Press release, 29.02.2016
On 27 February, the Novosibirsk branch Of YABLOKO conducted actions to honour Boris Nemtsov. Read more »

Press release, 29.02.2016
On 27 February, police detained nine people including three YABLOKO members – Nikolai Kovalchuk, Vitaly Bakharyev and Victor Puziryev – who organised a demonstration to honour Boris Nemtsov in Kemerovo. Read more »

Press release, photographs, 28.02.2016
Today, on 28 February, YABLOKO Congress has supported the nomination of Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate for President of the Russian Federation. 135 delegates voted for nomination of Yavlinsky, one voted against. The guests of the Congress, politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov and Dmitry Gudkov also supported Yavlinsky’s candidacy. Read more »

Press release, 28.02.2016
Today independent politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov (former co-Chair of RPR-PARNAS) and Dmitry Gudkov (the only independent State Duma deputy) have supported Grigory Yavlinsky’s candidacy for the presidential elections of 2018. They made such statements at the YABLOKO Congress. Read more »

Press release, photographs, video, 27.02.2016
YABLOKO leaders and activists marched through Moscow to honour Boris Nemtsov. YABLOKO’s column carried a banner which said:”The party of peace is against war”. Read more »

Press release, 26.02.2016
YABLOKO Congress which will take place on 27-28 February in Novaya Moskva (New Moscow – the extension of the city’s boundaries to the south-west) and will discuss the substantive basis of the electoral strategy of the party at the parliamentary elections of 2016 together with the presidential elections of 2018. Read more »

Press release based on the statement by Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, 24.02.2016

On 24 February, Chair of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO Lev Shlosberg forwarded an application to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov Region demanding to dismantle the statue of Joseph Stalin. Shlosberg claims that all the officials who organised and authorised the installation of the bust of Stalin in the Pskov Region must be brought to responsibility. Read more »

Press release, 20.02.2016
On 20 February, Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists conducted a series of one-person pickets demanding that the Moscow City Property Department must return the premises to the Centre for the Adaptation and Training of Refugee Children. The Centre was evicted from its premises on Thursday. Read more »

Photo: Vasily Popov is going to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights

19.02.2016
A criminal case has been filed against him in Russia.

“The party will apply every effort to ensure Popov’s safety and will prove that the prosecution against him is politically motivated,” Emilia Slabunova commented. Read more »

Press release, 18.02.2016
On 18 February, a symbolic action in memory of small business took place in Moscow by the Department of Trade and Services of Moscow. Member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin laid flowers to the doors of the building and expressed his condolences to the entrepreneurs. Read more »

Press release, 17.02.2016

The deputies of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly voted against the bill on the election of the city parliament deputies in the third reading because, on the whole, they disapprove of the election concept proposed by the ruling United Russia party. Read more »

Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 15.02.2016

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO welcomes the proposal of Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, on recognition of the Russian language as an official language of the European Union. We consider this idea as the recognition of the importance of the Russian language for the world and the European culture in particular; the status of the Russian language as a world language; as well as its special role as the bridge language in Eastern Europe and all the post-Soviet space. Read more »

Press release, 16.02.2016
Today the State Duma Committee for Science and Education has considered the draft of the amendments to the Federal Law on Education submitted by Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chairperson and Deputy Chair of the Committee for Education, Culture, Sports and Matters Concerning Young Persons of the Karelian Legislative Assembly. Read more »

Press release, 16.02.2016
On 16 February, Victor Sheinis, a member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, economist and politician, has turned 85. YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova and Chair of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky congratulated him on his birthday. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 14.02.2016

“We rolled back to the times of a new Cold War,” such a vauge statement was made by Dmitry Medvedev in Munich, and all media wrote that Dmitry Mededev “had declared the start of the Cold War”. This means that the society is already prepared for a war, it is already on their mind… There is only a step from such a war on one’s mind to a real war, not a cold one. Read more »

Press release, 16.02.2016
On 14 February, a rally against an infill construction took place in the Tyoply Stan district, Moscow. Over 500 people came to protest against the plans to construct a multistory building right in the middle of the boulevard which divides two residential area. The participants of the action unveiled the documents that prove that the project was an unauthorized construction. Member of YABLOKO Federal Council Mikhail Menshikov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Grigory Semyonov, activists Igor Bakirov, Stanislav Belyansky, Vadim Boglovsky and Elena Rusakova also participated in the rally. Read more »

Press release, 16.02.2016

Tomorrow, on 16 February, YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova will submit a draft of the amendments to the Federal Law on Education to the State Duma Committee for Science and Education. Slabunova’s proposal will guarantee the access to education according to the single state educational standard for every child regardless of the region of residence. Read more »

Press release, 15.02.2016
Today, on 15 February, Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO Yuri Pereverzyev participated in a rally dedicated to the 27th anniversary of the Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. The rally took place in the city of Pervouralsk, the Sverdlosk Region. Read more »

Press release, 13.02.2016

“The only issue of current importance to us at the moment is to win the State Duma election of 18 September,” YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova said during the extended meeting of the Regional Council of the Moscow Region branch of the party. “I do not want to use such word combinations as “a successful campaign” and “successful participation”. We must aim at winning the elections. All the rest issues will be obscured for the next few months,” she stressed. Read more »

Press release, 12.02.2016

The activists of Moscow YABLOKO Youth conducted a one-person picket in support of Ildar Dadin, the political prisoner who had been charged with three years at a penal colony under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code for repeatedly breaking Russia’s protest laws. Dadin became the first politcal prisoner to be charged under this Article. The action took place outside the State Duma and the activists demanded that Article 212.1 must be abolished. Read more »