Press release, 06.06.2016

Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the faction, will summarize the results of the work of YABLOKO faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the V convocation (2011-2016) in the IA Rosbalt press centre, Thursday, 9 June. Read more »

Press release, 03.06.2016
Evgeny Bunimovich, YABLOKO Federal Political Committee member and Children’s Rights Ombudsman in Moscow, has launched his new book titled “The Choice. The Sketches by a Sudden Deputy” today, 3 June. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder, attended the presentation which took place within a book festival on Red Square. The meeting with the readers began at noon with the chiming clock beating. Evgeny Bunimovich made a joke that only his book was presented in the non-fiction genre though the launching of another book – a three volume edition of Vladimir Putin’s speeches and articles – was taking place simultaneously. Read more »

Liberal International, 03.06.2016
Amid what she has described as a “crisis” in Russia, leader of the Russian Liberals, Yabloko (LI full member), Emilia Slabunova, has set out the challenges facing liberals and democrats ahead of parliamentary elections in Russia in September 2016, speaking to national broadcaster Radio KP. Read more »

Press release, 03.06.2016
On 1 June, International Day for Protection of Children, the Moscow branch of YABLOKO conducted a rally in support of children’s rights together with a number of public organizations. Read more »

Press release, 02.06.2016
A meeting between YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and Pavel Sulyandziga, Deputy Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises has taken place today. Sulyandziga signed YABLOKO’s Memorandum of Political Alternative. The consent to the document is one of the conditions one needs to accept to be nominated a party candidate for a State Duma deputy.
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Blog post by Vladimir Ryzhkov, 01.06.2016

The federal elections in Russia take place more seldom because of the machinations of the Kremlin and the [ruling] United Russia party. The State Duma elections take place once in five years, presidential – once in six years. Therefore the importance of the elections has increased considerably. If you skip the election, put up with the outrage of the authorities for the next five years. That’s why the State Duma elections of 18 September 2016 and the presidential elections of 2018 are important to everyone. Read more »

Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO, 31.05.2016

The decision of the St. Petersburg toponymic commission to name [one of the city’s] bridges after Chechnya’s first President Akhmad Kadyrov, which was obviously made in a rush and under the pressure of the St.Petersburg city administration, indicates that the authorities are not interested in the opinion of the citizens. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.05.2016

A G7 summit – a meeting of leaders of the seven most industrialized countries of the world sharing common principles of international and domestic policies – was held in Japan past week. Russia was expelled from this community due to its aggression against Ukraine and establishment of a totalitarian order in its own territory. Therefore, Russian mass media commented on the meeting exactly in the same manner as North Korean newspapers – aggrievedly and stupidly. The Federation Council, [the upper chamber of the Russian parliament], even called the G7 an ‘uncoupled coach’. Read more »

Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 01.06.2016

The decision by the Russian government’s to extend the “anti-Western” food embargo until the end of 2017 can not be regarded otherwise than economic stupidity. “Beat your people to frighten all the other”. This is a familiar logic – to punish one’s own citizens for serious foreign policy errors and blunders of the authorities. Read more »

Press release,  31.05.2016

Today, 31 May, deputy Dmitry Gudkov will introduce the draft amendments to the Federal Law “On Police” made by Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of the YABLOKO faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, to the State Duma. The draft stipulates that the premises of all the police units and police cars must be equipped with obligatory video observation. In 2013 only 2 more votes were wanted for the bill to be passed by the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Read more »

Press release, 30.05.2016
On 27 May, the All-Russia Library Day, YABLOKO Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov, Federal Bureau member Ivan Bolshakov and the party activists handed over several dozens of books to the Dante Alighieri Library. Earlier this year the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation tried to deprive the library of its premises.
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Press release, 02.06.2016
The YABLOKO activists conducted a one-person picket in support of Article 31 of the Constitution, which grants the right to free assembly, in Vologda, on 31 May. Read more »

Press release, 30.05.2016
YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova filed a request with head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Chair of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yuri Chayaka demanding to report about the criminal case against entrepreneur Dmitry Nekrasov, the investigative actions against him and the reasons why he was detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. Read more »

Russian society needs high-quality political alternative so that to break the disastrous tradition of making the worst possible choice

Lev Shlosberg, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Council, 27.05.2016

The upcoming 2016 parliamentary elections provoked the discussion of the key Russian election campaign – the presidential. It happened so in the past 20 years that the trajectory of the whole country depends on the presidential election. This is wrong, and this has already led to many mistakes and even tragedies, but it is like this today. The vivid part of the Russian society maintaining clear mind is looking for a political alternative, a way to break the fatal vicious circle absorbing the country. 2018 election will inevitably come after the 2016 [parliamentary] election. Read more »

Radio KP, programme “The State Duma 2016: Reload”, 19.05.2016

Yakovlev:

– Good evening! I am pleased and have the honour to introduce you our today’s guest – Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the YABLOKO party. Emilia Edgardovna, thank you for coming to our studio. Read more »

Press release, 26.05.2016
In March 2015 the health care workers of the public facility Pervouralsk City Hospital No.1 turned to the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO. They reported that it had been planned to deprive health care workers of their salary under the pretense of healthcare reform: they were forced to go on a leave without keeping their salary. Under the circumstances, Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO Yuri Peteverzev appealed to the Prosecutor’s Office to defend the health care workers’ rights. Read more »

Press release, 26.05.2016
Moscow YABLOKO conducted a picket is support of small businesses in the centre of Moscow, on Russian Entrepreneurship Day, 26 May. Moscow YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, first Soviet millionaire Artyom Tarasov and the activists of Real Estate Owners Association participated in the street action. Read more »

Press release, 25.05.2016
A meeting between head of Russia’s Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) Igor Artemyev and entrepreneurs whose businesses had been eliminated by illegal demolition of their sales premises in Moscow took place in YABLOKO’s office on the eve of Russian Entrepreneurship Day, 25 May. The situation with business in the country and the role of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service in regulation of business and government relations were discussed.
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Press release, photos, videos, 21.05.2016

Only political means will allow to overcome the present crisis in the health care, Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chair, said in her speech for the delegates of the 10th (26th) Extraordinary Pirogov Congress of doctors. This can be achieved only through a legitimate and peaceful change of power in the elections. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 21.05.2016

I still can not forget one episode. [It was in] 1989. Academician Andrei Sakharov is making a speech from the tribune of congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR. It is broadcast by television. The audience is yelling, stomping feet, Mikhail Gorbachev presiding [over the congress] calls Academician to leave the tribune… Andrei Sakharov turns to Mikhail Gorbachev and says, “My mandate is not from you, I have a higher mandate – that from the people”. Read more »