Press Release, 01.12.2021 Photo: Logo of International Memorial Municipal deputies from the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party Konstantin Smirnov, Maria Rakcheyeva, and Anatoly Kivva signed a petition initiated by the Moscow Association of Independent Deputies against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society, the country’s oldest human rights organization, one of the founders […]

Press Release, 25.11.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society […]

Press Release, 23.11.2021 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan which had recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, involved in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s […]

Press Release, 23.11.2021 The legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction proposing to completely eliminate the concept of “foreign agent” from Russian legislation has undergone legal expertise in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The draft was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the deputies of […]

Press Release, 22.11.2021 Photo: Victoria Ivleva at the conference in support of the Yabloko list of candidates in the elections to the State Duma, on 16 September, 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The leaders of Yabloko filed petitions with the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow calling for the termination of the administrative […]

Press Release, 22.11.2021 Photo: Vyacheslav Chernov / Photo by the Press Service of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko On 18 November, police in Tashtagol, a city in the south of the Kemerovo region, searched the home of Vyacheslav Chernov, former candidate to the State Duma from Yabloko in electoral district No. 104. The reason for […]

Statement by Liberal International, 18.11.2021 Liberal International’s President Hakima el Haité has condemned the Russian authorities’ threat to shut down Memorial, one of the country’s oldest and most respected human rights organisations. This is the latest blow against civic freedoms in the regime’s accelerating crackdown on government critics and human rights defenders. By labeling human rights […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.11.2021 A submission on the liquidation of the International [human rights] Society Memorial was sent to the Supreme Court of Russia. The formal pretext for this looks deliberately contrived: the absence of a “foreign agent” label in the materials of an organisation with a large number of branches and a huge document […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 12.11.2021 Photo by Pyotr Kassin / Kommersant After the elections to the State Duma, the authorities intensified repressions against civil society and the country’s intellectual elite, and began to crack down on independent public institutions. The lawsuit of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate Memorial, the oldest human rights […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 12.11.2021 Photo: The office of the Memorial human rights society / Photo by Safron Golikov. Kommersant The Public Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit to liquidate Memorial International, a human rights organisation with more than 30 years of history, conducting research of political repression in the […]

Press Release, 10.11.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Moscow Mayor Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma called on their colleagues in the Moscow parliament – deputies of the Communist Party and A Just Russia factions, to join their demands to return the Moscow City Duma regulations, according to which […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.11.2021 They invented a new role for Dmitry Medvedev, the current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation [and former President and Prime Minister of the RF] , – explaining the policies of the Kremlin and broadcasting unpleasant ideas. Thus, a month ago, the Kommersant [daily] published a provocative […]

Press Release, 6.11.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in the office of the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko According to the Russian Federal Statistical Service (Rosstat), in 2020 the poverty level in Russia symbolically decreased from 12.3% to 12.1%. At the same time, the […]

Statement by the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko, 5.11.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko The Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party is concerned about the revealed facts of human rights violations and torture in Saratov correctional facilities, the reaction of the region’s top officials and the […]

Press Release, 2.11.2021 Photo: Andrei Avtoneyev / Photo by Ivanovskiye Novosti The Frunzensky District Court found Andrei Avtoneyev, Chairman of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, guilty of organising a rally in memory of the victims of political repression. Avtoneyev was fined 21,000 roubles, but he will appeal this decision.

Press Release, 30.10.2021 Photo: Andrei Avtoneyev / Photo by Ivanovskiye Novosti The memorial event in memory of the victims of political repression in Russia organised by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko took place in the park near the Ivanovo circus on 30 October. The participants of the action paid tribute to the memory of the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.10.2021 Photo: Solovetsky Stone monument to the victims of political repressions in Lyubyanskaya Square, Moscow, October 2021 Pyotr Gerasimovich Kunatsky, 37, worker at the construction site of the department of public education. Shot on 4 December, 1937. Sergei Vasilievich Mokshanov, 55, head of the sports department of the Posyltorg of the People’s […]

Press Release, 29.10.2021 On Wednesday, 3 November, the launch of the book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Along the Track of a Special Path” will take place. The event will take place via Zoom and will start at 18:00. The authors of the book attempt to answer the question of why the peculiarities of […]

Press Release, 29.10.2021 Leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party took part in the action “Returning the Names” and read out the names of citizens shot during the Great Terror 1936-1938 and Stalinist repressions of 1930 – 1953. The action in memory of the victims of political repression has been annually organised by the […]

Press Release, 29.10.2021 On 29 October, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender faction and party activists and supporters laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone monument in Moscow. The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed […]