Press Release, 26.01.2016

UPD. 14:50. Sergei Mitrokhin released. Antonov-Ovseyenko and Belyansky still remain in the police. Mitrokhin accused of violation of the order of organisation of public actions (article 20.2 of the Administrative Violation Code of Russia).

UPD. 14:40. The lawyer is not allowed to enter the police department.

UPD. 12:40. Journalists are not allowed to enter the Kitai-Gorod police department under a pretext that it is a “high security facility”.

UPD. 12:30. Sergei Mitrokhin, Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko and Stanislav Belyansky brought to the Kitai-Gorod police department, the police took away their mobile telephones.

Today, approximately at 12:00, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee, was detained by the President’s Administration before the action for the resignation of head of Administration of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. He was taken to the police station Kitai-Gorod. Read more »

Press release, 25.01.2016

On 23 January, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally against political reprisals and in support of Ildar Dadin and other political prisoners. About 700 people came to take part in the action. Read more »

Press Release, 25.01.2016

On 27 January, on the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party will lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Read more »

Press Release, 25.01.2016

On 28 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth will show a movie called Wakolda (The German Doctor) in YABLOKO main office. The historic drama directed by Lucía Puenzo tells about the life of the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, after his escape to Latin America. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Read more »

Press Release, 24.01.2016

On 23 January YABLOKO held this year’s first meeting of its Federal Political Committee (FPC). The meeting was devoted to the upcoming second phase of the party Congress that has to take place in February. The FPC considered the electoral programme and the coalition policies. Read more »

The decision can be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia through the Petrozavodsk City Court

TASS, 21.01.2016

The Petrozavodsk City Court confirmed the dismissal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, [initiated by deputies of the Petrozavodsk City Council]. This was reported by the correspondent of the TASS information agency from the court room. “The court has decided to dismiss the suit [of Galina Shirshina to the city councilors]. The decision can be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia through the Petrozavodsk City Court,” Judge Elena Lazareva announced.

Photo: Igor Podgorny/TASS

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Press Release, 22.01.2016

On 26 January, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will hold one-person pickets for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the administration of Chechnya. The action will take place by the Presidential Administration. The authorities of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to give a permission to YABLOKO to hold a mass picket by the office of Representation of the Republic of Chechnya. Read more »

Press Release, 20.01.2016

On January 26, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will conduct a picket for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of administration of Chechnya. The picket will be held by the office of representation of the Republic of Chechnya in Moscow. Read more »

Novaya Gazeta, 18.01.2016

Photo: Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Photo by RIA Novosti

Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina. The TASS agency informs that the motion on registration of the initiative group for conducting a local referendum has been submitted to the territorial electoral commission. Read more »

Press Release, 19.01.2016

On 19 January, YABLOKO leaders and activists laid flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street. Markelov and Baburova were murdered in the centre of Moscow in plain daylight on 19 January 19, 2009, shot in the head by a gunman. Read more »

YABLOKO expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia
18.01.2016

The YABLOKO party expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia. Valery Borschyov, one of the initiators of the statement ad member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, signed the statement on behalf of YABLOKO’s leadership.
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Press release based on Elizaveta Belova’s article, ZakS.Ru, 15.01.2015

Boris Vishnevsky, YABLOKO’s deputy in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, won the contest The St.Petersburg citizen in the nomination “historic preservation”. Over 15 thousand people voted on social media and 48,3 percent supported Boris Vishnevsky against Natalia Sivokhina and Marianna Alferova. Read more »

Press release, 18.01.2016
On 18 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth conducted a series of one-person picketing against the Communist Party’s (CPRF) bill prohibiting to come out as gay. The activists claim that the government must not interfere in the private life of people. They held picketing outside the Communist Party office with the picture of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing leader of the German Democratic Republic Erich Honecker. The placard said “CPRF, Brezhnev is ashamed of you. One cannot prohibit love!”.

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Press Release, 18.01.2016

Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service and member of YABLOKO’s Political Party, forwarded a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev informing Prime Minister about a catastrophic situation in Russian pharmaceuticals market. Read more »

Press Release, 18.01.2016

Tomorrow, on 19 January deputy chairs of the party Nikolai Rybakov and Alexander Gnezdilov and YABLOKO activists will lay flowers to the place of where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street. Read more »

Congratulations, 17.01.2016
On 17 January, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee Alexai Arbatov celebrated his 65 birthday. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and Chair of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky congratulated him. Read more »

Press Release, 14.01.2016

Today the Pskov Regional Court has rejected the appeal of Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov region branch of YABLOKO and member of the Political Committee of the party, on termination of his regional MP proxies by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region and has upheld the decision of the Pskov City Court of 21 October, 2015. Shlosberg will file a cassational appeal to the Supreme Court after he receives the decision of the court. Read more »

By Grigory Yavlinsky, 29.12.2015

The Ladmarks

The main events of the year were political reprisals against the dissenting: the murder of Boris Nemtsov and severe poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza who only miraculously escaped death.

The point of this year – the toughest pressure on the civil society for the past 30 years, the stake on the use of force in domestic and foreign polices – was focused in the very beginning [of the year]: the tragedy of February 27 [the murder of Boris Nemtsov]. Read more »

Liberal International, 14.01.2016
XVIII Congress of the LI full member from Russia “Yabloko” elected Emilia Slabunova, member of the regional parliament of the Republic of Karelia, as the new party President. With this groundbreaking development Mrs Slabunova stands as the first female leader of a Russian political party and for the first time in the political history of modern Russia a party has decided to limit the tenure of its chairman to two terms. Read more »