Leaders and activists of Yabloko took part in the Returning of the Names action Press Release, 30.10.2019 On 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, Yabloko leaders and activists took part in the action Returning of the Names organised by the Memorial human rights society. Thousands of […]

by Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.09.2019 In August 1999 the young director of the Federal Security Service Vladimir Putin was appointed chairman of the Russian Government. By the end of the same year after the early resignation of Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin, he started assuming his duties. Putin’s longstanding opponent Grigory Yavlinsky discusses the phenomenon of […]

Press Release, 16.09.2019 The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Karelia for their refusal to examine on merit the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in […]

Press Release, 2.09.2019 The stand of the Yabloko party (R-6) will function at the Moscow International Book Fair which will be held in Pavilion No. 75 of VDNKh exhibition (Exhibition of Economic Achievements) from September 4 through to September 8.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 3.06.2019 The Internet has been discussing the new series Chernobyl. They write that this is one of the most significant films not only about the catastrophe, but also about the USSR in general. As a contemporary of these events, I can say that all my friends and acquaintances who had at least […]

Press Release, 3.06.2019 On 2 June, activists of the Rostov branch of Yabloko traditionally came to the place of shooting of a peaceful demonstration of workers in the city of Novocherkassk in 1962, in order to honour the memory of the victims of the crime of the Soviet authorities.

Press Release, 4.06.2019 On Tuesday, 11 June, Andrei Kosmynin, historian and adviser to Grigory Yavlinsky, will deliver a lecture “The History of Russia and its gears for Russia’s future”. The lecture be held in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg 2). The lecture will begin at 19:00.

Press Release, 30.05.2019 On 29 May, Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova took part in a charitable event in support of Yuri Dmitriyev, historian, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, and one of the founders of the Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor memorial complexes where victims of Stalin’s reprisals are buried. Expeditions led […]

On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery in Moscow Press Release, 9.05.2019 On Victory Day, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party traditionally came to the Preobrazhanskoye Cemetery – the largest military burial in Moscow. The war should never happen again – that was the leitmotif […]

Press Release, 7.05.2019 The delegation of the Yabloko party laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. Photo: Alexander Gnezdilov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Misnik, Nikolay Rybakov, Sergei Mitrokhin and Anatoly Golov.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.05.2019 They say Kolyma [one of the GULAG places in north-east Russia] is the birthplace of our fear. But no, it is not Kolyma. And neither [the camps of] Magadan, nor Mordovia, nor Norilsk, nor Komi. And not even all 427 camps of the GULAG. Homeland of our fear is the Kremlin.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky’s book The Putin System has been published by Columbia University Press, New York. How power works in present-day Russia, how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule for over 20 years — these questions are often misunderstood and the answers remain opaque. In The Putin System, Russian […]

Press Release, 29.04.2019 On 7 May, on the threashold of the Victory Day of 9 May, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will lay wreaths and flowers at the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden in Moscow.

Press Release, 23.04.2019 Watch the documentary The Optimists dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko with English (or other) subtitiles now. Choose your language in the Settings of the video. The documentary covers the key periods in the history of the Russian Federation and the development of the Yabloko party.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.04.2019    According to public opinion polls, the attitude of over 50 per cent of Russians to Joseph Stalin is somewhat positive. This is not surprising.  Stalin’s methods of governing based on fear and lies were maintained under Leonid Brezhnev and country leaders after him. Mikhail Gorbachev abolished this practice. But then, […]

Press Release, 19.03.2019 On Sunday, 24 March, a rally “Free Elections for St.Petersburg!” will be held. The rally is marking the 30th anniversary of the first free elections to the Supreme Soviet [parliament] of the USSR. 30 years ago, on 26 March, 1989, the first for the entire Soviet history free elections of deputies were […]

Press Release, 6.03.2019 Deputies from United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the LDPR party excluded from the agenda of the plenary session of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg consideration of the legislative initiative of Yabloko “On the prohibition of the memorialization of Stalin and introduction of amendments to certain legislative […]

Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 12.02.2019 While the state propaganda on the Russia-24 TV channel talks about the “so-called human rights activists”, without giving them a word, and the benefits of the expedition of the Russian Military-Historical Society to Sandarmokh [the place of shooting and burial of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals in Karelia], which causes […]

Press Release, 8.02.2019 On Tuesday, 12 February, a documentary film “The Optimists”, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko, will be shown in the conference hall of the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. Specially for the documentary, the filmmakers recorded about 60 interviews with the founders, leaders, activists and allies of the party.