Press Release, 6.04.2021 Photo: Ivan Krisanov / Photo by the Press Service of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko On 5 April, the Ivanovo Regional Court considered an appeal against the ruling of the Oktyabrsky District Court against Ivan Krisanov, a member of the Bureau of the Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party. In February […]

Press Release, 3.04.2021 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov began his speech at the 21st party Congress by mentioning the victims of political repression, the number of which has increased significantly over the past year. According to the Memorial human rights society, 378 people in Russia are […]

Press Release, 6.04.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The key points On 3-4 April, Yabloko held a new stage of the 21st Congress, which was attended by almost 120 delegates from several dozens of regions. The main topic of the Congress was the reform of Yabloko and the release of […]

Press Release, 29.03.2021 Photo: Sergei Dustin / Photo by the Press Service of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko On 25 March, Sergei Dustin, a human rights activist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Baltiysk, was detained during his single picket (single pickets do not require any permissions from authorities) outside […]

Press Release, 25.03.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by Olga Gryaznova Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, urged Governor Beglov to increase the number of zones (the so-called “Hyde Parks”) in the centre of St. Petersburg where no permissions are required for rallies.

Statement by regional branches of the Yabloko party in the South of Russia, 25.03.2021 In the fall of 2018, a peaceful protest began in the Republic of Ingushetia, dozens of thousands residents of the region participated in it. The reason for such events was the signing of the clandestine border agreement with the Chechen Republic […]

Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, from left to right: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov. Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow police, Oleg Baranov, with a proposal to prove the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021 Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations […]

Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC. […]

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia.   Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]

Press Release, 9.03.2021 Four deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma signed an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of media reports about the possible poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. by officers of the Federal Security […]

Yabloko activists honoured the memory of the murdered politician throughout Russia Press Release, 1.03.2021 Photo: Nizhni Novgorod, the region where Boris Nemtsov was Governor in 1991-1997 On February 27, Yabloko members went to rallies, single pickets and other events in many regions of Russia so that to commemorate murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. In Moscow, […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]

Press Release 1.03.2021 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in a permitted rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Barnau, the Altai Territory. Barnaul became the only city out of 22 Russian cities, where the authorities satisfied Yabloko’s application for a mass action.

Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Nemtsov Bridge Press Release, 27.02.2021 Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, which Muscovites have been calling the Nemtsov Bridge. The mourning action was also attended […]

Press Release, 25.02.2021 Photo: Yabloko at the Moscow March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov in 2017 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional authorities in 21 Russian regions refused to give permissions for Yabloko’s actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, was shot six times […]

Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement “On systemic threats […]

Party members will take part in a memory watch and a round table Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Personal page of Maxim Petlin on Facebook On 20 February, the Leninsky district court of the city of Yekaterinburg refused to approve the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov and the memorial meeting. On February 19, the Sverdlovsk […]

Press Release, 19.02.2021 Photo: Maxim Petlin / Photo from personal page of Maxim Petlin in Facebook The Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko filed an administrative lawsuit against the Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region, asking to declare unlawful the refusal of the authorities to give a permission to the procession and rally in […]

Press Release, 19.02.2021 Photo: Monument to the victims of political repression in Novgorod / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko Sergei Busurin, Mayor of Novgorod, refused to the Novgorod branch of Yabloko in holding a march and a rally in memory of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov “For freedom and […]