Press release, 12.12.2018 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko Party, took part in a round table dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Constitution. The participants of the event discussed the necessity to carry out a political reform and the possibility to amend the Сonstitution.

Press release, 11.12.2018 Yabloko MP in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky called upon the interim governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov to investigate the decision of the Committee on the Rule of Law, Law Enforcement and Security not to authorise a rally in support of political prisoners. According to the MP, the City Administration […]

Press release, 7.12.2018 Yabloko demanded that the Moscow City Court release human rights activist Lev Ponomarev immediately According to Yabloko, arresting a respectable person like Ponomarev, who is the head of the “For Human Rights” movement, is illegal, offensive and mocking.

Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 5.12.2018 The 10th of December 2018 is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is the first document to state a list of inviolable human rights that were supported by almost all the countries of the world. The declaration is the symbol of recognition of the values […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s twitter, 6.12.2018 The foundation of Alexander Sokurov, the world most famous Russian film director, is under audit on the denunciation of a certain “citizen”. The foundation, which has been raising money collecting every penny for the work of young filmmakers, is suspected of embezzlement. The other day, Putin included Sokurov in his Human […]

Yabloko Telegram Channel, 5.12.2018 “It is a police state: Human Rights Defender Lev Ponomarev, 77, was sentences to 25 days in jail for reposting a publication in support of the young people who suffered as a result of a provocation of the “law enforcement”. It’s a shame! Let’s support Lev Ponomaryev!” * Lev Ponomarev was […]

Press release, 5.12.2018 The State Duma of the Russian Federation has passed through the first reading a draft of the federal law that will allow to withdraw land plots [from individuals] for governmental and municipal needs.

Boris Vishnevsky on the decision of the Supreme Court to allow the PIK development group to demolish residential blocks of flats in the Kuntsevo District, Moscow, and build up the area again Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel, 23.11.2018 “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property,” Karl […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.10.2018 Once a year, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, people [in Russia] come to the Solovetsky Stone [monument representing a stone brought from one of the GULAG labour camps] in Lubyanka Square [the office of the Federal Security Service, former NKVD-KGB] to remember […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.11.2018 Oyub Titiyev. School teacher. Children’s boxing coach. Human rights activist, head of the Chechen branch of the Memorial [human rights organisation]. In January 2018, Oyub who was driving his Lada Kalina car was stopped by traffic police officers. During an inspection, a police officer found a package with marijuana in a […]

Press release, 27.11.2018 Igor Kochetkov, member of Yabloko, head of the “Sfera” LGBT organisation in St. Petersburg, co-founder of the Russian LGBT Network, won the award for Activity Fostering Development of Civil Society granted by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation.

Press Release, 26.11.2018 The Shali District Court of Chechnya did not release from custody human rights defender Oyub Titiyev under the personal guarantee of Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko.

Press release, 19.11.2018 On 19th November, Yabloko Gender Faction representatives (Galina Mikhaleva, Nikolai Kavkazsky and Irina Zabelina) participated in a round table on gender equality organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation.

Press release, 19.11.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova once again demanded that Vladimir Putin release Oyub Titiev, Chair of the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights groups. Yabloko Bureau has already demanded from Russia’s President that Titiev be released and protected by the government. However, Putin through his Administration refused to do it.

Press release, 19.11.2018 On 18 November, a conference of the Chechen Republic branch of Yabloko took place where the new leading bodies where elected. Rizvan Ibragimov was elected Chair of the regional party branch. He is a teacher of the Russian and Chechen languages at grammar school No 12 in Grozny. His deputies are Sharip […]

Press release, 16.11.2018 The Committee on Education approved of St. Petersburg Ombudsman Alexander Shislov’s initiative to add Levashovo Memorial Cemetery to the excursion programme for senior students. About 20,000 victims of the Soviet political reprisals are buried there. The initiative was also supported by Yabloko MP in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky.

Press release, 15.11.2018 On 30 November, Yabloko Gender Faction will hold a discussion on “LGBT Community: Ignore or Accept?”. Kirill Fyodorov, psychologist and founder of the movement “Psychology for Human Rights”, will take part in the discussion.

Ekho Moskvy website, 13.11.2018 Why do experts doubt that excavation of Sandarmokh [a Soviet mass grave in the Republic of Karelia] is legal? Why cannot the excavation team prove that they are authorised to dig up the place where thousands of victims of political reprisals are buried? Why do MPs in the Republic of Karelia […]

Press Release, 9.11.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, take the investigation into the attack on Adam Medaliyev, one of the party leaders in Kabardino-Balkaria, under his personal control. On 7 November, unidentified assailants attacked him, beat him, and set his car on fire […]

Press release, 8.11.2018 Adam Medaliyev, one of Yabloko leaders in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was attacked late 7 November. When Medaliyev arrived at his house on the outskirts of Nalchik two unidentified persons in medical face masks called him, knocked him down, and began beating him. One of the attackers had a baseball bat. However, […]