Court made a decision on the third criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov. The total term of imprisonment is two years
Press Release, 4.04.2025
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court has made a decision on the third criminal case against journalist and leader of the regional branch of the Yabloko party Vladimir Yefimov. Yefimov was sentenced to two years in a penal colony under two articles – “demonstration of extremist symbols” and “discrediting the army” (Article 282.4, Part 1; and Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Taking into account the existing sentence in the second criminal case – 1.5 years in a penal colony – the total term of imprisonment was two years. Yefimov is also prohibited from publishing on the Internet and administering web-sites for three years. Vladimir Yefimov’s defense intends to appeal both the sentences, however, next week Yefimov must appear at the Federal Penitentiary Service facility to serve his sentence.
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Posted: April 4th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ryazan Regional Court leaves Ryazan Yabloko Chairman Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention
Press Release, 3.04.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at a court hearing via video link / Photo by Vid Sboku
On 3 April, the Ryazan Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of the lower instance to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, the Editor-in-Chief of the Vid Sboku (Side View) online media and deputy of the Dubrovichi rural settlement from Yabloko, until 30 May. Konstantin Smirnov participated in the hearing via a video conference from the pretrial detention centre.
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Posted: April 4th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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«Il gioco con Trump rafforza il regime»
Yavlinskij, fondatore dell’unico partito d’opposizione in Russia: «Positivi però gli sforzi per il negoziato con Kiev»
Avvenir, 1.04.2025
RAFFAELLA CHIODO KARPINSKY
«Fino all’autunno del 2022, la dichiarazione del nostro partito era una dichiarazione politica». Parte da qui, per il suo racconto, Gregorij Yavlinskij, fondatore di Yabloko, unico partito dell’opposizione rimasto in Russia. «In autunno diventò non solo un’esigenza morale, ma anche politico- militare. Corrispondeva alla nuova situazione strategica al fronte. Le truppe ucraine conseguivano successi a Kharkov e Kherson, la Russia si ritirava. L’Ucraina rafforzava la sua posizione e cresceva l’autorevolezza internazionale del suo presidente. Sarebbe stato allora possibile raggiungere accordi favorevoli, tenendo conto dell’equilibrio dei poteri e, cosa più importante, fermare l’uccisione di persone e la distruzione dell’Ucraina. A novembre, inviai una nota a papa Francesco tramite l’ambasciata vaticana a Mosca. Credevo che l’influenza di una figura neutrale e autorevole potesse svolgere un ruolo. L’iniziativa fu accolta positivamente: il Papa s’impegnò attivamente e fin dall’inizio della guerra non ha mai perso un’occasione per invocare la tregua e la pace. Recentemente si è saputo che allo stesso tempo il capo di stato maggiore congiunto Usa, generale Milley, parlò dell’opportunità militare di concludere un accordo per il cessate il fuoco. Il presidente Biden ha poi espresso preoccupazione per l’elevato rischio di un conflitto nucleare e gli Usa ebbero consultazioni con la Russia. I leader europei, al contrario, chiedevano la continuazione della guerra e la “vittoria sul campo di battaglia”. Ritengo si trattò di un errore di calcolo. Si perse il momento in cui si doveva raggiungere un cessate il fuoco e avviare i negoziati per una tregua. Per questo è stato pagato un prezzo terribile: vite umane e distruzione su larga scala».
