Press release, 10.04.2017

On 8 April, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko conducted an action against military conscription and and for the professional army.

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Press release, 10.04.2017
On April 9, the Rostov branch of Yabloko held a picket for abolition of military conscription and transfer to a professional army. Chair of the regional party branch Irina Safronova and leader of the regional branch of Yabloko Youth Andrei Sklyarov took part in the action.

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Press release, 06.04.2017

Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Centre, demanded to stop a shopping centre construction conducted by the company of Prosecutor General’s son Artyom Chaika in the territory of a protective zone of Losiny Ostrov National Park, Moscow. Yabloko’s anti-corruption experts claim that the construction works do not meet the environmental regulations and the lack of response from the supervisory authorities reveals corruption elements. Read more »

Press release, 07.04.2017

On April 6, the Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted a round table on the demolition of five-storey apartment blocks. In February the Moscow government launched a mass-scale project on the renovation of the housing fund, which involves the demolition of about 8000 apartment blocks constructed in 1950-1972 and rehousing about 1,6 million Muscovites. The scale of the project resulted into the necessity of amendments to the federal legislation, which were introduced to the State Duma. At the same time, the project did not undergo any preliminary public discussion, and the possible consequence of the project still remain unclear. In order to fill up the deficit of information Yabloko organised a round table and invited architectures, city developers, housing experts, sociologists and activists. The experts discovered a large number of defects in the project of the Moscow government: from technical details to its constitutionality.

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An interview with Nikolai Rybakov, 06.04.2017

A correspondent of the RBC Novosibirsk Media Agency interviewed Yabloko Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov

– Nikolai Igorevich, you were present at the rally against the construction of the landfill site. What do you think about the action?

– One can see that people realise what they are fighting for. They were caught on the raw. The situation is typical for many regions of Russia. There are examples of small victories. They take place when initiative groups do not retreat for the line of resistance. If you relax for a moment, the fight is lost.

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Press release, 07.04.2017

Deputy of Yabloko’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Mikhail Amosov discussed the reasons and consequences of the act of terror in St. Petersburg subway on air of the Party Bureau TV programme. The lawmaker expressed his condolences to the next of kin of the victims and the wounded as a result of the act of terror.

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Press release, 06.04.2017

On April 5, Olga Pokrovkaya, a member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission from the Yabloko party, awarded the participants of the course for electoral commission members aimed at improving their qualification.

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Press release, 04.04.2017

On March 30 – April 2, the Green Party of England and Wales hosted the first ever joint congress between the Global Greens and the European Green Party gathering environmentalists from all over the world to hold political debates and develop a further political strategy. It was the largest congress in the history of the environmental movement. Olga Tsepilova, Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction (an associate member of the European Green Party), participated in the event.

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Press Release, 05.04.2017

Alexander Shishlov was elected for the post of St.Petersburg Ombudsman for another term. His candidacy was supported by 47 deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.The Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of YABLOKO and the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg supported the nomination of Alexander Shishlov, Human Rights Commissioner in St. Petersburg, for another term of office.

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Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 04.04.2017

Yabloko is almost the only party in Russia where the number of women members is (though slightly) higher than the number of men. In addition, what is even more surprising, only in Yabloko about 90 per cent of party members have a higher education. Moreover, it was Yabloko, the only one among other political heavyweights, which elected a women as its leader. Emilia SLABUNOVA, who was elected Yabloko Chair in December 2015, told Daria Garmonenko, a Nezavisimaya Gazeta correspondent, about the difficulties of a woman’s path in politics, her relationship with male colleagues and, of course, about the perspectives of the party not only in the presidential election, but in general. Read more »

On political parallels and assessment of the events of 1917

Novaya Gazeta, 03.04.2017

In the absence of a modern and honest assessment of what happened [in Russia] one hundred years ago, the Russian public consciousness is doomed to flounder between the idea of a revolution as a blessing and the only way to achieve change, and the idea of safeguarding the current government at all costs as the only possible form guaranteeing the existence in the modern world. The political parallels between 1917 and 2017, and the evaluation of the events that happened a hundred years ago are discussed by economist and politician Grigory Yavlinsky.

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Press Release, 03.04.2017

Condolences from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky

On behalf of the YABLOKO party, I express my deepest condolences to the residents of St. Petersburg and all the victims, all who lost their loved ones and relatives in the act of terror in the St. Petersburg subway. This is our common tragedy. We are all sharing your pain. Read more »

03.04.2017

Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO: Together with Galina Mikhaleva, on behalf of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, we have laid flowers to the Permanent Mission of St. Petersburg in Moscow. Eternal memory to the deceased! Ignominy to terrorists. And this is another charge against the Russian authorities: it was through their fault, that the law enforcement and the security forces are engaged in the prevention of opposition activities, rather than prevention of terrorism. I would like to remind you that three days ago, the UK strengthened its measures of antiterrorist security on vulnerable facilities. We have not done this, as if Russia is situated on a different planet, and does not fight with ISIS in Syria.
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03.04.2017
I am shocked by the terrible tragedy that occurred in our city today.
Condolences to the relatives and friends of those killed in the St. Petersburg subway.
I wish strength and speedy recovery to all the injured.

Statement by the Yabloko party, 02.04.2017
There are different reports that in response to the intention of LGBT activists from the central part of Russia to hold public actions in the North Caucasus a violent wave of reprisals against these minorities spread through the Chechen Republic so that a large number of LGBT representatives were murdered. Read more »

Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 01.04.2017

On 30-31 March, there appeared information on political protest actions calling the citizens “to risk their freedom and even life”. They say that “there is no alternative”. Such calls is a dangerous provocation which will turn out into bloodshed, loss of life and deterioration of the living conditions in Russia. Read more »

Press Release, 03.04.2017

Public hearings devoted to the discussion of construction projects of hydro-electric power stations in Mongolia that would use water from the Selenga River, the largest feeder of Lake Baikal, were held in the Republic of Buryatia. The Buryat branch of YABLOKO took an active part in conducting the hearings. Read more »

On the death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Grigory Yalvinsky web-site

02.04.2017

[Great Russian poet] Yevgeny Yevtushenko, at the absolute recognition of his poems, quotes and songs written on his poems, never became a ‘glamour’ classic – he was alive, and [as his favourite Russian poet Boris Pasternak wrote] managed to “Save face, persistently and wholly, And never deviate or bend, But be alive, alive and only, Alive and only to the end.” Read more »

Press Release, 03.04.2017

St. Petersburg branch of YABLOKO has begun collecting signatures against the launch of the nuclear power plant in the city centre.
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Press Release, 31.03.2017

Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly (the Yabloko faction) sent a request to the Public Prosecutor of the Pskov Region Sergei Belov demanding to take measures of the prosecutor’s response against the officials of the Administration of the Pskov Region who refused to give a permission for an anti-corruption rally in Pskov on 26 March. Read more »