Press release, 15.12.2016 On December 15, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin participated in a seminar dated to the Constitution Day on “Constitution and Life” conducted by the Memorail human rights centre.

Press Release, 14.12.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova asks Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to take action of prosecutorial response in connection with the situation on the Valaam Island, Karelia. The state unlawfully transferred to the church a building with residential apartments, virtually depriving people of their lodgings. An initiative group of residents applied to YABLOKO […]

Press release, 12.12.2016 On December 12, the Constitution Day, activists of the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko Youth Kirill Maryin and Svetomir Yun conducted a series of one-person pickets in order to remind the citizens of their constitutional right to choose the alternative military service instead of the obligatory conscription.

Press release, 12.12.2016 YABLOKO conducted an action against violations of the Constitution in the Rostov-on-Don city. About 20 people participated in the action.

Press release, 12.12.2016 On December 12, the Constitution Day, Chair of the Moscow YABLOKO branch Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a one-person picket in support of the Constitution by the Presidential Administration.

Press release, 13.12.2016 On December 12, Dr. Galina Mikhaleva, deputy chair of Moscow YABLOKO, participated in a round table on human rights in social project planning, which was held in Russian State University for the Humanities.

Press Release, 09.12.2016 YABLOKO’s representatives in the Human Rights Council Natalia Yevdokimova and Andrei Babushkin raised the issues of application of the law “On foreign agents” and public control in places of detention during the meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

Press release, 07.12.2016 On 6 December, Moscow Youth Yabloko took part in picketing in support of political prisoners of “the 6 of May rally” case. The action took place in the Lermontov Garden in Moscow.

Press release, 02.12.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova forwarded an appeal to the Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev demanding to make a disclosure on the preliminary investigation into the attack on Sergei Mokhov, the husband of Lubov Sobol, a lawyer of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

Press release, 01.12.2016 On Friday, December 2, the committee on legislation of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly will consider YABLOKO’s draft decree on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President.

Press release, 01.12.2016 On 30 November, Moscow Yabloko Youth discussed The Colony film within the debate club of the organisation. The Colony is directed by Oscar-winner Florian Gallenberge. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the real “Colonia Dignidad”, a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led […]

Press release, 29.11.2016 Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of YABLOKO’s Gender faction, and Olga Radayeva, Deputy Chair of the Gender faction, participated in a conference conducted by The Sisters sexual assault recovery centre on “Violence against women: facts and strategies of counteraction”.

Press release, 25.11.2016 Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of YABLOKO’s Gender faction, and Olga Radayeva, Deputy Chair of the Gender faction, handed 43,000 signatures in support of the The Sisters sexual assault recovery centre to Olga Yurkova, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation.

Press release, 25.11.2016 Head of YABLOKO’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky put an inquiry to the Ministry of Internal Affairs asking to identify the people who disseminated false information that dissident Ildar Dadin “was found hanged in his prison cell” and file a criminal case against them.

Press release, 23.11.2016 On November 23, the activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO and the Solidarnost movement conducted an action calling to perpetuate the memory of Boris Nemtsov before the meeting of the deputies of the city parliament. The deputies supported the initiative.

Press release, 21.11.2016 On November 20, a rally against Russia’s military activity in Syria took place in the city of Voronezh. The regional branches of YABLOKO and PARNAS conducted the protest action.

Press release, 21.11.2016 Chair of the Rostov-on-Don Yabloko Youth Andrei Sklyarov, YABLOKO party members, and representatives of other opposition groups conducted a picket against Russia’s military activity in Syria.

Press release, 21.11.2016 Last week YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and head of the Karelia party branch Alexandra Spiridonova visited YABLOKO Federal Council member Svetlana Chechil, who is serving one and a half years sentence in a Prison Settlement No. 9 in Russia’s northern Karelia Region (a penal colony in a remote area where prisoners are […]

Press release, 16.11.2016 Deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg made an inquiry to the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment and the Investigative Committee of the RF about the pre-investigation of torture allegations in respect of dissident Ildar Dadin.

Press Release, 14.11.2016 On 14 November at 6 a.m., police arrested ten families (including children) of the activists defending Torfyanka Park in North-East Moscow form expropriation by the Russian Orthodox Church. Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, has forwarded inquiries to Alexander Drymanov, head of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee […]