Press release, 28.04.2016 Today Deputy Chair of YABLOKO Nikolai Rybakov, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and party activists have conducted a series of one-person pickets in protest of the sentence to member of YABLOKO Federal Council Svetlana Chechil. The action took place outside the Prosecutor General’s Office in Moscow.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 28.04.2016 The decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court to sentence Svetlana Chechil, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, to 1.5 years in a penal colony is a reprisal against political opponents of Governor of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen.

Press Release, 28.04.2016 On 27 April, Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Svetlana Chechil, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, to 1.5 years in a penal colony. Today, YABLOKO will hold pickets by the Public Prosecutor General’s Office protesting against such a decision. Nikolay Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the party, and Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy Chair of the Moscow […]

26.04.2016 Yabloko Youth calls for the immediate release of Mikhail Konev, leader of PARNAS Youth wing. According to the reports on the social media, Mikhail has been kidnapped from the military registration and enlistment office in Moscow. Despite the fact that the activist has an exemption from military service the army conscription commission found him fit […]

Press release, 13.04.2016 On 12 April, former Minister of the Interior of Germany Gerhart Baum gave a public lecture on freedom and security in the Boris Yeltsin Centre in the city of Yekaterinburg (the capital of the Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals). Leader of YABLOKO’s regional branch Yuri Pereverzev and party activist Elena Krasulina attended the […]

Press release, 13.04.2016 Ex leader of the regional branch of the Committee against Torture Vechyaslav Dudin was elected Chair of the Orenburg Region branch of YABLOKO [the region in southern Russia, the Urals].

Press release, 11.04.2016 St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO Youth forwarded an appeal to city Ombudsman Alexander Shishlov calling to protect the rights and lawful interests of an underage student.

Press release, 12.04.2016 On 11 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO conducted a rally in support of Victor Kransnov who is charged with offending the feelings of religious believers. The rally was organised by Kirill Bobro, local YABLOKO Youth leader.

06.04.2016 Nikolai Rybakov: First of all. All the war crimes must be investigated and the guilty must be punished. End of story. There is nothing to discuss here. I believe, it would have been better if the investigation was carried out by the international institutions and, by all means, the Russian Federation must participate in […]

Press release, 05.04.2016 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and YABLOKO Bureau member, claims that the candidacy for the post of Ombudsperson must be discussed by the civil society. The human rights defender forwarded an appropriate application to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Council for […]

Press release, 08.04.2016 On 8 April, YABLOKO Youth activits conducted a series of one-person pickets outside the Presidential Administration protesting against the creation of the National Guard. The activits claim that the true aim of the new structure is to suppress opposition demonstrations.

Statement by the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 07.04.2016 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has introduced the draft law “On the Russian National Guard Troops” to the State Duma. If the bill is passed, only one person in the country (even if he is the President) will use his own discretion to decide where […]

Press release, 05.04.2016 YABLOKO Youth activists in Tula joined the federal action of protest conducted by the youth faction of YABLOKO against the conscription system in Russia. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.

Press release, 06.04.2016 On 5 April, the Sverdlovsk region YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the draft system in Russia. The street action of protest took place by the military registration and enlistment office in Yekaterinburg.

Press release, 04.04.2016 The Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the conscription system. The picket took place in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory. Alexander Korovayny, leader of local YABLOKO Youth participated in the street action of protest.

Press release, 04.04.2016 The Novosibirsk YABLOKO Youth conducted a picket against the conscription system in Russia. The activits claim that Russia must move to a professional army based on contract principles. The protest action took place in the city centre. The local party activits also participated in the event. 

Press release, 04.04.2016 Alan Alikov, an activist of North Ossetia YABLOKO Youth, conducted a one-person picket is support of the army based on contract principles. The picket took place in Vladikavkaz. 

Press release, 04.04.2016 On 3 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted a one-person picket against the conscription system in Russia.

Press release, 04.04.2016 On 3 April, Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists conducted picketing against the conscription system in Russia and against the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.

Grigory Yavlisky’s Facebook page, 03.04.2016 A hate campaign has been unleashed against Mikhail Kasyanov. The state has set an entire pack on him: the Federal Security Service with its wiretapping, peeping and informers, the Ministry of Interior with provocatively inactive and posing police, unbridled paid “public activists” who look like criminals, and, certainly, the state […]