Press release, 31.10.2018

On 30 October, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko participated in a rally to commemorate the victims of political reprisals. The activists of the party also joined an action against the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Novosibirsk. Read more »

Press release, 31.10.2018

On 30 October, the Barnaul branch of Yabloko participated in a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Great Terror. Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chair of the Altai Krai party branch, told those present about his relatives who were repressed. Alexander Goncharenko, Chair of Yabloko in the Altai Krai, said that 150,000 people in the region had been repressed: 40,000 of them had been imprisoned while 15,000 had been executed.

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Press release, 31.10.2018

On 28 October, activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko participated in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals. According to the participants of the action, it is impossible to bury the most tragic chapters of the Soviet history. Yabloko activists and representatives of other political movements commemorated the residents of Nizhny Novgorod who were repressed during the Soviet times. Read more »

Press release, 29.10.2018

On 29 October, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals.

The participants of the action, one after another, read out the names of people executed in Moscow in the years of the Great Terror. In 1937-1938, over 30,000 people were killed in Moscow.

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova read out the name of Kuzma Kochetov, a locksmith who was executed on 27 September 1937. Yabloko leader also spoke about today’s political prisoners – Yuri Dmitriyev, Sergei Koltyrin and Oyub Titiev. She called upon the government to releases them and other political prisoners.

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova (right) and Yabloko Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov (centre) Read more »

Press release, 25.10.2018

On 27 October, a launching conference of a book “Yablokov’s Orchard. Memories. Reflections. Expectations” will take place in Moscow. The book is dedicated to Alexei Yablokov, a prominent scientist, environmentalist and a political figure. The Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction passed away in January 2017. He would have turned 85 in October 2018. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 10.10.2018

Now [we have learned that] the Russian military “are not yet” in Libya. They were not in Crimea in February 2014. And they have not been in Donbas for all these four years. They have left Syria for three times already. They are not [to be found] in the Central African Republic…

But there is a cemetery in the Leningrad region with a thousand of fresh graves under the numbers without names. There are, probably, [such cemeteries] in other places too… There are endless lies.

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Grigory Yavlinsky Telegram Channel, 19.10.2018

Now it is clear that Putin meant by the “positive picture” in our economy. Russian billionaires are world leaders in terms of growth rates! In 2018, the fortunes of the ten richest people in Russia grew by 10.8 per cent, and this is more than any other billionaire in the world! American oligarchs have fallen behind – they have 7.5 per cent, while the British have some shameful 3.4 per cent.

And you say “sanctions”.

Our congratulations to the winners of the “capitalist competition” [Russian oligarchs] Mikhelson, Timchenko and Alekperov!

Press release, 19.10.2018
Today Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko’s Political Committee, proposed a new stage of the party development. Yabloko should become the party that puts moral, ethical and intellectual principles first.
“In the situation when absolute cynicism and total lies prevail, we need to offer the society an alternative. This has a practical meaning. One of the major reasons for the recent economic problems is lies and cynicism in economic relations, the loss of trust and deceit,” Yavlinsky said. Read more »

Press release, 18.10.2018

A politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky launched a new website dedicated to his presidential election campaign and his new books at ceremony that took place in Yabloko office in Moscow. Yavlinsky answered the questions of the audience and signed autographs. Read more »

Press release, 18.10.2018

On 29 October, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will take part in the Returning the Names memorial action. They will pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals by the Solovetsky stone. Read more »

17.10.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky: Young students were killed [in a college] in Kerch [Crimea]. Terrible pain. My deepest condolences to relatives and friends and strength and health to the wounded.

https://twitter.com/yavlinsky/status/1052526072716242944

Emilia Slabunova: At least 10 people died and another 50 were injured in the explosion in a college in Kerch. My condolences to the families and friends of the victims. I am wishing the injured a speedy recovery.

Children are vicitms of grownups’ vices. Let the memory of those killed in Kerch be blessed.

https://twitter.com/slabunova/status/1052501293430972416

Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018

We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has been clear from the beginning, and there was an alternative.

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Press release based on a statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 16.10.2018

The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko released a statement putting forward an initiative to reintroduce mayoral runoff elections. The statement was addressed to Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and city parliament MPs. Read more »

Press release, 16.10.2018

On 22 October, Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy will hold a round table on the safety of municipal deputies in Moscow.

Yabloko deputies who were elected to municipal councils in September 2017 have faced pressure on behalf of their opponents, government representatives and law enforcement. Read more »

Press release, 15.10.2018

On 12 October, Yabloko activists delivered reports on the work carried out by Yabloko municipal deputy Irina Kopkina in Moscow’s Strogino District over the course of a year. Later that evening local residents posted on social media that representatives of Zhilishchnilk, a state funded institution responsible for housing and utilities services, were supposedly taking away the reports from mail boxes. Some local residents were outraged by this action – they called Irina Kopkina and told her about what had happened. Read more »

Press release, 15.10.2018

On 14 October, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko held a picket for accessible healthcare.

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Press Release, 12.10.2018

A few days ago, Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, said that it is necessary to “pinpoint changes” to the Russian Constitution in order to eliminate the shortcomings of the Fundamental Law of the Russian Federation.

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Press release, 12.10.2018

Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair and an MP in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, introduced a bill on the repeal of the municipal filter in the gubernatorial elections. Read more »

Press release, 12.10.2018

New district electoral commissions which will function over the course of the next five years will be soon formed in Moscow. Yabloko calls upon the party supporters to put their candidacies for election commission members forward. Read more »

Press release, 11.10.2018

Anna Cherepanova, a Yabloko MP in the Veliky Novgorod city parliament, put forward an initiative on the reintroduction of direct mayoral elections. Read more »