Press Release, June 26, 2013 Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate to the Moscow Mayor, applied to Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Moscow Police, with a request to establish the identity of the persons who seized his iPad during the attack on the office of the “For the Human Rights” movement and return to him […]

 June 26, 2013

Press Release, June 24, 2013 The leader of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin has visited the trial in the Moscow City Court over twelve prisoners of the rallies in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow. Mitrokhin called the trial “terrorism”.

Sergei Mitrokhin about the violent eviction of the “For Human Rights” movement Gazeta.ru, June 22, 2013 On the night of June 22, OMON (the riot police) and private security guards moped up the office of the “For Human Rights” movement in the centre of Moscow. The reason for the eviction of the human rights organisation […]

Press Release, June 21, 2013 Upd 22:10 Police is holding Sergei Mitrokhin, Lev Ponomaryov, MP Iliya Ponomaryov and a representative of Russia’s Ombudsman in the office. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has arrived to the office of the “For Human Rights” movement (Maliy Kislovsky lane 7, Moscow). Despite the fact that the entrance to the building […]

Press Release, June 21, 2013 Moscow, 22:10. For the past five hours YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has been in the office of the “For Human Rights” movement. The Moscow authorities are evicting the human rights organisation from its premises in the center of Moscow. Police announced that all the people who are at present in […]

 Ugra-news.ru, by Yugeny Zinoviyev, June 20, 2013 Vladimir Lukin, Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner, is ready to restore his membership in the YABLOKO party, if he decides to return to politics. Ombudsman made such a statement at a press conference in Khanty-Mansiysk on June 19.

Press Release, June 19, 2013 Boris Vishnevsky, MP in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the Yabloko faction, proposed to mitigate St.Petersburg law on rallies and demonstrations, however, the “parliamentary majority” from the ruling United Russia party again pretended that they were not present at the session.

Khodorkovsky, June 18, 2013 The Krasnodar branch of the YABLOKO political party published an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in its newspaper ‘YABLOKO na Kubani’

Press Release, June 12, 2013 The YABLOKO party took part in the manifestation “For Your and Our Freedom!” which was held in Moscow on June 12, Russia Day. This action was held in support of Russian political activists enjailed after the demonstration of May 6, 2012.

Press Release, June 11, 2013  Today YABLOKO activists and party leader Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a series of one person pickets against adoption of the bill on protection of religious feelings by the main entrance to the State Duma. The State Duma included examination of the bill in the second and third reading in its agenda.

Press Release, June 7, 2013 YABLOKO held an action near the Representation of the Republic of Kalmykia in Moscow to honour  the memory of Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of Sovietskaya Kalmykia newspaper and Chair of the Kalmykia branch of the YABLOKO party. She was murdered in July 1998 and YABLOKO still insists that the ex President […]

Kavkazsky Uzel, Louise Orazayeva, June 7, 2013 The Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkaria has made changes to its regulations as regards the right of the parties that are not represented in the legislative body to participate in the plenary sessions. The changes were made in connection with a lawsuit by the YABLOKO party in the Supreme […]

Press Release, June 7, 2013 YABLOKO held a mourning rally in memory of Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of Sovietskaya Kalmykia newspaper and Chair of the Kalmykia branch of the YABLOKO party, in Elista, capital of the of the Republic of Kalmykia. Larissa Yudina was murdered on June 7, 1998. The activists demanded from the President of […]

Press Release, June 6, 2013 The Moscow authorities finally removed the fence which has surrounded the first historic beach Serebryany Bor (silver forest) for 8 years. The officials took measures only after YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin sawed the gates and several unites of the fence down with a wire cutter and an angle grinder.

Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, Press Release, May 28, 2013 On May 28, 2013 police officers of the city of Sochi conducted two searches in the apartment and countryside residence of Vladimir Kimaev, the member of the Council of Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC). Both searches took place in the absence of Vladimir Kimaev. […]

Press Release, May 28, 2013 Police is searching the apartment and country cottage of Vladimir Kimayev, leader of the Sochi branch of YABLOKO. According to Kimayev, his son called him about an hour ago and said that police came to their apartment in the Maliy Akhun district, Sochi, and demanded to let them into the […]

Press Release, May 27, 2013 The visit of YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Krasnoyarsk region began with a scandal. The regional state television channel Yenisei unilaterally terminated its contract with the YABLOKO party on provision of air time by the channel.

Statement by the YABLOKO party The website of the State Duma published the draft law on “insulting of the religious feelings” prepared for the second reading. The YABLOKO party notes significant changes introduced into the text since public criticism of the bill. The authorities abolished very dangerous attempts to grant special rights to some religions […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party Mass audits of hundreds of non-profit organisations (NGOs) across the country by the Prosecutor’s Office that are often carried out with the participation of sanitary-epidemiological and fire protection services [that are also looking for the ‘violations’ of sanitary-epidemiological and fire protection rules so that to fine or close the NGOs], […]