Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
According to Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly, politics led to situation when modern solutions could no longer be taken in the economy and everyday life. He made such a statement at a press conference held in the Rosbalt news agency in St. Petersburg. Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Kobrinsky, YABLOKO members of the Legislative Assembly, drew the results of the work of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in 2011 – 2016.Read more »
This day 18 years ago Larisa Yudina, the Editor-in-Chief of the Sovetskaya Kalmykia newspaper and the leader of the regional YABLOKO branch, was murdered in Elista, the Republic of Kalmykia. It turned out that an assistant of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the then President of Kalmykia, was among the murderers. Due to the public outcry those who committed the crime were arrested and convicted. However, the investigation failed to find those who ordered the murder. YABLOKO still insists that the ex President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was involved in the crime. Read more »
Press release, 07.06.2016
A meeting of the party Federal Political Committee took place on Saturday, 4 June. The issues of the tactics and strategics of the 2016 election campaign, the federal candidates’ list and the list of party candidates in the single mandate constituencies were discussed at the meeting. The final decisions will be made at the party congress in June.
Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, 06.06.2016
The YABLOKO party continues preparing for the State Duma elections. And a question from our voters on “What will the the presence of the party faction in the State Duma change?” sounds quite correct. At the moment the [ruling] United Russia’s deputies and their obedient satellites [from other three factions] make the majority in the Duma. All the most inhuman laws were adopted by the United Russia party together with the Communist Party, the LDPR and Just Russia. Thought not a long time ago these parties identified themselves as an opposition. Read more »
NHC, 24.05.2016
The Boris Nemtsov Foundation presents an annual award to a person who is particularly committed to fighting for the freedom of expression and helping those who are persecuted on political, racial or religious grounds in Russia. The first prize is given to the opposition politician Lev Shlosberg for his fight for democratic values in the Russian Federation. Read more »
Blog post by Alexander Kuznetsov, co-Chair of YABLOKO Socio-Democratic Faction, 6.06.2016
A work-to-the-rule strike – work with strict observance of all the labour protection requirements – has been going on at the Kachkanar Mining and Refining Plant. Read more »
Forum “The New Era of Journalism: Farewell to the Mainstream” [is being held] in Moscow. I wonder what do they mean by a “farewell to the mainstream”? Whether it is goodbye to the endless lies in the mass media or the final farewell to the truth? Read more »
Member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Chair of the Moscow party branch Sergei Mitrokhin arrived at the Torfyanka park in northeastern Moscow to support the local resident, who are protesting against the illegal attempts to construct an Orthodox church in the territory of the park.Read more »
On 1 June, the conference of the Dagestan branch of YABLOKO elected Albert Esedov, famous regional journalist and public activist, Chairman of the party branch. Read more »
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. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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. Read more »
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