Press release, 27.08.2015 Chair of the Karelia branch of YABLOKO and entrepreneur Vasily Popov was detained by the police of Finland in Joensuu. According to the politician, the police arrived at his country house. At the moment he is at the pre-trail detention centre in Joensuu. He was allowed to keep the phone.

Press Release, 23.07.2015 Wednesday, July 22, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin met in YABLOKO’s office with a group of human rights defenders from the Danish Helsinki Committee led by Carl Eric Foverskov. Olga Radayeva, YABLOKO International Secretary, also took part in the meeting.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 13.07.2015 YABLOKO express deep and heartfelt condolences to the friends and families of the paratroopers who tragically died in the billet of Air Landing Troops training establishment 242 in Svetly settlement, the Omsk region.

Press release, 24.06.2015 YABLOKO MP in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova brought ten thousand signatures for resignation of Governor of Karelia Alexander Khudilaynen to Presidental Administraion. The opposition accuse the governor of politically motivated persecution of his opponents and bad economic situation, that is why in April they founded a public committee demanding […]

Press Release, 18.06.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the round table on the problems of Eastern partnership conducted by the ALDE Group in the European Parliament.

However, is ready to negotiate with RPR-PARNAS in single-mandate constituencies By Viktor Khamrayev, Kommersant, 2.06.2015 The YABLOKO party will run independently in the upcoming regional elections, however, it may nominate any nonpartisan candidates recognizing YABLOKO’s coalition principles to run on behalf of YABLOKO. This was announced by party leader Sergei Mitrokhin, who also added that […]

Argumenty.ru, Valentina Karelova, 02.06.2015 Mayor of Petrozavodsk [the capital of the Republic of Karelia] Galina Shirshina doesn’t rule out that during the session of the City Council, which will take place on 3 June, deputies can go beyond giving low estimation to her work. Nevertheless, she is not going to rest on oars and is […]

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party convening in Oslo, Norway on 9 May 2015 Note: · the systematic use of criminal justice against recognised and vocal political opponents in Russia, Belarus and Azerbaijan which has recently lead to long-term imprisonment of civil society activists Rasul Jafarov, Intigam Aliyev and Musavat Vice-Chairman Faraj […]

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 28.04.2015 In the night from 25 to 26 April a crime was committed in Krasnokamsk: unidentified persons burned two KAMAZ garbage trucks belonging to the Uralkomp company headed by Olga Kolokolova, leader of the Perm branch of YABLKO, YABLOKO Bureau member.

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.

The ALDE party, 07/04/2015 Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of ALDE member party YABLOKO, welcomed the news that Alexandra Kornilova and Olga Zaletskaya have been transferred from custody to house arrest but vowed “We will continue to seek their final release and closing of the case”. European Liberal Democrats have also expressed their concerns over the case.

Announcement, 07.04.2015 On April 7 YABLOKO Bureau member Dmitry Rybakov will conduct a rally in Petrozavodsk demanding the resignation of the Karelian Governor Alexandr Khudilainen.

Press release, 06.04.2015 Today the Supreme court of the Republic of Karelia varied the restraint measure of Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Kornilova from pretrial detention to house arrest. The court attached to the case the signatures of 230 citizens and voters, 1922 signatures collected on the Internet as well as the bails by academician Vyacheslav […]

Governor of Karelia must be dismissed for persecution of political opponents Statement by the YABLOKO party, 26.03.2015 Olga Zaletskaya, deputy of Pertozavodsk City Council and Alexandra Kornilova, director of the Lentorng trade network, were detained in Petrozavodsk yesterday.

Press Release, 25.03.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent an appeal to Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Moscow interior, demanding to that he should take the investigation of beating of Moscow municipal deputy Sergei Dorofeyev under his personal control.

Press release, 28.01.2015 YABLOKO activists conducted picketing against cancelation of local commuter trains. Local commuter trains will be fully cancelled in the Pskov region and the Zabaikalye Territory, partially cancelled in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vologda, Voronezh, Kursk, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kostroma, Nyzhny Novgorod, Orel, Tver, Tambov, Chelyabinsk regions and the Perm Territory.

Press release, 27.01.2015 YABLOKO activists conducted the third street action for resignation of Moscow vice-Mayor for town planning Marat Khusnullin outside the Moscow Mayor’s office. YABLOKO Chair Sergei Mitrokhin, Member of Presidential Council for human rights and YABLOKO Bureau member Andrei Babushkin, YABLOKO’s municipal deputy Grigory Semyonov and other activists participated in the action.

Press release, 21.01.2015 YABLOKO launched a campaign for resignation of vice-Moscow mayor for town-planning policy Marat Khusnullin.

Press release, 18.01.2015 On January 17 an excavator knocked down the tenement Privalov’s house, the place where Sergei Yesenin had presented his poems to the public for the first time. The editorial office of Mlechny put [Milky way] magazine was situated there in 1913-1916. The Privalov’s houses complex was also an example of the Moscow […]

Press release, 12.01.2015 The leaders and activists of the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO laid flowers to the consulate general of France on January 11, the day of memorial march which took place in the cities of France.