Press Release, 16.01.2020 The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (Tatarstan) sentenced the participants of the movement against the construction of a waste incineration plant near Osinovo to arrest and fines. Yelena Izotova, one of the leaders of the movement and Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan, was arrested for five days for participating […]

Press Release, 15.01.2020 I his annual Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed amending the Russian Constitution, apparently aimed at preserving him at the top of state power even after 2024, when his presidential term expires. Much was said about overcoming poverty in the country, which he has been leading for more […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 15.01.2020 Today’s Presidential Address [to the parliament] has finally returned us to the Leonid Brezhnev [stagnation] period [in the USSR]: slow reading of the text written on paper, silent audience but bursting into applause at the right moments. Certainly, the directors of the event counted on resounding success of the promises […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.01.2020 Vladimir Putin has spoken with an Address to the Federal Assembly. People want change, the President said. And he proposed to amend the Constitution. So that no international courts, no international law would any longer interfere with the Construction of an isolated authoritarian (that is, sovereign, as Putin thinks) state. So […]

Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 15.01.2020 The main thing in Putin’s proposals today: First. Isolation of Russia from the system of international law, that is, the impossibility of protecting the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens on the basis of international law. This virtually means Russia’s withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human […]

Press Release, 14.01.2020 The police in Yekaterinburg opened a criminal case under Article 119 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of death or serious bodily harm) at the request of the assistant to Konstantin Kiselyov, deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma.  Such answers came to Emilia Slabunova, ex Yabloko Chair […]

Press Release, 14.01.2020 On Sunday, 19 January, activists of the Yabloko party will lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in Prechistenka street, Moscow. Markelov and Baburova were killed that day in 2009 by neo-Nazis from the BORN group.

Press Release, 25.12.2019 The Elisata Court assigned 30 hours of compulsory community service to Batyr Boromangnaev, Chairman of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko, for organization and conducting the rally on 27 October. Earlier, the politician received 25 hours of compulsory community service as the organiser of the gathering on 29 September, and another 20 hours […]

Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 16.12.2019 The Commission on the organisation of the work of the Moscow City Duma rejected the question of the Yabloko faction to the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Daria Besedina, Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, was going to ask the Moscow Mayor if he […]

Press Release, 12.12.2019 On 12 December, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko went on one-person pickets (that do not require a permission from the authorities) in four cities of the region as part of the Struggle for Human Rights campaign, dedicated to the Russian Constitution Day.

Press Release, 12.12.2019 On 7 December, a flash mob in support of political prisoners, the defendants of the so-called “Rostov case” – Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov – took place in Rostov-on-Don. Activists of the Yabloko party, together with other democratic forces of the city, organised the action in the format of a theatrical performance.

Press Release, 11.12.2019 In Sochi, activists, supporters and members of the Yabloko party held a picket in support of Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov, political prisoners in the Rostov case. The picket was held as part of the All-Russian campaign “Against Political Reprisals”.

Press Release, 11.12.2019 On December 10, the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko held a series of on-person pickets (that do not require coordination with the authorities) in defense of human rights.

Press Release, 10.11.2019 The Altai branch of Yabloko went on one-person pickets (that do not require coordination with the authorities) on Human Rights Day demanding from the authorities to respect the Russian Constitution and release political prisoners.

Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 4.12.2019 The campaign of political reprisals has been intensifying in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s regime uses both state institutions and the law for prosecution of political opponents, as well as intimidation and defamation of people through specially created as well as existing criminal structures.

Press Release, 3.12.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, appealed to public prosecutors of 43 regions of Russia with a request to control the changes in regional laws on rallies in order to bring them in line with the Russian Constitution. Earlier this year, the Constitutional Court passed a ruling that effectively prohibits regional authorities from refusing […]

Statement by the Yabloko party, 2.12.2019 The Yabloko party is closely following the case of Alexander Shestun, former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. During the investigation and trial, the investigators committed numerous violations, such as inappropriate conditions of detention, use of physical force, and failure to provide medical assistance to a […]

Press Release, 29.11.2019 A picket was held by the entrance to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma, which in 2012 imposed restrictions on the holding of peaceful meetings. Its organiser was the regional branch of the Yabloko party and Yabloko managed to get a permission from the authorities for this picket. Earlier Yabloko had submitted relevant appeals […]

Press Release, 29.11.2019 The regional branch of the Yabloko party will hold a round table on prevention of domestic violence in Russia in Kazan on 30 November.

Press Release, 29.11.2019 On 24 November, an academic conference on political reprisals in Russia was organised by the Samara regional branch of the Yabloko party. The reports were made by candidate of historical sciences Stanislav Repinetsky, members of the Yabloko party, candidates of historical sciences Igor Nefedov and Sergey Tselikov. At the end of the […]