Press release, 01.11.2013 On October 31, Andrei Rudomakha, leader of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO and Coordinator of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, was arrested by police when he arrived to Sochi from Krasnodar on the pretext that he had not come to an interrogation.

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, photographs, 07.10.2013 Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party took part in the opening of a memorial plaque on the office of Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya worked. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder, and Galina Mikhaleva, Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, laid a basket of flowers and a black ribbon with the words “Anna […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 08.09.2013 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO is outraged by today’s decision by oligarch Alexander Mamut to dismiss Svetlana Lolayeva, editor-in-Chief of Gazeta.ru.

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 .

Press Release, August 25, 2013 At night of August 23, Natalya Romanuk, leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO, Krasnodar Territory, had suffered an attempt against her life. Her car was severely hit on a highway by a black car. By a lucky chance the woman managed to avoid a collision with a car ahead […]

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.

Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow July 30, 2013  I express my categorical protest in view of the decision of [Moscow] television channels to broadcast the debates [conducted within the framework of the Moscow mayoral elections] in recorded transmission. The explanation for this unusual decision looks simply ridiculous.

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!”

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site, July 18, 2013 Just now Russia’s political system has made another leap towards a totalitarian state.

YABLOKO’s Press Service July 18, 2013 We will be by all means seeking justice for Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov. A severe sentence to Navalny and Ofitserov is provocative and dangerous political signal. The country is pushed towards political chaos and absurdity. The political system functioning according to the principle “you die today, and I […]

Press Release,July 18, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin urged Alexei Navalny not to retreat from the Moscow mayoral election and go all the way. Mitrokhin said this in his interview to the Dozhd (Rain) private television channel.

Statement by the YABLOKO party  July 18, 2013 Demonstrative cruelty and intentionally inadequate sentence to Alexei Navalny and YABLOKO member Pyotr Ofitserov is clearly linked to oppositional activities of Alexei Navalny.

Press release, June 28, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Judges’ Qualification Board of the Ulyanovsk Region demanding to start disciplinary proceedings against Judge Petrova who had adopted a decision on blocking of the websites of nation-wide famous media as gazeta.ru, kp.ru and other media in Ulyanovsk.

Khodorkovsky, June 18, 2013 The Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO political party published an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in its newspaper ‘YABLOKO na Kubani’

Press Release, June 7, 2013 YABLOKO held an action near the Representation of the Republic of Kalmykia in Moscow to honour  the memory of Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of Sovietskaya Kalmykia newspaper and Chair of the Kalmykia branch of the YABLOKO party. She was murdered in July 1998 and YABLOKO still insists that the ex President […]

Press Release, May 27, 2013 The visit of YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Krasnoyarsk region began with a scandal. The regional state television channel Yenisei unilaterally terminated its contract with the YABLOKO party on provision of air time by the channel.