Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 14.06.2019 In August 2018, protests began in the Republic of Ingushetia against the transfer of part of the territory of the region under control of the authorities of the Chechen Republic. A corresponding, and in fact, backstage agreement was signed by the heads of the two regions on 26 September, […]

Statement by the Yabloko party, 7.06.2019 On the evening of Thursday, 6 June, Ivan Golunov, Meduza’s correspondent, was beaten and detained by police in Moscow. The police allegedly discovered prohibited substances on him when he went to meet with the source. On the same day, searches were conducted at Golunov’s home.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 3.06.2019 The Internet has been discussing the new series Chernobyl. They write that this is one of the most significant films not only about the catastrophe, but also about the USSR in general. As a contemporary of these events, I can say that all my friends and acquaintances who had at least […]

Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 In recent years, a number of leaders of the present Russian government began raising a question of the need to create and legislate a single ideology.   Now, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been switched to the promotion of this idea. An appeal has been made to […]

Press Release, 30.05.2019 On 29 May, Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova took part in a charitable event in support of Yuri Dmitriyev, historian, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, and one of the founders of the Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor memorial complexes where victims of Stalin’s reprisals are buried. Expeditions led […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.05.2019 Picture: Yes-No “An exceptionally corporate issue”. This is how the Kremlin explained the dismissal of journalists from the Kommersant newspaper for publishing an article about Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin [the paper wrote about possible dismissal of Matviyenko, Chair of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and […]

Police confiscated the picket placards the activists used in their pickets Press Release, 23.05.2019 On 20 May, Yabloko activists held a series of one-person pickets in the centre of Tula. One Yabloko member picketed by the regional government office.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2019 It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, […]

Press Release, 23.04.2019 Watch the documentary The Optimists dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko with English (or other) subtitiles now. Choose your language in the Settings of the video. The documentary covers the key periods in the history of the Russian Federation and the development of the Yabloko party.

Press Release, 16.04.2019 Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket. Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of […]

Press Release, 15.04.2019 Photo: Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov The authorities of Ingushetia continue searches and arrests after the March rallies in Magas against the border agreement with Chechnya. Protest leaders Ahmed Barakhoyev, Barakh Chemurziyev and Musa Malgasov have already been arrested for two months. Today, the law enforcement accompanied by military equipment (!) came […]

Press Release, 11.04.2019 A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).

Press Release, 11.04.2019 Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day. Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned […]

Shlosberg’s draft laws envisage for public persons fines up to 1 million roubles, compulsory community service up to 200 hours, or administrative arrest of up to 30 days Press Release, 9.04.2019 Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov regional parliament, head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region and member of the Federal Political Committee […]

Press Release, 8.04.2019 On the evening of 7 April, the court of the Lomonosovsky district of Arkhangelsk arrested Yury Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk  and member of the Yabloko party, for three days.

Press Release, 8.04.2019 On 6 April, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko organised an antiwar picket. The action was a response to the arrival of the government’s propaganda train “The Syrian Turning Point”, which goes across Russia demonstrating trophy military equipment from Syria. According to the organisers of the picket, on the day the train stops […]

Press Release, 1.04.2019 On 30 March, the Kalmyk regional branch of the Yabloko party held a rally dedicated to the Constitution (the Steppe Code) of the Republic of Kalmykia. The rally discussed not only the problems of the Constitution of the Republic of Kalmykia, but also a wide range of issues related to the basic […]

Press Release, 27.03.2019 The police withdrew samples of campaign materials from the office of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya 28, Moscow) and intends to check them for extremism.

FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 27.03.2019 Today, we have two news related to the prosecution of our party. I will start with the good one: The criminal case against Lev Shlosberg [MP of the Pskov Region parliament and head of the Yabloko branch in Pskov] and the Pskov Yabloko was closed due to the absence […]

FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 27.03.2019 Why did people came out on a rally? Because they protect their right to vote. This year, the head of Ingushetia proposed to make such amendments to the constitutional law on referendum so that the republic’s leadership could solve the issues of the region’s borders without the consent of […]