Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The Central Election Commission of Russia (CEC) has decided to check the information on fraud in the parliamentary elections in Tatarstan only after YABLOKO challenged the inaction of the CEC in the Supreme Court of Russia. Today, after only a few days after the filing of YABLOKO’s claim, the CEC held a session of the working group, where Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, promised to conduct an inspection of the evidence of fraud submitted by YABLOKO. Read more »
Today YABLOKO activists and Ivan Privalov, Chair of the Baltiysk city branch of YABLOKO, have been attacked during a protest action against conversion of recreation land, dunes, coast protection boards into development area. Read more »
There is no doubt that with this march women declared their readiness to defend their rights. They showed that they will not let anyone talk to them disrespectfully, moreover, they will not let anyone hurl obscenities at them. But they expressed much more things. Read more »
On Friday the State Duma is going to adopt in second reading the bill on decriminalisation of domestic violence. This law marks a return to the “patriarchal despotism” and a permit to act in family in accordance with the slogan ” beating your wife is a sign of love”. Read more »
Tomorrow the State Duma will consider in second reading a bill on decriminalisation of domestic violence. The YABLOKO party – the only party in the country with a gender organisation – demands that the Duma should turn down the law and to adopt a special law on liability for domestic violence, as well as create an efficient state mechanism for the prevention of domestic violence, assistance and rehabilitation of victims.Read more »
The State Duma passed in the first reading the Law on decriminalization of domestic violence. There is no doubt that this dangerous law will be adopted. This means that the person beating his family members resulting in light injuries will not be charged with a criminal offense, but only administrative proceedings will be instituted against him. Read more »
On February 23, the activists of the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO conducted a protest action against the bill on decriminalisation of domestic violence. If the bill is passed, the person who beats his family members resulting in light injuries will not be charged with a criminal offense. Only administrative proceedings will be instituted against him.
Press release, 20.01.2016
On January 20, the activists of YABLOKO Youth and the Gender faction conducted a series of one-person pickets against a bill decriminalizing domestic violence. The action took place outside the State Duma. The bill suggests that the criminal charge of “battery within families” should be decriminalized and downgraded to the administrative offense. Offenders would only be brought to criminal responsibility if beatings took place more than one time. Today the State Duma will consider the bill in the second reading. Read more »
On January 26, Mikhail Gorny will launch a book “Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Modern Technologies” which was published under his editorship. The event will take place within YABLOKO’s school of modern politics. Read more »
YABLOKO has appealed to the Supreme Court against the refusal of the Central Electoral Commission to deal with fraud cases detected in Tatarstan during the elections to the State Duma. Read more »
YABLOKO leaders and activists laid flowers at the site where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova had been murdered by neo-Nazis eight years ago.
The YABLOKO party will hold a series of forums dedicated to the important historical events on their anniversaries, which will take place this year and in the beginning of next year. They are the 100th anniversary of the February Revolution and the October Coup, the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of mass political repressions of 1937 and the 100th anniversary of the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (January 1918). Read more »
Press release, 18.01.2017
Tomorrow, January 19, YABLOKO leaders and activists will lay flowers at the site where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered eight years ago. Read more »
The St. Petersburg branch of YABLOKO released a statement in connection with the detention of programmer Dmitry Ugai, who made a lecture about yoga at a health festival in St. Petersburg. YABLOKO claims that the legal action against Dmitry Ugai violates the Constitution of the Russian Federation, international obligations of Russia and represents a classical example of police abuse. Read more »
A farewell ceremony for Alexei Yablokov, leader of the Green Russia faction of the party, an outstanding scientist and politician, was held in Moscow. The civil funeral took place at the ceremonial hall of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexei Yablokov had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences for many years. Hundreds of people from different cities of Russia arrived in Moscow to pay their last respects to the environmental scientist.
On January 11, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, professor of Bremen University Galina Mikhaleva gave a lecture on Russia-EU relations. The lecture was held by the discussion club of Moscow Yabloko Youth.Read more »
Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, head of the Anti-corruption Centre of the party, calls Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev not to support the initiative of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on depriving small business of the right to dispute the monetary value of the premises, that are bought back from the city property, in court. Read more »
The Russian academician Alexey V. Yablokov passed away on January 10th, at 83, after a long and painful sickness.
The most significant traits of Alexey Yablokov personality were obvious to anybody from the first contact : the benevolence, the moral rigor, the intellectual intransigence, the patriotism, the commitment for the public good, and the tireless activity in the service of the defense of the conditions of life on Earth. Read more »
Alexei Yablokov, leader of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction, an outstanding scientist, Associate member of the Russian Academy of Science, founder of Greenpeace USSR, has died following a serious and extended illness this evening.
Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chair:
We express our sincere condolences to Alexei Yablokov’s family, friends and colleagues. He was a prominent environmentalist, an outstanding scientist. Many years ago he joined our party considering that it is our programme, that they are our fellow party members who would be able to turn his ides on protection of the environment into reality. We have always appreciated the fact that such a person considered us as his colleagues and associates. All the party deferred to his opinion, his point of view has always been important to us. We mourn together with all the people who grieve over the death of Alexei Yablokov. May his memory live forever! Read more »
These days the topic of presidential election of 2018 gained the attention of mass media and social networkers. YABLOKO was the first political party to nominate its candidate for the presidential race. In February 2016 YABLOKO Congress officially nominated Grigory Yavlinsky to run for President of Russia.
We are posting Grigory Yavlinsky’s full speech at the Congress and the videotaped performance:
The main sensation of today is the one of a deadlock. Both the demonstration and the sentiments of people, and, by the way, the number of people who came there yesterday is the sensation of a deadlock. And the major threat is the loss of the historical perspective of our country. There is no clear, understandable idea where our country should arrive at in 20, 30, 50 years’ time. This state of affairs depreciates any electoral programmes, any strategies, any efforts and results which should be displayed, let us say, in the mid-term and indeed in the short-term outlook, not to mention the long-term outlook.
