Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Press release, 28.04.2016
YABLOKO leaders and activists conducted a flashmob in support of YABLOKO’s Federal Council Svetlana Chechil who was sentenced to 1.5 years in a penal colony. The placard says: “Svetlana Chechil is a new political victim in Karelia”.
Press release, 28.04.2016
Today Deputy Chair of YABLOKO Nikolai Rybakov, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and party activists have conducted a series of one-person pickets in protest of the sentence to member of YABLOKO Federal Council Svetlana Chechil. The action took place outside the Prosecutor General’s Office in Moscow. Read more »
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 28.04.2016
The decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court to sentence Svetlana Chechil, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, to 1.5 years in a penal colony is a reprisal against political opponents of Governor of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen.Read more »
On 27 April, Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Svetlana Chechil, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, to 1.5 years in a penal colony. Today, YABLOKO will hold pickets by the Public Prosecutor General’s Office protesting against such a decision. Nikolay Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the party, and Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO will participate in the action. Read more »
Yabloko Youth calls for the immediate release of Mikhail Konev, leader of PARNAS Youth wing. According to the reports on the social media, Mikhail has been kidnapped from the military registration and enlistment office in Moscow. Despite the fact that the activist has an exemption from military service the army conscription commission found him fit for military service. As Konev left the building, we was forced into a car by three unknown men. Media reports that he was taken to the enlistment eligibility activity. Read more »
Video, 22.04.2016
Dmitri Medvedev is going to reform the system of public administration. For this purpose he wants to appoint a commission. Vladimir Putin supports the idea. It would look as if the Prime Minister is going to pull himself out of a mire by his own hair like Baron Munchausen. Read more »
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Moscow YABLOKO conducted a rally against the cut of children allowance for the Chernobyl victims’ families. The actions of protest were held by YABLOKO in Moscow and other cities of Russia.Read more »
“A cultural curtain is emerging” between Russia and the rest of the world, and “even remnants of understanding are disappearing”, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of YABLOKO Political Committee said at the committee meeting on Saturday, 23 April. It will be “extremely difficult, to overcome it, and it is worse than iron curtain,” he added. Read more »
Press release, 22.04.2016
The consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are noticeable even 30 years after, Adviser in the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov says. Today he has launched his book “Chernobyl: Сonsequences of the Disaster for People and Nature” at Interfax.Read more »
The Bureau of the YABLOKO party issued a statement demanding to conduct an investigation into the activities of all of the state officials mentioned in the Panama Papers. Read more »
Press release, 21.04.2016
The Sochi branch of YABLOKO forwarded an appeal to Anatoly Pakhomov, Mayor of Sochi, with the demand to turn down the practice of killing stray animals. Instead YABLOKO suggests that a complex city programme on sterilisation and regulation of populations of stray animals must be introduced. Read more »
Press release based on the article by ZakS.Ru, 20.04.2016
The Smart Power movement [founded by Grigory Yavlisnky and YABLOKO’s supporters] and deputies of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg have lunched the Public Control online project which will allow the citizens of St.Petersburg to learn detailed information about the spending of budgetary funds on the facilities throughout the targeted investment programme as well as send a question about any facility to the deputies of YABLOKO faction. YABLOKO deputies are going to send the inquiries to the governmental bodies on the base of these questions.Read more »
Press release, 19.04.2016
On 18 April, the Moscow branch of YABLOKO conducted a campaign picket in the centre of Moscow. Deputy Chairs of Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva and Grigory Semyonov, the Regional Council member Nikolai Kavkazsky and party activits participated in the action.Read more »
The tender for public procurement for the Moscow Spring 2016 festival has been accompanied by numerous violations, and its only participant is connected with the Moscow authorities, says Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of the YABLOKO party and head of YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre. Sergei Mitrokhin demands that the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Antimonopoly Service checks the organisers of the festivals of the past two years for corruption and declines a contract with a shell company. Read more »
Press release, 18.04.2016
On 17 April, activist of the Leningrad Region branch of YABLOKO Maria Pavlova caught a car thief after the picket she had conducted was over. Pavlova kept the man until the police arrived.Read more »
Press release, 18.04.2016
YABLOKO has launched a special section on the party website to help the families of the Chernobyl victims who were hit by the children allowance cut.Read more »
Sut’ Sobitiy (The Essence of the Events), 15.04.2016
By Valentina Karelova
Will the elections be fair and transparent with the appointment of Ella Pamfilova head of the Central Election Commission, why Alexei Navalny’s work is inefficient, whether Russia needs democracy, and when have we buried it? Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party, politician and economist, speaks about all this in an interview to the Essence of the Events. Read more »
Press release, 18.04.2016
Former Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia, will stand for the elections to the State Duma as YABLOKO’s candidate. She will also support Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy in the presidential elections.Read more »