Statement by YABLOKO Political Committee, 16.11.2015

Russia’s political leaders initiated a one-sided interference into the Syrian armed conflict on one of the sides without coordinating it with the potential allies. This interference is accompanied by tough ideological anti-Americanism, anti-European and self-isolating foreign policy, and a sustainably antidemocratic model within the country, when the propaganda firmly identifies patriotism with chauvinistic veneration of the authorities. Read more »

Press release, 23.11.2015

Sergei Mitrokhin demanded that the governor of St.Petersburg and the regional Office of the Federal Antimonopolty Service must investigate the procurement of goods for schools at the sum of 131.9 million rubles on suspicion of corruption. Read more »

Press release, 15.11.2015

On November 15 YABLOKO finished the action in memory of the defenders of democratic Russia, which had been interrupted by police earlier. Read more »

Press release, 18.11.2015

The Moscow Presnensky Court dismissed the two cases against Sergei Mitrokhin submitted to court by Moscow police for alleged “violations” by the YABLOKO leader during a remembrance action devoted to those who defended democratic Russia against Bolsheviks in 1917. Read more »

Vedomosti, 16.11.2015

By Grigory Yavlinsky

First, we can hope that now it is clear to all where the enemy is. Everyone in Russia (except those who complete lost heads in their hatred of the West, but there are not so many such people) feels the blows of mortal danger coming to us from the Paris events together with a fresh trauma from the [Russian aircraft crash] over the Sinai. Read more »

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 13.11.2015

The YABLOKO party demands that the President of the Republic of Ingushetia must stop reprisals against the human rights defenders. Read more »

Press release, 14.10.2015

YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva and the party activists laid flowers to the embassy of France in Moscow to commemorate the memory of terrorist attacks victims in Paris. Read more »

Press release, 14.11.15

“It is hard to find words. One must understand that the terrorists aim not only at frightening people but at spreading hatred, xenophobia and animosity among the Europeans. We cannot give in to provocations. We fear that the tragedy which took place last night will give rise to anti-migrant moods in Europe. This will be a present to the terrorists because it is exactly their goal. The world must unite to fight ISIS and other terrorist groups because terrorism is becoming one of the main threats to the civilisation,” said the activits.
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Press Release, 14.11.2015

Russia’s response to the terrorist attacks in Paris should be immediate joining the international coalition combatting the terrorists from the Islamic state (IS) in Syria, said YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky answering journalists’ questions. Read more »

14.11.2015

On behalf of the YABLOKO party, I am expressing our deepest condolences to the relatives and next of kin the victims of the acts of terror in Paris and all those affected by the results of these barbaric action, to all the French people. We are mourning the victims with you.

I am certain that the response to this enormous crime should be intensification of the efforts by the entire world community in the fight against international terrorism, the real world evil.

Sincerely,

Sergei Mitrokhin,

YABLOKO Chairman

14,11.2015
I am expressing my deepest condolences to families and friends of the victims of the terrorist attacks, all the French people, the Government and President of France. This horrible crime can not be justified. We stand together with the people of France in their resistance to the world terrorism

Sincerely,
Grigory Yavlinsky

14.11.2015
Anatoly Golov, co-Chair of the Social-Democratic Faction of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO, has sent a letter to the Socialist Party, France, expressing condolences on the acts of terror in Paris.
“Please, receive our condolences on the horrible acts of terror taking the lives of residents of Paris. Both you and us suffered victims in the undeclared war against the civilisation. We express our solidarity with you,” runs the letter.

Press Release, 12.11. 2015

YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin demands to open a criminal case against the policemen who detained him on 7 November (the anniversary of the October Revolution – the Bolshevisks’ coup d’etat of 1917) during the action in memory of cadets and officers who fought against the Bolshviks in 1917. Read more »

Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Condolences from Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 11.11.2015

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO expresses deep condolences at the death of Helmut Schmidt to the German people, his family, friends and his colleagues on the social-liberal coalition in the German government. Read more »

Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, 09.11.2015

Placing monuments to Joseph Stalin in the regions of Russia is part of the Communist party (CPRF) election campaign. Every day we receive messages about the erection or preparation to install busts to the the executioner in the regions of Russia. The busts were placed in Penza, Stavropol, Liptesk, Shelanger village in the Republic of Mari El, the city of Belorechenskoye in the Krasnodar Territory. Ceremonies dedicated to the bust erection took place in the city of Svetlogorsk, the Stavropol Territory, and deputies of of the Stavropol Territory Duma participated in them. Read more »

Press Release, 10.11.2015

District Police Department Arbat is charging YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin with violating the rules of conducting “mass-scale events” Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code) and “defiance of a police lawful order or a demand” (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Offences Code). The latter envisages up to 15 days of administrative arrest. Read more »

Press Release, 09.11.2015

On 10 November, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will hear the appeal of public figures against the refusal to recognize the presidential decree to classify military casualties in peacetime unlawful. Read more »

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Guberniya Daily | 07/11/2015

Residents of Petrozavodsk came to a rally in support of Evgenia Sukhorukova today with the slogans “A sentence to Sukhorukova is a sentence o the whole of Karelia!” , “Evigenia, we are with you!” “[Governor] Khudilainen to dismissal!” Despite Saturday and bad weather about a thousand people came to express their civil position. The participants of the rally consider the sentence to Evgenia Sukhorukova unfair. All those who are against political reprisals in Karelia came to the rally. Read more »

Liberal International, 08.11.2015

“In Liberal International we are shocked by the short-time arrest of Sergei Mitrokhin, chairman of our member party in Russia – Yabloko,” said Markus Löning, Vice President on the LI Bureau and Chairman of the LI Human Rights Committee, in reaction to this weekend’s news from Moscow. Read more »