Press Release, February 14, 2013

On Sunday, February 17, the Conference of the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will adopt a Manifest on the creation of nomination of a joint list of candidates from united democratic opposition for the Moscow City Duma elections of 2014.

The Manifesto will appeal to civil society activists and representatives of political forces sharing democratic values to participate in the formation of a joint list of candidates. YABLOKO will provide to such joint candidates half of the number of places allotted to the YABLOKO party nominees, as well as half of places in single-mandate precincts.

The candidates will be nominated via primaries. YABLOKO proposes to hold primaries in all the 22 electoral territories.

The Conference will begin at 12:00.

The Conference will be held at YABLOKO’s headquarters at the address: Pyatnitskaya 31/2, bldg 2 (metro stations Novokuznetskaya or “Tretyakovskaya).

Accreditation of journalists by phone: +7 495 780 30 19 or e-mail press@mosyabloko.ru.

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Elections to the Moscow City Duma, 2014

Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau
February 5, 2013

The YABLOKO party notes with concern a new wave of reprisals against YABLOKO members. Read more »

Press Release, December 4, 2012
A “memorial action of the deceased fair elections” has begun by the Central Electoral Commission Moscow office and in other cities. The action was launched by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin by laying flowers to the Central Electoral Commission Moscow office at noon. Read more »

Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Yulia Kalinina, Moskovsky Komsomolets web-site, July 11, 2012

Translated in accordance with a complete version of the interview

(A shorter variant of the interview in Russian is published by MK at its web-site on July 12). Read more »

Press Release, March 16, 2012

Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court refused to extend arrest for Maxim Petlin, leader of Ekaterinburg YABLOKO, and granted him bail amounting to 5 million roubles. Petlin will come out of prison after the bail will be at the account of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region. Read more »

Press Release, February 23, 2012

Unfortunately we have such a situation in our country when those who defend their Motherland and celebrate their professional holiday on February 23 should be defended from this Motherland. Read more »

Urgency Resolution adopted by ELDR Dresden Council
May 20, 2011
Submitted by the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Council, convening in Dresden, Germany on 20 May 2011:

Notes with deep concern:

– Reports on political reprisals against Oleg Orlov, Russian human rights activist, winner of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize and Chair of the “Memorial” Human Rights Centre, for voicing criticism of Chechen authorities about the investigation into the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova in 2009;
– That trials initiated by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the latest of which is set to resume in June, are clearly politically motivated, raise serious questions on the functioning of the Russian judicial system, and demonstrate the desire of the Chechen authorities to prevent Orlov voicing his opinion. Read more »

LI News Bulletin, Issue 230, April 28, 2011

LI full member party Yabloko has expressed great concerns over the recent charges made against Russian Human Rights Activist Oleg Orlov due to his comments that the Moscow-backed President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is politically responsible for the murder of fellow human rights activist Natalya Estemirova in July 2009. According to Yabloko leader, Sergei Mitrokhin: ““Ramzan Kadyrov’s case is a special case even for our generally low political culture. Even in our conditions of extreme restrictions on freedom of speech and general judicial arbitrariness, it never occurred to anyone to make allegations of political responsibility a subject of a law suit…Russia’s policies on Chechnya have to be changed sooner or later. The carte blanche to Ramzan Kadyrov and the people around him is not infinite. We urge the Russian leadership to realize this and change the policies to a more responsible approach. And we repeat: persecution of Oleg Orlov is inadmissible.” Mr. Orlov is the head of the Russian civil rights defence organization Memorial, which won the EU’s 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom and thought.

Statement by YABLOKO’s Political Committee
April 18, 2011

The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO expresses its indignation in view of political reprisals against human rights activist and Chair of the Memorial human rights centre Oleg Orlov. Read more »

Press Release, February 25, 2011

A district court in Yekaterinburg decided to release the leader of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO Maxim Petlin under the bail of deputies of the regional parliament and the city parliament. The state prosecutor demanded to apply such preventive measure as imprisonment of Petlin before the trial. Read more »

hro.org, July 21, 2010

A picket organized by the regional Memorial branch in memory of human rights activist Memorial’s Natalya Estemirova kidnapped in Grozny, Chechnya, and killed in Ingushetia on July 15, 2009, took place in Ekaterinburg. Read more »

Press Release, July 16, 2010

An action in memory of renowned human rights activist Natalya Estemirova kidnapped and murdered a year ago in took place in Nevsky Prospect, St.Petersburg, on July 16, 2010. Read more »

zaks.ru, August 24, 2009

About two dozens of people gathered in Chernishevsky Garden in St.Petersburg on August 22 so that to pay tribute to the memory of Natasha Estemirova. It was the 39th day since Natasha’s death, which, according to the Muslim tradition, is a commemoration day. Read more »

Liberal International, July 20, 2009

Reactions of outrage followed after Natalya Estemirova, a prominent human rights activist in Chechnya, was found murdered yesterday. Estemirova is the third human rights activist killed in the Russian federal republic in three years. Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of Russian LI Full Member party Yabloko released a statement stressing that ‘the murder of Natalya Estemirova [is] a direct consequence of governmental policies in the Northern Caucasus and in Russia in general. The truth is that systematic violations of human rights – that Natalya Estemirova had been opposing for many years – are still taking place there.

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Press Release, July 17, 2009

A rally in memory of slain human rights activist Natalya Estemirova took place in Novopuskinskii Skver in Moscow. The participants held Natalya Estemirova portraits and placards demanding to find and punish those guilty of her murder. Read more »

Statement by the Party Chairman

July 16, 2009
The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO regards the murder of Natalya Estemirova as a direct consequence of governmental policies in the Northern Caucasus and in Russia in general. Read more »