12.06.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page Grigory Yavlinsky on the protest actions of 12 June: “Our country has celebrated the Day of Russia being divided and not free, without a clear perspective and the rule of law. Hundreds of people [were celebrating it] in police vans or in police stations. Such a “holiday”.

Press release, 09.06.2017 UPD 3. 14.40: Sergei Mitrokhin and Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko were accused of violation of the procedure of public actions organization (paragraph 5, article 20.2 of the Administrative Violation Code of Russia). It means they may be fined 10,000 – 15,000 thousand roubles or get up to 40 hours of community service. The court […]

Sergei Mitrokhin FB post of 07.06.2017: Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of the Sovetskaya Kalmykia paper and leader of the regional YABLOKO branch in Kalmykia, was killed on this day 19 years ago. She was killed for having dared to write the truth about the corrupt regime of [then head of Kalmykia and now head of FIDE, […]

Press Release, 02.06.2017 Today, Svetlana Chechil, YABLOKO Federal Council member, has been released from penal colony. Yesterday the Supreme Court of Karelia overturned the decision of the court of first instance and replaced the remaining part of punishment for Svetlana Chechil, ex-head of the Prionezhsky district administration, who was serving the sentence in a penal […]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the right to free elections had been violated Press release, 01.06.2017 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the complainant who had filed a petition against mass-scale election fraud of election results to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma in […]

Press Release, 30.05.2017 Based on the articles in Novaya Gazeta by Vera Yurcenko According to RIA Novosti, Tatyana Moskalkova, Russian Human Rights Commissioner, supported YABLOKO’s idea of establishing a post of Women’s Ombudsperson. According to Moskalkova, this could enhance and balance the institution of the Commissioner in general. She also added she advocated establishing the […]

Press release, 28.05.2017 On 28 May, over five thousand people participated in a demonstration against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 five-story apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko strongly criticizes the the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story […]

Press release, 28.05.2017 The most breaking news this week was the searches, which took place in Moscow’s Gogol Centre and in the flat of its art director Kirill Serebrennikov. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the searches were connected with a criminal case on the embezzlement of budget funds that were allocated for Sedmaya Studia […]

Press release, 23.05.2017 On 28 May, Yabloko, Parnas, the 5th of December Party, the For Human Rights Movement and the Moscow Rescue Committee will hold a demonstration against the city-planning arbitrariness of the Moscow City Hall and the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings.

Press release, 18.05.2017 On 19 May, Yabloko will show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza. “Nemtsov” is a portrait film. People, who have different political stance and different attitude to the developments of 1990s and the current government, were interviewed – those, who were close to him, when he was doing […]

Press release, 15.05.2017 On 16 May, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy will participated in debates on the housing demolition programme announced by Moscow City Hall.

Press release, 15.05.2017 On May 14, thousands of people participated in a rally against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 multistory apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko’s representative Yelena Rusakova became a member of the organising committee of the protest action. Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova, Grigory Yavlinsky […]

Press release, 05.05.2017 Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.

Press release, 04.05.2017 The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire.

Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for asylum in the USA Representative of the indigenous small numbered peoples of Russia in the UN, public person Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for political asylum in the USA. A criminal case is likely to be faked against him in Russia. The Federal Security Service threatens his friends, family and colleagues. […]

Press release, 30.04.2017 On April 29, Moscow Yabloko Youth held a rally against military conscription and for the transition to a professional army fully based on the contract system.

Interfax, 28.04.2017 UPD. Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal addressed to the chief of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Interior for Moscow, Major-General Oleg Baranov. According to Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, an unidentified person attacked YABLOKO activist Natalia Fyodorova by her house in Moscow and doused her with some […]

Press release, 26.04.201 Yabloko launched an alternative national strategy to promote women’s interests. Party experts claim that the current strategy, which was adopted by the government in March, has a declarative character and contains no specific measures to promote gender equality. Yabloko will forward the alternative strategy, the bills developed by the party and the […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 14.04.2017 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO is seriously concerned about the threats of physical violence from the Chechen Republic after the publication in Novaya Gazeta [on violence and murders of LGBT people in Chechnya].

Liberal International, 13.04.2017 Following news that there have been mass killings and targetter represessions against LGBTI people in Chechnya, the Chairman of LI LGBTI Rights Working Group Frank Van Dalen has called for international condemnation of the barbaric actions of the Russian government.