Between Times: On the Titanic
On the Problems and Threats of the New Era
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram channel, 23.12.2024
Picture: “The Sinking of the Titanic” by Willy Stever, 1912
The key crisis of our time lies in the imperceptible but ever-increasing loss of human values and meanings in world politics combined with the lack of understanding of this problem, rather than in the geopolitical confrontation. This is the essence of what is happening. Neither economic success nor strengthening of military capabilities compensate for the deficit of these ideas.
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Posted: December 27th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko supported the humane programme of treating stray animals at the round table of animal rights activists in Murmansk
Press Release, 24.12.2024
On 21 December, Vyacheslav Paikachev, Chairman of the Murmansk regional branch of the Yabloko party, and Igor Khomechko, a member of the branch, took part in the round table of animal rights activists on the topic “The Murmansk Region for the Return of the Concept of Catch-Sterilisation-Vaccination-Return”. The concept Catch-Sterilisation-Vaccination-Return imply no killing of dogs whose reaction to stress may be subjectively assessed as “unmotivated aggression” and, thus, the authorities allow for killing of such dogs.
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Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The leader of the Zabaykalsky Krai branch of the Yabloko party spoke at the regional Legislative Assembly against the return of Stalinist practices
Press Release, 24.12.2024
Photo: Viktor Kurochkin / Photo by Oleg Fyodorov, CHITA.RU
The Chairman of the Transbaikal regional branch of the Yabloko party, Viktor Kurochkin, spoke at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Zabaikalsky Krai (Transbaikal Territory) on 20 December. In his speech, he noted that many specific features of the Stalinist era have returned to modern Russian reality.
Kurochkin emphasised that in today’s Russia a real criminal penalty can again be given for a word or a public statement – in accordance with the amendments to the criminal and administrative legislation adopted in 2022. At the same time, the Constitution guarantees the right to freely discuss any issues, including the most pressing ones for society, but this fundamental law often does not function.
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Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands that Vladimir Putin introduce a federal emergency regime due to the environmental disaster in the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 23.12.2024
Photo: A volunteer involved in cleaning up fuel oil on the beach of the Yubileiny children’s camp on the Black Sea shore in Anapa / Photo by Alexei Maishev, RIA Novosti
The corresponding appeal to the President of Russia was sent by Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, referring to the Federal Law No. 68-FZ “On the Protection of the Population and Territories from Emergencies of Natural and Man-Made Nature” dated 21.12.1994.
“According to the law, it must be introduced in situations where there is damage to human health or the environment, significant material losses and disruption of living conditions in a certain territory as a result of a environmetal disaster. Obviously, such damage exists in this situation,” Rybakov emphasised.
The party leader also demanded that federal funds and forces, including military personnel, be involved to quickly eliminate the disaster and ensure the safety of people and nature.
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Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko hosted a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva
Press Release, 17.12.2024
Photo: Nina Khrushcheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko hosted a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva, political scientist and professor at the New School in New York, and great granddaughter of USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nina Khrushcheva spoke about her new book “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System”, and answered questions from participants about the personality of the Soviet leader and the years of the Thaw, which he largely personified. The evening was moderated by Grigory Grishin, Adviser to the Yabloko Chairman.
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Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Novgorod Yabloko appealed to the police and the Investigative Committee regarding the destruction of four memorials to prisoners of war and internees in the Borovichi district of the Novgorod region
Press Release, 16.12.2024
Photo: The basement of the memorial at the cemetery in the Borovichi district was destroyed with the use of construction equipment / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
In the Novgorod region, unidentified persons destroyed four memorials at the burial sites of prisoners of war from the Second World War. In the village of Yogla and in the city of Borovichi (in Bobrovy Gory, Ust-Brynkino, and the area of Lake Kryukovo) unidentified persons smashed the monuments, cut down the crosses and vandalized the basements of the monuments. Novgorod Yabloko appealed to the police and the Investigative Committee.
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Posted: December 25th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office on the GULAG Museum: After the violations are amended, the Museum will be allowed to receive visitors again
Press Release, 16.12.2024
Photo: An exhibit of the GULAG History Museum / Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant
Yabloko received a response from the Moscow Department of Culture to the appeal by the Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Maxim Kruglov about the reasons for the closure of the GULAG History Museum. The Moscow Mayor’s Office listed the violations discovered during the inspection of the building, and also indicated the conditions for resuming the Museum’s work.
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Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After two years of litigation, the seizure of the St.Petersburg branch of the society for the protection of of architectural heritage was declared illegal. One of the plaintiffs was Yabloko Deputy Chair Boris Vishnevsky
Press Release, 16.12.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the VOOPIK office / Photo by the St.Petersbrug branch of Yabloko
The City Court of St. Petersburg upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court on the illegal holding of a conference of the St.Petersburg branch of VOOPIK (All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments). On 29 June, 2022, with the support of the city authorities, a raider seizure of the organisation by developers and “restorers” took place. The group of plaintiffs in this case included Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky. The interests of the plaintiffs were represented by Deputy Chairman of the St.Petersburg branch of the party, lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky. The restoring of justice took over two years.
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Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists killed for their professional activities
Press Release, 16.12.2024
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 15 December, the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty, Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists of the new Russia killed for their work. The event took place in front of the Idel-Press building in Kazan.
