The documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko is available on YouTube
Press Release, 18.04.2019

The documentary “The Optimists” was filmed at the end of 2018 and is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko party. The protagonists tell not only about the history and formation of Yabloko, but also recollect the key events in the history of Russia for the past 25 years.
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Posted: April 21st, 2019 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Sisters Centre engaged in helping victims of sexual violence turns 25
Press Release, 18.04.2019

Yabloko’s friendly non-governmental organisation the Sisters Centre, which is engaged in helping victims of sexual violence, turned 25 years old.
For all these years, the unique Sisters Centre was providing professional psychological and legal support to women in difficult situations and conducted seminars and round tables teaching psychologists and lawyers how to provide help and open same centres.
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Posted: April 20th, 2019 under Gender Faction.
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Yabloko presented its concept of electoral reform to politicians and political technologists
Press Release, 18.04.2019

Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
On 16 April, Yabloko held a discussion on the Concept of reforming the electoral system of the Russian Federation. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, member of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia in 1999–2016, head of the Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko Party and member of its Federal Political Committee, presented draft amendments to the electoral legislation.
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Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Elections.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko demanded from regional Public Prosecutor to investigate fraud with land in the city of Baltiysk
Press Release, 16.04.2019

Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket.
Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Baltiysk.
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Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Breaking the Circle
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.04.2019

The power struggle between the groupings [in power] seems to be gaining momentum. Last week, Public Prosecutor General attacked simultaneously the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Investigative Committee and the Interior Ministry. It followed from the report of [Public Prosecutor General] Yuri Chaika that the number of corrupt officials in the aforementioned law enforcement agencies increased during the year, while the FSB held the palm with a twofold increase the number of identified corrupt employees during the year.
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Posted: April 18th, 2019 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yabloko’s human rights activists filed an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for conducting a march “The First of May Against Torture and Discrimination”
Press Release, 17.04.2019

Photo: Organisers of the action: Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Valery Borschyov
Valery Borshchyov and Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights activists and members of the Yabloko party, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office to hold a march in the city centre on 1 May “The First of May Against Torture and Discrimination”.
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Posted: April 17th, 2019 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov on arrests and searches in Ingushetia
Press Release, 15.04.2019

Photo: Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov
The authorities of Ingushetia continue searches and arrests after the March rallies in Magas against the border agreement with Chechnya. Protest leaders Ahmed Barakhoyev, Barakh Chemurziyev and Musa Malgasov have already been arrested for two months. Today, the law enforcement accompanied by military equipment (!) came to the house of Magomed Mutsolgov, journalist and one of the most respected human rights defenders of the North Caucasus, to make a search there.
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Posted: April 16th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko will present its concept of electoral reform to politicians and political technologists
Press Release, 15.04.2019

Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
On Tuesday, 16 April, the Yabloko party will discuss with representatives of other political parties and political technologists its proposals on the reform of the electoral system.
The round table where the Concept of Reforming the Electoral System of the Russian Federation will be presented will be held in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The Concept was developed by Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives headed by Yelena Dubrovina.
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Posted: April 15th, 2019 under Elections.
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A criminal case initiated on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin paper
Press Release, 11.04.2019

A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).
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Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018.
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Yabloko activists sentence to fines of 47,000 roubles and 90 hours of compulsory community service for an anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk
Press Release, 11.04.2019

Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk
Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day.
Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned 90 hours of compulsory work. The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk found him guilty of violation of Article 20.2 Part 3 of the Administrative Code (“Actions of the organiser of the rally that caused interference with the functioning of vital infrastructure, transport or social infrastructure”)
The court also fined Yuri Chesnokov 16,000 for violation of Part 1 of the same article (“Violation by the organiser of the established order of the organisation of a public event”).
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Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment.
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Deputy Chair of the Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko fined 16,000 roubles for participation in the anti-garbage rally and Yabloko’s organiser of the action faces the second arrest
Press Release, 10.04.2019
Prosecution of the organisers and participants of the anti-garbage rally of 7 April goes on in Arkhangelsk.
On the evening of 10 April, Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the environmental protest in Arkhangelsk and member of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party, was detained for the third time.
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Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia supported the bill by Emilia Slabunova on the right of the family to teach all children in one school
Press Release, 10.04.2019

The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia unanimously supported the draft federal law on the right of the family to teach all children in one school. The draft law was developed by Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Yabloko Chairperson. The initiative was sent to the Council of Legislators at the Russian parliament.
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Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Education and Science, Human Rights.
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Yabloko held a rally against the “garbage reform” in Yekaterinburg
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the rally
Press Release, 8.04.2019

On Sunday, 7 April, a rally against the “garbage reform” was held in Yekaterinburg. The action was organized by the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. Residents are dissatisfied with the unreasonable increase of tariffs for waste disposal and lack of introduction of separate collection of the waste.
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Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Lev Shlosberg published a package of bills “on disrespect of authorities to the people” in response to the government’s law “On disrespect for authorities”
Shlosberg’s draft laws envisage for public persons fines up to 1 million roubles, compulsory community service up to 200 hours, or administrative arrest of up to 30 days
Press Release, 9.04.2019

Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov regional parliament, head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, published the texts of a package of bills “On disrespect of authorities to the people”, which he plans to submit to the State Duma through the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. The legislative initiatives of Lev Shlosberg were developed jointly with Yabloko lawyers in in response to the government’s law “On disrespect for authorities”, also known as the “Senator Klishas’ law”.
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Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Representative of the Russian intelligencia, intellectual and encyclopedist. Alexei Melnikov turns 55
Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky
8.04.2019

Alexei Melnikov, economist, columnist and member of the Yabloko party turns 55 on 8 April. Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the party, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, congratulate him on this anniversary:
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Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Greetings.
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The organiser of the Arkhangelsk anti-garbage rally from Yabloko arrested for three days
Press Release, 8.04.2019

On the evening of 7 April, the court of the Lomonosovsky district of Arkhangelsk arrested Yury Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk and member of the Yabloko party, for three days.
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Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko participated in a rally for observance of the Constitution and resignation of the Russian government
Press Release, 9.04.2019

The Omsk Public City Council, which the regional branch of the Yabloko party is a member of, held a rally for observance of the Constitution and resignation of the Russian government.
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Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko met the militarist propaganda train of the Ministry of Defense with anti-war pickets
Press Release, 8.04.2019

On 6 April, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko organised an antiwar picket. The action was a response to the arrival of the government’s propaganda train “The Syrian Turning Point”, which goes across Russia demonstrating trophy military equipment from Syria.
According to the organisers of the picket, on the day the train stops in Novosibirsk, the picketers should again remind to the Russian leadership of the inadmissibility of an aggressive foreign policy.
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Posted: April 8th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Russian Economy, War in Syria.
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Yelena Dubrovina: “Remote voting is a ready-made tool for total control over voting”
Press Release, 5.04.2019

Yelena Dubrovina, head of Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, gave a very negative assessment to the planned introduction of remote voting in elections to the Moscow City Duma – a bill to conduct such an experiment was considered at a meeting of the Moscow Electoral Commission on 2 April.
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Posted: April 5th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko to Prime Minister Medvedev: We need to develop a programme to identify diseases related to unfavourable environmental situation
Press Release, 4.04.2019
Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, offered to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to set up a state programme to identify diseases related to unfavourable environmental situation.
According to Slabunova, the data on these diseases will ensure truly sustainable development of the territories, adequate goals and objectives for the health care system, as well as help to predict the development of the demographic situation.
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Posted: April 5th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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