Press Release, 16.02.2018

Economist Yevgeny Gontmakher will visit Kostroma as electioneering agent of Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for the presidency of Russia. The visit will take place on 19 February.

At 14:00 Yevgeny Gontmakher will arrive at the AgroKostoma agricultural complex and consumer cooperative. Address: Shunga village, Shunga Agro-complex.

At 16:00 he will take part in the round table “Russia: Stucking Between the 20^th and the 21^st Centuries”. It will be held at the address: Kostroma, Tchaikovsky St., 9B, 3rd floor, Congress Hall Luxuria.

During the visit, he will also give interviews to local media.

Economist Yevgeny Gontmakher is member of the Public Support Headquarters of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky. The co-chairpersons of the headquarters are  such famous people as Dmitry Muratov, publisher of Novaya Gazeta newspaper, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov and Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The public headquarters works in parallel with Yavlinsky’s election headquarters and is focused on explaining the candidate’s programme to voters and attracting more supporters to Grigory Yavlinsky.

Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Research University “Higher School of Economics.” At the 20th Yabloko congress (December 22, 2017) Grigory Yavlinsky was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Russia to run in the March 18, 2018 elections.

Grigory Yavlinsky participated in the presidential elections twice. In 1996, he represented a democratic alternative to the policy of the Boris Yeltsin’s administration, and in 2000 he was the only democratic politician running against Vladimir Putin, Yavlinsky then came third and received 18.6% in Moscow with a turnout of 67.1%. In 2012, Grigory Yavlinsky, who expressed the demands of the civil protest movement, was not allowed to participate in the presidential election for political reasons.