27 Facts About Yabloko

Until 2003, Yabloko was represented by a faction in the State Duma and later until 2007 by individual deputies.

Since 2006, Yabloko has been a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Immediate predecessor of the Yabloko party was the electoral bloc Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin, formed for the legislative elections of 1993.

For example, Yabloko opposed privatization conducted by Anatoly Chubais, and offered an alternative program in 1998, which stated that privatization was carried out in an economically senseless and socially detrimental way, passing control of sold organizations to the “directors” with a number of backdrop nominal owners.

In May 1999, the Yabloko faction voted for the impeachment of the president.

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In May 2000,4 deputies of the Yabloko faction voted for the appointment of Mikhail Kasyanov as prime minister, 8 members voted against and 4 abstained.

In December 2001 on the basis of the all-russian political public organization Yabloko and the Party of Social liberalism was officially created the Russian Democratic Party Yabloko, which advocates the European path of development of the Russian Federation and is a member of a number of international and European organizations.

Since November 1998, the Yabloko association has had observer status with the Liberal International and participated in its events.

In June 2003, the Yabloko faction voted for a vote of no confidence in the government, which was not approved by the Duma.

Since 2006, the Yabloko party has become part of the European party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

On October 26,2021, the members of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko published a statement, in which they demanded that the central political committee of the party be dismissed due to the adoption of the so-called “Yavlinsky blacklist”, which lead to suspension of the activities of the branch.

On November 19,2021, the federal bureau of Yabloko appointed the re-registration of party members prior to the upcoming party congress in December.

On February 13,2022, Yabloko published a petition against a possible war with Ukraine.

Yabloko is opposing Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine and has been taking part in protests against the war.

The Yabloko party considers the war with Ukraine to be the gravest crime.

In 2020, the Federal leadership of Yabloko decided to exclude the chairman of the Novosibirsk branch Svetlana Kaverzina and three of her associates from the party.

Also in 2020 the Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled other 16 people from the party, including Maxim Katz, co-founder of the City Projects Foundation.

The creation of the public movement "Yabloko" was announced, the declared aim to return the party under the control of their like-minded people or creating a new legal entity.

In 2015, Yabloko adopted a Political Memorandum, which is a summary of the party's ideology.

Yabloko arose and developed in line with the democratic movement as an alliance of political groups representing various ideological currents – liberals, social democrats, Christian democrats.

Yabloko's distancing from social democracy was manifested in the party's attitude to such a principle as social justice.

Yabloko party believes that restoring constitutional order is one thing, but demonstrating strength is another.

However, we, Yabloko, are responsible, because we did not do everything possible, not all of our resources were devoted to stopping the slaughter.

We, Yabloko, consider ourselves obligated to do everything possible to minimize the likelihood of such tragedies recurring in the future.

Yabloko party has repeatedly advocated for the rights of the LGBT community.

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Some well-known Yabloko supporters, including Galina Mikhaleva, Maxim Reznik and Aleksey Melnikov, support LGBT people.

Also, Youth Yabloko planned to participate in the Equality March in 2011.