Press Release, 09.02.2018

Yabloko party Chair Emilia Slabunova visited Kaliningrad, Russia’s Western region, to present Grigory Yavlinsky presidential programme. Yesterday, Slabunova ended her two-day visit to the region with a visit to the ambulance station and a discussion with regional journalists.

During the visit to an ambulance substation of Kaliningrad, the politician spoke about the health care in the region. She said that one of key problems was low wages of healthcare workers. A doctor’s salary in the Kaliningrad region amounts to 46,000 roubles (approx. 766 USD), which is 30 per cent lower than the average salary of doctors in the North-West Federal District of Russia and 20 per cent lower than the average salary of doctors in the country in general. “Such low salary does not allow, for example, to take a mortgage and solve their housing problems, provide recreation of a normal quality. People are forced to work on a 1.5-2 salary rate,” Slabunova said.

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Press Release, 08.02.2018

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova began her visit to Kaliningrad, Russia’s Western region, within the framework of Grigory Yavlinsky presidential campaign.

The two-day visit of Yabloko Chair started with a meeting with truck drivers protesting against the installation of a truck weighing station in the Kaliningrad region. From now on every passing truck should be automatically weighed, and if a maximum permissible weight is exceeded, the driver receives a fine.

“We have recently weighed three vehicles six times, and the error of the scales reached 4 per cent,” trucker drivers complain. “So it turns out that the price of a 160 kg error is half of driver’s working day, plus there is a fine for the organisation.”

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Press Release, 07.02.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky was officially registered as a candidate for the presidency of Russia. Such decision was made at a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission today.

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Press Release, 05.02.2018

Nikolai Rybakov, head of Grigory Yavlinsky’s election headquarters, replied to the statements of Alexei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak about the collection of signatures in favour of their registration in the race published in their Twitter and Instragram accounts.

Ksenia Sobchak reported that her headquarters was “the only one” opened for the observers of the Golos [elections observers’] organisation and others, and that only her staff demonstrated the signatures to all the visitors. Alexei Navalny stated that, in his opinion, “Yavlinsky’s headquarters forged 60 per cent of the signatures.” “All the rest (including Sobchak) forged 99 per cent,” that is how Navalny estimated the percentage of defective signature in the lists of potential participants in the presidential election campaign.

According to Nikolai Rybakov, these statements were an insult not so much to Yabloko party members and staff of Yavlinsky’s headquarters, but the citizens who signed in support of Yavlinsky participation in the campaign.

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Press Release, 05.02.2018

On Tuesday, 6 February, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky will hold a large meeting with his electioneering agents and discuss his election programme with them.

The event will be attended by economists Evgeny Gontmakher and Igor Nikolaev, human rights defender Lev Ponomaryov, historian Prof. Andrei Medushevsky, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk and Director of the Olonets Dairy Plant, journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina and others.

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Press Release, 01.02.2018

On 1 February an attempt was made to disrupt an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Deputies of the Moscow district on the local referendum. The meeting had to discuss the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Inter-district Public Prosecutor of Moscow who had pledged unlawful holding of a local referendum. Earlier, the municipal deputies from Yabloko initiated the referendum that had to anwer the questions related to functioning and routes of public transport, as well as the rules of construction in the area, in particular, the number of storeys of the proposed buildings and transfer of a monument to Vladimir Lenin from one of the central squares to an open air museum. Read more »

FB page by the Yabloko party, 01.02.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky trip to Pskov, North-West Russia: a round table with members of the board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Pskov region, an interview on the “Ekho Moskvi in Pskov” radio, a discussion with journalists from the Pskov media, an interview to television and Radio of Russia at GTRK “Pskov” and an open meeting with residents of the city and the region.

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Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 31.01.2018

Almost all the activities of my election campaign are diligently covered by the federal television channels. And just as diligently editors [of these TV channels] are cutting out all the “unnecessary things” from my interviews. As a result, I am talking only about the collection of voters’ signatures [in order to get registered in the presidential race] on all channels for a month.
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Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 01.02.2018

[Presidential elections of] 2000. I participate in the presidential elections and come third. And literally a month later I was invited by Putin and he asked me a question: “Tell me, if you became President, what would you do first?” And within three months my proposals on the fiscal system, the reserve funds and the state budget were realised.
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Press Release, 31.01.2018

On 1 February, Zamoskvoretsky District Court will consider the lawsuit of Maxim Kiselyov, Inter-District Public Prosecutor of the Zamoskvoretsky Public Prosecutor’s Office. Public Prosecutor demands that the decision of the Yakimanka Municipal Deputies Council (with nine Yabloko deputies and one deputy of the ruling United Russia party) on holding a referendum on 18 March be canceled. This had to be the first referendum ever held in Moscow.

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Press Release, 31.01.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko’s candidate for the post of the Russian President, met with the business community of the Pskov region in the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry during his visit to the Pskov region. Yavlinsky spoke with the entrepreneurs about the key issues of his economic programme and also told them why modernisation and economic development in the country are impossible without changes in Russia’s policies.

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FB page by the Yabloko party, 30.01.2018

We have finished collection of voters’ signatures required for registration of Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election campaign – and we are submitting them to the Central Electoral Commission today.

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Yabloko FB post, 30.01.2018

From the speech of Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for Russian President, in the Central Electoral Commission today after submitting voters’ signatures in favour of his registration in the campaign:

“The task at the elections is to create a powerful movement for change and changing the policies in Russia.

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Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 30.01.2018

We have submitted signatures to the Central Electoral Commission for [my] registration [in the presidential election campaign]. Collecting these signatures, we met with hundreds of thousands people, and we virtually did not see indifferent people among them. People see blunders and failures in the politics. They take it hard. They see what problems they face. And people put their signatures for the solution of these problems, for the alternative, for removing the country from isolation, for sharp reduction of corruption and for the change of power.

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The “voters’ strike” will boomerang politicians and society

By Lev Shlosberg, Pskovskaya Gubernia

25.01.2018

The Russian civil society is discussing the idea of ​​a “voters’ strike” put forward by Alexei Navalny in response to his non-admission to the presidential elections. The idea looks quite appealing, and the main secret of this appeal is that it is easy and comfortable for a person to consider himself a participant of a large action, when he/she has nothing much to do – there is no need to make efforts to achieve a political result. Inaction, submitted as an action, is a manipulative psychological device that allows a person to feel part of a larger group presenting itself to society if not as a majority, then at least as a force. Read more »

Press release, 28.01.2018

Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign headquarters has begun packing signature lists in favour of Yavlinsky’s nomination to the post of President. On 30 January, the signatures will be transferred to the Central Election Commission. On 29 January, Yavlinsky will personally participate in packing and will call some signature collectors, whose work was most efficient, and thank them in person. Read more »

A film by Yulia Melamed with English subtitles

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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