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Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Kamchatka Krai Court upheld Vladimir Yefimov’s sentence in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 31.03.2025
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The decision was made on 28 March. Earlier, Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code). The appellate court reduced the term of imprisonment by six months. Yefimov is also prohibited from publishing on the Internet or administering web-sites for four years. The journalist is currently staying at home awaiting a call from the Federal Penitentiary Service.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Ksenia Cherepanova became the eleventh Yabloko member added to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 28.03.2025
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo from the personal archive
The Ministry of Justice added Ksenia Cherepanova, the Chairwoman of the Veliky Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. She became the eleventh party member to be added to the register.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The arrest of journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov extended for another two months
Press Release, 27.03.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan decided to extend the term of detention for Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko, for another two months. The court took such a decision despite the requests of Smirnov and his defence to change the measure of restraint to any not related to imprisonment.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko continues its monthly actions in support of political prisoners in dozens of Russian cities
Press Release, 18.03.2025
Those who are unjustly deprived of their freedom have a very hard time in prisons and pretrial detention centres. This is confirmed by the alarming news about the health of Maria Ponomarenko and Lyudmila Razumova. The Moscow and Novgorod branches of our party started helping them. It is in our power to send words of support to political prisoners, give them warmth and hope.
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Moscow Yabloko asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office to initiate an immediate investigation into the detention conditions of journalist Maria Ponomarenko in a pretrial detention facility
Press Release, 18.03.2025
Photo: Maria Ponomarenko / Photo by RusNews
Mass media have reported, citing a lawyer, that Maria Ponomarenko attempted suicide “due to constant bullying by the administration” of the detention facility and is currently on a dry hunger strike. Moscow Yabloko representative Maxim Kruglov is asking the Public Prosecutor of the Altiai Territory, Anton German, to immediately and thoroughly investigate the conditions of Maria Ponomarenko’s detention.
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko wins the Constitutional Court case on removing party lists from elections in 2023
Press Release, 18.03.2025
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
On 18 March, 2025, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that the head of the regional branch of a political party has the authority to sign documents to register the nominated list of candidates from the moment of his/her election. The ruling was made at a collegial court session. The victory of Pskov Yabloko ended a nearly two-year dispute in which the courts of general jurisdiction, as well as the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region, took a deliberately unlawful position.
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Federal bill on killing animals is being considered by the parliaments in Russian regions. Yabloko appeals to deputies with a request not to support cruelty
Press Release, 17.03.2025
Photo by zastavkin/depositphotos
In late February, a bill “On Responsible Treatment of Animals” was introduced to the State Duma. It gives the right to the Russian regions to independently set the time limits for keeping homeless animals in shelters, after which cats and dogs will be euthanised. The State Duma will make the final decision on the bill based on the opinions of regional parliaments. Discussion of the bill has already begun in a number of regions. Back in 2023 Yabloko called to refrain from violence in society by legalising the killing of animals, now Yabloko appeals to regional deputies with a request to give a negative review of the bill.
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko appealed to Vladimir Putin asking to reject the law on the liquidation of local self-government
Press Release, 17.03.2025
Photo: The Constitution of the Russian Federation with amendments of 2020 /Photo by Pavel Lysitsin, RIA Novosti
Today Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of Russia asking to reject the law on the liquidation of local self-government. Yabloko believes that the new law completely subordinates local self-government to the state bodies, finally turning it into a lower and powerless level of state power, and also widens the gap between government bodies and society, destroying the natural instruments of citizens’ influence on the government.
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Без рубрики.
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A brave person who defended the weak. Yabloko bid farewell to Galina Mikhaleva
Press Release, 4.03.2025
Today, Yabloko bid farewell to Galina Mikhailovna Mikhaleva, founder and Chairwoman of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, Doctor of Political Science, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. The farewell ceremony was attended by Galina Mikhaleva’s relatives, friends and colleagues in politics, defence of human rights, academic work, students and like-minded people. Condolences were sent to the party from leaders of European democratic parties, Russian and international human rights organisations, representatives of the global academic community.
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Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Condolences, Gender Faction, Без рубрики.
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Galina Mikhaleva, a recognised leader of the women’s rights movement in Russia, has passed away
28.02.2025
Photo: Galina Mikhaleva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the evening of 27 February, Galina Mikhailovna Mikhaleva, founder and Chairperson of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, doctor of political sciences, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, passed away after a serious illness.
Galina Mikhaleva was an outstanding public figure, human rights defender, academic and politician. She devoted her entire life to the struggle for democracy, equality and women’s rights in Russia.
