Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
On 30 November, Moscow Yabloko Youth will discuss The Colony film within the debate club of the organisation. The Colony is directed by Oscar-winner Florian Gallenberge. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the real “Colonia Dignidad”, a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schäfer. Read more »
Press release, 21.11.2016
On November 20, a rally against Russia’s military activity in Syria took place in the city of Voronezh. The regional branches of YABLOKO and PARNAS conducted the protest action. Read more »
Chair of the Rostov-on-Don Yabloko Youth Andrei Sklyarov, YABLOKO party members, and representatives of other opposition groups conducted a picket against Russia’s military activity in Syria. Read more »
Last week YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and head of the Karelia party branch Alexandra Spiridonova visited YABLOKO Federal Council member Svetlana Chechil, who is serving one and a half years sentence in a Prison Settlement No. 9 in Russia’s northern Karelia Region (a penal colony in a remote area where prisoners are free to roam the village but under the guards’ watch) as a result of fabricated charges. Read more »
The Moscow branch of YABLOKO invites all the potential candidates to municipal deputies, their teams and volunteers to participate in the seminars of the School of Municipal Deputy, a new project launched by YABLOKO. The first seminar will take place on 22 November. Read more »
Deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg made an inquiry to the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment and the Investigative Committee of the RF about the pre-investigation of torture allegations in respect of dissident Ildar Dadin. Read more »
Press release, 17.11.2016
On 16, November, the second seminar of the YABLOKO Party School was held. The School was organized specially for new members, this seminar was devoted to YABLOKO’s factions and their history. Read more »
The new “show” on the political scene is the arrest of [Minister] Alexei Ulyukayev.
The fact that Ministers are wiretapped by the Federal Security Service is well-known to the Ministers and all citizens. And they are not so stupid to demand a bribe over the phone. This is the first thing. Read more »
So, Donald Trump was elected President of the USA. What will happen now? Nobody knows. Even Trump himself does not know.
As for Russia, it was clear long before the election day that a bare victory of any candidate would not fundamentally change the US-Russia relations. The policy of the Russian government led Russia to a deadlock and brought it to isolation. And as long as these policies do not change, the tension in Russia’s relations with the United States will be maintained. The reasoning by our domestic TV propaganda faces about Trump’s victory has nothing to do with concern about Russia’s interests, they are merely rejoicing at the misfortune of others: “my neighbor’s cow has died, it is a trifle, but a very pleasant trifle”. Read more »
Statement by the Voronezh branch of YABLOKO, 14.11.2016
The regional branch of the YABLOKO party considers the initiative of the Voronezh City Duma deputies on abolition of the direct mayoral election in the city of Voronezh another step aimed at the destruction of the democratic institutions and forming a hard-line authoritarian and bureaucratic system of government in Russia. Read more »
On 14 November at 6 a.m., police arrested ten families (including children) of the activists defending Torfyanka Park in North-East Moscow form expropriation by the Russian Orthodox Church. Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, has forwarded inquiries to Alexander Drymanov, head of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee of the RF, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow interior, and Public Prosecutor Vladimir Churikov, asking them to explain where the detained were taken and the reason of the arrests. Read more »
Reprisals like in Stalin’s period, in 1937, were unleashed against civil society by Vladimir Gundyayev, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
Blog post by Sergei Mitrokhin, 14.11.2016
Today at 6 a.m., riot police under the supervision of the Federal Security Service broke into the apartments of civil activists defending Torfyanka Park [located in North-East of Moscow and virtually expropriated by the Russian Orthodox Church despite loud protests by local residents] and arrested ten families. Those who refused to open the doors found their doors broken. [In violation of the law] the police gave no explanations, orders, etc. Read more »
On 10 November, public hearings held in the Yaroslavsky district, Moscow, demonstrated that residents rejected he project of building up the territory adjacent to Losiniy Ostrov (the “moose island”), a national park in the north-east of Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, participated in the hearings. Read more »
Press Release, 08.11.2016
According to Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the YABLOKO party and MP in the Pskov regional parliament, the main reasons for the growing alcohol abuse in Russia are poverty and lack of medical care. He said this in his interview of the Rosbalt information agency. Read more »
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasburg unveiled its decision on the complaint of the Karelian branch of the YABLOKO party and several party representatives acknowledging violation of their rights to free election due to the fact that their and the party registration in the election to the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia in 2006 was cancelled. The applicants complained that they had been arbitrarily excluded from participation in the election. Read more »
On 7 November, Valery Borschyov, member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission, member of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO party and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and other human rights activists met with Ildar Dadin, tortured civil activist, in the Segezha penal colony. Read more »
On 5 November, activists of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO participated in the All-Russian rally against cruelty to animals organised by the Zoopomosch (Zoo Aid) group for protection of animals. The action as orgnised in protest to abuse of animals that became known after young people in Khabarovsk videoed their torturing and killing animals.
The Novgorod Region Court allowed the claim of the Novgorod branch of YABLOKO on recognition the results of the election to the Novgorod Regional Duma void to proceed. Read more »