YABLOKO nominated candidates for pre-term elections in the Moscow Region
Press Release, January 14, 2014
The Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO nominated deserving candidates, who are able not only to win, but to implement the democratic policy, for the pre-term 2014 elections in the Moscow Region. Read more »
Posted: January 15th, 2014 under Regional and Local Elections.
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YABLOKO member entered working group under Omsk Ministry of Education
Press Release, January 14, 2014
Member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, member of the Non-parliamentary Parties’ Council in the Omsk region Elena Mitrofanova entered the working group on the provision of access to preschool education in the region. Elena Mitrofanova will represent the interests of the society in this organisation. Read more »
Posted: January 15th, 2014 under Education and Science, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Youth YABLOKO from Ivanovo brought presents to orphans
Press release, 13.01.2014
On Thursday, January 9, activists of the Youth YABLOKO in Ivanovo visited one of orphanages in Ivanovo and brought new year presents – toys and sweets to the children. Read more »
Posted: January 13th, 2014 under Charity.
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Committee Against Xenophobia to conduct its third meeting
Announcement, 13.01.2014
On January 14 the Committee Against Xenophobia will held its third meeting . It will be held at YABLOKO’s office at 7 p.m. Read more »
Posted: January 13th, 2014 under YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Such tragedies must not repeat
30.12.2013
Another terrible crime – an explosion in the bus in Volgograd – makes us once again demand from the authorities and the security services to intensify their efforts so that to ensure the security of Russian citizens.
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Posted: December 31st, 2013 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the merger of the Supreme Arbitration Court into the Supreme Court
Press Release, December 26, 2013
The merger of the Supreme Arbitration Court into the Supreme Court would result in impeding citizens’ access to justice and do irreparable damage to status of the judge, said Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. However most of the deputies of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly voted for the amendment to the Constitution. Read more »
Posted: December 27th, 2013 under Governance, Judiciary.
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The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO participated in the People’s Wrath rally
Press Release, December 27, 2013
The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO participated in the People’s Wrath rally in the city of Berdsk, Novosibirsk Region.
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Posted: December 27th, 2013 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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Youth YABLOKO conducted pickets in support of Evgeny Vitishko
Press Release, December 26, 2013
The Novosibirsk branch of Youth YABLOKO conducted pickets in support of the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko who was charged with three years of imprisonment. The activists held posters that said “Freedom to Evgeny Vitishko” both in Russian and in English and a hand-made maquette of the Olympic Rings made of barbed wire.
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Posted: December 26th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Sergei Mitrokhin visited Ulyanovsk
Press Release, December 25, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin visited Ulyanovsk where he had a meeting with small and medium-sized business owners, discussed the YABLOKO’s agenda with representative of the party’s regional branch, gave an interview to the local mass media and had a meeting with Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergei Morozov.

Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of the Ulyanovsk branch of YABLOKO Nikolai Kislitsky
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Posted: December 25th, 2013 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky on the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Press Release, December 22, 2013
YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky on the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: I am very glad that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is free now. Wishing good health to him, his relatives and next of kin. All that he said after he was released needs understanding and respect.
Posted: December 24th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO established the principles of coalition policy at municipal elections
Press Release, December 24, 2013
The Regional Council of the St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO established the principles of the party’s coalition policy at the coming municipal elections on September 14, 2014. Read more »
Posted: December 24th, 2013 under Coalition Policy, Elections.
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Alternative to Vladimir Putin
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site
December 17, 2013
The Federal Council of YABLOKO held last weekend caused a violent reaction because the party once again expressed its commitment to its basic principles marking them in a very distinct and even sharp form.
The European Way of Russia
Yes, we are democrats. But today anyone can call himself a democrat. Read more »
Posted: December 23rd, 2013 under Understanding Russia.
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Deputy Chair of YABLOKO’s regional branch pronounced the Politician of the Year
Press Release, December 23, 2013
Deputy Chair of the Arkhangelsk branch of YABLOKO Polina Shubina became winner of the award “Dot the i” in the nomination “The Politician of the Year” established by the political club “Points of view” and the Primorsky Territory Youth Council.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2013 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Evgeny Vitishko Has Become a Political Prisoner of the 2014 Olympics
Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus
December 20, 2013
Judge Milinchuk sentenced Vitishko – an activist of the Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus – to three years in a penal colony
At 18:45 local time in the Tuapse District Court, the hearing of Evgeny Vitishko, a well-known civic activist and council member of the Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus, was concluded. Judge Igor Milinchuk ordered the changing of Vitishko’s suspended sentence into three years at a penal colony. Vitishko has ten days to appeal and was not immediately taken into custody.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO picketed State Duma against Internet censorship law
Press Release, December 20, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and the party’s activists conducted a serious of one-person pickets against the bill which allows the state prosecutors to block websites containing “extremist” information without the judicial approval. The pickets took place outside the State Duma. YABLOKO activists held the posters that said “Stop destroying the Internet!”.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: the real and the rhetorical protest
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 19.12.2013
People must uphold the law as the walls of their city.
Heraclitus
Tomorrow the State Duma will adopt another law strangling our freedom. This time the law will be regulation of the Internet .
This will hit [the society] no less than the law [restricting] rallies and demonstrations adopted in June 2012. Read more »
Posted: December 20th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech.
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Political prisoner Nikolai Kavkazsky joined YABLOKO
Press Release, December 6, 2013
Human rights defender, political prisoner Nikolai Kavkazsky who was charged with the Bolotnaya Square Case joined the YABLOKO party.
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Posted: December 20th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Media merger risks further censorship in Russia
LI News, December 17, 2013
On the same day a media shake-up in Russia saw a merger of two pro-governmental news agencies, LI full member Yabloko has raised concerns about the liquidation of the Moscow Books Chamber, which comes as a consequence of from the same Presidential Decree to ‘improve the efficiency of public media’. Read more »
Posted: December 19th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia needs ‘refounding’ of the state on the basis of historical continuity and overcoming of a hundred years of turmoil
Press Release, December 17, 2013
Grigory Yavlinsky believes that refounding of Russia’s statehood on the basis of historical continuity is critically important. There are important pivotal points in Russia’s history that determine its modern development. Such a statement was made by Grigory Yavlinsky at the conference on history organized by YABLOKO and attended by the country’s leading historians.
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Posted: December 19th, 2013 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Let’s protect the Internet from pogrom!
Statement by YABLOKO’s Chairman, December 18, 2013
The State Duma passed the bill which allows the state prosecutors to block websites containing illegal information without the judicial approval in the first reading yesterday. Read more »
Posted: December 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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