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 »

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 »