Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The Committee on Education approved of St. Petersburg Ombudsman Alexander Shislov’s initiative to add Levashovo Memorial Cemetery to the excursion programme for senior students. About 20,000 victims of the Soviet political reprisals are buried there. The initiative was also supported by Yabloko MP in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky.Read more »
Yabloko MP in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky put forward an initiative to compel St.Petersburg Governor to have extraordinary meetings with regional MPs within 10 days upon request. Read more »
Today the Parliament of the Republic of Karelia has voted down the initiative of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova on the repeal of the municipal filter in gubernatorial elections. Earlier the bill did not find support among the members of the relevant committee. Read more »
On 30 November, Yabloko Gender Faction will hold a discussion on “LGBT Community: Ignore or Accept?”. Kirill Fyodorov, psychologist and founder of the movement “Psychology for Human Rights”, will take part in the discussion.
Why do experts doubt that excavation of Sandarmokh [a Soviet mass grave in the Republic of Karelia] is legal? Why cannot the excavation team prove that they are authorised to dig up the place where thousands of victims of political reprisals are buried? Why do MPs in the Republic of Karelia are reluctant to consider this issue? Is there a way to elicit the truth about what is going on in Sandarmokh?
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Veliky Novgorod, North-West Russia, to support Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the regional party branch and an MP in the Veliky Novgorod City Duma, who is running for the city mayor position. The mayor is appointed by the city parliament MPs because direct mayoral elections were cancelled. Regional Yabloko branch insists on the reintroduction of direct mayoral elections, and Anna Cherepanova introduced the initiative to the city parliament more than once. However, she put herself forward as a mayoral candidate to be considered on the competition basis. Cherepanova applied for the post along with nine other candidates. Today she presented her programme to the regional MPs.Read more »
Deputy Head of Yabloko Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy on the case of officials Obnosov and Prikhodko Alexei Karnaukhov’s blog post on Ekho Moskvy website, 9.11.2018
The cases of officials Obnosov and Prikhodko and the commercial interest of their families in space industry revealed by Novaya Gazeta have clearly shown three major problems of anti-corruption policy in our country.
Image: Boris Obnosov and Dmitry Medvedev. By RIA Novosti
A conference in memory of Alexei Yablokov, a renowned environmental scientist and founder of Yabloko’s Green Russian Faction, is bing held at Moscow’s Darwin Museum. Live broadcast is available. Colleagues, followers and students of the famous scientist participate in the conference. The premiere of the film about Alexei Yablokov will take place later this evening.
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, take the investigation into the attack on Adam Medaliyev, one of the party leaders in Kabardino-Balkaria, under his personal control. On 7 November, unidentified assailants attacked him, beat him, and set his car on fire in the evening of the same day. Read more »
Adam Medaliyev, one of Yabloko leaders in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was attacked late 7 November.
When Medaliyev arrived at his house on the outskirts of Nalchik two unidentified persons in medical face masks called him, knocked him down, and began beating him. One of the attackers had a baseball bat. However, Medaliyev managed to do a knees-to-chest pose and show resistance. The attackers got away in a car without a number plate.
Adam Medalieyev, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, Chair of Kabardino-Balkarian Yabloko branch Khakim Kuchmezov
Decision by Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 25.10.2018
Yabloko is the party of the European values. Yabloko has abided by democratic principles and employed lawful methods to gain power and political influence since the time the party was founded 25 years ago.
We are the party of public affairs, we participate in elections and use parliamentary mechanisms. Read more »
On 12 November, Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy will deliver a lecture on municipal improvement for deputies of local councils and civil activists.
Russia’s Supreme Court cancelled the decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court to dissolve the Krasnodar branch of Yabloko on the grounds of procedural faults and remitted the case for a new reconsideration. Read more »
Yabloko activists in Bashkortostan decided to resume the work of the Gender Faction in the republic. The design was made during a party meeting on 30 October.Read more »
On the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repressions members of the Bashkiria Republic branch of Yabloko visited a memorial in Ufa, brought flowers and commemorated their relatives and friends who suffered from repressions.Read more »
Vladimir Putin will not consider granting a pardon to a Ukranian film director Oleg Sentsov without Sentsov’s personal petition and a recommendation from the governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District where the prisoner is serving his sentence. This follows from the response of the Presidential Directorate for Protection of Citizens’ Constitutional Rights to Yabloko Bureau’s appeal. Read more »
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, Yabloko activists in Chelyabinsk participated in the Returning the Names ceremony. The memorial ceremony takes place every year to commemorate victims of the Great Terror.Read more »
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, activists of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party took part in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals.Read more »