Yabloko in Moscow and Russian regions invites all to participate in its actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.05.2025
Photo: The action in the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party
With each passing month, the number of political prisoners continues to grow. According to the Memorial human rights organisation, there are currently 952 political prisoners in Russia. In total, the human rights organisation believes more than 3,000 people have been deprived of their freedom for political reasons.
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Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Professor from St. Petersburg State University and Honorary Professor of Ryazan State University requested Konstantin Smirnov’s release from pre-trial detention centre
Internet media VidSboku, 20.05.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at one of the court hearings / Photo by internet media VidSboku
Professor of the Department of Arabic Philology at St. Petersburg State University and Ryazan native Mikhail Suvorov has sent an appeal vouching for Vidsboku (Side View) editor-in-chief Konstantin Smirnov – he requests changing his preventive measure to house arrest or any other not involving deprivation of liberty. The appeal is addressed to the Head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Ryazan Region, Oleg Vasilyev, investigator Dmitry Zhatkin, and the Soviet District Court of Ryazan. The collective appeal was also signed by representatives of the public, legal community, businesses, and culture.
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Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko calls on its members and supporters to become a Yabloko candidate for peace and freedom in the Ivanovo region in September municipal elections
Press Release, 19.05.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press service
The regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ivanovo region is preparing to participate in election campaigns of different levels and invites candidates and volunteers to cooperate.
Municipal elections in the Ivanovo region will be held in almost all cities and districts of the region. The key municipal elections will be elections of city council deputies in Ivanovo, Kineshma and Shuya. Deputies will be elected in 115 municipalities, including six urban districts and 109 settlements in the Ivanovo region, which means 1,331 deputy mandates.
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Posted: May 19th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Artur Gaiduk re-elected as Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 19.05.2025
Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team / Photo by the regional branch of the party
On 18 May, delegates of the 27th conference of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko elected its steering bodies.
Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, was re-elected Chairman of the regional branch for two years. Five current deputy chairs retained their positions: Lev Shlosberg, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Sofia Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky district in 2019-2023, Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district in 2019-2022, Alexander Konashenkov, deputy of the Gdov District Assembly, and head of the apparat of the regional branch of the party Yana Ivanova. Savely Mager from Velikiye Luki was elected the sixth deputy chairman.
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Posted: May 19th, 2025 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s web-site launches collection for dismantling Stalin bas-relief in Moscow metro
Press Release, 17.05.2025
Photo: Historian and human rights defender Yan Rachinsky signs the petition in the Moscow Yabloko office / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Immediately after it was reported on the plans of the Moscow Department of Transport to install a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin with the inscription “Gratitude of the people to the leader-commander” at the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow, the Yabloko party began collecting signatures in its Moscow office under an appeal to the Mayor’s Office demanding that these plans be abandoned.
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Posted: May 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Melkonyants sentenced to five years in prison in the “undesirable” organisation case. Commentaries by Yabloko leaders
Press Release, 14.05.2025
Photo: Grigory Melkonyants in the Basmanny Court, Moscow, at one of the hearings / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 May, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced electoral expert Grigory Melkonyants, Сo-Сhairman of the Golos independent election observers movement, to five years of imprisonment under the article on the activities of an “undesirable organisation”. Since August 2023, Melkonyants has been in pretrial detention. During the trial, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and the head of the Yabloko’s office Yevgenia Vlasova, who has been training election observers for many years, spoke in court in defence of Melkonyants. Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Yabloko Political Committee and a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, came to the court hearings twice – his reports in the status of the Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, prepared with the participation of Melkonyants, were attached to the case.
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Posted: May 14th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Moscow Yabloko protests against restoration of a bas-relief in a Moscow underground station depicting Joseph Stalin, and announces collection of signatures against this initiative
Press Release, 13.05.2025
Photo: A bas-relief “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow, dismantled in 1965/ Photo by Glavarchiv, Moscow
On 13 May, the Moscow branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to Maxim Liksutov, head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of Moscow. Yabloko demands from the Moscow authorities to abandon the initiative to restore the wall carving “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow. Yabloko has launched a collection of signatures against the restoration of the wall carving glorifying the tyrant.
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Posted: May 13th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposes to perpetuate the memory of Anatoly Marchenko, the last Soviet political prisoner who died in prison
Press Release, 13.05.2025
Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from open sources
Thanks to Anatoly Marchenko, Academician Andrei Sakharov was returned from exile and a state decision was made to release all political prisoners in the Soviet Union. From Marchenko’s book “My Testimony” Soviet and European societies learned about the lives of Soviet political prisoners in the post-Stalin period. The memory of the last deceased prisoner of the Soviet camps Anatoly Marchenko has not been perpetuated in any way in the toponymy of the cities where he was born and died – in Barabinsk and Chistopol. Yabloko proposes to correct this injustice.
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Posted: May 13th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On 9 May, the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II
Press Release, 9.05.2025
Moscow
The leaders and members of the Yabloko Party honoured the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg, as well as at memorials in other Russian cities.
