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Photo: Alexander Makhankov / Photo from social media
The Pushkinsky District Court decided not to prosecute Alexander Makhankovm Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Pushkinsky District of St.Petersburg. The hearings took place on Tuesday, 15 November.
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, spoke out against the draft amendment to the federal law “On State Support for Cinematography”, initiated by the deputies from A Just Russia faction in the State Duma.
Photo: Ditches across the road dug by Russian soldiers near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine, 7 April 2022 // REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich
Grigory Yavlinsky on war and peace, the future of Russia, as well as the role of the political party at a time of military actions which are precipitating the country’s collapse. This text is based on a speech given on 20 October 2022 at a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party
At present many people have been trying to compare the developments in Ukraine with events of the past century, frequently turning to World War II. However, this is fundamentally an erroneous and incongruous comparison. The world has changed over the past eight decades and in the 21st century a territorial war will never have a winner. Such a conflict will be endless. Germany and France fought over Alsace-Lorraine for 150 years up until the creation of the European Union which brought an end to all wars in Europe. In a territorial war there are no winners: everyone loses. There aren’t and cannot be any winners in a nuclear war, which is the ultimate risk of today’s confrontation between Putin’s Russia and the West and could happen at any point. We already realise that the Russian special military operation against Ukraine is merely the prelude to a global conflict.
On 19 November the Rostov-on-Don regional branch of the Yabloko party will conduct an action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners. Yabloko invites all interested Russian citizens to participate. The action will start at 17:00.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, Lev Shlosberg, commented on the air of the “Day Watch” programme on the PLN FM radio station on the proposal to resume the work of the commission on perpetuating the memory of victims of political repression, with which Dmitry Shakhov, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Pskov Region, addressed the regional authorities and political parties leaders in the 85 anniversary of the start of the Great Terror in the USSR.
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 22 November, the Yabloko Party University will host a second lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, a deputy of the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences. Sergei Mitrokhin will continue to answer listeners’ questions about Russia’s “special path”, capitalism in Russia and many other issues. The lecture will begin at 18:00 MSK.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the so-called public discussions on the draft budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2023 (and the planned period of 2024 – 2025) are coming to an end. I have sent a protest regarding the form of conducting such discussions.
Statement by the Gender Faction of the Yabloko Party, 10.11.2022
Photo by Emin Dzafarof, Kommersant
The State Duma unanimously adopted in the first reading the Draft Law No. 217471-8 On Amending the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation (regarding the prohibition of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences). The authors of the draft were almost 400 deputies, headed by the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the leaders of all the factions; 405 deputies voted for the bill.
A round table dedicated to the 105 years since the October 1917 coup was held at Yabloko. Its participants – historians and politicians – spoke about the lessons to be learned from the October coup.
The round table was opened by Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party. According to Rybakov, despite the fact that 7 November, the date of the coup, had gone from our life as a Soviet holiday and a special day, the traditions remained, and it was these traditions that served as a basis for all modern politics in Russia. Rybakov noted the stance rooted in Russia, when the people were considered as expendable supplies for solution of the highest national tasks.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social media
On 9 November, the Second Court of Appeal in St. Petersburg overturned the decision of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court and invalidated the decrees of the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region that excluded three territories from the list of public areas in Chelyabinsk where rallies can be held without prior notification of the authorities (the so-called “hyde parks”). Now, after the official publication of the decision of the court, Russian citizens will be able to gather in these public areas without mandatory notification of the authorities and getting their permission for holding a rally. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko, Anna Ilyina, a member of the Regional Council of Yabloko and human rights activist, and Vasily Moskovets, human rights defender, won the litigation over the right of citizens to free assembly in the city’s venues.
Photo: A screenshot of the main page of the online media Noviy Fukus ( The New Focus) khakasia.info
An administrative case was filed under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity) against the legal entity of the Internet media Noviy Fokus in Abakan. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Abakan sees violations in the publications of the media, the editor-in-chief of which is Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party. He is also the founder of the legal entity – the founder of the media.
Photo: Sofia Pugachyova and Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
The Novorzhevsky and Pustoshkinsky districts of the Pskov region, which are headed by Sofia Pugacheva and Svetlana Vasilkova, members of the Yabloko party elected heads of the districts in 2019, were among the best in the region in terms of the quality of financial management and received additional funding.
Photo: Alexander Makhankov / Photo from social media
Alexander Makhankov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Pushkinsky District of St.Petersburg, was charged, for the second time, of “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces. The reason was Makhankov’s calls for peace during the municipal election campaign which took place three months ago.
“The tools of hatred deprive you of a meaningful approach, they deprive you of intellectual advancement, deprive you of the opportunity to intellectually resolve the issue. Hatred is beyond comprehension, it is an emotion. When you are in such emotions [of hatred], you run the risk of making very wrong decisions. Hatred does not allow for competent policies, or any serious policies. This is a very difficult, very painful, tragic circumstance. Sometimes, in my opinion, hatred is justified, but it still needs to be pushed aside.”
Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky, in his interview to Nikolai Solodnikov, answers questions about whether hatred can help in the solution of problems, what will happen to Russia further, and what he personally would do if he got the power.
Photo: Mariupol, July 2022 / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party formulated the party’s position on what is happening during the “special military operation” and the challenges that the party is now facing.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 161 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo: Flags of Russia and the European Union / Photo by Vladimir Sergeyev, RIA Novosti
The mission of our party today and its main task is to overcome Bolshevism, the oligarchic nature of the state, the irremovability of power and militarism, create prerequisites and implement a real modernisation of Russia founding a modern political and economic system in our country.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 160 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko is the only socio-political institution left in Russia that opposes war, totalitarian transformation of the state, and disintegration of society.
Over the three decades of post-Soviet Russia, we have many times offered meaningful alternatives to the erroneous and corporate-selfish decisions that brought our country to the current situation. There was an opportunity to choose an alternative in all 11 federal election campaigns in which Yabloko participated.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 159 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo: Moscow, Novy Arbat street, February 2022 / Photo by Vitaly Smolnikov, Kommersant
The main reason for the current situation in our country is the failure of post-Soviet modernisation, which, in turn, was due to the refusal of the Russian authorities over the past 30 years to consider society as a subject of politics and regard the freedom and real well-being of people as the main goal of the state.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 158 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by Sergei Averin, RIA Novosti
The tragedy, which has been going on for eight months already, makes it absolutely obvious that [all] should realise as soon as possible the need (the obligation) for a ceasefire as the first step towards preventing a real impending nuclear catastrophe.
However, the Russian government continues the policies towards escalation, that lead only to new victims and destruction, and further international isolation of Russia. Threats of the possible use of nuclear weapons have been voiced increasingly more often.
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 157 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
A military conflict between Russia and Ukraine with a huge potential for escalation up to the use of nuclear weapons is going on. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that the end of the armed conflict is approaching. What is happening is a disaster for our country on the scale of a national catastrophe.
