Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 18.02.2020 Konstantin Aranovsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court, called the USSR an illegitimate state, and the Soviet state bodies “illegal party-state power bodies”, which cannot be regarded as “legal predecessors of constitutional state power”. This is an accurate and true definition.

Press Release, 17.02.2020 On 15 February, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched its regional campaign “The Constitution of Free People” at a rally in Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region. The rally was organised by Kira Belaya, member of Magnitogorsk Yabloko.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.02.2020 Everyone knows that the Network [antifascist group] case was fabricated, and confessions were beaten out under torture, including the President of Russia, who was informed about torture at the meeting of the Human Rights Council. As the saying goes, “tell comrade N: a monstrous mistake has occurred”. Speaking in court with […]

Statement by the Yabloko party, 10.02.2020 The sentence passed in Penza today in the so-called Network case is a monstrous abuse of law and justice. Young people tortured by the law enforcement and the investigation so that to get “confessions” received from six to 18 years of imprisonment. The defendants made statements about this at […]

Press Release 3.02, 2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Yelena Izotova On 16 January, Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies and member of the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, addressed Sariya Saburskaya, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, in connection with administrative arrests of Yelena Izotova, leader of the Yabloko’s […]

Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 31.01.2020 On 27 December, 2019, criminal cases were initiated against civil activists of the Republic of Ingushetia Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoyev, Musa Malsagov, Barakh Chemurziyev, Bagaudin Hautiyev, Ismail Nalgiyev, Zarifa Sautiyeva and Akhmed Pogorov, under [the charges envisaged in] the article [of the Cirminal Code of the Russian Federation] on […]

Grigory Yalvinsky’s Facebook page, 22.01.2020 The breakdown of the Constitution proposed by the President and furnished with decorative procedures, is not only an already familiar manifestation of disrespect for the people, but also, above all, a manifestation of the political vector: towards not only preserving the current system, but making it even more authoritarian, closed […]

Emilia Slabunova on the key amendment to the Constitution Novaya Gazeta, 22.01.2020 The most intriguing thing in the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, introduced by the President to the State Duma, the most intriguing thing is the paragraph “g.1” proposed by him to Article 83, which defines the powers of the […]

Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 19.01.2020 President Vladimir Putin has decided to make urgent changes to the Constitution. The proposals made by him in his [annual] Address [to the Federal Assembly] are vague and incomprehensible from a legal point of view. It is proposed to isolate Russia from […]

Nikolai Rybakov on Radio Free Europe 17.01.2020 On January 16, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the Facing the Event programme hosted by Yelena Rykovtseva. The guests of the studio – Sergey Obukhov, former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fishman, journalist from the Dozhd television channel, and […]

Press Release, 20.01.2020 On 26 January, a rally “For the quality of life and a clean city, against air pollution” will be held in Omsk.  The rally is organised by Tatyana Nagibina, Chair of the Omsk branch of Yabloko, and is supported by the Omsk City Public Council. The rally will begin at 12.00.

The application for the march will be submitted for 29 February Press Release, 20.01.2020 Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, and Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender Faction, Professor of the Russian State University for Humanities, joined the organizational committee of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March on behalf of the Yabloko […]

Earlier, the activist was arrested for five days for participating in a series of one person pickets for the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan Press Release, 17.01.2020 Yelena Izotova, Chair of the Tatarstan Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, went on a hunger strike. Earlier, the activist […]

Press Release, 17.01.2020 State Duma deputies from the ruling United Russia Gadzhemet Safaraliyev, Yevgeny Marchenko and Valentin Subbot introduced amendments to the law on political parties to the lower house of the Russian parliament to liquidate the Yabloko party for “diminishing the authority of the state in the international arena”. The explanatory note to the […]

Press Release, 16.01.2020 The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (Tatarstan) sentenced the participants of the movement against the construction of a waste incineration plant near Osinovo to arrest and fines. Yelena Izotova, one of the leaders of the movement and Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan, was arrested for five days for participating […]

Press Release, 25.12.2019 The Elisata Court assigned 30 hours of compulsory community service to Batyr Boromangnaev, Chairman of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko, for organization and conducting the rally on 27 October. Earlier, the politician received 25 hours of compulsory community service as the organiser of the gathering on 29 September, and another 20 hours […]

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 16.12.2019 The Commission on the organisation of the work of the Moscow City Duma rejected the question of the Yabloko faction to the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Daria Besedina, Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, was going to ask the Moscow Mayor if he […]

Press Release, 12.12.2019 On 12 December, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko went on one-person pickets (that do not require a permission from the authorities) in four cities of the region as part of the Struggle for Human Rights campaign, dedicated to the Russian Constitution Day.

Press Release, 12.12.2019 On 7 December, a flash mob in support of political prisoners, the defendants of the so-called “Rostov case” – Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov – took place in Rostov-on-Don. Activists of the Yabloko party, together with other democratic forces of the city, organised the action in the format of a theatrical performance.

Press Release, 11.12.2019 In Sochi, activists, supporters and members of the Yabloko party held a picket in support of Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov, political prisoners in the Rostov case. The picket was held as part of the All-Russian campaign “Against Political Reprisals”.