Vihreät De Gröna, 10.04.2015 Green Member of the European Parliament Heidi Hautala and Green Member of the Finnish Parliament Johanna Sumuvuori call for an immediate release of the two political detainees Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Kornilova in the Republic of Karelia.

Johan Ekman, spokesperson for international affairs of SFP, on the situation in Karelia The precarious situation of the political opposition in Russia was demonstrated once again on the 26th of March when Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Kornilova, active members of the Yabloko Party, were arrested on suspected politically motivated charges.

27.03.2015 INLW calls for the immediate release of innocent detained YABLOKO women! International Network of Liberal Women (INLW) condemns the continuous arresting and imprisoning of members of oppositional parties in the Republic of Karelia in the Russian Federation! Yesterday two active women of YABLOKO, of which the Women’s organization is a full member of INLW, […]

Liberal International, 19.02.2015 Ahead of opposition rallies organised by Russia’s liberals, Yabloko, to protest President Putin’s meddling in Ukraine, party’s Political Committee has charged Russia’s present regime with “national-imperial neo-Bolshevism.” 

Liberal international, 5 February 2015 Amidst great risk, a statement adopted by the Bureau of LI full member, Yabloko, has called on all democratic political forces in Russia to join a protest march on 1st March and demand an immediate halt to Russian engagement in Ukraine.

LI, 08.01.2015 Through a meeting with the French Ambassador to Andorra, LI President, Dr. Juli Minoves, has shared the condolences of the international liberal family in a letter to the President of France, Francois Holland, after the horrific attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. “#JeSuisCharlie is a motto that we all make our […]

LI, 23.19.2014 With five members of the European Commission, including one Vice President, the European liberal democrats will be part of the governing body of the European Union for the next 5 years. The liberal team in the Commission, which includes 4 women, has been voted and confirmed this week by the European Parliament.

Liberal International, 15.10 2014 Liberal International’s Vice President, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, and LI Secretary General, Emil Kirjas, have addressed an international conference in Moscow on ‘liberal values versus a conservative trend in public and political life in Europe’, co-organised by LI full member, Yabloko, and LI cooperating organisation, ALDE Party.

Liberal International, 03.09.2014 Condemning the cowardly attack against Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of LI full member Yabloko, for drawing global attention to the role of Russian paratroopers in Ukraine, LI President Dr. Juli Minoves has called on the Russian authorities to end the conflict.

LI, 14.08.2014 Yabloko (LI full-member) has called on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) not to re-elect Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as President ahead of the Federation’s Congress meeting in Tromsø, Norway on 11 August.

LI news, 07.08.2014 Following the entry into force of the Istanbul Convention on Prevention and Elimination of Violence against Women, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Anne Brasseur MP of LI full member, Demokratesch Partei (Luxemburg), has vouched to continue to work for its ratification both within and outside […]

LI news, 18.07.2014 The President of Liberal International, Dr Juli Minoves, has expressed his shock and sadness at the attack on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

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 […]

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.

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 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 […]