2016 On 27 January, the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The action was attended by YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova, Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov and members of the Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin.

Press Release, 25.01.2016 On 27 January, on the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party will lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Press release, 18.12.2015 Today, December 18, the Tverskoy District Court postponed the trial over Sergei Mitrokhin on his detention at an action in defence of the Russian Constitution. This way the court satisfied the motion of lawyer Boris Mamatov.

Press release, 21.08.2015 On August 22, the Russian flag day, a rally in memory to the events of the coup of 1991 took place. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and member of YABLOKO Policial Committee Victor Sheinis participated in the action. The demonstration started from the White House [parliament building] and ended by the monument to […]

Press release, 21.08.2015 On August 21, YABLOKO activists participated in the memorial action dedicated to the defenders of the White House [parliament building] who had died during the coup of 1991. The action was organized by the participants of the coup: human rights defenders and civil activists.

Press Release, 23.07.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an address to Russian President Vladimir Putin proposing to adopt complex measures for furter de-Bolshevisation of public areas and toponimic names of streets and cities in Russia.

Press Release, 22.06.2015 YABLOKO’s leaders, party activists and Moscow citizens took part in a memorial action “1,418 candles per every day of the war” commemorating the victims of the Second World War. The action was held in Moscow in the night from June 21 to June 22 (the day the USSR was attacked by Hitler’s […]