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Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 19.07.2016

The report which was published by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday shows all the world what is really going on in Russia. Alexander Bortnikov [director of the FSB -Federal Security Service] has nothing to do with the doping test manipulations of the FSB officers … Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko will not bear any responsibility for the machinations of his deputy… Read more »

Press release, 18.07.2016
The Central Electoral Commission has certified YABLOKO’s lists of candidates for the elections to State Duma of the 7th convocation today. The Commission members voted solid. This way, YABLOKO is officially admitted to participation in the election campaign. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky’s official website, 17.07.2016

Political instability in a neighboring country such as Turkey is a serious trouble for Russia. Neither our country, nor our government is ready for such events close to our borders. At the moment Russia is occupied with military and political games in Syria. However, the events in Turkey show that everything can change within one night. Now, after the military coup attempt failed, Recep Erdogan is going to continue his course on renunciation of Mustafa Ataturk’s principles, constitutional alteration, unlawful seizure of plenary powers and real crackdown on the civil society in a more aggressive way than before. Read more »

Press release, 15.07.2016

YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov has conducted a one-person picket outside the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation demanding to investigate the murder of Natalya Estemirova, human rights activist, journalist and member of the Memorial human rights centre. Natalia Estemirova was murdered seven years ago, on July 16, 2009. Read more »

Press release, 15.07.2016

“International terrorism is sending us one challenge after another, and every time it is a sign and a signal to all the peoples, that we must join hands. We can stop this evil only by united efforts. One must stop sorting out relationship between the states, otherwise the evil will prevail over us. I would like to call all the governments and peoples to establish a dialogue and cooperation to fight our common enemy,” YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova said. Read more »

Press release, 15.07.2016
Sergei Mitrokhin, Federal Political Committee member, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, laid flowers to the Embassy of France and made an entry in the book of condolence.

By Moskva News Agency

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Press release, 15.07. 2016

Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists laid flowers to the Embassy of France in Moscow. Read more »

YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 15.07.2016

I express my deepest condolences to the people of France in connection with the barbarian terror attack in Nice. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky’s answers to questions of the readers of Znak.com, 13.07.2016

Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder and Chairman of its Federal Political Committee, participated in the presidential elections in Russia twice – in 1996 and 2000, respectively (in 2004 he boycotted the presidential campaign, due to the impossibility, in his opinion, to have free and fair elections, and in the presidential elections in 2012 the Central Electoral Commission withdrew the candidacy of Grigory Yavlinsky, from his point of view, for political reasons). Grigory Yavlinsky plans to run for President in 2018. The “dress rehearsal” will be certainly in the State Duma elections in September. YABLOKO included in its electoral list such prominent opposition figures as Vladimir Ryzhkov, Dmitry Gudkov, who are not YABLOKO members, and the party even counts to become “the basis of the democratic coalition.” Under what programme? Grigory Yavlinsky told us about this. Read more »

Press release, 13.07.2016

YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and representatives of the party have submitted the party lists of candidates for the State Duma to the Central Electoral Commission today, on 13 July. The lists and the supporting documentation are to be checked and registered by the Central Electoral Commission. Read more »

Press Release, 13.07.2016

The Finance Ministry proposes to prohibit for top state officials to rent expensive powerful cars. YABLOKO Anticorruption Policy Centre launched this initiative some time ago. Read more »

Novaya Gazeta, 12.07.2016

On 8 July, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper held a public opinion poll among the paper staff on the upcoming elections. Journalists were choosing by means of secret ballot the party list they would support, if the election took place next Sunday.

In general 52 out of total 142 people of the staff voted, thus the turnout was 36.6 per cent, with 6 per cent of spoiled “ballots”. The remaining votes were distributed as follows: YABLOKO received 51 per cent, The [entrepreneurs’] Party of Growth – 20 per cent, [the ruling] United Russia – 10 per cent, PARNAS – 9 per cent, Fair Russia and the Communist Party – 4 per cent each, and LDPR – 2 per cent. Read more »

Statement by the 19th Congress of the YABLOKO party, 11.07.2016

Summing up the results of the work of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, the Russian United Democratic YABLOKO party states the negative influence which the deputies made on the public, political and economic life of the country.

The State Duma of the sixth convocation was the most incompetent, aggressive and ignorant in the history of Russian parliamentarism. There was no opposition, the faction voted indistinctly from each other, supporting the policy of Russia’s isolation from the civilized world, adopting inhuman and humiliating laws, introducing punitive measures and exactions from the citizens. Read more »

Press release, 12.07.2016

The conference of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO nominated the candidates for Moscow Region Duma. The nominees are the leaders of the regional party branch, local deputies and members of Alexei Navalny’s Progress Party. Read more »

Press release, 11.07.2016

The Leningrad branch of YABLOKO held a conference where the candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region were nominated. Read more »

Press Release, 11.07.2016

YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and representatives of the party will submit the party lists of candidates for the State Duma to the Central Electoral Commission on 13 July at noon. The lists and the supporting documentation have to be checked and registered by the Central Electoral Commission. Read more »

Interfax, 11.07.2016

Moscow, 11 July. Interfax. The YABLOKO party proposed Yevgeny Bunimovich who is the Moscow Ombudsman for Children’s Rights [at present] for the post of the Russian Ombudsman for Children’s Rights. Read more »

Press Release, 11.07.2016

YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova proposed proposes to the Russian President Vladimir Putin to replace the failed Ombudsman for Children’s Rights Pavel Astakhov with Yevgeny Bunimovich who is the Moscow Ombudsman for Children’s Rights at present. Read more »

Press release, 08.07.2016

YABLOKO and environmental initiative groups conducted a rally for preservation of parks, public gardens and city forests and protested against illegal distribution of land for construction. Read more »

LI, 07.07.2016
Launching their electoral programme ahead of national elections in Russia on 18 September 2016, the Russian United Democratic Party (YABLOKO – LI full-member) held their 19th Congress from 1-3 July, where they presented a viable, liberal alternative to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism brand of politics. Read more »