Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 20.11.2024
Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions of writing letters to political prisoners. We are publishing the addresses of the regional branches where the actions are held as well as the dates of the action. The actions will be held in Yabloko’s regional branches all over Russia from 22 November through to 12 December. The information will be updated.
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Posted: November 20th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: 1,000 missed chances. How and when did we miss the opportunity for peace?
Nikolai Rybakov special for the Yabloko web-site, 19.11.2024
People think that if they call mass murder “war,” then
mass murder will stop being a murder, a crime.
Leo Tolstoy
Photo: Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Warriors of the Apocalypse” (1887) depicting the four horsemen of the Apocalypse – characters from the Sixth chapter of the Revelation of John the Theologian
The 24th of February, 2022 became a tragic date for many of us, a turning point in life and a day after which no one and nothing will be the same. During the military actions, we have lost a lot and many people. And if good-neighbourly relations with Ukraine and the West, destroyed infrastructure and houses, and a stable economy can be restored, maybe not now, and not immediately, but still it is possible, then we will never be able to bring back those who died in this bloody massacre.
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Posted: November 20th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The government of the Saratov Region supported the Yabloko initiative to expand the list of organisations where alternative civilian substitute service is possible
Press Release, 18.11.2024
Photo: an ID of a citizen undergoing alternative civilian non-military service / Photo from social media
For many years, the Saratov region has been experiencing an acute shortage of specialists in socially significant areas, primarily in healthcare and education. The Saratov branch of Yabloko sent proposals to the Governor of the Saratov Region and the Reception Office of the Chairman of the State Duma that would help reduce the personnel shortage – expanding the list of organisations where alternative civilian (non-military) service is possible. Last week, Yabloko received a letter from the Government of the Saratov Region, which supported the idea of expanding the list of organisations for alternative civilian service.
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Posted: November 18th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to hold rally in Yakutia against cancellation of direct mayoral elections
Press Release, 18.11.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 November, a rally against the cancellation of the mayoral elections will be held in Yakutsk. Participants will gather at 14:30, the rally will begin at 15:00. The organiser of the event is the Yabloko branch in Yakutia. Yabloko has received a permission for the rally from the city administration.
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Posted: November 18th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to hold a discussion “1,000 Days After 24 February, 2022”
Press Release, 15.11.2024
The events after 24 February, 2022, became a turning point in the lives of each of us. For over two years, we have been living in a reality when people die every day.
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Posted: November 18th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the budget of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. Deputy Emilia Slabunova innumerates the reasons
Press Release, 14.11.2024
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 November, the Legislative Assembly of Karelia considered the draft budget of the Republic of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. The Yabloko faction voted against adopting the document. The head of the faction Emilia Slabunova notes that only the concept of the budget was considered in the first reading. Slabunova innumerates the main reasons why Yabloko cannot agree with such a budget.
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Posted: November 15th, 2024 under Education and Science, Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Analytical Centre on the ban for migrant children without knowledge of Russian to be admitted to schools: The initiative is even more harmful than foolish
Press Release, 13.11.2024
Photo by Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced the preparation of a bill that would prohibit migrant children who do not know Russian from being admitted to schools. There is no doubt that this bill will be adopted: Vladimir Putin drew attention to the problem of migrant children’s poor knowledge of Russian, and the heads of Rosobrnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science) and the Human Rights Council proposed a “solution” – to ban their admission to schools. The Yabloko Party Analytical Centre decided to comment on this initiative because it is more harmful that foolish, and its implementation will lead to the opposite results.
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Posted: November 15th, 2024 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko municipal deputy in the Pskov region, Nikolai Kuzmin, stripped of powers due to “foreign agent” status
Press Release, 14.11.2024
Photo: Nikolai Kuzmin at the building of the Pskov City Court challenging his “foreign agent” status / Photo from social media
On 14 November, the Assembly of Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District considered the early termination of the powers of deputy from Yabloko Nikolai Kuzmin due to the fact that he was included in the register of “foreign agents”. Ten deputies voted for stripping Kuzmin of his mandate, one abstained, and one (Nikolai Kuzmin himself) voted against; 12 out of 14 current deputies took part in the session.
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Posted: November 14th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: All wars are cursed from their inception
Lev Shlosberg ‘s Telegram blog post, 10.11.2024
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18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА
18+ THE PRESENT MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG
On the morning of 4 September, Ksenia Sobchak called me, saying she’d received a message from Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov saying “every word hits the mark,” along with a link to Oleg Kashin’s interview with me on his YouTube channel. Ksenia had watched the video and told me that my stance represented the views of many people in Russia who are currently forced into silence. She proposed meeting in Pskov to discuss this perspective, the work of Pskov’s Yabloko team, the current state of Russian politics, the “party of foreign blood,” the country, and its future.
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Posted: November 14th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko organised a lecture on political prisoners “The Last Route”
Press Release, 13.11.2024
Photo: the Zolotaya Gora memorial cemetery in the village of Shershni / Source: Chelyabinsk Yabloko
To commemorate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised a lecture on “The Last Route” of Stalin’s political prisoners. On 3 November, the listeners of the lecture, together with local historian Yuri Latyshev, walked along the “last route” of those sentenced to death during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in Chelyabinsk.
