Press release, 15.07.2016 YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov has conducted a one-person picket outside the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation demanding to investigate the murder of Natalya Estemirova, human rights activist, journalist and member of the Memorial human rights centre. Natalia Estemirova was murdered seven years ago, on July 16, 2009.

Press release, 15.07.2016 “International terrorism is sending us one challenge after another, and every time it is a sign and a signal to all the peoples, that we must join hands. We can stop this evil only by united efforts. One must stop sorting out relationship between the states, otherwise the evil will prevail over […]

Press release, 15.07. 2016 Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists laid flowers to the Embassy of France in Moscow.

Interfax, 11.07.2016 Moscow, 11 July. Interfax. The YABLOKO party proposed Yevgeny Bunimovich who is the Moscow Ombudsman for Children’s Rights [at present] for the post of the Russian Ombudsman for Children’s Rights.

Press Release, 11.07.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova proposed proposes to the Russian President Vladimir Putin to replace the failed Ombudsman for Children’s Rights Pavel Astakhov with Yevgeny Bunimovich who is the Moscow Ombudsman for Children’s Rights at present.

Press Release, 29.06.2016 The general meeting of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO re-elected Nikolai Kavkazsky, human rights defender and ex prisoner of the Bolotnaya Square Rally case, Chairman of the organisation. Maria Efimova and Yuri Slinko were elected deputy chairs.

Press release, 20.06.2016 Young scientist Dmitry Golovin who was trying to make a selfie with a quadcopter together with his girlfriend at the beach by the Strela health complex in Divnomorsk, the Krasnodar Territory, was sentenced to 10 days in jail. Member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Sergei Mitrokhin calls on Prosecutor General Yuri Chayka […]

Condolences by Emilia Slabunova, 20.06.2016 A tragedy in a children’s camp in Karelia shocked everyone. We express our condolences to those who lost children, who was tormented by uncertainty about the fate of their next of kin. This tragedy demonstrated negligence and indifference, violations of laws, most importantly of human unwritten laws, that are so […]

Press release, 17.06.2016 YABLOKO will light 1418 candles to commemorate the victims of the Second World War on the eve of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, 21 June.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 16.06.2016 One of the most authoritative environmentalists, Chair of the Environmentalists Union of Bashkiria Alexander Veselov was brutally beaten in Bashkiria. Many times he received threats in connection with his fight against environmentally hazardous plants of the republic. Alexander Veselov is the author of hundreds of publications on natural conservation, […]

YABLOKO congratulate Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief of Russian opposition paper Novaya Gazeta, on being awarded the Golden Pen Freedom Prize! The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief of independent Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.

Lev Shlosberg Live Journal, 12.06.2016 Speech on receiving the Boris Nemtsov Foundation Prize Bonne, 12 June, 2016 Respected Raisa Akhmetovna, Respected Zhanna, Dear friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Twenty-six years ago, on 12 June, 1990, the first Congress of People’s Deputies adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the RSFSR (the Russian Soviet […]

Press release, 14.06.2016 YABLOKO activists brought flowers to the Ambessy of the United States to commemorate the people who were killed during the attack on the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando. YABLOKO Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov, Moscow Regional Council members Grigory Semyonov, Olga Radayeva, Kirill Goncharov, Nikolai Kavkazsky and the party Federal Council member Dmitry […]

Lev Shlosberg was awarded for “courage in defending the democratic values in Russia”. He intends to transmit his award of €10m to Komanda 29 (Team 29), a union of lawyers and journalists who fight for freedom of information and defend the rights of citizens and different organisations.

Facebook, 12.06.2016 The tragedy in Orlando has once again shown not only the fragility and exposure of a human’s life but also demonstrated the consequences of the failure of the authorities to act, since the person who committed this monstrous crime was one of those who do not hide their man-hating views. The aggression as […]

Meduza, 10.06.2016 The Pskovskaya Gubernia newspaper [Pskov Province], one of its founders is member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Lev Shlosberg, received a warning from Roskomnadzor [a state communications watchdog] for mentioning Pravy Sector (Right Sector) [a Ukrainian far right-wing group] without an explanation that this organisation was declared extremist in Russia and was banned […]

Press release, 08.06.2015 This day 18 years ago Larisa Yudina, the Editor-in-Chief of the Sovetskaya Kalmykia newspaper and the leader of the regional YABLOKO branch, was murdered in Elista, the Republic of Kalmykia. It turned out that an assistant of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the then President of Kalmykia, was among the murderers. Due to the public […]

NHC, 24.05.2016 The Boris Nemtsov Foundation presents an annual award to a person who is particularly committed to fighting for the freedom of expression and helping those who are persecuted on political, racial or religious grounds in Russia. The first prize is given to the opposition politician Lev Shlosberg for his fight for democratic values […]

Grigory Yavlinsky post in the FB, 7.06.2016 Forum “The New Era of Journalism: Farewell to the Mainstream” [is being held] in Moscow. I wonder what do they mean by a “farewell to the mainstream”? Whether it is goodbye to the endless lies in the mass media or the final farewell to the truth?

Press release, 03.06.2016 Evgeny Bunimovich, YABLOKO Federal Political Committee member and Children’s Rights Ombudsman in Moscow, has launched his new book titled “The Choice. The Sketches by a Sudden Deputy” today, 3 June. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder, attended the presentation which took place within a book festival on Red Square. The meeting with the readers […]