Due to YABLOKO the Pskov region will have the best regional law on overhaul of apartment buildings
Press release , November 11, 2013
On November 28, 2013, deputies of the Pskov regional parliament adopted the law on organization of overhaul of apartment buildings located in the Pskov region. Read more »
Posted: December 3rd, 2013 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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Sergei Mitrokhin on the situation in Kiev
Press Release , December 3, 2013
Answering questions from the BBC on the situation in Kiev, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the Moscow authorities and the opposition should show calm and balanced attitude to the events in Kiev: “It is better to engage in the developments in our country, rather than interfering in the affairs of others. It is wrong, when Russia is trying to influence the situation in another country. This can hit back on our country later. ” Read more »
Posted: December 3rd, 2013 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky commented on events in Ukraine
Press Release , December 3, 2013
According to Grigory Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party, the European future of Russia, Ukraine and many of the CIS countries is inevitable. Read more »
Posted: December 3rd, 2013 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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YABLOKO’s Sergei Ivanenko: “The society does not want a simulated system and artificial entities”
Commentary 02/12/2013
The Civil Society Development Fund decided that there emerged too many parties in Russia. Renowned economist and member of YABLOKO’s Political Commttee Sergei Ivanenko spoke about the importance of the reform of the party system for Russian voters. Read more »
Posted: December 3rd, 2013 under Elections.
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Galina Mikhaleva made a speech at the meeting on gender agenda
Press Release, December 2, 2013
Secretary of YABLOKO Political Committee, Chair of YABLOKO Gender faction, co-Chair of Council on Consolidation of Women’s Movement, Doctor of Political Sciences Galina Mikhaleva made a report on “The implementation of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in present conditions” at a seminar in Vologda.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2013 under Gender Faction.
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Dirty election technologies at mayoral elections in Belorechensk
Press Release, November 30, 2013
Mayoral elections in Belorechensk, the Krasnodar Territory, will take place on December 1. United Russia’s Yuri Fesenko and civil activist, editor of an independent newspaper “Belorechenskaya pravda” Alexander Kuznetsov supported by the Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO are the two main candidates for the post of Mayor. Read more »
Posted: December 1st, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections.
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Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to improve law on Federal Contract System
Press Release, November 28, 2013
Leader of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to cut the propensity for corruption of the Law on the Federal Contract System. Yavlinsky introduced the draft into the Legislative Assembly. Read more »
Posted: December 1st, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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YABLOKO conducted pickets against violence to women
Press Release, November 28, 2013
On November 28 YABLOKO Gender faction conducted pickets against violence to women within the campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence” under the aegis of the United Nations.

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Posted: November 29th, 2013 under Gender Faction.
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Lev Shlosberg: Extra billion for municipalities is not a luxury
Press Release, November 27, 2013
Head of YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region Lev Shlosberg proposed amendments to the project of the regional budget. The deputy told the journalists that he was ready to make amendments to the profit tax and individual income tax. Read more »
Posted: November 28th, 2013 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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YABLOKO demands to conduct direct mayoral elections in Saratov
Press Release, November 28, 2013
The Saratov branch of YABLOKO sent an appeal to head of Saratov Oleg Grishchenko and deputies of the Saratov City Duma demanding to change the Charter of Saratov which runs that the mayor of the city is elected by deputies of the City Duma. Read more »
Posted: November 28th, 2013 under Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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FSB threatens to kill Mikhail Savva

Mikhail Savva
Press Release, November 26, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin came to court to support human rights defender and director of a regional NGO Professor Mikhail Savva on November 21. Read more »
Posted: November 28th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Altai YABLOKO demands to bring allocation of land plots for large families under control
Press Release, November 27, 2013
The Altai branch of YABLOKO demanded the authorities to take the allocation of land plots for families with many children under control.
According to Article 28 paragraph 2 of the Federal Law No. 138-FZ of June 14, 2011, citizens having more than two children acquire the right to get a land plot free of charge, for example to build a house on it. The grounds and procedure for it shall be established by laws of the regions of the Russian Federation. Read more »
Posted: November 28th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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United Russia, LDPR and defectors think St.Petersburg authorities mustn’t pay the citizens for overhaul
Press Release, November 27, 2013
YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg proposed to admit the city’s debt on overhaul to the citizens which wasn’t done in the previous years. This means not to demand this money from the citizens. Read more »
Posted: November 27th, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yavlinsky proposed to introduce obligatory video observation at police stations and badges with the owner’s name for policemen
Press Release, November 26, 2013
According to head of the YABLOKO faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Grigory Yavlinsky, the amendments to the Law on Police that he proposed will on the whole increase the citizens’ trust in the state. The draft was introduced at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Read more »
Posted: November 27th, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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First lecture on Russia’s political history conducted in YABLOKO
Press Release, November 27, 2013
The first lecture on Russia’s political history ” Problems and perspectives of Russia’s development before the World War I” was conducted in YABLOKO office in St. Petersburg on November 26, 2013. Read more »
Posted: November 26th, 2013 under History.
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On the role and tasks of Russian democratic opposition
Decision by the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO,19.11.2013
1. The country and the society have approached a qualitatively new condition
The problems accumulated for the past 15-20 year: shifts from the principles and norms of democracy, cynical perversion of democratic ideas and slogans, using them for covering up theft and corruption, long-term simulation of the most important institutions, endless lies, equating public interests to personal and caste interests and considerable isolation of the ruling nomenclature Russia from the rest of the world – all this have led the country and the society to a qualitatively new condition when: Read more »
Posted: November 26th, 2013 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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Authorities want to jail Evgeny Vitishko as Olympics draw near
Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, Press Release, November 22, 2013
Evgeny Vitishko, one of EWNC activists involved in monitoring the environmental destruction brought by Winter Olympic Games preparations, has been summoned to a hearing where he may be slapped with a real jail sentence, 1.5 years after his conviction in June 2012 in the “fence case” for damaging an illegal fence around the governor’s dacha. Read more »
Posted: November 25th, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO protested against an infill construction at a playground
Press Release, November 25, 2013
The YABLOKO party and the residents of the Filyovsky park district, Moscow, conducted a rally against an infill construction at the territory of the children’s playground on November 24, 2013. About 500 local residents supported the rally.
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Posted: November 25th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO conducted pickets under campaign “Let’s return mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod”
Press Release, November 25, 2013
The campaign under the slogan “Let’s return mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod” has started. YABLOKO representatives take part in the campaign.
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Posted: November 25th, 2013 under Elections.
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YABLOKO protested against illegal constructions in Moscow’s Yasenyov district
Press Release, November 24, 2013
YABLOKO protested against illegal constructions in the Yasenyovo district, Moscow. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the rally. The residents of the district demanded to stop the construction of all contentious building sites around their apartment blocks until the land survey is conducted and also to dismiss the heads of the South-West Administrative District prefecture and the Yasenyovo Council, who bear responsibility for the lawlessness in the district. YABLOKO leader promised to send an appeal to the Investigative Committee demanding to investigate the implication of the local authorities in corrupt practices.
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Posted: November 25th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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