The route began at 45 Rossiyskaya Street. Three people sentenced to death for counterrevolutionary activities in 1937-38 lived in the house at this address:
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Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko honored the memory of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, killed by neo-Nazis 19 years ago
Press Release, 13.11.2024
Photo: Olga Tsepilova, Ivan Levchenko and Dmitry Anisimov on Ligovsky Prospekt, 12 November, 2024. / Photo by the Press Service of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
On November 12, on the eve of the anniversary of the murder of St. Petersburg anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, the Chair of St. Petersburg Yabloko Olga Tsepilova, Deputy Chair of St.Petersburg Yabloko Dmitry Anisimov, and member of the Regional Council Ivan Levchenko brought flowers and a photograph of the activist to the site of his murder near the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt.
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Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow Yabloko demands to open a criminal case on the attack on environmental activist Ivan Shchekin in the Moscow region
Press Release, 13.11.2024
Photo: Ivan Shchekin after the attack on him in the Romashkinsky forest / Photo by Sergei Utrishsky
The Regional Bureau of Moscow Yabloko sent an appeal to the chief of the Moscow region police Viktor Ishchenko. The appeal was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow Yabloko.
On 5 November, ” Ivan Shchekin, environmental activist and inspector of the non-profit partnership “National Committee for Environmental Safety”, saw workers cutting down trees in the Romashkinsky forest in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. The activist asked the workers to show documents allowing for the cutting of trees. The workers attacked Shchekin and beat him using shovels.
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Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On Yabloko’s appeals the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered to remove military equipment from the monument to grieving mothers of WWII soldiers
Press Release, 12.11.2024
Photo: The Memory memorial in Chelyabinsk / Photo from open sources
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, achieved this by sending multiple appeals to the regional public prosecutor’s office. The city authorities will have to remove two decommissioned anti-aircraft missile systems S-75 they installed by the monument of mothers grieving over their sons who died in the World War II. In addition, the city administration promised to repair the memorial cemetery by May 2025.
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Posted: November 12th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The parliamentary majority of the St.Petersburg parliament refused to even discuss the amendments to the St. Petersburg budget prepared by Yabloko
Press Release, 12.11.2024
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
On 11 November, Yabloko’s deputy Olga Shtannikova presented Yabloko’s amendments to the 2025 budget at the meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg.
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Posted: November 12th, 2024 under Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko held an expert discussion on the problem of overcoming Stalinism in modern Russia
Press Release 8.11.2024
Based on the discussion in the Yabloko Bureau on 31 October, 2024
On 31 October, Yabloko held an open meeting of the Federal Bureau of the party, timed to coincide with the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. The topic of the large discussion was overcoming Stalinism. The following experts joined the discussion of the problem of studying the crimes of the Soviet state against citizens, as well as developing ways to overcome the growing popularity of Stalinist ideas in our time: lawyers Mikhail Biryukov and Marina Agaltsova, sociologist and Director of the Levada Centre Denis Volkov, co-founder of the Memorial group Viktor Kogan-Yasny, and human rights activist, son of a repressed person Alexei Nesterenko. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky and head of the Yabloko Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov also made speeches.
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Posted: November 8th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Donald Trump has won. What will happen next? Nikolai Rybakov on the prospects of the policies of the 47th US President
Telegram blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 6.11.2024
Photo from social media
Donald Trump has become the 47th President of the United States. Well, such a president, it is ok… Before the 2016 elections, he pays to a porn star for keeping silence about their affair. And where does he pay it from? From the presidential election fund. Simply brilliant… And when he is then tried for it, it is, of course, “fighting against him”. A good example to follow…
And what is there so unexpected? Populism is becoming increasingly more attractive, and institutionalised (i.e., boring) politics, the politics of values and professional approach are out of favour today. Crude, flamboyant phrases continue to gain momentum in the world. If one said or wrote something stupid, but did it in a gaudy manner – one would get a lot of likes. They will discuss him. If one didn’t say it – well, sorry, it’s your own fault. And the fact that politicians, especially those re-elected, should report on the fulfillment of their previous promises – this sounds almost like nonsense, even probably funny to some.
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Posted: November 8th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Smolensk branch of Yabloko asks the Federal Penitentiary Service to pay attention to the health condition of political prisoner Sergei Komandirov
Press Release, 5.11.2024
Photo: Sergei Komandirov / Photo from social media
The Smolensk branch of Yabloko has contacted the central office of the Federal Penitentiary Service with a request to provide qualified medical care to political prisoner Sergei Komandirov, who is held in Penal Colony No 4 in the city of Torzhok. The mother of the political prisoner says that Komandirov has health problems.
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Posted: November 5th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: A state without memory
What is happening around the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions
Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 4.11.2024
18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА
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The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions is being transformed in Russia into a quasi-legal memorial day that has been officially established, officially not banned, but how the authorities mark it either has not been agreed upon under demonstratively wild pretexts or else is being stifled in the swamplike silence of dissemblance.
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Posted: November 4th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Olga Shtannikova will become a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko
Press Release, 31.10.2024
Photo: Olga Shtannikova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The decision to fill the vacant mandate of a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg of the seventh convocation in connection with the early termination of the powers of deputy Boris Vishnevsky was made at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party on 31 October. The documents on the candidacy of Olga Shtannikova will be sent to the Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg soon.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The 8th All-Russian Conference “Yablokov Readings” in memory of Acad. Alexei Yablokov, scientist, politician and founder of the Yabloko Green Russia faction, was held in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 31.10.2024
The 8th All-Russian Conference “Yablokov Readings” in memory of Acad. Alexei Yablokov, scientist, politician and founder of the Yabloko Green Russia faction, was held in St. Petersburg. Reports were delivered by scientists, journalists, leaders and activists of environmental non-governmental organisations, and leaders and activists of the Yabloko party.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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