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, […]

Press Release, August 4, 2013 YABLOKO’s activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in a rally in support of political prisoners which was conducted at Suvorovskaya Square, Moscow on August 4.

Press Release, August 2, 2013 Presidium of the Moscow City Court upheld a supervisory complaint of Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and changed under remand detention for Nikolai Kavkazsky, a prisoner of the Blotnaya rally case, to a home arrest.

Interfax, July 18, 2013 Moscow, 18 July: Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin hopes that the appeal will lead to a serious change of the verdict of a five-years imprisonment given to opposition activist Alexei Navalny by a court in Kirov.

Press release, July 18, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate for Mayor of Moscow, spent several hours in the central streets of Moscow, where people protesting against the sentence to Alexei Navalny and a member of YABLOKO Pyotr Ofitserov gathered.

Press Release, July 18, 2013 On July 30 YABLOKO to hold a mass meeting “Freedom to Political Prisoners!”

Press Release, July 1, 2013 On June 29 civil activists organised a lawful rally in support of LGBT-rights in St. Petersburg which was disturbed by the so-called “orthodox” activists who attacked the participants of the rally.

Press Release, June 24, 2013 The leader of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin has visited the trial in the Moscow City Court over twelve prisoners of the rallies in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow. Mitrokhin called the trial “terrorism”.

Press Release, June 19, 2013 Boris Vishnevsky, MP in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the Yabloko faction, proposed to mitigate St.Petersburg law on rallies and demonstrations, however, the “parliamentary majority” from the ruling United Russia party again pretended that they were not present at the session.

Press Release, June 12, 2013 The YABLOKO party took part in the manifestation “For Your and Our Freedom!” which was held in Moscow on June 12, Russia Day. This action was held in support of Russian political activists enjailed after the demonstration of May 6, 2012.