Press release, 24.01.2018

Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky had a meeting with researchers from the Geotechnics and Engineering Survey Institute. According to Yavlinsky, Russia will become one of the leading countries only if the government respects applied science.

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Press release, 24.01.2018

On 23 January, the news broke out that Russia’s culture ministry evoked the release licence of a film The Death of Stalin. In response the activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko conducted a protest action against the decision.

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Press release, 27.01.2018

Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky made a speech at the meeting of residents of the Borisovskoye village, the Mozhaisk district, the Moscow Region. The residents are protesting against the merger of several rural and town settlements.

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Press Release, 25.01.2018

Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’ Anticorruption Policy Centre, filed an application with the Moscow region Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to check the legality of functioning on a paid basis of a school in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, stop discrimination of children and provide a quota for children from low-income and large families. Mitrokhin also demanded that the Public Prosecutor’s Office cancel the refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to institute criminal proceedings.

Photo: Andrei Vorobyov, Govenor, and Sergei Lavrov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the opening of the elite school

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Press Release, 26.01.2018

Municipal deputies of the Yakimanka municipal district from the Yabloko party together with the head of the Municipal Council Andrei Morev have initiated a local referendum on a number of issues, including transfer of the monument to Lenin from one of the central Moscow squares to the Museon Park which has a collection of different sculptures, including those from the Soviet era. Today they have handed their appeal to the reception room of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow City Duma (the city parliament) and the Moscow Central Electoral Commission.

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Press release, 24.01.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters conducted a meeting with representatives of election monitoring organisations. The representatives of “Golos”, “Sonara”, “Grazhdanin Nablyudatel” and Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova and Nikolai Rybakov discussed the signature collecting procedure and monitoring at the forthcoming presidential election.

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Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 24.01.2018

Vladimir Putin’s policy has exhausted its positive potential, if such has ever been there. This policy led the country to a war with its closest neighbour and isolation. Putin’s policy is leading the country into a deadlock. The policy must be changed. The institution of presidential elections, which has survived though formally, is the only influential instrument in the Russian political system, which we can justly call an authoritarian or a hybrid totalitarian system. This is, in fact, is the only opportunity for us to speak up, now once in six years on all these burning issues. That is why the presidential campaign was made so short [for about two months], so that no one would speculate or deliberate about anything, so that no one would have time to realize all this. And the forthcoming elections represent rather a referendum around a very important question: do you approve of the policies conducted for the last 15 years? Approve or disapprove? Yes or no? That’s what the presidential elections are about.

https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/videos/1704491722977311/?hc_ref=ARR5DhVaLxXdptC33-szTwtJzJxf2jwMfrCdpLLBtaDpR87dnez14bUkXuKTg0M4BR4

Press Release, 24.01.2018

MPs of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly supported in the first reading the bill of the Yabloko faction, which obliges the city government to publish an agreement on public-private partnership envisaging financing from the city budget within seven days after conclusion of such an agreement, thus ensuring transparency of the budget spending. Read more »

Press release, 23.01.2018

On 23 January, Grigory Yavlinsky’s Public Campaign Headquarters was launched in Moscow. The initiative to open the headquarters belongs to politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, Novaya Gazeta newspaper publisher Dmitry Muratov and ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina. According to Yavlinsky, their support is a big honour for him. The Public Campaign Headquarters will function along with Yabloko’s campaign headquarters and will focus on promoting Yavlinsky’s electoral programme and involving news supporters among key opinion leaders.

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Press release, 23.01.2018

On 24 January, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky will have a meeting with researchers from the Geotechnics and Engineering Survey Institute. Read more »

Press release, 23.01.2018

On January 23, Russian political scientists had a meeting with Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova and Nikolai Rybakov to discuss the presidential election campaign.

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Press release, 20.01.2018

On 19 January, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky had a meeting with Yabloko heads of municipal districts and municipal deputies  in Moscow.

At the moment Yabloko is the second largest political force in Moscow’s municipalities after the ruling United Russia party. Yabloko has 189 deputies having a majority in 10 districts. Five municipal districts are headed by Yabloko’s representatives.

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Press release, 22.01.2018

On 23 January, Grigory Yavlinsky’s Public Campaign Headquarters will be launched in Moscow.

Co-Chairs of the headquarters are politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, Novaya Gazeta newspaper publisher Dmitry Muratov and ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina. They are going to tell about the aims of the headquarters and its working plan. Read more »

Press release, 17.01.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters have collected the required 105,000 signatures to register him as a presidential candidate. However, the party will continue collecting signatures.

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The Yabloko party expresses deep concern over the persecution of the human rights organisation Memorial in the North Caucasus.

Statement by the Yabloko party, 17.01.2018

On 9 January, Oyub Titiyev, head of the Chechen branch of the Memorial [human rights society] was detained on charges of possession of drugs. Today it has become known about the arson of the organisation’s office in Ingushetia. A year ago, Yury Dmitriyev, head of the Karelian Memorial was arrested. We assume that these events are interrelated and result from the state’ policies targeted against the human rights community and civil society in general.

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Press release, 16.01.2018

Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky welcomed people who came to put their signatures in support of his nomination for the post of the President of Russia.

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Press release, 16.01.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters in the Omsk Region collected the maximum number of signatures – 2,500 – that are required to register Yavlinsky as a candidate in the presidential race. By 31 January, Yavlinsky must transfer to the Central Electoral Commission at least 105,000 voters’ signatures in favour of his nomination, whereas only 2,500 signatures per region is allowed.

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Press Release, 16.01.2018

On 19 January, Yabloko activists and leaders will lay flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka Ulitsa.
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Press release, 15.01.2017

As of January 15, Yabloko campaign headquarters in 79 regions of Russia managed to collect 87,500 signatures in support of Grigory Yavlinsky’s nomination for President.

By 31 January, Yavlinsky must transfer to the Central Electoral Commission at least 105,000 voters’ signatures in favour of his nomination, whereas only 2,500 signatures per region is allowed. However, Yabloko plans to collect 150,000 signatures.

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