Sergei Mitrokhin picketed the Moscow Mayor’s Office protesting against destruction of Prince Volkonsky’s mansion
Press Release, July 29, 2013
Candidate for the Mayor of Moscow Sergei Mitrokhin and activists of the YABLOKO party participated in a series of pickets by the Moscow Mayor’s Office protesting against the barbaric “reconstruction” Prince Volkonsky’s mansion.
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Posted: July 29th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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Entrepreneurs to create an expert council on small businesses under the YABLOKO party
Press Release, July 27, 2013
On July 26, Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow and Chair of the YABLOKO party, held a meeting with entrepreneurs representing small businesses. The participants noted that the business environment considerably deteriorated in Moscow after the Acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin came into power in the Russian capital, moreover entrepreneurs have no possibility to defend themselves. It was proposed during the meeting to revive on YABLOKO’s basis the previously disbanded Public Expert Council for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses under the Mayor and the Moscow Government.
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Posted: July 27th, 2013 under Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: YABLOKO has always had problems with PR
Novaya Gazeta turned to all the candidates registered for Moscow mayoral election with a request to answer a candidate’s questionnaire. To our surprise, all the candidates gave their agreement. We are going to publish the answers as soon as the candidates send them to us. A questionnaire from YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin came first.
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Posted: July 27th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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YABLOKO didn’t allow United Russia’s deputies to buy the new cars
The Listok newspaper, July 26, 2013
On July 17, 2013, YABLOKO’s Chair Sergei Mitrokhin made a complaint to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Altay Republic about the attempt of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic – El Kurultai – to buy three cars for their needs via a tender. They were going to buy two Toyota Camry and one Toyota Highlander at total price of 3 million 859 thousand roubles (about 95,000 Euro). Read more »
Posted: July 26th, 2013 under Activities.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: instead of fighting against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences the Communist Party prefers to make a PR on the rally
Press Release, July 26, 2013
Despite the fact that the Trade Union of the Russian Academy of Sciences invited YABLOKO to participate in the rally in protection of the Academy, the Communist Party which is the formal organiser of the rally refused to give the YABLOKO party time for a speech at the rally. The rally against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be held in Moscow tomorrow. Read more »
Posted: July 26th, 2013 under Education and Science.
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Sergei Mitrokhin will be picketing the Moscow Mayor’s Office protesting against the destruction of Prince Volkonsky’s mansion in Moscow
Press Release, July 25, 2013
On July 29, 2013, Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, will support the action of Arkhnadzor (Architectural Heritage Control) public organisation held in protest of the destruction of Prince Volkonsky’s mansion at Vozdvizhenka Street in the centre of Moscow. Prince Volkonsky was prototype of Prince Bolkonsky in Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”. The activists will hold a series of pickets under the slogan “Bolkonsky’s mansion is destroyed. The Mayor must not keep silent”. Read more »
Posted: July 25th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO leader didn’t allow the authorities of the Maritime Territory to buy a car for 7 million roubles
Press Release, July 24, 2013
YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre prevented purchase of an expensive luxurious car by the Maritime Territory administration. After Sergei Mitrokhin’s complaint, the regional department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Maritime Territory decided to annual the results of the tender and appoint a new tender. Read more »
Posted: July 24th, 2013 under Activities.
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Leader of the Stupino branch of YABLOKO, Moscow region, is severely beaten
Press release, July 22, 2013
On Saturday night, Nikolai Kuznetsov, leader of the Stupino branch of YABLOKO and activist of the head-quarters of YABLOKO’s candidate to the post of the Governor of the Moscow region, was severely beaten in Odintsovo, the Moscow region. Doctors stated that he had a concussion, multiple bruises and a dislocation of a shoulder. Read more »
Posted: July 22nd, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Police deliver ‘foreign agent’ warning to EWNC in a sting operation
ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH ON NORTH CAUCASUS (EWNC)
July 22, 2013
This weekend, the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus received an official warning from the prosecutors not to continue operations unless it registers as a “foreign agent”. However the way this warning was delivered harks of spy games of the Soviet era, when secret police invented fake personas to infiltrate groups they considered harmful. Read more »
Posted: July 22nd, 2013 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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70 per cent of the audience of the Russian News Service will vote for Sergei Mitrokhin in the Moscow mayoral election
Press Release, July 21, 2013
70 per cent of the listeners of the Russian News Service (RNS) are ready to support YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in the Moscow mayoral election on September 8, 2013. Such were the results of a telephone voting launched within the framework of the programme This Is My City where Sergei Mitrokhin was a guest. Read more »
Posted: July 21st, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Russian Ombudsman says Navalny sentence could have dramatic consequences
Interfax, July 18, 2013
Moscow, 18 July: Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin hopes that the appeal will lead to a serious change of the verdict of a five-years imprisonment given to opposition activist Alexei Navalny by a court in Kirov. Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the public protests against the sentence to Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov
Press release, July 18, 2013
Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate for Mayor of Moscow, spent several hours in the central streets of Moscow, where people protesting against the sentence to Alexei Navalny and a member of YABLOKO Pyotr Ofitserov gathered.

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Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided not to abolish touch-screen voting machines after Sergei Mitrokhin’s criticism
Press release, July 19, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin expressed his satisfaction with the decision of the acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to revoke (after Mitrokhin’s criticism) his previous decision on abolishing touch-screen voting machines at the coming Moscow mayoral elections. Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Why I will come to the rally to Manezhnaya Square in Moscow tonight
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site, July 18, 2013
Just now Russia’s political system has made another leap towards a totalitarian state. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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Grigory Yavlinsky’s Statement
YABLOKO’s Press Service
July 18, 2013
We will be by all means seeking justice for Alexei Navalny and Pyotr
Ofitserov. A severe sentence to Navalny and Ofitserov is provocative
and dangerous political signal. The country is pushed towards
political chaos and absurdity. The political system functioning
according to the principle “you die today, and I will die tomorrow” is
not sustainable. The only way to save Russia as a state is returning
the country to the legal terrain.
Grigory Yavlinsky
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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Sergei Mitrokhin urges Alexei Navalny not to stand down from the Moscow mayoral election and go all the way
Press Release,July 18, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin urged Alexei Navalny not to retreat
from the Moscow mayoral election and go all the way. Mitrokhin said
this in his interview to the Dozhd (Rain) private television channel. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sentence to Alexei Navlany and Pyotr Ofitserov represents politically motivated cruelty
Statement by the YABLOKO party
July 18, 2013
Demonstrative cruelty and intentionally inadequate sentence to Alexei
Navalny and YABLOKO member Pyotr Ofitserov is clearly linked to
oppositional activities of Alexei Navalny. Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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A look at the “Eastern Partnership” of the European Union
July 17, 2013
Author : Victor Kogan-Yasny
The “Eastern Partnership” is an important and interesting programme of the European Union. In my view, this programme is substantially more important than it can seem at the first glance. Read more »
Posted: July 17th, 2013 under Russia-Eu relations.
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Stop uncontrolled growth of utilities tariffs!
Press Release, July 15, 2013
On July 10, the Bureau of the YABLOKO party adopted a statement in connection with skyrocketing growth of tariffs on housing and
utilities payments in Russia. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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