Press Release, 16.07.2014 The court hearing on Evgeny Vitishko case was postponed till August 4 since the Tambov penal colony settlement No 2 didn’t manage to provide conference communication with Vitishko. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who arrived at the court hearing announced about this.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 15.07.2014 On behalf of the YABLOKO party I express deep condolences to the relatives of those who who died in the Moscow metro today. I wish a quick recovery to the casualties.

Press Release, 08.07.2014 Chair of the Dagestan branch of YABLOKO Artur Babayev was detained in Makhachkala. The police checked his name against the database and then released him without any explanations.

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 03.07.2014 Today is the birthday of Yevgeny Vitishko. If our country was headed by a true patriot, he would have definitely awarded Yevgeny Vitishko with the ‘Hero of Russia’ Star. However, then Vitishko would not have been in a penal colony, and thus part of his heroic […]

Press Release, 02.07.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and member of YABLOKO Political Committee, member of Moscow Helsinki human rights group Valery Borshchev visited the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko at a penal colony in the Tambov region.

Press Release, 02.07.2014 Leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustatfa Dzhemilev is not allowed to enter Russia for five years term. The decision was taken by Federal Security Service representative in accordance with Subparagraph 1 Part 1 Article 27 of the Federal Law No 114 which states “a foreign citizen or a stateless person shall be […]

Press Release, 20.06.2014 Police have just arrested YABLOKO’s activists who work at the mobile reception office of the party in the Strogino district, Moscow. YABLOKO’s municipal deputy Grigory Semyonov have also been detained. The activists have been taken to a police department to give evidence.

Press Release, 19.06.2014 On the threshold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” of the Bolotnaya Square rally case the activists of Youth YABLOKO from the Krasnodar Territory, North Ossetia, Stavropol, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the Bolotnaya prisoners.

Youth YABLOKO activists Alan Alikov from North Ossetia and Kirill Bobro from the Stavropol Region were detained by police today during one-person pickets in support of the prisoners of the Bolotnaya rally case. One-person pickets do not need any permits from the authorities, thus arrests were absolutely unlawful.

Press Release, 18.06.2014 The activists of Moscow Youth YABLOKO conducted one-person picketing in support of the Bolotnaya Square rally case prisoners outside the Moscow City Court. The action was conducted on the threashold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” of the Bolotanaya rally case. Youth YABLOKO activists from the Krasnodar […]

Announcement, 17.06.2014 On Wednesday, June 18, Youth YABLOKO activists from Moscow, the Krasnodar Territory, Nizhni Novgorod, North Ossetia and other Russia’s regions will conduct a series of one-person pickets in support of Bolotnaya rally case prisoners. The action will take place on the threashold of the court hearings of the appeal on the “first wave” […]

Announcement, June 16, 2014 In the night from June 21 to June 22 the YABLOKO party will hold its annual event “1418 Candles for Each Day of the War” to commemorate the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union.

Press Release, 16.06.2014 Youth Yabloko filed an appeal to Prosecutor Geaneral’s Office and Moscow Prosecutor’s Office demanding to withdraw charges against the prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square rally case. An appeal against the court decision which adjudged eight prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square rally case guilty will be held on June 19, 2014.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.06.2014 The YABLOKO party is categorically against the return of the name [Stalingrad] coined after executioner of Russia’s people Joseph Stalin to the city of Volgograd. Nobody in Russia or in the world will take such renaming as entrenchment of the historic battle [under Stalingrad in the Second World War].

Condolences from the YABLOKO party, 09.06.2014 Yuri Shchekochikhin, a Man with a capital letter, journalist and politician, who made a great contribution to the building of democracy in Russia, was born on June 9. It is already 11 years that he is not with us, but a memory of him will always live in our […]

Press Release, 06.06.2014 The Verkh-Isetsky district court of Ekaterinburg denied parole to Ex Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO Maxim Petlin. The reasons for the denial were not announced. Petlin can appeal against the decision within 10 days.

Press Release, 30.05.2014 A group of unidentified men dressed in black private security uniforms and the White Guard military uniforms beat member of the Regional council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, municipal deputy Nikolai Pinyasov on May 29. YABLOKO appealed to Moscow Prosecutor Sergei Kudeneyev with the demand to bring the guilty to responsibility […]

Press Release, 29.05.2014 Tomorrow, on May 30, a hearing on the lawsuit from Alfa Bank and one of its heads and oligarch Mikhail Fridman to YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Izvestia newspaper will take place in the Moscow Arbitration Court.

Press Release, 26.05.2014 On May 25 and 26 Sergei Mitrokhin held meetings with environmentalists, election observers, public activists and YABLOKO members during his working visit to Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya.

Press Release, 25.05.2014 Pyatigorsk, May 24, 2014. The YABLOKO party and representatives of the human rights community organised an interregional conference “Human Rights and Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Northern Caucasus”. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the party Political Committee and a human rights activist Valery Borshchev, Valery Goryachev, Chief of YABLOKO Staff, and leaders […]