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 »

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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 »

Press release,07.11.2015

On October 7, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally arrested during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Mitrokhin was released after several hours of arrest only after interference of Andrei Babushkin, famous human rights defender in Russia and member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Read more »

hro.org, 07.11.2015

Leader of the Russian democratic YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally detained in Moscow on October 7, 2015. He was arrested during the action in memory of the officers and military cadets (junkers) who were killed when defending the democratic Russia in 1917. Read more »

Press release, 07.11.2015
Brutal arrest of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Read more »

Press release, 02.10.2015
Today, on November 2, the Pretrozavodsk city court of the Republic of Karelia gave Evgenia Sukhorukova, deputy mayor of Petrozavodsk, member of YABLOKO regional branch team, a three years suspended sentence with one year probation period for abuse of official authority causing heavy consequences as deputy head of the Prionezhsky district, Petrozavodsk. Read more »

Press Release, 02.11.2015

Sergei Mitrokhin demands an official investigation on the detention of Natalia Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, on the justification of conducting investigation against her at night time, pressure on her and abandoning her without medical care. YABLOKO leader urges that those guilty of such abuse of power should be brought to responsibility. Read more »

Press Release, 02.11.2015

YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on another victory in passing to Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds. Read more »

Press Release, 29.10.2015

YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the annual memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. The action was organised on the threshold of October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, established in 1974 by Soviet political prisoners who conducted hunger strikes and lit candles in memory of the victims on that day. The action took place near the FSB (former KGB) building at Lubyanka square by the Solovetsky stone which had been brought from the Solovetsky Islands, the location of the Solovki prison camp which was part of the Soviet Gulag system. Read more »

Press Release, 30.10.2015

Today, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky, laid flowers to the Solovetsky Stone in Lubyanka Square in Moscow. Yavlinsky said that the political terror that took the lives of millions of people was “the most terrible crime against Russia, against the future of our country.” Read more »