Press Release, 7.05.2021

Leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow in memory of those who died in the Second World War.

The ceremony was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Acad. Alexei Arbatov, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, deputies of the Moscow City Duma Sergei Mitrokhin and Maxim Kruglov, Kirill Goncharov, member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Andrei Morev, head of the Municipal council of the Yakimanka Moscow district and many others.

Nikolai Rybakov:

– I think every Russian family has relatives, ancestors who died at the fighting front or could not survive the hardships in the rear. Coming these days to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Piskarevskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, and other memorial burial places, we think that the war should no longer be repeated. This is our responsibility before those who gave their lives for us to live.

Grigory Yavlinsky:

– Victory Day is one of the most important days of the year. This is a day of sorrow, memory and pride. Pride for our people and our Motherland. Victory Day is a day of remembrance of how many people gave their lives for us to be free, so that people be respected in our country, and so that people could live without fear in our country.

On 8 May, activists of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko will lay flowers at the Piskarevskoye cemetery.

On 9 May, members and supporters of Yabloko from Moscow will traditionally come to the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery – the largest military burial in the capital.