Press Release, 14.03.2016

Present Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson Ella Pamfilova will chair the Central Election Commission and will retire from the post of Ombudsperson which she held since 2014. The issue who will succeed Panfilova in this post has not been resolved yet, but YABLOKO representatives are often mentioned among possible contenders. Read more »

Press Release, 11.03.2016

One fifth of the Russian News Service radio audience supports YABLOKO’s stance on Crimea and a quarter is ready to vote for Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election. Such are the results of a telephone survey conducted during broacasting of an interview with Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO. Read more »

Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 09.03.2016

Under the difficult economic conditions in our country the authorities must pay special attention to the support and development of small and medium-sized businesses that can provide millions of jobs, protect the labour market from destruction, give different population groups the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Read more »

Press release, 10.03.2016
On 21 March, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO will conduct a series of one-person pickets in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko opposite the Kremlin. The pronouncement of the verdict will begin on this day.

photo by Ilya Pitalyev, RIA Novosti

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Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 10.03.2016
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation introduced a bill on decriminalisation of Articles 115, 116 (intentional infliction of light injury which has temporarily damaged health or caused an insignificant stable loss of general capacity for work and battery) and Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of murder or infliction of grave injury to health). According to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the following articles must be withdrawn from the criminal legislation and included into the Administrative Violations Code. Read more »

Press release, 10.03.2016
Today, on 10 March, YABLOKO’s activits have participated in one-person pickets demanding that the attack on the journalists and human rights defenders, which took place on the boarder of the republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya yesterday, must be investigated. The pickets were held outside the Presidential Administration. Read more »

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Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.03.2016
The YABLOKO party is outraged with the impertinent attack on the Committee Against Tortures human rights NGO on the border between the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya. Read more »

Statement by YABLOKO Human rights defenders’ faction, 06.03.2016
The Russian United Democratic party YABLOKO claims that the trial of Nadezhda Savchenko is revenge and reprisal. Although, the death of the two unarmed people must be investigated carefully and objectively, in practice the trial has zero reputation for a score of reasons: nobody takes it as JUSTICE. Nadezhda Savchenko’s references, including evidently equitable applications,such as for instance the application for transferring the trial to Voronezh, were not satisfied. Read more »

Press release, 09.03.2016

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, YABLOKO’s Gender faction conducted a rally for women’s rights in the centre of Moscow. Left-wing feminists joined the action. Read more »

Liberal International, 08.03.2016
Gender equality and the empowerment of women affects all of us and is an issue Liberal International and our member parties have long since championed.

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Head of YABLOKO Gender faction Galina Mikhaleva min 2:01

The Moscow Times, 04.03.2016

Grigory Yavlinsky, co-founder of the Yabloko Russian liberal opposition party, said in an interview with the Interfax news agency Friday that he expects to beat current President Vladimir Putin in the presidential race in 2018. Read more »

Press release, 05.03.2016

On 4 March, Grigory Yavlinsky participated in the radio programme on Kommersant FM. The radio created a poll on Russian VK social network with a question: “If the presidential elections take place tomorrow and only two candidates run in them, who will you support – Grigory Yavlinsky or Vladimir Putin?”. Read more »

Press release, 03.03.2016

On 15 March, the sixth ceremony of the Sexist of the Year 2015 award will take place in the House of Journalists (Dom Zhurnalista) in Moscow. The event will be held with the support of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction. Read more »

Press release, video, 03.03.2016
YABLOKO’s Gender faction conducted a lecture on “The balance between family and work”. Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Candidate of Social Sciences Olga Savinskaya gave the lecture.
Head of YABLOKO’s Gender faction, Professor Galina Mikhaleva opened the new lecture cycle of the Gender School.

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Press release, 01.03.2016
Today, on 1 March, judge of the Tverskoi District Court Elena Bulgakova has sentenced member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Sergei Mitrokhin to 10.000 rubles fine for participation in a picket for resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya. Mitrokhin’s lawyer Boris Mamatov will appeal against the decision in the superior court. Read more »

Greetings from Grigory Yavlinsky and Emilia Slabunova, 02.03.2016

My heartiest congratulations to Mikhail Gorbachev on his anniversary!

You could hear the voice of history – such a lot is cast not to each politician. And you did not just hear it, but responded to it, knowing that people can hear the voice of history in a different way, or not hear it at all. And yet, you gave people a chance. Some accepted it and will always be grateful to you for it. Others were not ready to accept freedom. But you were the first politician who gave people the choice. Read more »

Greetings from Grigory Yavlinsky, 02.03.2016

Dear Sergei Adamovich,

Happy Birthday!

Your ideas on politics, how to achieve goals are part of your personality as your biography, your friends and deeds. We value you and your desire to convey your point of view to your fellow party members and join the discussion. Sometimes we do not agree in certain issues, but we always listen to your words and draw conclusions. I wish you health, strength and full of life.

With gratitude and respect,

Grigory Yavlinsky

Press release, Video, 28 February 2016

Politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky, who was officially announced presidential candidate from YABLOKO by the party Congress on 28 February, delivered his keynote speech. He stressed that frustration and apathy of people in the future were a rival as serious as Vladimir Putin and his system. According to Yavlinsky, the reason for this is that people with their basic needs and interests were never in the focus of the state policy. Yavlinsky announced that his goal would be to conduct reforms for the majority, and the national idea would be respect for a person. Read more »

Press release, 02.03.2016

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, YABLOKO’s Gender faction will conduct a rally for equal rights and opportunities for women. Head of the Gender faction and deputy Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Grigory Semyonov, Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Youth Nikolai Kavkazsky, party activists and supporters will participated in the rally. Read more »

Press Release, 29.02.2016

The YABLOKO party demands from Yury Chaika, Prosecutor General of Russia, that he makes a query to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Karelia so that to get the files on the criminal case raised against YABLOKO members in Karelia, examine the validity of the charges and take steps to end this politically motivated prosecution of YABLOKO members. The statement on the inadmissibility of the use of the law enforcement in the political struggle in Karelia was unanimously adopted by the YABLOKO Congress on 28 February. Read more »