Report from Yabloko’s pre-election congress
22.12.2017

Today, on 22 December, the Yabloko party congress nominated Grigory Yavlinsky as candidate for the presidency of Russia. Such a decision was made the day before by congress delegates’ secret ballot voting. Today’s part of the congress was held at the World Trade Centre and attracted considerable attention of the public and the media. At the congress Yabloko’s leaders and allies expressed their support for Yavlinsky’s candidacy: according to most of the speakers, the main arguments in favour of Yavlinsky are his unique economic competence, his pragmatic view of foreign policy and high human qualities. Yavlinsky in his speech noted that the prime task on the post of the head of state should be overcoming poverty in the country.

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Press Release, 21.12.2017

The Congresas of the Yabloko party demanded the dismissal of Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), who in an interview to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper stated that Stalin’s reprisals had had an “objective side” and had been operations to “prevent the subversive activity of agents of foreign special services” or had been simply “extremes conducted by local authorities”. Read more »

Press Realease, 21.12.2017

Tomorrow, on 22 December, after being nominated at the party congress, Yabloko’s presidential candidate will submit to the Central Election Commission a set of documents required for registration in the election race.

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Press release, 20.12.2017

The Ryazan branch of Yabloko opened an exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of the Great Terror of 1937. According to the organizers of the exhibition, the tragedy of the soviet repressions is rooted in the developments of the October revolution of 1917.

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Text of Emilia Slabunova’s speech in the State Duma

Emilia Slabunova FB page, 20.12.2017

Today I was supposed to speak at the “government’s hous” in the State Duma dedicated to the situation in the Russian sports and the participation of our country in the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. It was envisaged that Pavel Kolobkov, Minister of Sports, and Vitaly Mutko, Vice Prime Minister supervising sports and Director of the Russian Football Union, had to speak before the Duma. Read more »

Press Release, 20.12.2017

Speaking at the State Duma Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, criticised the bill on migration registration for foreign citizens and stateless persons developed by MP Irina Yarovaya (the United Russia faction), which was discussed today in the lower House of Parliament.

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Press release, 19.12.2017

Moscow Yabloko Chair Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of the Moscow Region branch of Yabloko Alexander Gunko released a statement in support of Nikolai Dizhur, a deputy of the municipal council in the Chekhov district, the Moscow Region. The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Chekhov district is trying to illegally deprive him of his mandate.

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He was a man with a great and honest soul, an advocate of the truth and law, a true historian and founder of Memorial
18.12.2017

Photo by Anna Artemyeva/ Novaya Gazeta

On 18th December, Arseny Roginsky, one of the founders of human rights group Memorial and a great friend of the Yabloko party, died after a long illness at the age of 72.

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Press release, 18.12.2017

On December 19, the Ryazan branch of Yabloko will open an exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of the Great Terror of 1937. According to the organizers of the exhibition, the tragedy of soviet repressions is rooted in developments of the October revolution on 1917.

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Press Release, 18.12.2017

The general municipal elections of 10 September, 2017, brought to the Pskov branch of Yabloko and its voters not only successes, but also injustice. Read more »

But they blame Grigory Yavlinsky for this

Press Release, 15.12.2017

The Ministry of Healthcare of the Sverdlovsk region published their response to criticism by Grigory Yavlinsky, which he voiced at a press conference of the politician during his visit to Yekaterinburg on 12 December.

Regional officials were offended, in particular, by Yavlinsky’s words concerning the reduction of healthcare expenditure in the region: “Only in the last year, healthcare expenditure in the Sverdlovsk region fell almost twofold – from 39.8 to 20.4 billion rubles,” Grigory Yavlinsky said. “And the region is ranked 72nd out of total 85 for such an indicator as the share of ambulances arriving to patients within 20 minutes”. Read more »

Yabloko’s candidate for the presidency of Russia continues his campaign presenting his programme in different Russian regions

Press Release, 12.12.2017

Grigory Yavlinsky’s visit to Ekaterinburg began with a meeting with the oppositional Mayor of the city Yevgeny Roizman. The two politicians discussed the development of the city, the city budget, restructuring of the budget and the principle of federalism. “From my point of view, Yevgeny Roizman is one of the most qualified and professional politicians in Russia,” Grigory Yavlinsky said after the meeting.

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“The system does not tolerate common sense”

Grigory Yalvinsky FB page, 15.12.2017

The court sentenced Alexei Ulyukayev, former Minister for Economic Development, to eight years in a maximum security penal colony. The Judge decided that his guilt in obtaining a bribe from Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, was fully proved. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, commented on the verdict on his Facebook page:

“One can be like Boris Nemtsov, or one can be like Alexei Ulyukayev. The outcome is the same. The system is functions like this. It does not tolerate common sense. No way and nowhere. Eight years of a penal colony of a strict regime for the 61-year-old ex-minister – in order to intimidate. There can be no trust to such a court. Not the slightest. Nothing looks proven, the key “witness-organiser” Igor Sechin did not come to court and disappeared from the case. On the theashold [of the trial] Vladimir Putin, publicly justified all this [during his press-conference] and said that “only the court can decide”. That’s our justice. And this is only the beginning.”

Source: https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/posts/1663056650454152

Press Release, 13.12.2017

The Yabloko party, together with the expert community, prepared programmes to support people with disabilities, terminally ill patients, bedridden patients and members of their families. The projects were developed by leading experts in the field of health care, social protection, lawyers and human rights defenders. Read more »

A check on the auditors of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, conducting their audit in the high school resulting in punishing teachers for the report of their student in the Bundestag, will be conducted

Znak, 14.12.2017

By Vitaly Sotnik

Photo by the Yamalo-Nenets Department of the Federal Penal Service: Alexander Gerasimenko, Public Persecutor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District (in the centre). Read more »

Press Release, 14.12.2017

Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and Honored Teacher of Russia, has sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District Alexander Gerasimenko demanding to examine the lawfulness of the examination conducted in the Novy Urengoy high school and disciplinary actions against the teachers of the student who made a speech in the Bundestag about the German WWII prisoners stating that many of them had been “innocent victims of war who didn’t want to fight”.  Read more »

Press Release, 13.12.2017

On Friday, 22 December, a ceremony of nomination of Yabloko’s candidate to run in the forthcoming presidential election will take in the World Trade Centre.

Delegates of the Yabloko congress will vote to nominate a party candidate in the presidential election on the first day of the Congress on 21 December. It is expected that Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, will be the party candidate to contest Vladimir Putin. The candidacy of Yavlinsky was proposed at the previous party congress in February 2016.

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Press Release, 13.12.2017

Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party election headquarters, demands that law enforcement bodies of Tambov stoppersecution of the activists of the regional branch of the party and urges them not to interfere with the street actions permitted by law.

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Press release, 12.12.2017

On 12th December, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin launched his programme for the Moscow mayoral election that will take place in September 2018.

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Press release, 08.12.2017

Boris Vishnevsky called upon the St. Petersburg public prosecutor’s office to run a check on the storage requirements of the unique books and manuscripts in the Friedland Library. Read more »