Press Release, 09.07.2014 YABLOKO’s activists conducted picketing against the slapdash activities of the Federation Council [the upper house of Parliament] outside the Parliament building today. The consideration of the 68 bills was on the preliminary agenda and on the final there were 85 bills. The senators plan to consider all of them in one day.

Press Release, 08.07.2014 On July 9 YABLOKO activists will picket the Federation Council[the upper house of Parliament] which will conduct the last meeting of the spring session.

Liberal International, 19.06.2014 Grigory Yavlinsky, the co-founder of the LI full member Yabloko, the Russian liberal party, was welcomed in the Houses of Parliament in London by LI Vice President on the Bureau Baroness Kishwer Falkner. The discussion, which focused on the further deterioration of the situation in Russia, the Ukrainian crisis and the global […]

Liberal International, 23.05.2014 As part of a quickly intensifying oppression crusade against the opposition, the Russian law enforcement authorities have searched the Moscow headquarters of Yabloko (LI full member) for the first time in the 20-year history of the party.

Press Release, 28.04.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the Congress of Liberal International – the world organisation of liberals and liberal parties – which was conducted in Rotterdam. Mitrokhin made a report in the round table devoted to the situation in Ukraine.

Press Release, April 28, 2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin  participated in the Liberal International 59th Congress. He presented YABLOKO’s view on how to settle the situation around Ukraine.

April 26, 2014 If we want to better understand Russia’s policies towards Ukraine and Crimea we have to be aware of some important motives and incentives behind Vladimir Putin’s actions. Vladimir Putin received an oligarchic economy as Boris Yeltsin’s legacy, and in the past 14 years built his own system of political domination on this […]

Press Release, 21.04.2014 A scientific conference called “Political parties and its institutional environment: innovation, tradition, tendency” took place at Russian State University for the Humanities on April 18.

Press Release, 18.04.2014 The amendments to the “anti-terrorism” bills proposed by the State Duma at the second reading have become more repressive.  According to YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, they aim to prosecute Internet users and activists, not terrorists.

Press Release, 16.04.2014 The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person pickets against toughening the law on rallies on April 16. They believe that such measures will make the citizens aware of protest actions.

Press Release, photograph, 25.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Irina Kopkina inspected the Northwest chord and found out that the contraction was frozen. The residents of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district showed the cutover square and an illegal parking space to YABLOKO’s representatives.

Announcement, 18.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin will participate in panel discussion on “Russia, Ukraine, Europe: Today and the Day after Tomorrow” conducted by the NEOS party, Austria, on March 21.

Press Release, 13.03.2014 The information that YABLOKO’s activists participate in courses to prepare provocateurs to wreck the Crimea’s referendum in Warsaw which appeared in a number of news agencies isn’t true. YABLOKO’s members participate in a training for press secretaries of political parties conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The situation in Ukraine and […]

Liberal International, Monday 3 March 2014 “Our country will remain alone, without allies, labelled as an aggressor and condemned by the whole world”, said Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman of LI full member Yabloko, as Russian President Vladimir Putin violated international law by sending Russian troops into neighbouring Ukraine.

Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau, 28.02.2014 Today YABLOKO’s Bureau adopted a statement against the package of the so called “anti-terrorism” laws passed by the State Duma, which limit the rights of the Internet users, actually abolish e-payments and increase the criminal responsibility for terrorism. The first reading of the three bills will take place today.

Statement by Trine Skei Grande, President of the Venstre party, Norway, 20.02.2014 Prime Minister in Norway, Mrs Erna Solberg, brought up the situation of human rights activists when she met with Prime Ministers Medvedev during his stay in the Olympic city of Sochi last week. – It is good thing that Solberg vows human rights […]

ZARES – socialno-liberalni, 19.02.2014 V stranki Zares vas vabimo k podpisu peticije, s katero Amnesty International poziva ruske oblasti k izpustitvi okoljevarstvenega aktivista Jevgenija Vitiška, ki je bil v politično motiviranem procesu obsojen na triletno zaporno kazen.

Press Release, February 17, 2014 Chair of the Vladimir branch of YABLOKO Dmitry Kushpita has filed a complaint to the Vladimir city electoral commission against the illegal campaigning of the United Russia’s candidate Alexandr Maximov at the Vladimir City Council by-election. The anonymous leaflets without the imprint with Maximov’s electoral programme and advertisement of the […]

Liberal International, February 23, 2014 A regional court in Russia – the same province in which the Winter Olympics are currently taking place – has rejected the appeal of an activist from LI full member Yabloko, who was found ‘guilty’ of criticising corrupt practices of the regional governor. his verdict envisages a three-year prison sentence […]

Press Release, February 11, 2014 The agents of the Zamoskvoretsky Department of Internal Affairs continued the illegal deprivation of “The Third Way” NGO’s property. They act despite the court decision which states that the eviction is only possible after another premises for the NGO are provided. Migrant workers helped the police. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin […]