Archive for 'Elections'
Yabloko municipal deputies In Kostroma and Seversk illegally deprived of their mandates
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo: Vladimir Petrov and Nikolai Sorokin Two municipal deputies from Yabloko – Vladimir Petrov in Seversk, the Tomsk region, and Nikolai Sorokin in Kostroma – were deprived of their mandates. The formal reasons were the demand of the city public prosecutor’s office due to the verdict in a criminal case and “inaccuracies […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow City Duma once again opposed Sergei Mitrokhin’s proposal to protect the rights of citizens during the development of Moscow
Press Release, 17.04.2024 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin at a meeting with Muscovites / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 17 April, the majority of deputies of the Moscow City Duma ignored Sergei Mitrokhin’s draft appeal to the Moscow Mayor. Mitrokhin demands that Mayor must return to Muscovites their right to get information about construction projects […]
Posted: April 18th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko launches the 2024 municipal election campaign
Press Release, 17.04.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the eve of Local Government Day, 21 April, the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg decided to announce the launch of its municipal election campaign. Elections of deputies to municipal councils will be held in St.Petersburg in September 2024.
Posted: April 17th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is the only party in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg speaking against censorship of books by “foreign agent” authors
Press Release, 15.04.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant On 15 April, the Standing Commission of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on Education, Culture and Science approved the initiative of State Duma deputies to amend the law “On Librarianship”. Only the head of the Yabloko faction, Alexander Shishlov, spoke out against it.
Posted: April 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“People try to cope with the situation on their own, without relying on the authorities.” A story from a Yabloko member about how life is in Orsk after the flood
Recorded by Svetlana Prokudina, 11.04.2024 ORENBURG REGION Photo: Nina Avdeyeva / Photo from the personal archive “People cope on their own, without relying on the authorities.” A story from a Yabloko member about how life is in Orsk after the flood On the evening of 5 April, emergency reports appeared that a dam broke in […]
Posted: April 11th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The pro-government parliamentary majority of St. Petersburg does not allow competition in gubernatorial elections
Yabloko’s initiative to reduce the municipal filter for candidates failed Press Release, 10.04.2024 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Only 17 deputies in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, supported the initiative of the Yabloko faction to reduce the municipal filter for gubernatorial candidates. Now the city has the highest […]
Posted: April 11th, 2024 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma calls on the Ministry of Emergency Situations to explain why so many people died in the Crocus City Hall because of the fire
Press Release, 5.04.2024 Photo: Fire after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on 22 March, 2024 / Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, sent a parliamentary request to the Minister of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, calling on the official to give a […]
Posted: April 5th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Yefimov fined 15,000 roubles for an interview for the Youtube channel of the independent election observers’ movement Golos
Press Release, 5.04.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Volzhsky City Court (the Volgograd Region) found Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, guilty of “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation” and fined him 15,000 roubles.
Posted: April 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“When exactly we may come to you, will depend on how you behave” – the chief of police of the Pskov region about the police “inspections” at the office of the Pskov Yabloko
Press Release, 28.03.2024 Photo: Alexei Ovsyannikov, head of the Pskov Region Interior Department / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies After the report of the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Pskov Region Alexei Ovsyannikov to the regional parliament on the police performance for 2023, […]
Posted: March 28th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov to Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov: We categorically disagree with some of the methods that Moscow police use in their work
Press Release, 27.03.2024 Photo: Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia / Photo by the Moscow City Duma Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, at the annual report on the work to the Moscow City Duma, promised the Yabloko faction to assist in the work on […]
Posted: March 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov will ask the Moscow police head about inaction, illegal demands of police officers and violence against detainees
Press Release, 26.03.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 March, deputies of the Moscow City Duma will hear a report from Oleg Baranov, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, on police activities in 2023. In addition, Baranov […]
Posted: March 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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Violence against a voter and beating of a member of the electoral commission do not contradict the law, the head of the police of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region says
Press Release, 20.03.2024 Photo: Head of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Roman Plugin in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly The head of police for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Roman […]
Posted: March 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The totality of violations does not allow me to be confident in the reliability of the results of the presidential elections in St. Petersburg
Member of the City Electoral Commission from Yabloko Pavel Shapchits added a special opinion to the electoral commission protocol Press Release, 19.03.2024 Photo from the official website of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission Pavel Shapchits, a member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission from Yabloko with a decisive vote, attached a special opinion to the […]
Posted: March 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, Yelena Mayatnikova, submitted a dissenting opinion when summing up the voting results in the region for the presidential election
Press Release, 17.03.2024 Photo: Yelena Mayatnikova / Photo by the Pskov regional branch of the party Yelena Mayatnikova, a member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, announced at the final meeting of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region, that extra ballots were printed and, thus, it was impossible to reliably determine the […]
Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko Ruslan Zinatullin and party supporters were detained and taken to the police station in Kazan
Press Release, 17.03.2024 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko and a member of the Federal Bureau of the party, as well as party supporters Zulfiya Sitdikova and Vera Otreshko were detained on leaving their homes in Kazan and taken to the police station.
Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod Yabloko page on Vkontakte blocked by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office
Press Release, 16.03.2024 Photo: a screenshot of the Novgorod Yabloko page in Vkontakte running that “the given material is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation on the basis of the demand of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office No 27-31-2024/Treb263-24 of 15.03.2024 On 15 March, the social media Vkontakte blocked the public page of […]
Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Court upheld Yabloko’s claim and obliged Territorial Electoral Commission No 37 in St. Petersburg to appoint the party representative member of a precinct electoral commission instead of sending him to the army
Press Release, 15.03.2024 Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant On 14 March, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg upheld the claim of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party to invalidate the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 37. On 12 March, the commission refused to appoint Yabloko representative Alexander Kirsanov as a […]
Posted: March 15th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024.
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Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on election violations
Press Release, 15.03.2024 The party is not participating in the elections on 15-17 March, but it is still important for us to continue supporting Yabloko members in electoral commissions and voters, and provide them assistance. For this purpose, Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on voting days, tel: 8 800 777 8725.
Posted: March 15th, 2024 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024.
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Yabloko representatives in the electoral commissions of St. Petersburg were handed summonses to the military commissariats
Deputy Boris Vishnevsky addressed head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova. Press Release, 13.03.2024 Photo: head of Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova / Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant On 11 March, Andrei Yegorov, a member of St.Petersburg Territorial Electoral Commission No. 29 from the Yabloko party, received a call from the electoral commission secretary […]
Posted: March 13th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Без рубрики.
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On the position of the Yabloko party regarding 2024 Russian presidential election
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 11.03.2024, published on 12.03.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant The situation in the country during the current election campaign is radically different from all previous elections. Restrictions on the rights of citizens characteristic of a martial law have been virtually introduced. Political censorship in the […]
Posted: March 12th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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