Court hearing on Evgeny Vitishko case postponed till August 4
Press Release, 16.07.2014
The court hearing on Evgeny Vitishko case was postponed till August 4 since the Tambov penal colony settlement No 2 didn’t manage to provide conference communication with Vitishko. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who arrived at the court hearing announced about this.

Mikhail Savva, Vladimir Ryzhayev, Sergei Mitrokhin
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Posted: July 17th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Nikolai Kavkazsky protested against the construction of a metro station
Press Release, 15.07.2014
YABLOKO’s candidate to the Moscow City Duma deputy Nikolai Kavkazsky participated in a picket against the plans of the Moscow Government to construct the third interchange circuit of the metro through the Sokolniky station. About sixty local residents participated in the action. The construction in that place will destroy the lime avenue, create traffic problems in the district for several years and do damage to the foundations of the apartment blocks.
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Posted: July 16th, 2014 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The tragedies in the Moscow metro continue but their causes aren’t investigated
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 15.07.2014
On behalf of the YABLOKO party I express deep condolences to the relatives of those who who died in the Moscow metro today. I wish a quick recovery to the casualties. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2014 under Governance, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO leader considers Valeria Novodvorskaya one of the most honest democrats in Russia
Interfax,12.07.2014
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin considers the death of the dissident and politician Valeria Novodvorskaya a loss for Russia’s democratic movement. “The moral levels and criteria are degrading very intensively within the modern opposition movement. Valeria Ilyinichna had always been one of the guarantors of these criteria. Her death is a big loss for the democratic movement”, said Sergei Mitrokhin to the Interfax news agency. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2014 under History.
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Condolences in connection with the death of Valeria Novodvorskaya
From Sergei Ivanenko, Sergei Mitrokhin, Grigory Yavlinsky, 12.07.2014
Valeria Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a bright, passionate person uncomfortable in communication but deeply sincere and naive who couldn’t possible lie and stretch the truth. Read more »
Posted: July 14th, 2014 under Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office has been trying to form a well-controlled Moscow City Duma
Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 10.07.2014
The Moscow Mayor’s Office has been using journalists and commentators so that to convince Muscovites that elections to the Moscow City Duma will be fair and free of fraud and dirty tricks. Read more »
Posted: July 12th, 2014 under Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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The toponymy of Moscow should be the panthen of heroes not the panopticon of villains
Statement by the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 11.07.2014
The Moscow branch of YABLOKO welcomes the decision of the Moscow Government to rename Ulitsa Podbelskogo metro station into Bulvar Rokossovskogo. Read more »
Posted: July 12th, 2014 under History, Understanding Russia.
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Residents of Moscow region demanded resignation of governor Vorobyev
Press Release, 10.07.2014
The residents of the Moscow region participated in a protest action against corruption and in support of fair elections conducted by YABLOKO and Anti-corruption front of the Moscow region. The participants of the action also demanded the resignation of governor Vorobyev.
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Posted: July 10th, 2014 under Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO protested against the useless activites of Federation Council
Press Release, 09.07.2014
YABLOKO’s activists conducted picketing against the slapdash activities of the Federation Council [the upper house of Parliament] outside the Parliament building today. The consideration of the 68 bills was on the preliminary agenda and on the final there were 85 bills. The senators plan to consider all of them in one day.
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Posted: July 9th, 2014 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Chair of the Dagestan branch of YABLOKO detained without any reasons
Press Release, 08.07.2014
Chair of the Dagestan branch of YABLOKO Artur Babayev was detained in Makhachkala. The police checked his name against the database and then released him without any explanations. Read more »
Posted: July 9th, 2014 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO to protest against the useless activites of Federation Council
Press Release, 08.07.2014
On July 9 YABLOKO activists will picket the Federation Council[the upper house of Parliament] which will conduct the last meeting of the spring session. Read more »
Posted: July 8th, 2014 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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A true Hero of Russia
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 03.07.2014
Today is the birthday of Yevgeny Vitishko.
If our country was headed by a true patriot, he would have definitely awarded Yevgeny Vitishko with the ‘Hero of Russia’ Star. However, then Vitishko would not have been in a penal colony, and thus part of his heroic deed would not have been done.
