Press Release, 24.06.2020 The court in Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory, arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy of the Council of the Municipal Formation of the Yeysk District, for “disobeying the police”. Alexander was arrested after a rally against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution.

Press Release, 16.06.2020 Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007.  Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, […]

Press Release, 15.06.2020 On 13 June, local residents met in front of House No 19 Rokossovsky street with a correspondent of the Vesti Privolzhye (Vesti Volga Region) newspaper so that to tell about the construction of a McDonald’s restaurant under the windows of their houses. After the correspondent left, police officers began to surround residents […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 12.06.2020 In the photo: A rally for freedom – for the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR on the leading role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, February 4, 1990. 30 years ago, on June 12, 1990, a declaration on Russia’s sovereignty was adopted. […]

Press Release, 5.06.2020 Liberal International, the world federation of liberal political parties, has endoresed the statement made by ALDE on the latest arrests in Russia.  Yabloko has been member of Liberal International since 1998. Here goes the text from Liberal International: LI President Hakima el Haite endorses the statement made by ALDE Party President and […]

Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]

Press Release, 3.06.2020 In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.

02/06/2020 Commenting on the latest arrests in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen said: “I am very concerned that prominent journalists and activists are being arrested for exercising the right to peaceful assembly and for protesting against the restrictions and curbs of freedoms of speech that have been introduced in Russia under the […]

Press Release, 29.05.2020 Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions. “Exiting the isolation regime, […]

Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 28.05.2020 Photo: Ilya Azar picketing in front of the Moscow Interior Department on Petrovka street on May 26. The Yabloko party is outraged by the unlawful prosecution of the journalist and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Azar, who was sentenced by court to 15 days of administrative arrest for a one-person picket […]

Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]

Press Release, 18.05.2020 On 28 May, Andrei Babushkin’s online lecture “Police Actions During the Pandemic” will be held at Yabloko Party University. The lecture will begin at 16.00. Andrei Babushkin is member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights and member of the Council for the Development […]

Press Release, 28.04.2020 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state. He wrote about this in his article called Digital Danger, published by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper today .  The Public Commission should include IT […]

The court hearing was held as video conferencing Press Release, 27.03.2020 On 27 March, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan, assigned a fine of 150,000 roubles to Marina Shoetova, supporter of the Tatrstan branch of Yabloko. The court hearing was held in a video conferencing regime. The law enforcement and the […]

Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko, 25.03.2020 Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko To: Yury Chaika, Authorised Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District and Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, head of the Republic of Ingushetia   An extremely alarming situation has developed in the world at present, […]

Press Release, 16.03.2020 Deputies of the Yabloko party in the legislative assemblies of six regions – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Karelia, the Pskov and Astrakhan regions and the Khabarovsk Territory – introduce a new package of amendments to the Constitution. It is dedicated to improving the guarantees of human and civil rights and freedoms. The text […]

Party members rallied and picketed in several regions Press Release, 23.03.2020 Yabloko activists continue holding one-person pickets (these pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) and rallies against Putin’s constitutional amendments resetting the count on his presidential terms to zero and other Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. On March 21-22, rallies and pickets […]

Press Release, 18.03.2020 On March 15, a rally against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation was held in Gorno-Altaysk. The actions was organised by Maria Demina, MP of the State Assembly – El Kurultai of the Altai Republic and the head of the Defend Altai public movement. The event was supported by representatives […]

Press Release, 17.03.2020 On March 15, Yabloko members in Novosibirsk went on a series of one-person pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The action took place in the centre of Novosibirsk.