Press Release, 22.09.2014 The provocateurs tried to sabotage picketing organised by the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO in support of Peace March on September 21. About 40 aggressive young men met YABLOKO activists by the entrance to YABLOKO office where the prepration for the picket was to take place from 03.00 pm till 04.00 pm. “One […]

Press Release, 19.06.2014 On the threshold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” of the Bolotnaya Square rally case the activists of Youth YABLOKO from the Krasnodar Territory, North Ossetia, Stavropol, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the Bolotnaya prisoners.

Youth YABLOKO activists Alan Alikov from North Ossetia and Kirill Bobro from the Stavropol Region were detained by police today during one-person pickets in support of the prisoners of the Bolotnaya rally case. One-person pickets do not need any permits from the authorities, thus arrests were absolutely unlawful.

Press Release, 18.06.2014 The activists of Moscow Youth YABLOKO conducted one-person picketing in support of the Bolotnaya Square rally case prisoners outside the Moscow City Court. The action was conducted on the threashold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” of the Bolotanaya rally case. Youth YABLOKO activists from the Krasnodar […]

Announcement, 17.06.2014 On Wednesday, June 18, Youth YABLOKO activists from Moscow, the Krasnodar Territory, Nizhni Novgorod, North Ossetia and other Russia’s regions will conduct a series of one-person pickets in support of Bolotnaya rally case prisoners. The action will take place on the threashold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” […]

Press Release, 07.05.2014 The Saratov branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally in support of the Bolotnaya Square case prisoners on May 6, the second anniversary of disruption of a peaceful rally by riot police at Bolotnaya Square, Moscow.

But this refers only to those opposing the government / / By Boris Vishnevsky, Novaya Gazeta, 07.04.2014 On 15 April, the State Duma is going to adopt in the second reading the amendments to the so-called “anti-terrorism package” [of laws]. It was submitted to the State Duma in January, after the terrorist attacks in Volgograd, […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 01.04.2014 The State Duma deputies from the United Russia and the Just Russia factions presented a bill which puts an end to the conduction of any public actions in Russia which are not in favor of the authorities.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog at Live Journal, 25.02.2014 I’m outraged by the demonstrative disgrace of the sentences to the prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square Rally case. The fact that these people were kept in the detention prison for many months represents already in itself groundless cruelty absolutely incommensurable with the charges brought against them, moreover these […]

Video and Transcript, 24.02.2014 Sergei Mitrokhin: We have already expressed our attitude to the legitimacy of the verdict on the Bolotnaya Rally case. The sentence is based on fabricated evidence of the investogators. I have been in the court at one of the trials, and I followed the trial closely. It is absolutely obvious that […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, February 24, 2014 The YABLOKO party expresses its protest against a demonstratively horrible sentences to the defendants in the Bolotnaya Rally case, who received from 2.5 to 4 years in a penal colony. The fact that these people have stayed in remand prison for several months already represents unjustified cruelty absolutely […]

Court verdict on imprisonment terms to the Bolotnaya Rally case political prisoners: Barabanov – 3 years and 7 months (since May 28, 2012), Byelousov – 2 years and 6 months (since July 9, 2012), Dukhanina – 3 years of probation, Zimin – 3 years and 6 months (since June 8, 2012), Krivov – 4 years […]

Press Release, 24.02.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and party activists who are standing now in the yard of Zamoskvoretsky City Court, Moscow, to support the prisoners of the Bolotnaya Rally case, report that police again has begun random arrests of people waiting for the court verdict.

Press Release, February 24, 2014 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO conducted pickets in support of the Bolotnaya Square Case prisoners on February 21, 22, 2014. The civil activists joined YABLOKO’s action. About twenty people participated in the action in general.

Photos by YABLOKO’s Ekaterina Tatrnikova who was by Zamoskkvoretsky Court today together with YABLOKO activists and other people protesting against arbitrary rule in Russia. People gathered in the court yard to support the political prisone…rs of the so-called “the Bolotnaya rally” case. The rally took place on the 6th of May was brutally broken by […]

Press Release, February 21, 2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and party activists came to Zamoskvoretsky Moscow Court where trial over Bolotnaya Rally prisoners was taking place.                           Eight people from the Bolotnaya Rally were accused of participating in a “mass-scale riot and use […]

Press Release, February 3, 2014 The YABLOKO party took part in the demonstration in support of the Bolotnaya Square case prisoners on February 2. Several thousand people participated in the action.

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 19.12.2013 People must uphold the law as the walls of their city. Heraclitus Tomorrow the State Duma will adopt another law strangling our freedom. This time the law will be regulation of the Internet . This will hit [the society] no less than the law [restricting] rallies […]

Press Release, October 27, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, head of YABLOKO Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov, member of YABLOKO Political Committee and human rights advocate Valery Borshchev participated in the All-Russian campaign “Freedom to the Defenders of the Arctic”and in the opposition march for freedom of political prisoners on October 27.

Press Release , 10/18/2013 The Kemerovo Regional Department of the Investigative Committee conducts an investigation into the incident in Kemerovo, when Yevgeny Artemyev, YABLOKO’s candidate to the Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Region from the YABLOKO party, was severely beaten.