Dozens of Russian journalists have died in recent decades: Irina Slavina, Larisa Yudina, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya, Anastasia Baburova, Orkhan Dzhemal, Mikhail Beketov, and many others. Most criminal cases involving murder has remained unsolved. Punishment of the perpetrators is a rarity, and impunity breeds new crimes. Each such murder is not only a tragedy, but also a blow to freedom of speech, which must be protected for the sake of the future of our country.
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Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of Yakutsk
Press Release, 16.12.2024
Photo: Collection of signatures in the Yakutsk office of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The regional branch of the Yabloko party in Yakutia announces a collection of signatures against the abolition of the direct elections of the head of Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia. A bill on replacing of direct elections of the mayor of Yakutsk by appointing of the mayor was submitted to the parliament of the republic.
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Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Let the victims be only chess wooden figures, not people.” Yabloko hosted a chess tournament in memory of Yabloko Deputy Chair Sergei Ivanenko
Press Release, 14.12.2024
Photo: Tournament winners Yury Khoroshev, Maxim Parshin and Sergei Sukhanov
On 14 December, Yabloko held a chess tournament in memory of Yabloko Deputy Chair Sergei Ivanenko: 28 chess players, aged 17 to 72 from different regions of the country, from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, party members and supporters, competed for several hours at the party’s central office in Moscow. The winners were Maxim Parshin, Yuri Khoroshev and Sergei Sukhanov.
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Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Charity, Conferences and Seminars.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions to hold the action of writing letters to political prisoners which will be the last in 2024
Press Release, 13.12.2024
Photo by the Voronezh branch of Yabloko
Traditionally we invite everyone who is ready to help with care and a kind words to those deprived of freedom for their words and beliefs to the events in support of political prisoners. Come to our offices and other meeting places, sign New Year’s cards and bring your letters, and we, as usual, will take on the preparation of envelopes and their mailing.
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Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to conduct a New Year charity fair
Press Release, 13.12.2024
This year, once again, we are holding a charity fair with the participation of charitable foundations, social and environmental projects. Many charitable organisations open inclusive workshops where their wards knit, draw and create many different goods. Such work not only integrates people into normal life, but often helps the foundations survive. These products can be a wonderful gift for the New Year. You will not only please your loved ones, but also help those who need your help.
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Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva and discussion of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside the System”
Press Release, 13.12.2024
Photo: Nina Khrushcheva in the Yabloko office on 17 September, 2024. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 16 December, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will host a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva, timed to coincide with the release of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside the System”. In September of this year, the Yabloko office could not accommodate everyone who wanted to come to the book launch.
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Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko calls on the State Duma to declare an amnesty on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War
Press Release, 12.12.2024
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
A letter signed by the Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov was sent to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and State Duma deputies. At a meeting of the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, Yabloko called on the authorities to release from custody and drop charges against all those who were convicted or are under investigation under the “anti-war articles” of the Criminal Code. An amnesty in Russia was last declared ten years ago and was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War.
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Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko calls for the release of all those convicted under “anti-war” articles!
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 11.12.2024
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the Yabloko Congress in 2023 /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, there are about a thousand prisoners in Russian prisons, persecuted by the state for their political views and positions. The use of new articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has become widespread: the dissemination of so-called fakes about the army (Article 207.3), as well as words or actions that, in the opinion of investigative bodies, discredit the Russian army (Article 280.3). Practice has shown that almost any statement by a citizen that does not correspond to the official line of state power in relation to the special military operation, which has been ongoing for three years, can fall under these articles.
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Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Congresses, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World War II
Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post, 10.12.2024
Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt with the English version of the Declaration of Human Rights
Today is International Human Rights Day: 76 years ago, on 10 December, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Declaration represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World War II. The global conflict killed 70 million people, and was marked by the deliberate extermination of entire nations, the widespread use of concentration camps, violence against prisoners and civilians, deportations, famine, the destruction of cities, and cold-blooded ruthlessness, hatred and unbearable pain. Observing all this suffering, humanity made an attempt to prevent it in the future. It was for this purpose that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. It was the first document of global scale that guaranteed every inhabitant of the planet, regardless of nationality, race, religion, gender, and age, the most fundamental rights and freedoms and called on all states to observe them.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma: we need a real, not a sham, dialogue between the authorities and citizens
Press Release, 11.12.2024
Today, Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, voiced in the Moscow City Duma the need for authorities to conduct a dialogue with Muscovites on the merits instead of formally complying with the requirements of the law. Kirill Goncharov spoke in the Moscow parliament within the annual Moscow City Duma meeting with participation of non-parliamentary parties.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ivan Bolshakov: In times of turbulence we need not only to maintain our basis, but be flexible
Press Release, 10.12.2024
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Speaking at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30 November 2024, Ivan Bolshakov, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, noted that Yabloko was facing a dilemma “either we act “here and now” or work for the future”. However, the position “here and now” cannot give a positive result. “Here and now” one can only go to prison, or become a “foreign agent”. According to Bolshakov, “it is unlikely that you will be able to win the elections or achieve a change of regime “here and now”.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The leader of Yabloko demanded that the State Duma withdraw the bill banning the admission of migrant children to schools without a Russian language test
Press Release, 10.12.2024
Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
The corresponding appeal was sent by the Сhairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov to the Сhairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Rybakov stated in the letter that implementation of this initiative would significantly limit the opportunities for citizens of neighbouring states to integrate into Russian society, contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation, current legislation, and would also lead to significant and long-term negative cultural, economic and geopolitical consequences.
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Posted: December 10th, 2024 under Education and Science, Human Rights, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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