Press release, 16.02.2016 On 14 February, a rally against an infill construction took place in the Tyoply Stan district, Moscow. Over 500 people came to protest against the plans to construct a multistory building right in the middle of the boulevard which divides two residential area. The participants of the action unveiled the documents that […]

Deutsche Welle, 03.02.2016 By Nikita Batalov Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk, gave DW an interview about threats to take her to court, participation in elections to the State Duma and her fight against the system. After a loud dismissal of Galina Shirshina, Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the interest of the media has been once again focused […]

Press release, 04.02.2016 On 3 February, a rally against the infill construction took place in the Tyeply Stan district, Moscow. More than 200 came to express protest against the construction of a hotel which was not agreed with the local residents. Grigory Semyonov, a municipal deputy in the Cheryemushki district of Moscow and Deputy Chair […]

The decision can be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia through the Petrozavodsk City Court TASS, 21.01.2016 The Petrozavodsk City Court confirmed the dismissal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, [initiated by deputies of the Petrozavodsk City Council]. This was reported by […]

Novaya Gazeta, 18.01.2016 Photo: Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Photo by RIA Novosti Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina. The TASS agency informs that the motion on registration of the initiative group for conducting a local referendum has been submitted […]

Gubernia Daily, 22.12.2015 A popular Finish party, the Swedish People’s Party of Finland (SFP), together with its Women’s Association Svenska Kvinnoförbundet announced their nomination of Ms. Galina Shirshina, Mayor of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, for the prestigious European award – The LeaDeR Award. They named Shirshina one the key liberal players on regional and local level. The […]

Press Release, 3.12.2015 Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina who was elected on the post with the support of the YABLOKO party, won the RBC (RosBusinessConsulting) award in the nomination the State Person. The prize was awarded in Moscow today.

/ / Znak.com, 29.04.2014 Galina Shirshina, aged 34, is head of Petrozavodsk [the capital of the Republic of Karelia, North-West Russia], and for the eight months in office as the City Mayor she has managed to accomplish what male officials could not.

Press release, 23.11.2015 Sergei Mitrokhin demanded that the governor of St.Petersburg and the regional Office of the Federal Antimonopolty Service must investigate the procurement of goods for schools at the sum of 131.9 million rubles on suspicion of corruption.

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 07.10.2015 The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) proposed an initiative of closing public access to public registers of property rights, including real estate, aviation and water transport. At present register information is available to all, but tomorrow it will be available only to the “competent authorities”. YABLOKO considers this […]

Press release, 09.09.2015 YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an application to Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bustrikin demanding to investigate the involvement of the Communist party candidates in the land plots fraud in the Novosibirsk region.

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.

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.

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, 26.11.2014 Today, when participating in the Council of Non-Parliamentary Parties “Development of Entrepreneurship in Russia”, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin proposed to Sergei Naryshkin, Speaker of the State Duma, to abandon the construction of the Parliamentary Center in Mnevnikovskaya floodplain nature protection territory.

Press Release, 19.08.2014 YABLOKO candidate to the Moscow City Duma deputy Maxim Kruglov and his team have collected over 6,000 signatures of Moscow residents in favour of amendments to the law on capital repairs of residential housing.