LI, 14.08.2014 Yabloko (LI full-member) has called on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) not to re-elect Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as President ahead of the Federation’s Congress meeting in Tromsø, Norway on 11 August.

12.08.2014 Boris Vishnevsky, YABLOKO Bureau member and MP in St.Peterburg parliament: In my view election of [ex head of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia] Kirsan Ilyumzhinov FIDE President against another candidate [world chess champion] Garry Kasparov is a disgrace for the world chess [as sport]. And it is also a big disgrace for Russia because it […]

Dagbladet.no, 11/08/2014, Google translation Tromsø (Dagbladet): It took about three hours before the presidential election in the International sjakkforundet (FIDE) took complete guy. Thereupon the British chess player and -kommentatoren Nigel Short and confronted the incumbent Kirsan Iljumzjinov with specific corruption charges.

Press Release,08.08.2014 YABLOKO Bureau addresses the delegates of the FIDE congress with an urgent request not to support the candidacy of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at the voting for the President of the World Chess Federation. The elections have to take place in Tromsø, Norway, on August 11.

Press Release, 06.08.2014 On July 28 Elena Gorkovyenko, born in 1958, set herself on fire protesting against unlawful actions of the authorities who plan to strip the residents of No 15 Karasnoarmeyskaya Street, Searatov, Mordovia, of their land. At the moment the woman is in the resuscitation department.

Press Release, 06.08.2014 The staff of the Third Way NGO and YABLOKO’s Sofya Rusova checked the condition of the cultural objects and private belongings which have been taken away from the NGO’s premises.

Frankfurter Allgemeine, 04.08.2014 Jewgenij Witischko, einer der bekanntesten Kritiker der Olympischen Winterspiele in Sotschi, protestiert mit seiner Aktion gegen die Isolationshaft, die gegen ihn verhängt wurde.

OSCE, 04.08.2014 VIENNA, 4 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today she was saddened by the death of journalist and blogger Timur Kuashev whose body was found in a suburb of Nalchik, in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.

The Guardian, 05.08.2014 The body of an independent Russian journalist was found in a wood the day after he had gone missing following threats from law enforcement authorities.

NUJ, 05.08.2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have called on the Russian authorities to carry out an immediate and through investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of journalist Timur Kuashev.

Press Release,04.08.2014 Youth YABLOKO activists Nikolai Kavkazsky and Maria Yefimova conducted one-person picketing outside the permanent establishment of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow demanding to investigate the murder of opposition journalist, YABLOKO member Timur Kuashev.

Press Release, 04.08.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an appeal to head of the Investigative Committee demanding to start a criminal case on the murder of 26 year old journalist, YABLOKO candidate for the Kabardino-Balkaria parliament deputy Timur Kuashev.

Press Release,01.08.2014 The Voronezh branch of YABLOKO participated in picketing in support of political prisoners on July 31. Chairperson of the local YABLOKO branch Tatyana Shkred and deputy Chair Victor Khlebosterov also participated in the action.

Press Release, 03.08.2014 YABLOKO member and candidate for the Kabardino-Balkaria parliament deputy, oppositional journalist and human rights defender Timur Kaushev was found dead in the suburbs of Nalchik, Kabaridino-Balkaria. He was 26 years old.

Press Release,01.08.2014 Candidate for the Kabardino-Balkariya parliament deputy and YABLOKO member Timur Kaushev was found dead in the suburbs of Nalchik today. The details of the crime are not identified.

Press Release,01.08.2014 A well-known ecologist, political prisoner Evgeny #Vitishko serving a sentence in the Tambov penal colony settlement was sent to punitive confinement. One of the prisoners gave a phone call to the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus and told about this. According to this person, Vitishko was sent to punitive confinement yesterday evening.

Press Release, 25.07.2014 Youth YABLOKO activists in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod who conducted one-person picketing against sparking a war in Ukraine were attacked by the passersby.

22.07.2014 There’s a reason why the information on accusations against Oleg Baronov appeared in mass media erlier than Baronov’s relatives and lawyers learned about it. It happens every time when the investigators are interested not in finding the truth but in discrediting a person. When the case is not about investigation but provocation.

Press Release, 15.07.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and the human rights defenders forwarded an appeal to head of the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment colonel general Gennady Korniyenko demanding to stop arbitrary treatment of the prisoners in the Tambov colony settlement where the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko endures the punishment since his suspended sentence was […]

Condolences from YABLOKO Chairman, 18.07.2014 On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me convey our deep condolences to the relatives and co-patriots of the passengers of Boeing 777.