Press Release, 13.05.2025 Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from open sources Thanks to Anatoly Marchenko, Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile and a state decision was made to release all political prisoners in the Soviet Union. From Marchenko’s book “My Testimony” Soviet and European societies learned about the lives of Soviet political prisoners in […]

Press Release, 9.05.2025 Moscow The leaders and members of the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg, as well as at memorials in other Russian cities.

Press Release, 7.05.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov brought flowers from Yabloko to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. “Millions of people – soldiers and sailors, workers, front-line doctors and nurses, residents of besieged […]

Press Release, 7.05.2025 On 9 May, members and supporters of Yabloko will honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Eternal Flame at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. We invite all our members and supporters to join the memorial event.

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 After three years of war, our main task remains to achieve a ceasefire and stop the daily killing of people. However, when this happens, the situation in the country will remain being extremely difficult, requiring responsible actions and an understanding of perspectives. […]

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 Victory over fascism is one of the key, meaningful events in the history of our country. We bow our heads and honour the memory of those who died in the struggle for life, for our country, against the state misanthropic ideology of […]

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 Photo by Maxim Guchek, RIA Novosti A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, resolving contentious issues through negotiations is the basic position of the Yabloko party. A cessation of hostilities remains the most urgent task for our country and for our party. For […]

Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant 80 years of Victory in World War II is a special anniversary. Almost all the veterans who survived the war and understood, unlike the current generation of politicians, the full horror of war, have passed away. The […]

Press Release, 6.05.2025 On 29 April, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party was held in Moscow. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, delivered a report on the political situation in the country and the world. The Political Committee discussed the key challenges facing Russia and the international community, […]

Press Release, 5.05.2025 Photo: Yabloko members and supporters at Butovo Firing Range on 30 October, 2024 Cleaning up at the Butovo Firing Range in Moscow, the execution and burial site of victims of Joseph Stalin repression, will take place on 14 May, starting at 12:00.

Statement by the Yabloko party, 1.05.2025 Photo by Kirill Braga, RIA Novosti On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, the topic of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad [commemorating the name of Joseph Stalin] is being proposed again. President Vladimir Putin, who had previously signed a decree on assigning the […]

Press Release, 1.05.2025 Photo: Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not support the bill, which introduces administrative liability for “committing actions with the purpose of forcing a pregnant woman to artificially terminate a pregnancy by […]

Press Release, 1.05.2025 Photo by Wikimedia Commons This is already the fifth refusal to register initiative groups that residents of the Pskov Region have received from the regional Electoral Commission. Previously, residents of the Gdovsky, Sebezhsky, Ostrovsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts declared their legal right to determine the structure of local government in a referendum. The […]

Press Release, 1.05.2025 Photo: The Novgorod District Duma meeting / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko Residents of the Novgorod District of the Novgorod Region proposed to restore, with the help of referendum, liquidated and preserve existing administrations in large settlements, establish the number of deputies at 40 people for broader representation and feedback, […]

Press Release, 30.04.2025 Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have introduced a federal legislative initiative that should open access for relatives and researchers to archival files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR.

Press Release, 29.04.2025 Over the past 120 years, Russia has experienced many tragedies and catastrophes: revolutions, coups d’etat, destructive and bloody wars, and large-scale political repressions. Even the state disappeared twice: in 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed, and in 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart.

Press Release, 28.04.2025 Photo: A memo handed to the medical workers how to fill in an application form to become member of  United Russia and where to bring the application Several employees of medical institutions in St.Petersburg have approached deputies from the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Medical workers reported being forced to […]

Press Release, 28.04.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (UFSIN) for Kamchatka Krai is sending journalist Vladimir Yefimov to serve his sentence for “discrediting the army” in a penal colony in the Primorye region instead of Kamchatka. The Penitentiary Service claims there are no available places in the […]

Blog post by Andrei Talevlin, 25.04.2025 Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor (uranium-graphite channel type reactor) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 39 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of […]

Press Release, 25.04.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the St. Petersburg University of Technology Management and Economics / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, spoke at the 11th International Conference “Human Rights Activities in Modern Russia: Problems and Their Solutions” at the St. […]