Press release, 07.09.2018

A house museum of the outstanding environmentalist Alexei Yablokov was opened in the village of Petrushovo, the Ryazan region. Read more »

Press Release, 13.09.2018

Processing of the protocols of precinct election commissions is completed and the results of voting in the elections of 2018 in the Pskov region are summed up.

These elections turned out to be difficult for the Pskov branch of Yabloko. Vitaly Arshinov, Yabloko’s candidate for the post of governor, did not overcome the “municipal filter” [mandatory collection of signatures of regional deputies in favour of his registration in the race] and refused to participate in the campaign. All five candidates nominated by Yabloko for the posts of heads of districts of the region were dismissed by courts decisions, which the party regarded as politically motivated. Read more »

Lev Shlosberg introduced his legislative initiative to the regional parliament once again

Press Release, 13.09.2018

Maya Grishina, Secretary of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, responded to an appeal by Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko’s MP in the Pskov Oblast Assembly. Shlosberg forwarded his appeal in address of Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, on the facts of violation of the law during elections of the governor of the Pskov region. Read more »

Press release, 13.09.2018

Political opponents of liberalism in Russia and even some supporters of the ideology believe that liberalism is alien to Russia brought from the west. At the same time, historians have been studying the roots of Russian liberalism for centuries. However, this research is out of the public limelight. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 11.09.2018

And more about the latest non-elections [rather than ‘elections’ in Russia]. Some people assess their results as a relative failure of the authorities. In particular, they speak of a protest vote, as an obvious evidence of growing discontent with the authorities in connection with the [government’s arbitrary] raising the retirement age. Read more »

Press Release, 9.09.2018

Launch of books – “Three Epochs of Russian Journalism” and “Slaves of the State Security” – by Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin, a pillar of Russian investigative journalism and State Duma deputy (2nd and 3rd convocations) from the Yabloko party took place at the Moscow International Book Fair past weekend.

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Grigory Yavlinsky on the municipal filter, technocrats and the danger of doing away with politics in Russia’s regions
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 10.09.2018

A Single Voting Day has taken place in Russia. It is single because the elections of mayors and heads of administrations are taking place according to a single scheme “elections without choice” designed by political cheats. The mechanisms that have already become a long-standing tradition not only leave independent candidates no chances to win but also prevent them from participation. Nobody elects anyone – the Kremlin appoints mayors and governors. They mock elections by making it appear that voters who participate in the process do not want any alternative. A municipal filter is a good way to withdraw the opponents of Vladimir Putin’s policy from elections. It is impossible to overcome the filter. Yabloko experienced this problem in Yekaterinburg, Pskov and the Moscow Region. Most people understand what is going on. This is why the real voter turnout is about 20 per cent in many towns and whole regions. When the turnout is low it is enough to gain about 10-15 per cent of votes in general to “win”. It means that the opinion of 85-90 per cent of residents is not taken into account at all.
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The booklet contains the investigations, analytics and events by Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre

Press release, 11.09.2018

Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre launched its latest report. The booklet contains civil investigations, non-governmental reports, expert reports and event organised by the centre in 2017. Lawyer Alexei Chumakov launched the booklet at Moscow International Book Fair on September 5. Read more »

Press release, 10.09.2018

Following the elections on September 9 Yabloko formed factions in city parliaments of Yekaterinburg and Veliky Novgorod.

The party gained 11.08 per cent of votes in the elections to Veliky Novgorod City Duma improving its result by 1.5 per cent in comparison with the elections in 2013. Read more »

Press release, 8.09.2018

Political and economist Grigory Yavlinsky launched his new books at Moscow International Book Fair, replied to the questions of the audience, including questions about the pension reform and the Skripal poisoning case in Great Britain.

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Press release based on the statement by the Yabloko party, 7.09.2018

On 7 September, the Pskov Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened criminal proceedings agains the Pskov Region branch of Yabloko for disseminating leaflets calling upon voters to spoil ballot papers in the gubernatorial elections.

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Yabloko’s investigation into Moscow Mayor’s Office project at the cost of 3 billion roubes
Press release, 7.09.2018

Yabloko’s Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy made an investigation into the project “Moscow Longevity” by Moscow Mayor’s Office. It has features of political corruption because Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was involved in campaign materials. Furthermore, the project bears corruption risks due to low competition during the tender and lack of budget transparency. Read more »

Statement by the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 7.09.2018

On September 9, the government is holding the so called mayoral elections. The peculiarity of this election the incumbent mayor and the main candidate Sergei Sobyanin have chosen his opponents himself: thanks to him they received signatures of municipal deputies [to pass the municipal filter] and were registered as candidates. Candidates that fell out of favour [with the authorities] are not on the ballot paper. Read more »

Press release, 4.09.2018

On 31 August, Yabloko Deputy chair Nikolai Rybakov visited Saratov and took part in a round table on the environmental problems of the region. They paid special attention to the construction of the acrilamide production facility, deforestation, development of forest parks and waste sorting.

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Press release, 5.09.2018

On 2 September, a rally against raising the retirement age took place in Pskov. Chair of the regional Yabloko branch and deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg delivered a speech at the rally.

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Press release, 5.09.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky will launch his new books at Moscow International Book Fair on 8 September. This the politician has two new publications.

In his book “A Way to the Future” Grigory Yavlinsky presents proposals on overcoming the political and economic crisis in Russia, lifting our country out of international isolation and making it one of the leading countries. The book consists of Yavlinsky’s 2018 presidential programme “A Way to the Future”; “The Economic Manifesto” describing the major features of the economic policy of the Russian government; a programme for the provision of gas supply 2019-2021; a strategy for mass housing construction and providing citizens with land “Land. Housing. Roads”; a map of fiscal capacity of Russia’s regions; “Blog 2018: The Future” on the desirable future of Russia; proposals on settling the crisis in relations with Ukraine and the international community. Read more »

Press release, 4.09.2018

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Vladimir to support party candidates in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region. Deputy of the Vladimir city parliament Dmitry Kushpita heads the party list that consists of 45 candidates. Read more »

Press release, 3.09.2018

On September 2, the Altai Krai branch of Yabloko participated in a rally against the pension reform initiated by the government. Over 1,500 people took to the streets. Read more »

Press release, 3.09.2018

On 3 September, Yabloko filed a complaint to the head of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev in connection with the decision of the Pskov regional court to withdraw Yabloko’s candidates Gennady Kolesik and Larisa Semashko from the elections to the posts of heads of Opochetsky and Velikoluksky districts in the Pskov Region.

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by Grigory Yavlinsky
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018

What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation

Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. There was no normal presidential campaign either – he did not meet with ordinary voters, did not travel to the impoverished Russian cities. There was no debate – he had nothing to respond to difficult and sensitive questions. But on [the presidential election day] 18 March, 2018, Putin became President again, leading the country for the fifth time in a row. In August, a hundred days from the date of his next coming to his new old office. Read more »