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Posted: July 8th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO demands to file a criminal case against those who attacked candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy Vera Kichanova
Press Release, 07.07.2014
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an appeal to the Main military investigation office of the Investigative Committee demanding to conduct a check and take measures against the security officers of a shopping centre who attacked the candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy Vera Kichanova when she collected signatures for the registration.
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Posted: July 8th, 2014 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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Anatoly Golov: “Our task is to make the authorities respect citizens”
Press Release, 07.07.2014
Today Anatoly Golov submitted to the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission his documents for registration as candidate for St. Petersburg governor from the YABLOKO party.
Anatoly Goalov signed a statement of consent to run in the elections in the Mariynsky Palace, and also handed to the Electoral Commission members the decision of the conference of St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO of his nomination candidate for governor.
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Posted: July 7th, 2014 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, St.Petersburg Gubernatorial Elections 2014.
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YABLOKO nominated candidates to run in the elections in the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 01.07.2014
YABLOKO Federal Bureau nominated candidates to run for duties of the city of Yeysk, Dolzhansky and Kukharivsky urban settlements and for the mayor of the Dolzhanskaya Cossak village. Read more »
Posted: July 4th, 2014 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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YABLOKO’s one-person picketing outside administrative board of the Krilatskoye district sabotaged
Press Release, 03.07.2014
YABLOKO activists picketed the administrative board of the Krilatskoye district, Moscow, demanding to return the information materials of Irina Kopkina, YABLOKO’s candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy. Yesterday they picketed the Prefecture of the North-West Administrative District. Last week YABLOKO received an anonymous phone call from a voter who said that the stolen newspapers of the YABLOKO party were kept in the building of the administrative board of the district.

Irina Kalmykova. The placard runs “Prefecture of North West Administrative District, return the stolen newspapers” and shows photos of the stolen newspapers which were found in the administrative board
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Posted: July 3rd, 2014 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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YABLOKO nominated Anatoly Golov to run in St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections
Press Release, 03.07.2014
St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO nominated Anatoly Golov, Co-Chair of the Consumers’ Union of Russia, candidate in St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections. Read more »
Posted: July 3rd, 2014 under Elections, St.Petersburg Gubernatorial Elections 2014.
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Mikhail Petrov, YABLOKO member of the Moscow Electoral Commission: The decision of electoral commission to check all 100 per cent of signatures put in favour of candidates will hit not only the candidates from the opposition intending to run in the Moscow parliamentary elections
Press Release, 03.07.2014
Mikhail Petrov, YABLOKO member of the Moscow Electoral Commission said that the decision of Moscow district electoral commissions to check all 100 per cent of signatures put in favour of candidates is targeted against the candidates from the opposition intending to run in the Moscow parliamentary elections. According to the recent law, all the candidates intending to run independently or from the parties that obtained less than 3 per cent of the vote have to gather from 5,000 to 6,000 signatures of Muscovites in favour of their nomination. YABLOKO as a party surpassing the 3 per cent barrier does not have to collect signatures in favour of its candidates.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2014 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The bill initiated by the Communist Party will allow only few people to become landlords
Press release, 30.06.2014
Grigory Yavlinsky, economist and author of the “Land-Houses-Roads” programme believes that individual housing construction based on the law “On the Patrimonial Estates” initiated by the Communist Party will not become mass-scale. (Ed. The programme envisages boosting of domestic demand via mass-scale housing construction by population on the plots of land granted to people for free by the state, the state should also provide all the necessary infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water and gas to these plots of land. This would allow to provide residential housing to 14 million families and create 2 million jobs.) Read more »
Posted: July 3rd, 2014 under Economy.
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YABLOKO’s Political Committee: an international conference will mark the beginning of a peace policy towards Ukraine
Press release, 29.06.2014
Convening an international conference will mark the beginning of a peace policy towards Ukraine. The Russian authorities must refuse to support the expansion of the civil war in the East Ukraine, war propaganda in the state-owned media and stop spreading the myths about the dangers of the European course of development for Ukraine and Russia, runs the statement adopted by YABLOKO’s Political Committee on Saturday. Read more »
Posted: July 3rd, 2014 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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