Photographs, September 2, 2013
On September 2, YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky congratulated pupils of Moscow School No 656 with beginning of a school year.
Posted: September 2nd, 2013 under Education and Science.
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Grigory Yavlinsky congratulates pupils of a Moscow school with beginning of a school year
An action in memory of the hostages of the North-Ossetian school held by St.Petersburg YABLOKO
Press release, September 2, 2013
In the evening of September 1, the schooling day in Russia, activists of St.Petersburg YABLOKO held an action in the centre of the city in memory of the hostages – children and grownups – killed in School No 1in Beslan, North Ossetia. 
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Posted: September 2nd, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Mitrokhin demands from Sobyanin to preserve a village school
Press Release, August 30, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin demanded from the temporary acting mayor Sergei Sobyanin to preserve one of the last village schools in Moscow. School No 740 is situated in the Molzhaninovsky district of Moscow. On August 26 the parents learned that their children will be transferred to another school in the Zelenograd city 15 kilometers away from the place. Read more »
Posted: August 31st, 2013 under Education and Science, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: If there is work of the Governor of the Volgograd Region, then there is no need to spend 380 million roubles on media coverage so that to see it
Posted: August 30th, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections.
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Mitrokhin did not allow Putin’s classmate to buy a posh car at the expense of the regional budget
Press Release, August 29, 2013
YABLOKO’s Anticoruption Centre did not allow the Arbitration Court of the Pskov Region to buy an expensive foreign car. After the complaint sent by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Department, the tender on the delivery of a posh car was cancelled. Read more »
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands from the Moscow Electoral Commission to punish acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin for abuse of power in conducting his mayoral election campaign and the Investigative Committee to file a criminal case for releasing a xenophobic video in his campaign
Press release, August 29, 2013
Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, filed to complaints to the Moscow Electoral Commission on violations committed by Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin during the election campaign: Press Service of the Acting Mayor works in the election campaign of the candidate and releases election videos (one of which incites xenophobia) in the Internet that are not paid from a special electoral account as envisaged by law. In addition Mitrokhin demanded from the Investigative Committee to file a criminal case for Sobyanin’s releasing a xenophobic video and institute criminal proceedings in accordance with Article 282 of the Criminal Code. Read more »
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Pickets near the house where Stalin’s victims were shot
Press Release, August 28, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO’s activists conducted one-person pickets near the house where Stalin’s victims were shot on August 28. They came out for the maintenance of the historic building and demanded to turn it into a memorial museum devoted to the victims of political 
reprisals. Read more »
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, Yabloko's Views.
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Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura
Religion & Science in East and West journal, 7/8 2013, Vol.41
By YABLOKO Bureau member and head of YABLOKO’s Gender (Women’s) Faction Dr. Galina Michaleva
New Russia’s nomeklatura, including the top officials, has been actively constructing palaces on the Black Sea cost, mostly in the national reserves, grabbing the shore, including public beaches. Read more »
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin discussed his environmental programme in RAS
Press Release, August 27, 2013
A round table on Moscow’s environmental problems with Sergei Mitrokhin’s participation was conducted at A.N.Bakh Institute of Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on August 27.
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Posted: August 28th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, Protection of Environment.
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A charity concert in support of political prisoners conducted in Moscow
Press Release, August 27, 2013
Moscow Mayoral Candidate Sergei Mitrokhin attended a charity concert in support of political prisoners devoted to the 45 anniversary of the 1968 Red Square Demonstration . 
Posted: August 27th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian coup of August 1991
Svoimi Glazami (Eyewitness) programme, Ekho Moskvi radio station, 22.08.2013
Today’s Vladimir Putin and his colleagues think about the people exactly in the same way as the Emergency Committee thought. The only difference lies in the fact that today people do not have that alternative, which was there then, today they have a lot more money, but today three is no political elite – and then there was a political elite – today there is only nomenclatura. Read more »
Posted: August 27th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Topics of the day, Yabloko's Views.
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Candidate for Moscow Mayor Mitrokhin conducted a meeting with campaigners
Press Release, August 26, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin conducted a meeting with the election campaigners on August 26. More than 150 people came to the office.
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Posted: August 26th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin participated in a rally and visited the Sadovniki district
Press Release, August 24, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin supported a rally organised by the residents of the Kurkino district who demand from the authorities to make improvements in the district and stop building shopping centres that no one wants.
Posted: August 26th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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An attempt on the life of the leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO
Press Release, August 25, 2013
At night of August 23, Natalya Romanuk, leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO, Krasnodar Territory, had suffered an attempt against her life. Her car was severely hit on a highway by a black car. By a lucky chance the woman managed to avoid a collision with a car ahead and wasn’t badly injured. Ambulance doctors registered that Natalya Romanuk had knee-joint injuries. Read more »
Posted: August 26th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mitrokhin demands from the Investigative Committee to investigate an unlawful merger of the two Moscow’s schools
Press Release, August 22, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee demanding to make an inspection and bring a criminal case against the forcible merger of schools No 363 and No 1294 in the Bogorodskoye district. Mitrokhin held a public inspection of these educational institutions together with the teachers and parents today.
Posted: August 24th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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YABLOKO’s candidate Emiliya Slabunova withdrawn from mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk
Press Release, August 23, 2013
At Thursday, August 22, Petrozavodsk City Court annulled the decision of the Electoral Commission on registration of Emiliya Slabunova, YABLOKO’s candidate for the Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia. Emiliya Slabunova is also member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. She was considered to be one of the strongest candidates at the mayoral election. Read more »
Posted: August 23rd, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Mitrokhin: I will return Moscow to small business which suffered from Sobyanin in the first place
Press Release, August 21, 2013
A round table on the problems of the small business and its development perspectives after the election of a new Moscow Mayor “Small business goes to the Moscow Mayoral elections” was conducted at International University, Moscow, on August 21.
Posted: August 22nd, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Teachers are locked in school and not allowed to meet Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, August 22, 2013
The teachers, who protest against the merging of the schools No 363 and No 1294, aren’t allowed to meet Sergei Mitrokhin. The school principal Ludmila Salonina locked them in the school building. Read more »
Posted: August 22nd, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Lydia Grafova: This is something that can blow up the whole Russia
Lydia Grafova for the Ekho Moskvi, August 21, 2013
Lydia Grafova, journalist and Chair of the Executive Committee of Forum of Migrants’ Organizations [expressed her attitude to the attacks on migrant workers in the Moscow mayoral election campaign]: “This persecution that is observed in the life of migrant workers and mass media in general should concern everyone. Read more »
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Lydia Grafova: Only Sergei Mitrokhin out of all the mayoral candidates does not participate in the anti-migrant hysteria
Press Release, August 21, 2013
Human rights activists have appealed to the Russian intelligentsia calling that latter to intervene with all available means and pacify the anti-migrant hysteria associated with the Moscow mayoral elections. Lydia Grafova, journalist and one of the authors of the appeal, in her interview at the Echo Moskvi radio station noted that there was only one candidate for the Mayor of Moscow – Sergei Mitrokhin – who did not say that migrants represented a big danger or a curse. Human rights activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin say that illegal migration has been rooted in the impunity of corrupt officials. Read more »
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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