Press Release, December 13, 2013 Alexei Yablokov, Chair of the Green Russia faction of the YABLOKO party, was included into the short-list of a prestigious journalism award – the Artyom Borovik prize for investigative journalism – in the nomination Publications for his book “Environment and Health of Muscovites”. The ceremony will take place in the […]

Grigory Yavlinsky made a lecture for the students of St.Petersburg school No 77 on Russia’s fundamental law Press Release, photos, December 12, 2013 At the beginning of the lesson devoted to the Russian Constitution Grigory Yavlinsky said that in the near future the gap between the developed countries and the third world would become permanent […]

Press Release, December 12, 2013 The Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO and Youth YABLOKO conducted a serious of one-person pickets under the slogan “The Constitution is in danger” on December 12.

Press Release, December 10, 2013 A second meeting of the Committee for Joint Action against Xenophobia was conducted at Moscow Helsinki Group office on December 9.

Press Release, December 11, 2013 YABLOKO conducted pickets against xenophobia and nationalism in different regions of Russia. The action is confined to the International Human Rights Day and International Migrants Day celebrated on December 18. The event was aimed to attract the attention of the society and authorities to the problem of cross-ethnic relations, growth […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.12.2013 The YABLOKO party assesses the announced amnesty to be necessary but not sufficient. It will ease the fate of dozens of thousands of people who will come back from prison. This amnesty results from the perseverance of the civil society and human rights organisations. Due to their perseverance a […]

Press Release, December 10, 2013 Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia conducted a picket against hatred in Moscow, December 10. Representatives of YABLOKO, Moscow Helsinki Group, trans-regional Uzbek community “Vatandosh”, municipal deputies participated in the action.

LI News, London, 10 December The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties that still remain on the path to achieving social justice and […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 11.12.2013 Today the State Duma is considering the so-called “rubber flats law” law (Ed. The flats where dozens of people may be registered despite their actual place of living) in the second reading.

Press Release, December 6, 2013 Youth YABLOKO activists joined the action in support of the Bolotnaya Square Case prisoners conducted by civil activists near the State Duma.

Press Release, December 5, 2013 Yesterday, on the 4th of December, human rights activist Prof. Mikhail Savva was released from the remand prison, and from now on he will be under home arrest. The Krasnodar Territory Court adopted such a decision after examination of a complaint from Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

Russian News Service, December 4, 2013 YABLOKO’s Viktor Sheinis, an author of the Russian Constitution and YABLOKO Political Committee member, criticized the idea proposed by some young activists from St.Petersburg envisaging amending Article 13 of the Constitution and the introduction of the “state ideology” concept into the Russian fundamental law.

Press Release, November 26, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin came to court to support human rights defender and director of a regional NGO Professor Mikhail Savva on November 21.

Press Release, November 26, 2013 According to head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg  Grigory Yavlinsky, the amendments to the Law on Police that he proposed will on the whole increase the citizens’ trust in the state. The draft was introduced  at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Decision by the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO,19.11.2013 1. The country and the society have approached a qualitatively new condition The problems accumulated for the past 15-20 year: shifts from the principles and norms of democracy, cynical perversion of democratic ideas and slogans, using them for covering up theft and corruption, […]

Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, Press Release, November 22, 2013 Evgeny Vitishko, one of EWNC activists involved in monitoring the environmental destruction brought by Winter Olympic Games preparations, has been summoned to a hearing where he may be slapped with a real jail sentence, 1.5 years after his conviction in June 2012 in the “fence […]

Press Release, November 23, 2013 The Constitution of the Russian Federation may be amended as the word ‘Orthodox Christianity’ may be included in the main law of Russia. Deputy of the State Duma, head of the Committee on Family, Women and Children Elena Mizulina proposed to include the words that “Orthodox Christianity is the basis […]

 Press Release, November 21, 2013 Imprisoned human rights activist Prof. Mikhail Savva who is now under trial in Krasnodar told YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin that convicted residents of the Krasnodar Territory falling under release on parole or amnesty could be released only after the Sochi Olympic Games. Prof. Savva got this information from his source in […]

Press Release, November 21, 2013 Today YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, his advisor Sofya Rusova and activists of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO came to court to support human rights defender and director of a regional NGO Professor Mikhail Savva.

Press Release, November 21, 2013 During yesterday’sa meeting between President Vladimir Putin and leaders of non-parliamentary parties YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin handed to Vladimir Putin an appeal demanding to take under presidential control the criminal case filed against Daud Garakoyev, leader of the YABLOKO branch in Ingushetia. Mitrokhin stated that persecution of Garakoyev had taken […]