Archive for 'Yabloko’s Views'
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Russian Public Prosecutor General and the Moscow Mayor lift restrictions on street actions
Press Release, 4.02.2021 Nikolai Rybakov wrote to the Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of Moscow demanding that the restrictions on public events be lifted. A number of bans on holding mass events, in particular, sports events, have already been canceled in whole or in part. However, the ban on public […]
Posted: February 4th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Street Actions.
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Russian regions: inequality of opportunities
Grigory Yavlinsky on the fact that well-being and career in Russia depend on the place of birth Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020 It is well known that the well-being and career of a person in Russia directly depends on the region in which he/she was born and raised. Inequality and injustice begin in our country from […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Federalism, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia.
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On the assessment of the plebiscite on Constitutional amendments of July 1, 2020 and the tasks of the party
Federal Political Committee Decision No. 134, 27.07.2020 Having heard and discussed the report of Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee [of the Yabloko party], the YABLOKO Federal Political Committee decided: Confirm the standpoint that the entire procedure of the so-called “popular vote”, as well as the very introduction of amendments to the Basic […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Yabloko party stands for people’s rule and federalism
Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 24.07.2020 The latest events in the Khabarovsk Territory [when thousands of people came into the streets after Governor of the region they voted for against the ruling party candidate was arrested and dismissed from his post] showed the failure of the concept of the vertical of power and the entire Putin […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Elections, Federalism, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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On the principled unacceptability of voting on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Decision No 132 of 5.06.2020 by the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 8.06.2020 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko thinks that amendments to the Constitution of Russia, initiated by President Putin, represent demolishing of the foundations of the constitutional system of our country, the Russian legal system as a whole.
Posted: June 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions.
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The political situation in Russia at the beginning of 2020 and the need for real change
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 28.01.2020 The 2020 Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly], amendments to the Constitution hastily introduced [by the government], and formation of a new government of the Russian Federation testify to the policies of the authorities that led the country into a dead end are maintained. The main thing […]
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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Stop persecution of activists opposing lawlessness with garbage deposits on Shies!
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 4.12.2019 The Bureau of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers the situation in the area of the Shies railway station (the Arkhangelsk region) unacceptable due to dangerous plans for allocation of landfills for the Moscow municipal waste. This situation is a vivid example of the lack of a clear […]
Posted: December 9th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Political Committee Decisions, Protection of Environment.
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The Yabloko party demands to stop pressure on society
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 4.12.2019 The campaign of political reprisals has been intensifying in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s regime uses both state institutions and the law for prosecution of political opponents, as well as intimidation and defamation of people through specially created as well as existing criminal structures.
Posted: December 6th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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On Russia’s polices in the Middle East and Africa
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko notes the dangerous counterproductiveness of Russia’s policies in the Middle East: the country did not gain allies there but got bogged down in a strange, endless civil war that claimed thousands of lives. In 2015, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko activists in Tula held a series of pickets
Police confiscated the picket placards the activists used in their pickets Press Release, 23.05.2019 On 20 May, Yabloko activists held a series of one-person pickets in the centre of Tula. One Yabloko member picketed by the regional government office.
Posted: May 23rd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Street Actions, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yabloko’s human rights activists filed an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for conducting a march “The First of May Against Torture and Discrimination”
Press Release, 17.04.2019 Photo: Organisers of the action: Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Valery Borschyov Valery Borshchyov and Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights activists and members of the Yabloko party, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office to hold a march in the city centre on 1 May “The First of May Against Torture […]
Posted: April 17th, 2019 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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On the preparation of proposals for the reform of the electoral system of the Russian Federation
Decision No 107 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 6.03.2019 In 2018, the electoral system of modern Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary. At this time political organisations, movements and political parties were born. However, today confidence of Russians in elections has dropped to almost a zero level, almost like in Soviet times, when elections were not […]
Posted: March 11th, 2019 under Elections, Political Committee Decisions.
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Yabloko is the party of a moral choice
Decision by Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 25.10.2018 Yabloko is the party of the European values. Yabloko has abided by democratic principles and employed lawful methods to gain power and political influence since the time the party was founded 25 years ago. We are the party of public affairs, we participate in elections and use parliamentary […]
Posted: November 7th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Politics, Understanding Russia, Yabloko's Views.
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Emilia Slabunova: I try to answer my team’s expectations
by Svetlana Prokudina, specially for the website, 7.10.2018 Today Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova celebrates her birthday. Emilia Edgardovna dedicated many years of her life to Petrozavodsk [capital of the Republic of Karelia] where she started her career as a teacher. Later she became the headmaster of a lyceum and a candidate for the city mayor. Today […]
Posted: October 9th, 2018 under Yabloko's Views.
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Yabloko wished the President of Russia an early retirement at the action on Putin’s birthday
Press Release, 8.10.2018 On 7 October, on the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised a flash mob “For the Raising of…” in the city. The name of the action is connected with the recent law on raising the retirement age, which was adopted by both the chambers of the […]
Posted: October 9th, 2018 under Street Actions.
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Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to organise a flash mob on Vladimir Putin’s birthday
Press release, 4.10.2018 The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will organise a flash mob on 7 October, the birthday of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. According to Chair of the regional party branch Yaroslav Shcherbakov, the latest trend is to raise everything – the retirement age, VAT rate, petrol excise duty and so on. “President Putin is […]
Posted: October 5th, 2018 under Street Actions.
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Yabloko Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov: “Democracy is an exam that society is taking every day”
Press Release, 24.08.2018 Archive photo by RIA Novosti/ Yuri Abramochkin A rally dedicated to the anniversary of the victory over the reactionary forces of the State Emergency Committee was held in the Krasnopresnensky park, Moscow, behind the Russian ‘White House’ on 22 August, on the Day of the Flag of Russia. The rally was […]
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Street Actions, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Voinovich was an uncompromising opponent of a repressive machinery
Grigory Yavlinsky about a great writer and a courageous man who left us Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 28.07.2018 As far as in 1986, Vladimir Voinovich wrote the dystopian novel “Moscow 2042”, its plot in many respects resembles Russia of our days: communism was built in Greater Moscow, a complete merger fusion of the party and […]
Posted: July 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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The authorities of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to give permission for 33 pickets against the pension reform.
Yabloko is filing a lawsuit Press Release, 17.07.2018 The Yabloko party received a refusal from the Prefect’s Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow to hold 33 pickets against the pension reform. Yabloko intends to appeal the refusals of the Prefect’s Office and Putin’s decree banning all the street actions during the World […]
Posted: July 17th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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