* Leaders: Grigory Yavlinsky, deputy prime minister in 1990. Has run for president twice, in 1996 and 2000. Author of the famous "500-day plan" for economic reform of the Soviet Union, rejected by Gorbachev in 1990. Former leaders: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, Irina Khakhamada
* Named after its three founders: Yavlinsky, Yury Boldyrev, and Vladimir Lukin to form the Russian word for apple, Yabloko
* Ideology: liberal, democratic, with a focus on human rights
* Membership: 85,000 members in 69 regions. Mainly urban voters. Strong support from small/medium-sized businesses, and the former perestroika intelligentsia
* Duma (lower house of parliament) election results: In the last parliamentary elections on December 7, 2003 the party electoral list received only 4.3% of the vote, thus failing to overcome the 5% threshold for entry into the Duma. However, Yabloko has two non-list deputies in the Duma, both of whom were elected in single-seat constituencies. In 1993, won 7.86%, 1995 - 6.89% and 1999 - 6.0%.
* Party objectives:
The party pledges to: "work by legal means to establish in Russia a contemporary law-based social state, form an effective market economy and emerge a civil society"
Stated goals in Manifesto: "creating a world-standard educational and public health system within everybody's reach"; "overcoming the profound demographic crisis"; and "joining the European Union and other political, economic and defensive European organizations as an equal member"
