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 activists of the Tomsk branch of YABLOKO conducted a picket under the slogan “Your vote counts”. 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 »

Press Release, 18.04.2016

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 »

Press release, 18.04.2016

On 18 April, the activists of the Amur Region branch of YABLOKO called the citizens of Blagoveshchensk to participate in the coming parliamentary elections that will take place on 18 September, 2016. The party activists handed out over 2,000 leaflets. Read more »

Press release, 13.04.2016
On 12 April, former Minister of the Interior of Germany Gerhart Baum gave a public lecture on freedom and security in the Boris Yeltsin Centre in the city of Yekaterinburg (the capital of the Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals). Leader of YABLOKO’s regional branch Yuri Pereverzev and party activist Elena Krasulina attended the lecture. Read more »

YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov’s speech on Channel One, 12.04.2016
Nikolai Rybakov: I would like to comment on the history books issue. In my opinion, the main idea of teaching history at school is to teach a person to acquire information critically and to analyse the information. Wait a minute, please. My next point concerns historic facts. In the history of Russia there was an outstanding writer who used to say, it is not a word for word quotation, but the point is that historians work with documents and the documents, especially during the periods of war, are created not for the purpose of historical justice or truth but to satisfy the commanders. Therefore one should consider all the documents more than critically. I have just quoted Lev Tolstoy. Read more »

Press release, 13.04.2016

Ex leader of the regional branch of the Committee against Torture Vechyaslav Dudin was elected Chair of the Orenburg Region branch of YABLOKO [the region in southern Russia, the Urals]. Read more »

Press release, 11.04.2016
St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO Youth forwarded an appeal to city Ombudsman Alexander Shishlov calling to protect the rights and lawful interests of an underage student. Read more »

Press release, 12.04.2016
On 11 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO conducted a rally in support of Victor Kransnov who is charged with offending the feelings of religious believers. The rally was organised by Kirill Bobro, local YABLOKO Youth leader. Read more »

Congratulations from Emilia Slabunova, 10.04.2016

Dear Grigory Alekseyevich!

Let me congratulate you on your Birthday on behalf of all YABLOKO members and supporters! Read more »

06.04.2016
Nikolai Rybakov: First of all. All the war crimes must be investigated and the guilty must be punished. End of story. There is nothing to discuss here. I believe, it would have been better if the investigation was carried out by the international institutions and, by all means, the Russian Federation must participate in it. The investigation must be acknowledged by the world community.

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Press release, 05.04.2016
Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and YABLOKO Bureau member, claims that the candidacy for the post of Ombudsperson must be discussed by the civil society. The human rights defender forwarded an appropriate application to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Read more »

Press release, 08.04.2016
On 8 April, YABLOKO Youth activits conducted a series of one-person pickets outside the Presidential Administration protesting against the creation of the National Guard. The activits claim that the true aim of the new structure is to suppress opposition demonstrations. Read more »

Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 07.04.2016

— You keep money in an offshore! — journalists said.

— We know it, — the Russian government responded.

And they did not lie here. A rare case.

(The style reminiscent of classics:

– What happened to the submarine?

– She drowned.

We have seen this. Creative cynicism.) Read more »