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Posted: February 28th, 2025 under Condolences.
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On the 10th anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder, Yabloko in Moscow and the regions honours the memory of the politician
Press Release, 27.02.2025
Photo: Yabloko delegation on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge
Today is the 10th anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder. In Moscow, Yabloko members came to the site of Boris Nemtsov’s murder on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge by the Kremlin and to his grave at the Troekurovsky Cemetery. In St. Petersburg, Yabloko members brought flowers to the Solovetsky Stone, a memorial to the victims of political repression, and will open a photo exhibition dedicated to the politician in the evening. In a number of cities, a film about Boris Nemtsov will be shown during Yabloko’s actions of writing letters in support of political prisoners.
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Posted: February 27th, 2025 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“It is important to remain human and be with those who share our position.” Yabloko hosted a discussion “Three Years Since 24.02.2022”
Press Release, 24.02.2025
Photos by the Yabloko Press Service
The discussion took place behind closed doors without video cameras. The participants lit candles and held a minute of silence in memory of all those who fell victim to the terrible events of the past three years. This is how the event in the central office of the Yabloko party was held. It united people advocating peace, and allowed them to meet like-minded people in a safe space.
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Posted: February 25th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko hosted a screening of the film about writer and human rights defender Viktor Bulgakov
Press Release, 24.02.2025
Photo: Viktor Antonovich Bulgakov
Past week, the central office of the Yabloko party hosted the premiere screening of the film “Songs of a Forgotten Mine” and also conducted a meeting with its main character, writer and human rights defender Viktor. The film, made during 2022-2024, focuses on the hardest episodes in the life of Viktor Antonovich Bulgakov: two arrests in 1953 and 1959, a three-year prison camp term, and his encounter with Soviet punitive psychiatry. The film, a biography of the human rights defender, is crowned by a story about his work as a deputy in the Moscow City Council during the hectic times of the late 1980s – early 1990s.
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Posted: February 25th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko to host a launch of the book “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity” by Mikhail Solovyov
Press Release, 19.02.2025
On 5 March, the anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a launch of the two-volume work by historian and social scientist Mikhail Solovyov “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity”. Using historical materials, the author reveals the essence of Stalinism, its totalitarian nature. The book describes in detail the mass repressions (arrests, investigations, prisoners transfers, imprisonment in concentration camps, executions, and famine), the suppression of culture and religion. Based on sociological research, the gap between historical reality and the ideas of modern Russians about Stalinism is shown. The reasons for the positive attitude towards Stalin are considered separately.
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Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Nadezhda Azhgikhina to launch her new book “Kindergarten” in Yabloko
Press Release, 19.02.2025
A new collection of prose by Nadezhda Azhgikhina “Kindergarten” will be launched in the central office of the Yabloko party. Nadezhda Azhgikhina is a journalist, author of sociopolitical essays and scripts for documentary films, member of the Union of Russian Writers. The event will be attended by the Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov, actress of the Theatre of Nations Tatyana Parshina, First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Russian Writers Svetlana Vasilenko, head of the “Association of Researchers of Russian Society of the 21 Century” Gennady Bordyugov, writers, journalists and friends. We invite you to spend the evening at Yabloko.
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Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars.
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The regional electoral commission refused to register the referendum in the Gdov district due to the “large number of participants” in the initiative group
Press Release, 18.02.2025
The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region refused to register the initiative group for the referendum on the issues of direct elections of the head the Gdov District and the preservation of rural administrations in the Gdov district. The reason for the refusal was the fact that the initiative group included 37 people, and not exactly 30. The initiative group included current deputies of the Gdov District Assembly from Yabloko Alexander Konashenkov, Irina Kuryleva and Daria Kalinina, former head of the district Yuri Pavlov, nominated by Yabloko, as well as the candidate for the post of head of the district in the 2024 elections from the party Yevgeny Vasilyev.
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Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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