De Telegraaf, 12.02.2014
Een Russische milieuactivist uit de regio Sotsji moet 3 jaar naar een strafkamp. De man, Jevgeni Vitisjko, kwam vorige week nog in het nieuws toen hij werd opgepakt wegens schelden bij een bushalte. Read more »

Volkskrant, 12.02.2014
Een Russische milieuactivist uit de regio Sotsji moet 3 jaar naar een strafkamp. De man, Jevgeni Vitisjko, kwam vorige week nog in het nieuws toen hij werd opgepakt wegens schelden bij een bushalte. Read more »

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 12/02/2014

Earlier today the Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed the complaint submitted by lawyers of environmental activist Evgeny Vitishko. This means that the verdict of the court of a lower instance in coming into force. This verdict envisages a three-year imprisonment term for Vitishko due to his criticism of Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. Earlier Vitishko had been sentenced to three years of probation for making inscriptions on the fence unlawfully erected in the nature reserve. Now probation has been replaced by a real imprisonment term. Read more »

Press Release, February 11, 2014
The agents of the Zamoskvoretsky Department of Internal Affairs continued the illegal deprivation of “The Third Way” NGO’s property. They act despite the court decision which states that the eviction is only possible after another premises for the NGO are provided. Migrant workers helped the police. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin arrived to prevent the illegal eviction of “The Third Way”. Read more »

Press Release, February 10, 2014

Amnesty International named YABLOKO’s member Irog Kharchenko prisoners of conscience.

“It took a judge only a few minutes, behind a closed door, to decide that yet another environmental activist should be behind bars when the Games begin. This happened precisely on the day when the Olympic torch arrived in Sochi. Sportsmanship and fair play are hallmarks of the Olympic spirit, but the Russian authorities seem to have thrown out the rule book in favour of silencing critical voices ahead of the Games,” said Sergei Nikitin, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director. Read more »

Press Service of the Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO, 10.02.2014

The Human Rights Faction of the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the YABLOKO party adopted a decision to establish a School of Young Politicians. Read more »

Press Release, February 8, 2014

Grigory Yavlinsky is one of the most recognisable Russian oppositional politicians: 42 per cent of respondents in the Levada Centre poll mentioned Yavlinsky when replying to the question “whom of the following oppositional politicians you know”. Read more »

Press Release, February 6, 2014
The Voronezh Mayor’s Office excepted the proposal of YABLOKO’s member Valentin Batishchev on creation of a working group on environmental problems, runs the official letter from the city’s administration. Read more »

Press Release, February 7, 2014

The Voronezh branch of YABLOKO participated in the rally in support of the Bolotnaya Square case prisoners and other political prisoners on February 6.

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Press Release, February 7, 2014

On February 8, Russian consumers will go on a rally protesting against restrictions put on e-commerce by the authorities. The rally is organized jointly by the Consumer Rights Protection Society, a number of NGOs and the YABLOKO party. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin will participate in the rally. Read more »

Press Release, February 7, 2014

YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a letter to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika demanding an investigation into the pogrom of the office of the Consumer Rights Protection Society and take measures of prosecutorial response. Mitrokhin notes the materials of the investigation must be sent to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for filing a criminal case on the program. Read more »

Statement by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO from January 31, 2014, 07.02.2014

Another local government reform has been initiated in Russia by the federal authorities and President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Its key issues have been already announced as follows: elimination of elected local governments on the level of cities and regions, including those in the capitals of the regions that have their own division into city districts. Read more »

Press release, February 5, 2014

YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin demands from Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to launch public prosecutor’s investigation into the actions of the Sluzhba Basya company which allegedly has been engaged in unlawful mass killings of homeless dogs and cats in Sochi. Mitrokhin states that such activities must be examined for falling under Article 245 of the Criminal Code (“Cruelty to Animals”), and actions of the client of the company as falling under Article 286 of the Criminal Code (“Abuse of Power “). Read more »

Press Release, February 5, 2014

Today the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar arrested YABLOKO activist Igor Kharchenko for five days under Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code (Disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer). The trial was held behind closed doors, and the sentence was made within a few minutes. Igor Kharchenko was not even given word. He was also deprived of a lawyer who would help in defence and was not allowed to attach to a video to the case file. The video demonstrated too well that there was no any “disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer”, and that there had been no reason to detain Kharchenko. Read more »

Press Release, February 6, 2014

A serious of one-person pickets in support of the prosecuted ecologists of the Krasnodar Territory Yevgeny Vitishko, Suren Gazaryan and Irog Kharchenko was conducted outside the Investigative Committee. Chair of the Moscow branch of Youth Yabloko Oleg Naumov, former Bolotnaya Square case prisoner Nikolai Kavkazsky and YABLOKO’s activists participated in the action. Read more »

Statement by the YABLOKO party, 03.02.2014

The YABLOKO party expresses its protest against the arrest of Evgeny Vitishko, civil society activist and well-known environmentalist of the Krasnodar Territory. This morning he has been arrested when leaving the Tuapse branch of the Penitentiary Inspection of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Krasnodar Territory on suspicion of a petty theft. Later a new ridiculous accusation of swearing at a bus stop was brought against him. Court sentenced Vitishko to 15 days of arrest. Read more »

Press Release, February 3, 2014

The YABLOKO party took part in the demonstration in support of the Bolotnaya Square case prisoners on February 2. Several thousand people participated in the action. Read more »

Press Release, January 31, 2014
The citizen of Saransk, Mordovia, Yuri Alyamkin picketed the State Duma as his house was knocked down due to the construction of the stadium for the FIFA World Football Cup 2018. Yuri Alyamkin is sure that his house didn’t obstruct the construction works, that’s why he is trying to attract the attention of the society to the lawlessness of the local authorities and gain the just compensation for the demolition of the house. Read more »

Press Release, January 30, 2014

Today activists from YABLOKO’s Gender Faction held a meeting with representatives of the Women’s Organisation of the Swedish People’s Party of Finland – Carola Sundquist, Chair, and Tatyana Ljungqvist, Vice Chair – at the Moscow office of the YABLOKO party. The topic of discussion was the women’s movement in Finland. Olga Radayeva, Deputy Chair of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction, moderated the discussion. Read more »

Press Release, January 31, 2014

On February 2, YABLOKO activists will participate in the Demonstration in support of the political prisoners of the Bolotnaya Square rallies case. YABLOKO’s column will be led by party leader Sergei Mitrokhin. The action has got a permission from the Moscow authorities. Read more »