Press release,07.11.2015 On October 7, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally arrested during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Mitrokhin was released after several hours of arrest only after […]

hro.org, 07.11.2015 Leader of the Russian democratic YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally detained in Moscow on October 7, 2015. He was arrested during the action in memory of the officers and military cadets (junkers) who were killed when defending the democratic Russia in 1917.

Press release, 07.11.2015 Brutal arrest of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917.

Press release, 02.10.2015 Today, on November 2, the Pretrozavodsk city court of the Republic of Karelia gave Evgenia Sukhorukova, deputy mayor of Petrozavodsk, member of YABLOKO regional branch team, a three years suspended sentence with one year probation period for abuse of official authority causing heavy consequences as deputy head of the Prionezhsky district, Petrozavodsk.

Press Release, 02.11.2015 Sergei Mitrokhin demands an official investigation on the detention of Natalia Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, on the justification of conducting investigation against her at night time, pressure on her and abandoning her without medical care. YABLOKO leader urges that those guilty of such abuse of power […]

Press release, 21.10.2015 YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person picketing outside the State Duma against the adoption of the bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners. Human rights defenses call the bill the sadists’ law. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and ex political […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 20.10.2015 The bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners, which the State Duma is planning to pass in the first reading, is nothing but the revival of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs methods in the Russian […]

Press release, 16.10.2015 Enviromnmentalist Evgeny Vitishko submitted another application on release on parole to the Kirsanovsky district court of the Tambov region. The Federal Penitentiary Service supported Vitishko’s motion for the first time.

Press release, 09.10.2015 Today, on October 9th, the politician and public person Boris Nemtsov would have turned 56. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, the party founder Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO Political Committee member Sergei Ivanenko and Secretary of the Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva laid flowers to the place where Boris Nemtsov had been murdered on the Bolshoi […]

11.10.2015 On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me express our deep condolences to the families and next of kin of those killed in the brutal attack during a peaceful demonstration in Ankara.

Press release, 08.10. 2015 Today, October 8, the Tambov regional court annulled the decision of the inferior Kirsanovsky district court (court of the first instance) on the refusal to release on parole Evgeny Vitishko, environmentalist from the Sochi region and YABLOKO member, and the refusal to amnesty him in connection with the 70th anniversary of […]

Press Release, 03.10.2015 On 3 October, on the day of celebration of the 120th anniversary of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin in his hometown Konstantinovo, police detained Valentin Gavrilov, 77, honorable architect of Russia and a person who survived the siege of Leningrad in 1941 – 1944. Gavrilov was charged with resisting the police and […]

Announcement, 01.10.2015 On October 29 YABLOKO leaders and activists will participate in the memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. 30,000 people were executed in Moscow in 1937-1938.

Press release, 28.09.2015 On September 28 Lev Shlosberg appealed in court against the decision of the Pskov Regional Assembly deputies to deprive him of the mandate on September 24, 2015.

Press Release, 29.09.2015 Evgenia Sukhorukova is Vice Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, and member of the Karelian YABLOKO team.

Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, 25.09.2015 The deprivation of Lev Shlosberg’s deputy status in the Pskov Regional Assembly on the invented and by far politically motivated grounds is the political mopping up with the person who has been fighting for the prosperity of his region, for the honour and dignity of the Russian military men both […]

Press release, 24.09.2015 The Pskov Regional Assembly illegally deprived Lev Shlosberg, leader of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, of his mandate. Shlosberg is going to appeal against the decision in court. 41 deputies voted in favour of the proposal to deprive Shlosberg of his mandate, 3 voted against it.

Press release, 10.09.2015 Nikolai Kavkazsky, YABLOKO candidate to the North Medevedkovo Municipal Council in Moscow, human rights activist, lawyer and ex-prisoner of the Bolotnaya Rally Case, has just been severely beaten by the three unknown men during campaigning in his district.

Press release, 08.09.2015 Deputy Chair of the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Vasily Pavlov was severely beaten by a group of unknown men before witnesses. He has a cough fracture and cerebral commotion with the hematoma of the right eye.

Press relese, 02.09.2015 Last week Maxim Petlin, former Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO was released from prison where he served 2,5 years. On March 21, 2013, the Sverdlovsk Region Court sentenced Maxim Petlin to three years of imprisonment. Petlin was accused of allegedly demanding a 3,000,000 roubles bribe from ZAO Forum Group for […]