Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Head of Yabloko’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky criticized the annual report of St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko to the deputies of the city parliament. Read more »
The Central Electoral Commission refused Yabloko’s request to recount votes for parliamentary election of 2016 at a number of polling stations in the Republic of Tatarstan. According to Yabloko, the video recordings, which were made at some of the polling stations, give the grounds for the intervention of the Central Electoral Commission and the possibility of appealing to the law enforcement.Read more »
On Friday, 12 May, head of Yabloko’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky will give a lecture on the history of the party. Read more »
Maxim Bombakov, an activist of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko, sues for the return of direct mayoral election in the Siberian city of Kransnoyarsk. The regional court requested to bring the Kransnoyarsk Territory Legislative Assembly into the proceedings. Read more »
On 8 May, deputies of Yabloko’s faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and party activists commemorated victims of the Second World War laying flowers at the memorial at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery. Read more »
Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.Read more »
The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire. Read more »
Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and head of the party’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, applied to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Government of the RF demanding to verify compliance of the appointment of Deputy Prime Ministers’s son CEO with the legislation on the prevention and management of conflict of interests. Read more »
On 1 May, deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg made a speech at a rally organised by trade unions.
“Today a wonderful word is pronounced here – solidarity. Solidarity is our answer to injustice,” the politician said addressing the public. Read more »
Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for asylum in the USA
Representative of the indigenous small numbered peoples of Russia in the UN, public person Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for political asylum in the USA. A criminal case is likely to be faked against him in Russia. The Federal Security Service threatens his friends, family and colleagues.
02.05.2017
Pavel Sulyandziga is Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, one of the founders of the Indigenous Minor Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East Association and Batani Development Foundation for Minor Peoples. In 2016 Pavel Sulyandziga participated in the State Duma elections as a Yabloko’s candidate. Read more »
On May 1, the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko participated in a demonstration for the protection of the city. Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee member Mikhail Amosov, Bureau member Anatoly Golov and Human Right Committee member Natalia Yevdokimova headed the column of historic preservation activists. Read more »
Party leaders and activists will participate in memorial anti-war actions by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
Press release, 02.05.2017
On 5 May, Yabloko leaders and party activists will lay wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Read more »
On April 29, Moscow Yabloko Youth held a rally against military conscription and for the transition to a professional army fully based on the contract system. Read more »
UPD. Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal addressed to the chief of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Interior for Moscow, Major-General Oleg Baranov.
According to Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, an unidentified person attacked YABLOKO activist Natalia Fyodorova by her house in Moscow and doused her with some chemical.
Photo: Natalia at the YABLOKO action in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26 Read more »
Municipal deputy and member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Elena Rusakova became one of the initiators of a rally against the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings. Read more »
Yabloko launched an alternative national strategy to promote women’s interests. Party experts claim that the current strategy, which was adopted by the government in March, has a declarative character and contains no specific measures to promote gender equality. Yabloko will forward the alternative strategy, the bills developed by the party and the critique of the current strategy to the government by the end of spring.
YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction held memorable events in two dozen cities of Russia
Press Release, 26.04.2017
On 26 April, on the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, environmental activists held one-person pickets by the main office of the Russian atomic energy ministry – the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation in Moscow. YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction organised commemorative events in two dozen cities of Russia: St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Vladikavkaz, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg and others.Read more »
Everything is very serious with Crimea. Even France is discussing it a couple of days before its presidential elections. One of the top candidates, François Fillon, suggests holding an international conference on the Crimea. These proposals were expressed earlier: by British parliamentarians, by European politicians. In Russia, such proposals emerged in March 2014 (I wrote about this in Novaya Gazeta then).Read more »
Lev Shlosberg, MP from the YABLOKO party of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembl, applied to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Pskov region asking the Service to institute proceedings under Article 16 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (prohibition of restricting competition agreements or concerted actions) in respect of the Administration of Pskov, and two companies OOO Tekhnodor and OOO UDS Pskov. It is assumed that there was a preliminary cartel agreement between the city government and the two companies on granting the companies a victory at the tenders for maintenance of public roads in Pskov. Read more »
On 20 April, activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO held a series of one-person pickets by the State Duma protesting against the draft law initiated by Moscow government on “housing renovation” which the State Duma had to consider in the first reading. The law deprives Muscovites of their private property right, as well as violates all the city developing, sanitary and environmental norms.Read more »