Press Release, 30.10.2013 Alexander Kotlov, Chair of the Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction, picketed the office of the Federal Security Department on the Memory Day of the Victims of Political Reprisals, October 30.

Press Release, October 30, 2013 On October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, YABLOKO conducted a picket near the house where Stalin’s victims were shot demanding from the authorities to save the house and open a memorial museum there. The action was strictly controlled by six policemen, one of them had an assault rifle.

Press Release, Photographs, October 27, 2013 YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction conducted pickets in support of the crew of the Arctic Sunrise and in defence of the Arctic in thirteen Russian cities: Arkhangelsk, Blagoveshchensk, Vladikavkaz, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Saint Petersburg, Sosnovy Bor (the Leningrad region), Sochi, Petrozavodsk, Chelyabinsk and Ulan-Ude on October 25-27. The […]

Press Release, October 29, 2013 YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the memorial action organised by the Memorial human rights society commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. The action took place by the FSB (former KGB) building at Lubyanka square.

Press Release, October 27, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, head of YABLOKO Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov, member of YABLOKO Political Committee and human rights advocate Valery Borshchev participated in the All-Russian campaign “Freedom to the Defenders of the Arctic”and in the opposition march for freedom of political prisoners on October 27.

Press Release, October 25, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee with the demand to bring a criminal case against Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of LDPR faction in the State Duma, under the article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “inciting ethnic hatred and enmity”. According to Mitrokhin, […]

 Press Release, October 24, 2013 On Sunday, October 27, at 14:00, Alexei Yablokov, Chairman of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and Adviser in the Russian Academy of Sciences, will participate in the national campaign “Freedom to the Defenders of the Arctic” in Pushkin Square in Moscow.

Press release, 23.10.2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, demanding to take under control the investigation into the attacks on YABLOKO activists in Kemerovo: Valentina Mezhnina and Yevgeny Artemyev.

Press release, photos, 23.10.2013 On October 22, Andrei Babushkin, member of the YABLOKO party and member of the Presidium of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under President, and Valery Borschyov, and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee and head of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, and experts took part in the panel discussion “Why Amnesty-2013 […]

Firstnews, 22.10.2013 Nationalistic forces were eager to catch fish in muddy water and feather nest by actively using the situation in Biryulyovo, Moscow, however, they did not find support from the local population of the area. The residents of the Biryulyovo district did not join them.

Press Release , 10/18/2013 The Kemerovo Regional Department of the Investigative Committee conducts an investigation into the incident in Kemerovo, when Yevgeny Artemyev, YABLOKO’s candidate to the Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Region from the YABLOKO party, was severely beaten.

Press Release, October 17, 2013 Municipal deputy Elena Tkach was beaten during the public hearings on the construction of a new shopping mall in the centre of Moscow and pulling down the two apartment blocks at number 13 and 15 Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane in connection with that. The incident was recorded on a video. 

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO member, former candidate for the Kemerovo Regional Council deputy Yevgeny Artemyev was beaten during a one-person picket against the election fraud within sight of a policeman in Kemerovo on October 16.

YABLOKO statement on the nationalistic insurgence in Moscow, October 14, 2013 The events that took place in the West Biryulevo district, Moscow, on October 13, make us once again express our concern in connection with the destructive developments taking place in the Russian society.

Press Release, October 14, 2013 Andrei Babushkin, member of YABLOKO Bureau, head of the “For Human Rights” committee and member of Presidential Council for Human Rights, was invited to Dozhd (Rain) TV channel to talk about the amnesty draft act developed by the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Press Release, October 12, 2013 A concert in support of “The third way”(trety put’) cultural centre, which is under threat of illegal eviction from its premises, was conducted on October 12, at Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s activists came to support the event.

Press Release, October 9, 2013

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Sergei Pogodin, director of School No 4 in Nelidovo, the Tver region, was dismissed from his post on 8 October, 2013, on the basis of an order from the acting head of the district administration, however, the document did not specify any reason for termination of the labour contract. According […]

Press Release, October 10, 2013 Today, on October 10, 2013, law enforcement officers attempted to get into the office of the Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO party (presumably, these were officers from the Center for Combating Extremism). This happened at about 2:30 p.m. The police insisted that they needed Andrei Rudomakha, Chair of the regional […]

Press Release, October 8, 2013 An action in memory of the murdered journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya took place in Voronezh on October 7.  The activists placed the portraits of Anna Politkovskaya, murdered journalist and writer Yuri Shchekochikhin,  murdered human rights activist Galina Starovoytova, murdered human rights activist Stanislav Merkelov, murdered journalist Anastasia […]