Press Release, November 21, 2013 On November 20, non-parliamentary parties’s leaders had a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin spoke about the reprisals against the activists in the Krasnodar region. He mentioned the case with Chair of the Kransnodar branch of YABLOKO Andrei Rudomakha and Professor Mikhail Savva.

Press Release, November 19, 2013 Member of YABLOKO Political Committee, former head of the Public Monitoring Committee and its member for nearly nine years Valery Borshchev explained why 17 members of the Public Monitoring Committee of the third convocation left the hall during the elections of their chairperson. According to Borshchev, such an outcome was […]

Press Release, November 11, 2013 Criminal prosecution on negligence was initiated against Victor Pershin, the policeman who did not take any actions to stop an attack against YABLOKO’s activist Yevgeny Artemyev. The criminal case against the policeman is brought under the article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Press Release,14.11.2013 An unsanctioned action in memory of student Timur Kacharava who was murdered by nationalists was held in St. Petersburg.

Press Release, November 12, 2013 The first meeting of the Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia established by the Forum Against Xenophobia and Nationalism conducted  on YABLOKO’s initiative  on November 4 took place at YABLOKO office on November 12.

Press release, 13.11.2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin acknowledged that the value judgment attributed to Chair of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Andrei Rudomakha and serving as a basis for filing a criminal libel case against Rudomakha (under Article 298.1 of the Criminal Code “Defamation of a Judge”) was made by him. Last week Rudomakha was […]

Press Release, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, November 10, 2013 Following his recent detainment in Sochi, Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO, has been named a suspect in a criminal case by Krasnodar investigators, and is barred from traveling.

Press Release, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, November 9, 2013 Police and FSB operatives detained our deputy coordinator Dmitry Shevchenko today for a total of four-and-a-half hours, in a continuing campaign of intimidation against our environmental activists which has increased drastically as the Winter Olympics in Sochi get closer.

Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 08/11/2013 According to the information from the Rosbalt news agency with a reference to the Social Policy Committee of St. Petersburg, 33 orphans from St.Petersburg who have lost their prospective adoptive parents due to coming into force of the so-called Dima Yakovlev law [prohibiting adoption of Russian orphans by foreigners], […]

Press Release, November 6, 2013 Trial of Professor and prominent human rights defender Mikhail Savva started in Krasnodar on November 6, 2013.

Press release, photographs, videos, 07.11.2013 On November 7, the anniversary of the October Coup of 1917, the YABLOKO party conducted a memory action paying tribute to those who tried to defend democratic Russia in 1917 – cadets and officers who conducted armed resistance to the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

Press Release, November 5, 2013 On November 4, Russia’s National Unity Day, YABLOKO and human rights advocates conducted a Public Forum “Russia’s Unity Is in Solidarity of Its Citizens. Against Xenophobia and Nationalism”.

Press release, 04.11.2013 The roots of ethnic tensions lie in extracting excess profits through the use of slave labour of migrants and the refusal of the country leaders to recognise equality of all before the law in Russia, said founder of the YABLOKO party Grigory Yavlinsky speaking at the Forum Against Xenophobia and Nationalism in […]

Novaya Gazeta, 05.11.2013, Interview with Sergei Mitrokhin by Maria Yepifanova [YABLOKO leader] Sergei Mitrokhin spoke with Novaya Gazeta about nationalism and how the Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia [established by the Forum Against Xenophobia and Nationalism conducted on November 4 on YABLOKO’s initiative] plans to combat it.

Press Release, November 2, 2013 The tenth march against hatred was conducted in St.Petersburg on November 2. It took pace under the slogan “Russia without pogroms”.

Euronews, Press Release, November 2, 2013 Activists in St Petersburg have taken to the streets to march against hate and fascism. They say they want to draw attention to rising nationalism and xenophobia in Russia.

Statement by St. Petersburg YABLOKO, 31.10.2013 The St.Petersburg branch of the YABLOKO party expresses indignation with the decision of the court shutting down the Rosbalt news agency.

Press release, 01.11.2013 On October 31, Andrei Rudomakha, leader of the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO and Coordinator of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, was arrested by police when he arrived to Sochi from Krasnodar on the pretext that he had not come to an interrogation.

The opposition march against hatred under the slogan “For Russia without pogroms” will take place  in St.Petersburg, on November 2, 10:00 am.

Press Release, November 1, 2013 On the 4th of November (the Day of Russia’s Unity and the day when a nationalistic demonstration will be conducted in Moscow on the permission of the authorities) we will conduct Public Forum “Russia’s Unity Is in Solidarity of Its Citizens. Against Xenophobia and Nationalism” which is our reply to […]