Press Release, 26.01.2016 Today, approximately at 12:00, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee, and two YABLOKO activists Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko and Stanislav Belyansky were detained by the President’s Administration during the action for the resignation of head of Administration of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Press release, 26.01.2016 On 26 January, the activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO conducted picketing for dismissal of head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Similar actions took place in Moscow and Stavropol.

Press Release, 26.01.2016 UPD. 14:50. Sergei Mitrokhin released. Antonov-Ovseyenko and Belyansky still remain in the police. Mitrokhin accused of violation of the order of organisation of public actions (article 20.2 of the Administrative Violation Code of Russia). UPD. 14:40. The lawyer is not allowed to enter the police department. UPD. 12:40. Journalists are not allowed […]

Press release, 25.01.2016 On 23 January, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally against political reprisals and in support of Ildar Dadin and other political prisoners. About 700 people came to take part in the action.

Press Release, 22.01.2016 On 26 January, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will hold one-person pickets for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the administration of Chechnya. The action will take place by the Presidential Administration. The authorities of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to give a permission to YABLOKO to […]

Press Release, 20.01.2016 On January 26, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will conduct a picket for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of administration of Chechnya. The picket will be held by the office of representation of the Republic of Chechnya in Moscow.

Press Release, 19.01.2016 On 19 January, YABLOKO leaders and activists laid flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street. Markelov and Baburova were murdered in the centre of Moscow in plain daylight on 19 January 19, 2009, shot in the head by […]

YABLOKO expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia 18.01.2016 The YABLOKO party expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia. Valery Borschyov, one of the initiators of the statement ad member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, signed the statement on behalf of YABLOKO’s leadership.

Press release, 18.01.2016 On 18 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth conducted a series of one-person picketing against the Communist Party’s (CPRF) bill prohibiting to come out as gay. The activists claim that the government must not interfere in the private life of people. They held picketing outside the Communist Party office with the picture […]

Press Release, 18.01.2016 Tomorrow, on 19 January deputy chairs of the party Nikolai Rybakov and Alexander Gnezdilov and YABLOKO activists will lay flowers to the place of where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street.

Press Release, 14.01.2016 Today the Pskov Regional Court has rejected the appeal of Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov region branch of YABLOKO and member of the Political Committee of the party, on termination of his regional MP proxies by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region and has upheld the decision of the Pskov […]

Press Release, 13.01.2016 On 14 January, the Pskov Regional Court will consider the appeal of Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov region branch of YABLOKO and member of the Political Committee of the party, against the refusal of the Pskov City Court to recognize the decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region unlawful […]

Blog-post by Andrei Babushkin in the Live Journal, 11.01.2016 In 2015 the authorities of Germany accepted about a million refuges and together with Sweden and Austria faced the main burden of the wave of migration hitting Europe.

Press Release, 29.12.2015 Today, Tverskoi Distict Court, Moscow, sentenced Sergei Mitrokhin to a RUR 1,000 fine for a picket in defence of the Russian Constitution. Sergei Mitrokhin was detained at an action in defence of the Constitution on 12 December, the Russian Constituion Day.

Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 25.12.2015 The YABLOKO party give serious consideration to the problems of the North Caucasus, the situation with human rights observance, its economic and social development.

Press release, 25.12.2015 Lev Shlosberg, YABLOKO Political Committee member, journalist and ex MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, has been elected Politician of the Year by the readers of the popular Vedomosti newspaper.

Press release, 18.12.2015 Today, December 18, the Tverskoy District Court postponed the trial over Sergei Mitrokhin on his detention at an action in defence of the Russian Constitution. This way the court satisfied the motion of lawyer Boris Mamatov.

Statement of YABLOKO Bureau, 18.12.2015 On 25 November, 2015, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the draft resolution entitled “Recognizing the role of human rights defenders and the need for their protection”. The UN General Assembly resolution urges the states to recognize the important and legitimate role of human rights defenders, condemn […]

Press Release, 16.12.2015 A trial on Sergei Mitrokhin case will be held on 18 December at 10:00. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was detained on 12 December at an action in defence of the Russian Constitution.