Press Release, 14.04.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin had a working visit to North Ossetia and Ingushetia on April 11-13. He laid a wreath at the monument to 2004 Beslan victims, had a meeting with the activists and participated in the conference where the new chair of the Ingushetia branch of YABLOKO was elected.

Announcement, 07.04.2014 A round table called “Tortures in Russia: failure to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights of the part of Article 3 of the European Convention” will take place on April 10. YABLOKO’s member and former Bolotnaya Square rally case prisoner Nikolai Kavkazsky will participate in the event.

But this refers only to those opposing the government / / By Boris Vishnevsky, Novaya Gazeta, 07.04.2014 On 15 April, the State Duma is going to adopt in the second reading the amendments to the so-called “anti-terrorism package” [of laws]. It was submitted to the State Duma in January, after the terrorist attacks in Volgograd, […]

Press Release, 02.04.2014 Today the Pervomaisky district court of Krasnodar have sentenced Professor of Kuban State University and director of the Southern Regional Resource Centre Mikhail Savva accused of fraud to three year on probation and a fine of 70 thousand roubles (approx. Euro 1431.25).

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 01.04.2014 The State Duma deputies from the United Russia and the Just Russia factions presented a bill which puts an end to the conduction of any public actions in Russia which are not in favor of the authorities.

Press Release, 28.03.2014 Alexander Shishlov, St.Petersburg Ombudsman and member of YABLOKO Bureau, presented his annual report on the activities of St. Petersburg Ombudsman and observing of the rights and freedoms of the residents of the city in 2013. The report was made at the meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Press Release, 26.03.2014 The Smart Power movement in support of Grigory Yavlinsky and YABLOKO conducted an action outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly on March 26. The participants of the action held a banner with the photographs of Deputy Grigory Yavlinsky and Ombudsman of St.Peterburg Alexander Shyshlov which said “A human, citizen, resident of St.Petersburg delegated […]

Press Release, 26.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Bureau member, the Green Russia faction’s activist Dmitry Rybakov conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the ecologists Evgeny Vitishko and Suren Gazaryan in Petrozavodsk, on March 25.

Statement by the YABLOKO party A well-known historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, author of a large number of books was dismissed from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, or MGIMO, today for comparing the Russian invasion to Ukraine with Nazi Germany’s Anschluss with Austria in 1938.

Press release, 19.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to Kalmyk’s Minister of Internal Affairs Andrei Mishagin and Kalmyk’s Prosecutor Alexei Samsonov with the demand to make enquiry on the unlawful retrieval of The Modern Kalmyk oppositional newspaper and the invasion to Chair of the Kalmyk branch of YABLOKO Batyr Boromangayev’s flat.

Press Release, 12.03.2014 A concert in support of Evgeny Vitishko took place in Sochi. His friends and colleagues gathered in an informal setting.The event took place despite the pressure on behalf of the authorities, said the organisers.

Press Release, 07.03.2014 Committee Against Xenophobia showed a film “Haytarma” about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in Stalin’s time in YABLOKO’s office on March 7.

Press Release, 08.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Gender faction and a number of public organisations conducted a rally for protection of women’s rights in Russia. This time the annual rally was held under the slogan “Women against war” in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The participants of the action came out not only for equal rights for […]

Press Release, March 7, 2014 YABLOKO’s branches in Volgograd, Voronezh and Sosnovy Bor (the Leningrad region) conducted pickets and actions in support of the imprisoned environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko on March 7. Volgograd

Press Release, 06.03.2014 A famous Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov [he is best known as a promoter of the Kremlin’s policies, denigrator of the West] became winner of the Sexist of the Year 2013 award in the category “Sexism in Mass Media” following the results of online voting. The award was founded by the initiative group […]

Press Release, 03.03.2014 A one-person picket in support of Evgeny Vitishko was conducted in Vsevolzhsk, the Leningrad region, on March 1. The picket is coincided with the international action “Free Evgeny Vitishko!”.

Announcement, 04.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Gender faction together with a number of women’s groups will conduct an annual rally in support of women’s rights on March 8. Due to the current situation in Ukraine this year the rally will be conducted under the slogan “Women against war!”.

Press Release, 03.03.2014 Activists of Amnesty International, Ecooborona and YABLOKO expressed protest against the sentence to Evgeny Vitishko. The international action “Free Evgeny Vitishko!” began on February 28. Rallies, pickets and flash mobs will take place in different cities of the world over a period of seven days. The goal of the action is to […]

Press Release, 05.03.2014 A series of one-person pickets in support of Evgeny Vitishko was conducted in Nizhny Novgorod within the international action week “Free Vitishko!”. YABLOKO’s members and environmental activists participated in the action.

Liberal International, 3 March 2014 In the face of numerous institutional obstruction, LI full member, Yabloko, has held a round-table discussion on LGBT rights with participants from civil society, political, and religious groups. The outcome of the meeting saw the successful establishment of a contact group for the victims of anti-LGBT violence.