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Posted: May 12th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko held a conference and elected the leaders of the branch
Press Release, 8.05.2025
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Anna Cherepanova was unanimously elected Chairperson of Novgorod Yabloko. The delegates of the Conference discussed plans for the next two years, participation in the elections in a situation when there are actually no elections and opposition and Yabloko members are pressed by the authorities.
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Posted: May 12th, 2025 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the war at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow
Press Release, 7.05.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov brought flowers from Yabloko to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
“Millions of people – soldiers and sailors, workers, front-line doctors and nurses, residents of besieged Leningrad, home front workers, concentration camp prisoners, and partisans – fought and gave their lives not only for Victory. They fought so that war would never again take fathers and sons, so that mothers would not receive funeral notices, so that cities would not lie in ruins.
Today, when blood is being shed in the world again, our duty is not only to remember the past, but also to fight for human life as the highest value on Earth.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Preobrazhenskoye and Vvedenskoye cemeteries in Moscow
Press Release, 7.05.2025
On 9 May, members and supporters of Yabloko will honour the memory of those killed in World War II at the Eternal Flame at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. We invite all our members and supporters to join the memorial event.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the future of Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025
After three years of war, our main task remains to achieve a ceasefire and stop the daily killing of people.
However, when this happens, the situation in the country will remain being extremely difficult, requiring responsible actions and an understanding of perspectives.
Besides serious economic problems accumulating since the beginning of the special military operation, the country will face new acute social problems.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Memory of Victory over fascism in World War II is the foundation of peace
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025
Victory over fascism is one of the key, meaningful events in the history of our country.
We bow our heads and honour the memory of those who died in the struggle for life, for our country, against the state misanthropic ideology of fascism, and the practices of physical destruction of defenceless people.
Our country paid a terrible price in this struggle. The official figure of losses, 27 million dead, is a scale that causes endless pain and is difficult to comprehend. This is a great tragedy for our people, the consequences of which we continue to feel.
We remember and will never forget our allies in the war against fascism, all the people of the world who were part of the anti-Hitler coalition. Ending the war and creating a new world order, the victors sought to unite humanity and prevent new wars in the future.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Not to miss the chance for peace after three years of tragedy!
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025
Photo by Maxim Guchek, RIA Novosti
A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, resolving contentious issues through negotiations is the basic position of the Yabloko party.
A cessation of hostilities remains the most urgent task for our country and for our party.
For three years and virtually alone, we have been defending this position which has been attacked from all sides.
In recent weeks, the situation has changed – now everyone is talking about a ceasefire, and high-level negotiations are underway. Recently, both the President of Russia and the President of Ukraine announced their readiness for a ceasefire and negotiations without preconditions.
This is a chance that cannot be missed. However, hostilities and daily killing of people continue.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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80 years of Victory in World War II: prevent another world war
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, adopted on 29.04.2025, published on 6.05.2025
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
80 years of Victory in World War II is a special anniversary. Almost all the veterans who survived the war and understood, unlike the current generation of politicians, the full horror of war, have passed away. The international order that emerged after 1945 is over.
The influence of populism and right-wing radicalism, supported by modern information technologies and social networks, is growing in different parts of the world.
Tendencies towards state and national isolation are increasingly becoming an alternative to globalisation and integration, and the aspirations of leading powers for imperial dominance are becoming increasingly evident.
Humanity is facing a real threat of a new world war, as never before in the past 80 years. The world war has not yet begun only because of the restraining factor – the fear of a global nuclear catastrophe. However, if this factor does not work at some point, it will lead to a global catastrophe.
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Posted: May 7th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Federal Political Committee on the ceasefire in Ukraine, Russia’s European future, and the political meaning of the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II
Press Release, 6.05.2025
On 29 April, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party was held in Moscow. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, delivered a report on the political situation in the country and the world. The Political Committee discussed the key challenges facing Russia and the international community, and adopted two programme documents: on the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine and on the future of Russia, as well as statements dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II.
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Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko activists to clean up Butovo Firing Range, the execution and burial site during Stalin’s period
Press Release, 5.05.2025
Photo: Yabloko members and supporters at Butovo Firing Range on 30 October, 2024
Cleaning up at the Butovo Firing Range in Moscow, the execution and burial site of victims of Joseph Stalin repression, will take place on 14 May, starting at 12:00.
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Posted: May 6th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is against replacing the memory of the Victory in the WWII with the praise of a tyrant
Statement by the Yabloko party, 1.05.2025
Photo by Kirill Braga, RIA Novosti
On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, the topic of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad [commemorating the name of Joseph Stalin] is being proposed again. President Vladimir Putin, who had previously signed a decree on assigning the name Stalingrad to the Volgograd airport, made a statement about the possibility of renaming.
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Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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“A woman is not an incubator”: Yabloko in St. Petersburg voted against the bill on “banning inducement to abortion”
Press Release, 1.05.2025
Photo: Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly
The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not support the bill, which introduces administrative liability for “committing actions with the purpose of forcing a pregnant woman to artificially terminate a pregnancy by persuasion, proposals, bribery, or deception”.
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Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Gender Faction, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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