Press Release, 24.09.2020 A charitable concert in support of political prisoners will be held at the Interior Theatre (Nevsky Prospect 104) on 27 September. The concert is organised with the participation of members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party and head of the Yabloko faction in the […]

Press Release, 23.09.2020 On Monday, 21 September, Alexandr Makhankov, member of the Bureau of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko and Chairman of the local Yabloko branch in the city of Pushkin, together with representatives of the #Khochuvpark (I Want to the Park) initiative group, submitted to the reception of the Governor of St. Petersburg a […]

Press Release, 22.09.2020   The Yabloko party is launching a series of open discussions on contemporary journalistic investigation. The main topic of the introductory lecture, which took place on September 17, was “Legal Risks and Personal Experience of Successful Investigations”.

Press Release, 17.09.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, Yabloko activist from Kislovodsk, told the media that he was threatened with murder if he continued to take action against Putin and United Russia. According to Ayrapetyan, on the evening of 12 September, he was returning home after a walk with a friend. An unidentified masked man with a knife […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2020 Danil Beglets, Kirill Zhukov, Yevgeny Kovalenko, Konstantin Kotov, Yegor Lesnykh, Eduard Malyshevsky, Maxim Martintsov, Ivan Podkopayev and Sergei Surovtsev. All of these people were sent to jail because they dared to speak out against the authorities’ criminal election fraud and because they were courageous enough to protest openly in the streets.

Press Release, 11.09.2020 The Second Court of Appeal of St.Petersburg did not satisfy the complaint of Yabloko candidate Oleg Mandrykin against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.

Press Release, 11.09.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime. Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation […]

On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]

Press Release, 10.09.2020 On September 9, the Nizhny Novgorod  branch of Yabloko” was holding a seminar for those who signed up to be observers at the upcoming elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. After the lecture began, police officers suddenly stormed in. They said that on they were acting on basis of a […]

Statement by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, 9.09.2020 A search was conducted in the apartment of Irina Maltseva, candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma from the Yabloko party, on 9 September at 6 a.m. The investigative actions were carried out on the basis of the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the so-called […]

Press Release, 9.09.2020 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin’s apartment after a search Searches were conducted in the apartments of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and candidate to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement, and Irina Maltseva, ethnographer and candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma.

Press Release, 7.09.2020 “An international investigation team should be created under the auspices of one of the credible international organisations so that to investigate the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, said.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020 Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning? Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights […]

Press Release, 4.09.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party Pskov regional politicians discussed the formation of a reserve from the Russian security and law enforcement for Belarus and Vladimir Putin’s support for the actions of Alexander Lukashenko at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station. The opinions […]

Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov! Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020 Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus […]

FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 3.09.2020 Alexei Navalny [opposition politician and one of vocal critics of the regime] was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group, the German government said in a statement. Angela Merkel, in her commentary, stated unequivocally that “it was an attempt to silence him [Navalny]”. Unambiguous, because if it were […]

Press Release, 2.09.2020 Well-known members of the Yabloko party stood surety for imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov  accused in treason. Among those bailing for the journalist were Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, seven deputies of regional parliaments, well-known human rights activists and heads of three municipal districts of Moscow.

Press Release, 30.08.2020 Ksenia Sverdlova, candidate for the regional Duma from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Saratov regional branch of the party, appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, asking them to stop the interference of law enforcement agencies and the Saratov city […]

Press Release, 28.08.2020 Natalya Pochinok, Rector of the Russian State Social University, had to cancel her order on the expulsion of Anton Ocheretin and Danila Petrov from the university, after the Public Prosecutor General’s Office proposed her to eliminate violations of the legislation on education. Students were expelled in April this year for trying to […]

Statement by the Yabloko party, 28.08.2020 The YABLOKO party demands the criminal prosecution of Chelyabinsk environmentalist Vladimir Kazantsev must be immediately stopped. Vladimir Kazantsev is one of the most famous and effective lawyers in Russia in the field of environmental law, who for many years has been defending the constitutional rights of residents of the […]