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Statement by YABLOKO Press Office, 30.08.2016
At the moment the YABLOKO party has launched the most widespread election campaign in its history, the party has real chances to clear the 5 per cent threshold in the election of 18 September, and to win in several single-mandate constituencies. It is evident that the presence of real opposition in the next convocation of the State Duma does not meet the interests of the current government. Hence such technologies as black PR and the administrative resource are used against us. Read more »
Parliamentary candidate has told the Ekho Moskvy radio station about an accident, which occurred during his trip around the Altai Territory. Read more »
Petrozavodsk City Court satisfied the claim from the Rodina party on withdrawal of the YABLOKO party list of candidates from the election to the Petrozovodsk City Council.
Stolitsa na Onege, 30.08.2016
Such a decision has been taken by Judge Natalia Tarabrina today. Read more »
Russia’s human rights defenders ask the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to review the decision to ban Russian team from competing at the Paralympic Games in Rio Press release, 26.08.2016
Co-Chair of YABLOKO’s Human rights faction Sergei Kovalev, Federal Political Committee member Valeri Borshchev and parliamentary candidate Svetlana Gannushkina supported an appeal of Russia’s human rights defenders, calling President of the IPC Sir Philip Craven to make a compromise. Read more »
YABLOKO leaders Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky made a visit to the city of Olonets, the Republic of Karelia, as part of the party election campaign. The politicians visited the local milk factory and had a meeting with local residents. Read more »
On 24 August, the YABLOKO party applied to police because several party banners in Barnaul, the capital of Altai, were dismantled by unidentified persons.Read more »
On 25 August, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of YABLOKO and one of the top candidates of the party to the State Duma, was in Vladimir on a working visit to Vladimir. He visited several “hot spots” of the city, where rights of the citizens were violated, gave a press conference for local media and spoke to voters and answered their questions in a local radio station.Read more »
Prices on medicines containing the same substances, but sold in Russia under different trademarks, are in some cases overstated by 160 times, said Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service and member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee.Read more »
YABLOKO parliamentary candidate visited the cities of Siberia Press release, 25.08.2016
On August 23-24, YABLOKO parliamentary candidate Vladimir Ryzhkov visited Tomsk and Novosibirsk as part of the election campaign. Ryzhkov had a meeting with party supporters, held two press conferences and participated in radio and television programmes. Read more »
YABLOKO leaders Grigory Yavlinsky and Emilia Slabunova came to Karelia – a key region for the party, where YABLOKO has been facing unprecedented pressure from the regional authorities. Yavlinsky and Slabunova spoke about the purpose of the visit and the party election programme at the press conference which took place in Petrozavodsk, capital of Karelia, today. Read more »
Today YABLOKO parliamentary candidates have launched the legislative initiatives, which the party is intended to implement if it enters the Parliament. YABLOKO leaders and parliamentary nominees launched the most relevant out of nearly 150 bills, which YABLOKO had drafted. Read more »
Change of officials in the Ministry of Education has nothing to do with the solution of the key problems of Russian education sector.
The main threat to education in Russia is the actual reduction of the costs plus ideologisation and imposing of obscurantist standards. And this is only a part of a larger, fundamental problem: the state has been living at the expense of reserves for a long time and these reserves are running out. Read more »
Press release, 22.08.2016
The initiative group founded by the YABLOKO party appealed to the election commission of St.Petersburg to initiate a referendum against naming one of the city’s bridges after Akhmad Kadyrov, first President of the Chechen Republic, which was done by the authorities despite loud public protests. The application will be considered within two weeks. Read more »
Today YABLOKO Moscow election campaign headquarters opened in Bolshoi Kislovsky lane in the heart of Moscow. The event brought together several hundred volunteers, who up to the Day of Silence on the threashold of the voting day 18 September will be convincing Moscow residents to come to the polls. The meeting was attended by Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chairperson, and Grigory Yavlinsky, the party founder and head of its Federal Political Committee.Read more »
Leaders of the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO will launch the electoral programme for the election to the Legislative Assembly. The event will take place in the Rosbalt news agency on Thursday, August 25, 02.00 p.m. Read more »
Only representative of the YABLOKO party Maria Yepifanova come to the first televised debate of candidates for the State Duma from the Ryazan region, that was broadcast by GTRK Oka at Russia-24 television channel on Monday, 22 August. Read more »
One can not forget August 19, 1991. To be exact: one can not forget this long day of 19-20-21 August, which was not interrupted by sleep. The day began early in the morning of 19 August, when breathing seized up from a voice on the radio, and ended on the evening of 21 August, when the pain in the heart lessened.
As for the essence of the developments, everything was simple: they wanted to take freedom away from us and endeavoured to do it. But we did not give it up. Freedom has already come to the light from the minds and hearts and one failed to force it back into a pottery jar. Read more »
On 24 August, YABLOKO will launch its plan of legislative work in the State Duma. The party leaders will talk about the bills the faction will submit or revoke if YABLOKO passes into the parliament. Read more »
Statement by YABLOKO Press Office, 30.08.2016
