Yabloko speaks in defence of the leader of its Ingush branch and for an open discussion of the border problem between Ingushetia and Chechnya Statement of the Yabloko party, 2.10.2018 The Yabloko party demands to stop persecution of Ruslan Mutsolgov, leader of the Yabloko branch in Ingushetia, and public activists protesting against the transfer of […]

Yabloko Bureau’s appeal to President Vladimir Putin, 28.09.2018 The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko demands that Oyub Titiev, Chair of the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights groups, be released immediately. A criminal case against Titiev is an illegal response to his daily heroic work on the protection and saving of people’s lives in […]

Press release, 28.09.2018 The Yabloko party demanded that Oyub Titiev, Chair of the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights groups, be released and protected immediately. His life is in imminent danger now. Titiev must be protected by the federal governmental bodies, runs Yabloko’s statement.

Decision by Yabloko Bureau,28.09.2018 A Ukrainan film director Oleg Sentsov who serves his sentence in a maximum security penal colony has been on hunger strike for 139 days demanding that Ukrainian political prisoners be released from Russian prisons. Sentsov’s physical condition causes serious concern because he can die any day now. The Yabloko party considers […]

Galina Mikhaleva’s Facebook page, 24.09.2018 “On Tuesday, 25 September, Yabloko will participate in a one-person picket in support of Oleg Sentsov. The action will take place by the Presidential Administration from 12.00 to 19.00. We invite you to join us because political prisoners do need our support!” Chair of Yabloko’s Gender faction wrote on her […]

Press release, 14.09.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin demanding that he dismiss head of Russia’s National Guard Viktor Zolotov. On Tuesday the official challenged opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a duel promising to make a ‘juicy steak’ of him. The statement was published on Russia’s National Guard official website.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2018 Oleg Sentsov can die at any moment. While the whole country is enthusiastically discussing the video appeal of the deputy minister of the Russian government with strange threats of physical violence against a citizen who accused him of corruption and [the deputy minister’s] fantasies about the “duel code.”

Press Release, 9.09.2018 Launch of books – “Three Epochs of Russian Journalism” and “Slaves of the State Security” – by Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin, a pillar of Russian investigative journalism and State Duma deputy (2nd and 3rd convocations) from the Yabloko party took place at the Moscow International Book Fair past weekend.

by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]

Press Release, 30.08.2018 The St.Petersburg Committee of Property suspended termination of the contract of rent of the St.Petersburg branch of the Memorial human rights society. In April 2018, the City Commission for Disposal of Property refused to Memorial in concluding their regular rent contract for a new period without explaining the reasons. In July 2018, […]

Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018  https://twitter.com/YablokoParty/status/1034440810660618240 YABLOKO Party ‏@YablokoParty YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova: Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.

Press Release, 24.08.2018 Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in which he called to investigate the illegal provocation of crimes by law enforcement agencies. The reason for the appeal was the so-called case of “The New Greatness” organisaiton. Anna Pavlikova. […]

Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 20.08.2018 Instead of providing housing to almost 160,000 Russian orphans who do not have it, saving children from family violence (according to unofficial data in 2016, more than 2,500 children aged 2 weeks to 14 years became victims of domestic violence), creating conditions for upbringingadolescents, so that they do not set […]

Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council, believes that the problem of transparency in getting permission to hold rallies can be resolved in court Press Release, 17.08.2018 The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko formulated its demands as to the protection of freedom of rallies in its written appeal to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human […]

The Yabloko party took part in the march and rally on the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over the attempted coup d’etat  in 1991 Press Release, 22.08.2018 Today, on Russia’s Flag Day, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the action dedicated to the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over attempted […]

The [authorities] are evicting the St. Petersburg branch of the organisation from its office Statement by the Yabloko party, 17.08.2018 The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is outraged by the attempts of the St. Petersburg Administration to evict the Memorial charitable historical and educational human rights organisation from its office in Razezhey Street, 9, in […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 09.08.2018 Photo: Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik It is already five months, that 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, 19-year-old Maria Dubovik, 21-year-old Vyacheslav Kryukov, 25-year-old Sergey Gavrilov, 25-year-old Ruslan Kostylenkov, 30-year-old Dmitry Poletayev and 31-year-old Pyotr Karamzin are in Moscow pre-trial detention prisons. Another four people under investigation on the case of creating an […]

Press Release, 07.08.2018 Yabloko wants the interior to be an efficient service for people rather than a repressive machine. Therefore, Yabloko offers its supporters to participate in the contest “The Police in the Focus of Public Control” held by human rights organisations (The Moscow Helsinki Group and the Centre for Human Rights) and supported by […]

Press Release, 26.07.2018 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, sent an appeal to Gennady Kornienko, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, demanding to check the facts of human rights violations in the penitentiary institutions of Karelia. The reason for the appeal were the materials from the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky reflects on the fate of great scientists who got under reprisals in the 1930s and draws parallels with modern Russia Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.07.2018 Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev, whose planes were used throughout the country, “spied in favour of France”. Biologist Nikolai Vavilov, one of the most famous Russian scientists in the world, […]