Press Release, 3.06.2020 In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.

02/06/2020 Commenting on the latest arrests in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen said: “I am very concerned that prominent journalists and activists are being arrested for exercising the right to peaceful assembly and for protesting against the restrictions and curbs of freedoms of speech that have been introduced in Russia under the […]

Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]

Specially for the web-site, 25.05.2020 On 20 May, 2020, the Federation Council [the upper chamber of the Russian parliament] approved three laws relating to the electoral process in the Russian Federation. All the three laws are repressive, toughly restrictive, and significantly impede the exercise of constitutional electoral rights of citizens. They facilitate creation of additional […]

Press Release, 19.05.2020 https://www.facebook.com/andrey.avtoneev/videos/1656380081166417/?t=5 On 18 May, employees of the Ivanovo ambulance station with the support of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko filed a complaint with the regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Governor of the Ivanovo region. The appeal was signed by about […]

Press Release, 18.05.2020 On 28 May, Andrei Babushkin’s online lecture “Police Actions During the Pandemic” will be held at Yabloko Party University. The lecture will begin at 16.00. Andrei Babushkin is member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights and member of the Council for the Development […]

Press Release, 9.05.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the walls of the Moscow Kremlin in the Alexander Garden in memory of those who defended the country in the Second World War.

Press Release, 23.04.2020 The Tula Regional Duma refuses large purchases of expensive cars for the regional parliaments and allocates these 5 million roubles for the purchase of ambulances. Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula Yabloko, noted that this happened exactly 24 hours after Yabloko’s publication of the video about the purchase by the Tula Regional […]

Press Release, 23.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and leader of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, together with members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, organised fundraising for the purchase of personal protective equipment for doctors working in St. Petersburg medical institutions.

Press Release, 22.04.2020 The Yabloko party has proposed to the Russian government a set of measures to support students and university professors in the situation of the coronavirus epidemic: cash payments to students (12,000 roubles) and university professors (50,000 roubles); transfer of students who have lost their jobs to state-financed places; interest-free loans for the […]

Press Release, 20.04.2020 The Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party held the fourth stage of its 23rd conference. The delegates elected new governing bodies of the branch, respecting social distancing and fulfilling the requirements of the federal law. Photo: The Pskov Yabloko regional conference was held in the party office with respect to social […]

Announcement, 17.04.2020 On 21 April, the Yabloko Party University will host an online lecture by sociologist Yelena Zdravomyslova “Turning to the problems of an aging society in the Russian context”. The lecture will be held on the Zoom platform and will begin at 17.00.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.04.2020 We could observe the first results of the introduction of electronic passes in Moscow in [overcrowded] metro yesterday [due to the authorities total check of all the passengers for their passes]. To allow such a crowd in the subway at the midst of the epidemic and quarantine means to demonstrate a […]

Press Release, 13.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, called on Roman Pugin, head of the St. Petersburg police, to consider the possibility of involving police officers in providing social assistance to elderly residents of St. Petersburg who are forcibly sent to “self-isolation” and are deprived of […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.04.2020 The USA directs 9 per cent of its GDP to support people and the economy, the UK about 14 per cent and Germany over 20 per cent. Russia has so far allocated only 0.3 per cent of its GDP for medicine, aid to private businesses and the population. Where to get […]

Press Release, 31.03.2020 On March 29, the Omsk regional branch of the Yabloko party held the reporting and election conference. The Omsk Yabloko activists elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. The current Chair Tatyana Nagibina was unanimously elected Chair of the Omsk branch of Yabloko.

Press Release, 31.03.2020 Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov sent the authorities a programme of socio-economic and political measures developed by the party to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was sent to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, members of both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, as well as to the […]

ALDE party, 30.03.2020. This op-ed is written by Nikolai Rybakov, who has been serving as chair of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko since 2019. Yabloko is the oldest democratic party in Russia and continues fighting for a modern European state. Read more

Press Release, 30.03.2020 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova On 28 March, delegates of the 22nd Extraordinary Conference of the Saratov branch of Yabloko elected a new Chair of the regional branch. According to the results of the secret ballot, Ksenia Sverdlova was elected to the post. Ilya Kozlyakov and Fedor Demyanchuk were elected Vice-Chairmen.

This is the 79th regional branch of the party. Press Release, 30.03.2020 On 27 March, the Yabloko Bureau voted for the opening of a regional party branch in the Jewish Autonomous Region. Ten residents of the region were admitted to the party and registered as party members in the region. Now the General Meeting of […]