Commentary, 07.11.2013 Sergei Ivanenko, famous economist and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee comments on the government’s plan to fully spend the National Welfare Fund (NWF).

Press Release, October 28, 2013 YABLOKO protested against the work of dangerous plants in the Kozhukhovo district, Moscow, on October 27. The local residents are against the reconstruction of the industrial area in the district and want to obtain the construction of a public zone instead. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the rally.

Press Release, October 26, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO activists paid tribute to the memory of hostages of a Moscow theatre who came to watch the Nord-Ost musical (in Dubrovka district, Moscow). The activists laid wreaths to the memorial plaque with the names of the victims set by the Theatre Center.

Condolences by Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 22.10.2013 For and on behalf of the YABLOKO party we are conveying our condolences to the relatives and next of kin of the victims of the Volgograd act of terror. We are wishing speedy recovery to the injured.

Press Release, October 20, 2013 YABLOKO and the residents of the Fili-Davidkovo district, Moscow, conducted a rally against the infill construction. The construction of a seventeen-storied apartment block can do harm to the nearby apartment buildings.

Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the Moskvoretsky Park on October 16. He found out serious violations of the environmental legislation and reached the stop of the illegal construction works.

Press Release, October 15, 2013 An audit by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office held after the inspection conducted by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in the Vorovsky Park, Moscow, revealed embezzlement of funds allotted for renovation of the park in the amount of 22 million roubles.

Press Release, October 14, 2013 Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO supported the rally “Russia against cruelty” organised by the animal advocates on October 12. The rally had taken place for the second time in Novosibirsk.

Press release, 01.10.2013 Today YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre won four law suits against state bureaucrats: three cases in the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service of the Moscow region and one in the Moscow Federal Anti-Monopoly Service. In total of antitrust authority has recognized the purchase of six cars unlawful.

Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It is a great privilege to be on the panel with such [high level] speakers [as Nobel Prize winners]. That is why I want to simply follow and to develop what has been said before.

Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It’s a great pleasure to be here and I’m very thankful for the invitation to see you and to speak to you. I would start with some quoting of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was asked once by Margaret Thatcher “What about transition in Russia?” And he […]

Press Release, September 16, 2013 Efficient state governance means not merely a technique or an algorithm, but a vector of development which is determined by the political system and the political elite, it means development of relations in the society based on trust, said YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference Forum 2000 which […]

Andrei Nekrasov, a film director and script writer, specially for YABLOKO’s website, September 4, 2013 If I lived in Moscow all the time and had the right to vote there, I would vote for Sergei Mitrokhin.

Press release, September 2, 2013 In the evening of September 1, the schooling day in Russia, activists of St.Petersburg YABLOKO held an action in the centre of the city in memory of the hostages – children and grownups – killed in School No 1in Beslan, North Ossetia.

Press Release, August 29, 2013 YABLOKO’s Anticoruption Centre did not allow the Arbitration Court of the Pskov Region to buy an expensive foreign car. After the complaint sent by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Department, the tender on the delivery of a posh car was cancelled.

Religion & Science in East and West journal, 7/8 2013, Vol.41 By YABLOKO Bureau member and head of YABLOKO’s Gender (Women’s) Faction Dr. Galina Michaleva New Russia’s nomeklatura, including the top officials, has been actively constructing palaces on the Black Sea cost, mostly in the national reserves, grabbing the shore, including public beaches.

Press Release, August 25, 2013 At night of August 23, Natalya Romanuk, leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO, Krasnodar Territory, had suffered an attempt against her life. Her car was severely hit on a highway by a black car. By a lucky chance the woman managed to avoid a collision with a car ahead […]

Press Release, July 15, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, demanding to file a criminal case under Article 285 of the Criminal Code (“abuse of power”) in respect of the officials who organized “landscape works” of Tverskaya Street in the centre of Moscow. Over 500 […]