The YABLOKO party will support the March against the “Anti-Magnitsky
law” which will take place in Moscow on Sunday, January 13.
YABLOKO has consistently opposed the so-called Dima Yakovlev
law prohibiting Americans to adopt Russian children. YABLOKO
leader Sergei Mitrokhin called this law "profoundly anti-human."
"Adopting the Anti-Magnitsky law all the branches of
power demonstrated their willingness to protect their corrupt
officials in such a way that the whole world was left horrified,"
Mitrokhin said.
YABLOKO’s MPs in the Legislative Assemblies of St. Petersburg
and the Pskov Region opposed the bill, but were not supported
by the parliamentary majority. Activists from the Youth Yabloko
conducted a series of one person pickets by the Federation
Council on the day the senators had to examine the law. The
slogan of the action was "Children are frozen in the
Cold War". Four party members were detained by police
and now they face large fines or community service works.
The application for the March was submitted to the Moscow
authorities by a group of civil activists. Today the Moscow
authorities have given their permission to conduct the march
from Pushkin square along the boulevards to Sakharov Prospect.
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