Transparency International found their illegal businesses Press Release, 25.04.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova on the request of Transparency International – Russia demanded that the State Duma conduct an investigation into illegal businesses of five of Duma deputies. The five deputies are suspected of owning business in Russia and France. Four out of five deputies are […]

Press Release, 03.04.2018 Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov. On Friday, 6 April, the first meeting of the commission for security and anti-corruption of the local Council of Deputies will be held in the Khamovniki district (Moscow). The key issues of the meeting are inspecting fire safety in the district after the tragedy in Kemerovo (when a fire […]

Grigory Yavlinsky: “The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government” Smart Power Journal, 02.04.2018 The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government on all levels, which underlies the economic, the political and the socio-political structure of modern Russia. First, this evident […]

Press Release, 29.03.2018 Photo from the web-site of OOO Khartia company. Garbage is been sorted manually. Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, demanded from the Office of the Moscow Mayor to report on sorting and processing of garbage in the city. Contractors working on state contracts must build sorting stations and garbage processing […]

Press Release, 27.03.2018 Yabloko party Chair Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding to dismiss Governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev “in connection with the loss of confidence” after the tragedy in Kemerovo, where several dozen people died in a fire in the shopping mall Winter Cherry. Slabunova also demanded […]

Press Release, 26.03.2018 The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko issued a statement demanding dismissal of Governor Aman Tuleyev and Ilya Serdyuk, head of the city of Kemerovo in view of the tragedy which took place in a trade centre on 25 March. According to Yabloko activists, the tragedy represented a consequence of the work of the […]

Residents of the city protest against closure of the city library Press Release, 13.03.2018 On 13 March, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova visited the city of Fryazino, the Moscow region, at the invitation of the director of the central city library.  Slabunova met with residents protesting against the eviction of the central city library from the […]

Channel One, 12.03.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky, presidential candidate of Russia, spoke at the next round of debates on Channel One The topic was “Public Security, Counteraction to Terrorism”. Transcript of the speech:

Press Release, 05.03.2018 On March 3, 2018, at about 22:00, unidentified persons broke with stones two windows in the bedroom of the house of Svetlana Vasilkova, deputy of the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District from the Yabloko party. She was in another room at the time of the attack and was not injured. […]

Press Release, 25.01.2018 Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’ Anticorruption Policy Centre, filed an application with the Moscow region Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to check the legality of functioning on a paid basis of a school in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, stop discrimination of children and provide a quota for children from low-income […]

Press Release, 24.01.2018 MPs of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly supported in the first reading the bill of the Yabloko faction, which obliges the city government to publish an agreement on public-private partnership envisaging financing from the city budget within seven days after conclusion of such an agreement, thus ensuring transparency of the budget spending.

FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 08.01.2018 The Public Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation published the data on the situation with crime in Russia for January-November 2017. http://crimestat.ru/51 It is noteworthy that for 11 months of 2017 the number of frauds in comparison with the same period of 2016 increased by 6.8% and amounted […]

Text of Emilia Slabunova’s speech in the State Duma Emilia Slabunova FB page, 20.12.2017 Today I was supposed to speak at the “government’s hous” in the State Duma dedicated to the situation in the Russian sports and the participation of our country in the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. It was envisaged that Pavel […]

Press release, 07.11.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, the head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, demands that the information on the income of high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, including the income of the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, must be disclosed. At the moment the information is hidden.

This is our mutual pain and fear 01.11.2017 Another act of terror occurred – this time in New York. It was especially cynical because the act of terror was carried out outside a school and was aimed at the children. We sympathise with all the victims of the act of terror in New York – […]

Press Release, 26.10.2017 The Federal Antimonopoly Service filed a case against the participants in the procurement of the Directorate of the Road Safety Improvement Programme (the Directorate). Earlier, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre headed by Sergei Mitrokhin, member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, revealed signs of collusion in the purchases of the Directorate for the amount […]

Press Release, 27.10.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party, demanded that the Tushino Interdistrict Public Prosecutor’s Office obtain an order for demolition of illegal buildings located in the landscape reserve “The Valley of the Shodnya River in Kurkino” in Moscow and […]

The “Nord-Ost” theatre production. In October 2002, I was there. I held direct talks with militants on the release of hostages. The terrorists promised to release me in exchange for Vladimir Putin’s telephone conversation with [then President of the Chechen Republic] Aslan Maskhadov. In support of their readiness, the militants released eight children. But the […]

Press Release, 17.10.2017 Yabloko sent applications to Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee Sergei Mitrokhin, head of the Yabloko Center for Anti-Corruption Policy, sent appeals to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin demanding that the actions of the Ministry of Education and Science […]

Press Release, 07.09.2017 Alexander Gnezdilov, YABLOKO Deputy Chair, participated in the talk show Special Correspondent on the Russia-1 state television channel. The participants of the programme discussed the situation in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism.