Press Release, August 11, 2013 On August 11, candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin visited the tent camp for illegal immigrants in Moscow’s Golyanovo district. As a result of the inspection he considered the conditions at the camp satisfactory. Mitrokhin is determined to find out the names of the illegal immigrants’ employers and achieve the […]

Press Release, August 9, 2013 Sergei Kolosovsky, lawyer of the Sverdlovsk Region YABLOKO leader Maxim Petlin, intends to appeal today’s decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the verdict for Maxim Petlin on the so-called “bribe case” launched against Petlin in the cause of his anti-corruption activities in the region. The Supreme Court has partially […]

Press Release, August 9, 2013 Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Andrei Babushkin was elected head of the guardian council of the Russian Red Cross. Maria Bolshakova, Head of the Soldiers’ Families Union, was elected his deputy.

Press Release, August 4, 2013 YABLOKO’s activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in a rally in support of political prisoners which was conducted at Suvorovskaya Square, Moscow on August 4.

Press Release, August 2, 2013 Presidium of the Moscow City Court upheld a supervisory complaint of Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and changed under remand detention for Nikolai Kavkazsky, a prisoner of the Blotnaya rally case, to a home arrest.

Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow July 30, 2013  I express my categorical protest in view of the decision of [Moscow] television channels to broadcast the debates [conducted within the framework of the Moscow mayoral elections] in recorded transmission. The explanation for this unusual decision looks simply ridiculous.

Press release, July 22, 2013 On Saturday night, Nikolai Kuznetsov, leader of the Stupino branch of YABLOKO and activist of the head-quarters of YABLOKO’s candidate to the post of the Governor of the Moscow region, was severely beaten in Odintsovo, the Moscow region. Doctors stated that he had a concussion, multiple bruises and a dislocation […]

ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH ON NORTH CAUCASUS (EWNC) July 22, 2013 This weekend, the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus received an official warning from the prosecutors not to continue operations unless it registers as a “foreign agent”. However the way this warning was delivered harks of spy games of the Soviet era, when secret police invented fake […]

Interfax, July 18, 2013 Moscow, 18 July: Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin hopes that the appeal will lead to a serious change of the verdict of a five-years imprisonment given to opposition activist Alexei Navalny by a court in Kirov.

Press release, July 18, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate for Mayor of Moscow, spent several hours in the central streets of Moscow, where people protesting against the sentence to Alexei Navalny and a member of YABLOKO Pyotr Ofitserov gathered.

Press Release, July 18, 2013 On July 30 YABLOKO to hold a mass meeting “Freedom to Political Prisoners!”

Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site, July 18, 2013 Just now Russia’s political system has made another leap towards a totalitarian state.

YABLOKO’s Press Service July 18, 2013 We will be by all means seeking justice for Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov. A severe sentence to Navalny and Ofitserov is provocative and dangerous political signal. The country is pushed towards political chaos and absurdity. The political system functioning according to the principle “you die today, and I […]

Press Release,July 18, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin urged Alexei Navalny not to retreat from the Moscow mayoral election and go all the way. Mitrokhin said this in his interview to the Dozhd (Rain) private television channel.

Statement by the YABLOKO party  July 18, 2013 Demonstrative cruelty and intentionally inadequate sentence to Alexei Navalny and YABLOKO member Pyotr Ofitserov is clearly linked to oppositional activities of Alexei Navalny.

Statement by YABLOKO Chairman July 15, 2013 Four years ago, on July 15, 2009, Natalya Estemirova, human rights activist and journalist, member of the Grozny, Chechnya, branch of the Memorial human rights centre and member of the Public Observers Commission on the Republic of Chechnya, was abducted in Chechnya and murdered.

Press Release, July 7, 2013 YABLOKO’s activists participated in the action in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Krimsk. The action was conducted at the observation platform of the Sparrow Hills. The participants of the action placed the candles to form the word “KRIMSK” and announced a minute of silence to honour the […]

Press Release, July 1, 2013 On June 29 civil activists organised a lawful rally in support of LGBT-rights in St. Petersburg which was disturbed by the so-called “orthodox” activists who attacked the participants of the rally.

Press release, June 28, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Judges’ Qualification Board of the Ulyanovsk Region demanding to start disciplinary proceedings against Judge Petrova who had adopted a decision on blocking of the websites of nation-wide famous media as gazeta.ru, kp.ru and other media in Ulyanovsk.

Press Release, June 26, 2013 Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party participated in a rally to mark the 50th anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The action took place in the centre of Moscow in the evening of June 26.