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 […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party October 9, 2013 On October 8 Zamoskvoretskiy City Court, Moscow, ruled out that Mikhail Kosenko, one of the defendants of the Bolotnaya Square rally case must undergo [psychiatric] compulsory treatment.

Press Release, October 8, 2013 On October 8 YABLOKO’s activists came to the Zamoskvorezki Court to support Mikhail Kosenko who is charged with the Bolotnaya square case. Kosenko is accused of participating in the mass riots  and the use of violence endangering the lives of policemen on May 6, 2012.

Press Release, photographs, 07.10.2013 Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party took part in the opening of a memorial plaque on the office of Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya worked. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder, and Galina Mikhaleva, Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, laid a basket of flowers and a black ribbon with the words “Anna […]

Statement by the regional branch of the YABLOKO party in the Republic of Karelia, 09/27/2013 The YABLOKO party won a landslide victory in the election of the Mayor of Petrozavodsk. In addition, YABLOKO was successful in the elections in the Olonetsky and the Prionezhsky districts of the Republic of Karelia. A remarkable success was achieved […]

 Press release, 01.10.2013 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Bureau of the YABLOKO party and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation was elected member of the Presidium of the Human Rights Council. Babushkin was elected by the Commission for Facilitation of the Public Monitoring Commission and the Penitentiary […]

Press Release , September 25, 2013 Leaders of human rights organisations submitted a draft amnesty act for the political prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square case.

YABLOKO’s statement, September 25, 2013 Freedom for Greenpeace activists! For environmental safety in the Arctic!

By Dr. Galina Mikhaleva Special for YABLOKO’s web-site The famous slogan “Democracy minus a woman is not a democracy” can be paraphrased as follows: the greater is the deficit of democracy in a country, the greater is discrimination of women in all spheres of life.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 08.09.2013 The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO is outraged by today’s decision by oligarch Alexander Mamut to dismiss Svetlana Lolayeva, editor-in-Chief of Gazeta.ru.

Press Release, September 6, 2013 On Friday, September 6, Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for Mayor of Moscow and leader of the YABLOKO party, congratulated For Human Rights movement headed by Lev Ponomaryov with their new office.

Press release, September 2, 2013 In the evening of September 1, the schooling day in Russia, activists of St.Petersburg YABLOKO held an action in the centre of the city in memory of the hostages – children and grownups – killed in School No 1in Beslan, North Ossetia.

Press Release, August 28, 2013 Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s activists conducted one-person pickets near the house where Stalin’s victims were shot on August 28. They came out for the maintenance of the historic building and demanded to turn it into a memorial museum devoted to the victims of political reprisals.

Press Release, August 27, 2013 Moscow Mayoral Candidate Sergei Mitrokhin attended a charity concert in support of political prisoners devoted to the 45 anniversary of the 1968 Red Square Demonstration .

Svoimi Glazami (Eyewitness) programme, Ekho Moskvi radio station, 22.08.2013 Today’s Vladimir Putin and his colleagues think about the people exactly in the same way as the Emergency Committee thought. The only difference lies in the fact that today people do not have that alternative, which was there then, today they have a lot more money, […]

Press Release, August 25, 2013 At night of August 23, Natalya Romanuk, leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO, Krasnodar Territory, had suffered an attempt against her life. Her car was severely hit on a highway by a black car. By a lucky chance the woman managed to avoid a collision with a car ahead […]

Lydia Grafova for the Ekho Moskvi, August 21, 2013 Lydia Grafova, journalist and Chair of the Executive Committee of Forum of Migrants’ Organizations [expressed her attitude to the attacks on migrant workers in the Moscow mayoral election campaign]: “This persecution that is observed in the life of migrant workers and mass media in general should […]

Press Release, August 21, 2013 Human rights activists have appealed to the Russian intelligentsia calling that latter to intervene with all available means and pacify the anti-migrant hysteria associated with the Moscow mayoral elections. Lydia Grafova, journalist and one of the authors of the appeal, in her interview at the Echo Moskvi radio station noted […]

Ludmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, August 19, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin is known for his protection of the rights of Muscovites. Each time he learns that someone’s rights are breached, he rushes to help. One can be surprised at his energy, fearlessness and the ability not to be helpless in the present conditions.