Grigory Yavlinsky visited Ivanovo region
Press release, 10.09.2015
Grigory Yavlinsky visited the Ivanovo region to support YABLOKO candidates to the city parliaments in the coming elections of September 13, 2015.
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Posted: September 10th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Sergei Mitrokhin supported candidates to Vladimir City Council
Press release, 10.09.2015
On September 9, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin visited the city of Vladimir, the Vladimir region, where he had a meeting with YABLOKO candidates to the City Council, participated in the press-conference dedicated to the coming elections and met the students of a local college.
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Posted: September 10th, 2015 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Mitrokhin demands to investigate land plots fraud on behalf of Communist party candidates
Press release, 09.09.2015
YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an application to Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bustrikin demanding to investigate the involvement of the Communist party candidates in the land plots fraud in the Novosibirsk region. Read more »
Posted: September 9th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Deputy Chair of Stavropol YABLOKO branch severely beaten
Press release, 08.09.2015
Deputy Chair of the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Vasily Pavlov was severely beaten by a group of unknown men before witnesses. He has a cough fracture and cerebral commotion with the hematoma of the right eye. Read more »
Posted: September 8th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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The lies of Navalny, Volkov, Yashin
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog, 01.09.2015
The activists of our party are gradually getting annoyed with the campaign of lies which has been started against us by the representatives of PARNAS, the Progress Party and the coalition founded by them together.
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Posted: September 7th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Political prisoner Maxim Petlin released from prison
Press relese, 02.09.2015
Last week Maxim Petlin, former Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO was released from prison where he served 2,5 years.
On March 21, 2013, the Sverdlovsk Region Court sentenced Maxim Petlin to three years of imprisonment. Petlin was accused of allegedly demanding a 3,000,000 roubles bribe from ZAO Forum Group for his obligation to stop public protests against cutting of the city park by the company and building a shopping center in its place.
YABLOKO claim that the prosecution of Maxim Petlin is related to his political activities, as it was on Petlin’s inquiry that a criminal case against Yekaterinburg Water Canal was filed. Petlin had been investigating the corruption schemes of the company’s management since 2009.
Posted: September 2nd, 2015 under Human Rights, Maxim Petlin case.
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Sergei Mitrokhin made a working visit to Voronezh
Press release, 31.08.2015
On August 29-30, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin made a working visit to Voronezh where he met the candidates to the Voronezh City Duma and Duma of the Voronezh region. Mitrokhin also conducted an inspection in the Podgornoye district of the city where an illegal forest destruction is taking place.
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Posted: September 1st, 2015 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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YABLOKO picketing in Ivanovo attacked
Press release, 31.08.2015
On August 28, an unknown man attacked YABLOKO picketing in Ivanovo. As a result, 20 flags with the party symbolic were broken. Moreover, the attacker offended the participants of the action and threatened with bodily harm.
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Posted: September 1st, 2015 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Chair of Karelia branch of YABLOKO released from pretrial detention centre in Finland
Press release, 28.08.2015
Yesterday Chair of the Karelia branch of YABLOKO, party Political Committee member and entrepreneur Vasily Popov was detained by the police of Finland in Joensuu. According to the politician, the police arrived at his country house. Popov was taken to the pretrial detention centre in Joensuu where he spent the night. He was allowed to keep the phone. Read more »
Posted: August 28th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Chair of Karelia branch of YABLOKO arrested in Finland
Press release, 27.08.2015
Chair of the Karelia branch of YABLOKO and entrepreneur Vasily Popov was detained by the police of Finland in Joensuu. According to the politician, the police arrived at his country house. At the moment he is at the pre-trail detention centre in Joensuu. He was allowed to keep the phone. Read more »
Posted: August 28th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Mitrokhin: If democracy doesn’t win, Russia will lose
Press release, 21.08.2015
On August 22, the Russian flag day, a rally in memory to the events of the coup of 1991 took place. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and member of YABLOKO Policial Committee Victor Sheinis participated in the action. The demonstration started from the White House [parliament building] and ended by the monument to the democracy defenders where the rally began. The participants commemorated the memeory of those who died during the events of 1991 with a minute of silence.
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Posted: August 26th, 2015 under History.
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YABLOKO commemorated memory of White House defenders
Press release, 21.08.2015
On August 21, YABLOKO activists participated in the memorial action dedicated to the defenders of the White House [parliament building] who had died during the coup of 1991. The action was organized by the participants of the coup: human rights defenders and civil activists.
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Posted: August 25th, 2015 under History.
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Journalist Andrei Nekrasov may get political asylum in Lithuania
Press release, 12.08.2015
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin expressed his satisfaction with the fact that Andrei Nekrasov, journalist from Udmuria Republic, Russia, obtained an opportunity to get political asylum in Lithuania. Today Cyprus refused to extradite Nekrasov to Russia and took a decision to return him to Vilnus. Read more »
Posted: August 13th, 2015 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Journalist Andrei Nekrasov must not become another political prisoner
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 11.08.2015
It has been already a month since journalist Andrei Nekrasov is imprisoned.
On July 15, oppositional blogger and journalist from Udmurtia was put in prison in Nicosia, Cyprus, in connection with Russia’s request on his extradition. Nekrasov is well-known in Udmurtia for his investigations of corrupt practices of the regional bureaucracy and functionaries from the ruling party. Read more »
Posted: August 12th, 2015 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO conducted picketing against removal of opposition candidates from elections
Press release, 07.08.2015
YABLOKO conducted picketing against the denial of election commissions to register opposition candidates at the regional elections 2015. The action took place outside the Central Election Commission, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva participated in it.
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Posted: August 9th, 2015 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Deputies of YABLOKO faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly addressed President with request to annul decree on destruction of sanctioned food products
Press release, 07.08.2015
Deputies of St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Kobrinsky forwarded a letter to President Putin with the request to annul the decree on the destruction of sunctioned food products. Read more »
Posted: August 9th, 2015 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Voronezh branch of YABLOKO demands to investigate murder of Timur Kuashev
Press release, 05.08.2015
The Voronezh branch of YABLOKO conducted picketing demanding to investigate murder of opposition journalist Timur Kuashev. Chair of North Ossetia Youth YABLOKO branch Alan Alikov participated in the action. The activists also collected signatures against military intervention to Ukraine.
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Posted: August 6th, 2015 under Human Rights, Timur Kuashev's case.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Novosibirsk has the tradition of independent opinion and the culture of self-decision
Press release, 04.08.2015
On August 3-4, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin had a working visit to Novosibirsk. He had a meeting with the activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO, discussed the problem issues with the citizens, met the activists of PARNAS who had announced a hunger strike, got to know the work of Technopark and participated I the rally and concert conducted by the local YABLOKO branch.
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Posted: August 5th, 2015 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Farm of YABLOKO candidate to Legislative Assembly of Novosibirsk region burnt down
Press release, 03.08.2015
The farm of Valeri Turkov, YABLOKO candidate to the Legislative Assmeby of the Novosibirsk region, was burnt down in the Novosibirsk region on August 2. The owner suspects that it was a planned arson. YABLOKO doesn’t exclude the possibility of political persecution. However, the results of expert examination aren’t ready yet.

Posted: August 5th, 2015 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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YABLOKO supported the protest of street musicians
Press release, 30.07.2015
Today street musicians conducted a series of one-person picketing against the restriction of artistic expression. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin supported them.
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Posted: August 5th, 2015 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Street Actions.
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