Press Release, 13.12.2017

On Friday, 22 December, a ceremony of nomination of Yabloko’s candidate to run in the forthcoming presidential election will take in the World Trade Centre.

Delegates of the Yabloko congress will vote to nominate a party candidate in the presidential election on the first day of the Congress on 21 December. It is expected that Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, will be the party candidate to contest Vladimir Putin. The candidacy of Yavlinsky was proposed at the previous party congress in February 2016.

The first day of the congress, December 21, will be devoted to the organisational issues, so we do not invite representatives of the media to attend the first day.

The second day of the congress, 22 December, will be held at the World Trade Centre (Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment 12). Delegates and guests of the congress will be addressed by the presidential candidate, Yabloko leaders and the party’s allies in this election. We invite journalists to take part in that session.

Registration of participants starts at 11:00. The second day of the Congress begins at 12:00.

For a journalist’s accreditation please call +7 (495) 780 30 19 or apply by e-mail press@mosyabloko.ru until 18:00 of the 20th of December.

Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).

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

To participate in the presidential election in 2018 Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate from a non-parliamentary party will have to collect at least 100,000 voters’ signatures, whereas the spread of signatures should be more or less equal across Russia, a region can not give more than 2,500 signatures for the candidate.