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.

Press Release, October 17, 2013 Municipal deputy Elena Tkach was beaten during the public hearings on the construction of a new shopping mall in the centre of Moscow and pulling down the two apartment blocks at number 13 and 15 Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane in connection with that. The incident was recorded on a video. 

Statement by the YABLOKO party October 9, 2013 On October 8 Zamoskvoretskiy City Court, Moscow, ruled out that Mikhail Kosenko, one of the defendants of the Bolotnaya Square rally case must undergo [psychiatric] compulsory treatment.

Press Release, October 8, 2013 On October 8 YABLOKO’s activists came to the Zamoskvorezki Court to support Mikhail Kosenko who is charged with the Bolotnaya square case. Kosenko is accused of participating in the mass riots  and the use of violence endangering the lives of policemen on May 6, 2012.

Press Release , September 25, 2013 Leaders of human rights organisations submitted a draft amnesty act for the political prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square case.

Press Release, August 27, 2013 Moscow Mayoral Candidate Sergei Mitrokhin attended a charity concert in support of political prisoners devoted to the 45 anniversary of the 1968 Red Square Demonstration .

Svoimi Glazami (Eyewitness) programme, Ekho Moskvi radio station, 22.08.2013 Today’s Vladimir Putin and his colleagues think about the people exactly in the same way as the Emergency Committee thought. The only difference lies in the fact that today people do not have that alternative, which was there then, today they have a lot more money, […]