Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 19.05.2015 Deputies of one of the [‘affiliated’] parliamentary factions of the ruling party want to introduce criminal responsibility for comparing the USSR with Nazi Germany. Hereby I would like to declare solemnly and sincerely that I am not going to obey this law. (Maybe such statements […]

Press Release, the ALDE party, April 17, 2013 The President of the ALDE Gender Equality Network Flo Clucas and liberal European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström have expressed their profound concern and disappointment after a report revealed that human trafficking in the EU has increased in recent years and 80% of the victims are […]

Press Release, the ALDE Group, European Parliament, April 16, 2013 Commenting on the investigation by the Bulgarian Prosecutor General’s Office into the allegations of illegal wiretapping of scores of political opposition leaders in Bulgaria, Guy Verhofstadt, President of the ALDE Group has made the following statement:

Book Burning The Executive Committee of Liberal International, meeting in Beirut recalls the burning of books by Nazis in 1936, rightly condemned by the Free World, and expresses its horror and indignation at the action by ultra-Orthodox thugs who invaded the Headquarter of the Yabloko Party in Moscow on March 15 removing publications and burning […]

The way towards an efficient migration policy should go through the solution of major Russia’s problems: separation of business from government, building of a law-governed and democratic state, said YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin at the opening of an international conference on Migration. The conference, organized by the YABLOKO party and the ALDE party was held […]

The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO nominated 1550 candidates to the electoral commissions in all the districts of the city. The registration of documents in the electoral commissions is ending today. “All of our candidates are well educated and active citizens and their main goal is to ensure compliance with the law at their electoral districts. […]

LI Bureau member and Treasurer Robert Woodthorpe Browne was among the high level speakers on migration and assimilation at Yabloko (LI Full Member) Conference on 6th April in Moscow, Russia. The event was opened by Party Leader Sergey Mitrokhin and Dr Astrid Thors, European Liberal Democrats – ALDE Party Vice President and former Migration Minister […]

Moscow, April 6, 2013 The Russian participants of the conference – representatives of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO – basing on the discussions of the conference state the following: Migration represents a natural development in the globalised world of the 21st century. However, the threat is represented by systemic problems in the states – […]

On April 3 Acad. Alexei Yabloko, Chair of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, delivered a public lecture “Environmental problems of Russia” in the Kemerovo business center and held an informal meeting with representatives of public and scientific organisations during his trip to the Kemerovo region.