Press Release, 19.02.2018

Politician Vladimir Ryzhkov will come to Barnaul, Altai,  as electioneering agent of candidate for the presidency of Russia Grigory Yavlinsky. The visit will be held on February 21-22.

February 21:

At 12:00 the politician will give a press conference. Address: Barnaul, business hotel Ulitka, Korolenko str., 60.

At 14:30 Vladimir Ryzhkov will talk to voters in the office of the regional branch of Yabloko at the address: Barnaul, Yabloko office, Molodyozhnaya, 68а -105.

At 18:30 the politician, along with Valery Borshchyov, human rights activist and member of the Political Committee of Yabloko, will meet with the residents of the region. The meeting will be held at the address: Barnaul, business hotel Ulitka, ul. Korolenko, 60.

February 22:

At 11:00 Vladimir Ryzhkov will meet with the management and staff of the Pospelikhinsky pasta factory. Address: Pospelikhinsky district, village Pospelikha,  “Pospelikhinskaya Factory”, str. Kondratyuka, 25.

At 17:00 the politician will launch his book dedicated to his native region: “Shining Altai. Mountains, People, Adventures”, it will take place at the address: Barnaul, business hotel Ulitka, str. Korolenko, 60.

During the visit, Vladimir Ryzhkov will also give interview to local media.

Politician Vladimir Ryzhkov is Co-Chairman of the Public Support Headquarters of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky. The co-chairpersons of the headquarters are  such famous people as Dmitry Muratov, publisher of Novaya Gazeta newspaper, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov and Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The public headquarters works in parallel with Yavlinsky’s election headquarters and is focused on explaining the candidate’s programme to voters and attracting more supporters to Grigory Yavlinsky.

Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Research University “Higher School of Economics.” At the 20th Yabloko congress (December 22, 2017) Grigory Yavlinsky was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Russia to run in the March 18, 2018 elections.

Grigory Yavlinsky participated in the presidential elections twice. In 1996, he represented a democratic alternative to the policy of the Boris Yeltsin’s administration, and in 2000 he was the only democratic politician running against Vladimir Putin, Yavlinsky then came third and received 18.6% in Moscow with a turnout of 67.1%. In 2012, Grigory Yavlinsky, who expressed the demands of the civil protest movement, was not allowed to participate in the presidential election for political reasons.

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