Archive for 'Presidential Elections'
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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Sergei Piskunov, candidate member of Yabloko and electoral expert in Kuzbass, detained. His home searched in connection with the case of “organising an extremist community”
Press Release, 12.02.2024 Photo: Sergei Piskunov holding a placard “No More Than 2 Terms”/ Photo from social media UPDATE: 12 February, 11:45 Moscow time. Sergei Piskunov was detained in the Altai Territory. He is suspected of “creating an extremist community” (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Now he is being taken […]
Posted: February 12th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the nomination of a candidate for presidential elections by Yabloko. Commentary by the Yabloko Press Service
Press Release, 25.12.2023 In connection with incoming requests, the Press Service of the Yabloko party explains the following:
Posted: December 26th, 2023 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024.
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On participation in the 2024 Russian presidential elections
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 November, 2023, published on 7 December, 2023 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the televised debates during the 2018 presidential campaign / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The upcoming eighth presidential elections in Russia in March 2024 are radically different from those held in Russia since 1991. […]
Posted: December 8th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on 2024 Russian presidential election
Press Release, 28.11.2023 Everyone knows that Russian elections are, to put it mildly, special. Especially in 2024. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Kremlin announced the result already in August of 2023: Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the President, said that Vladimir Putin would win the presidential elections in 2024 with a result of […]
Posted: November 28th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov on collecting signatures in support of the nomination of Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election
Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post, 9.11.2023 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Our party receives questions from citizens from different regions of Russia about collecting signatures for the nomination of Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election. In September, Grigory Yavlinsky said that he was ready to consider the […]
Posted: November 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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On the participation of a Yabloko candidate in the 2024 presidential elections. Commentary by Grigory Yavlinsky’s Press Secretary
Press Release, 17.10.2023 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Commentary by Grigory Yavlinsky’s Press Secretary, Igor Yakovlev, on the participation of a Yabloko candidate in the 2024 presidential elections: — The position of Grigory Yavlinsky is well known. He is categorically against the special military operation and for an immediate ceasefire. […]
Posted: October 18th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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A blow to election observers is a blow to the entire institution of elections. Chairman of Yabloko on the arrest of Grigory Melkonyants
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 18.08.2023 Photo: Grigory Melkonyants / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Golos [a movement of election observers], has been arrested. The authorities do not even try to hide that this is a political case, a way of settling scores with the wrong people. Vasily Piskaryov, […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, State Duma Elections, Без рубрики.
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The Kirov branch of Yabloko announces recruitment of precinct electoral commissions members from the Yabloko party with a casting vote
Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The Kirov regional branch of the Yabloko party begins a preliminary recruitment for those wishing to become a Yabloko member or resume membership in precinct electoral commissions with a casting vote in the Kirov region.
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation to the Yabloko observers in Kazan, Tatarstan. Activists worked for Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign in the presidential elections in 2018
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Logo of the 2018 Russian Presidential Elections In the presidential elections in 2018, activists Olga Sergeyeva and Gulnara Galyautdinova worked at polling station No 409 in Kazan, Tatarastan, as a member of the electoral commission with an advisory vote and an observer. They were taken to the police station during the […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Negative Selection*
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]
Posted: October 27th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in Russia
Decision No 145 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The situation in Russia, in almost all spheres, is currently determined by trends summarising the previous 25 years and set by the 2020 “constitutional reform” [Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution]. This […]
Posted: October 21st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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