It took the court three attempts to finally dismiss the case of “illegal campaigning” against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the city of Novgorod
Press Release, 29.06.2022
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin after being attacked / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The court of the first instance dismissed the case on the distribution of Yabloko campaign postcards “Ksenia Cherepanova Is for Peace” by Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, due to the absence of any corpus delicti. Ksenia Cherepanova was Yabloko’s candidate at the Novgorod City Duma elections.
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Posted: June 30th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, will be tried for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
An administrative case under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the army”) was filed against Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka Moscow district.
Morev learned that an administrative protocol was drawn up against him from the summon, which he received by mail. What exactly was considered to be “discreditation of the army” is unclear. On 7 July, Morev’s case will be considered by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition of anti-virus restrictions in the neighbouring countries. Thus, recently the refusal of the Russian border guards to allow famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, who is resident of St.Petersburg, to pass through the Russian-Finnish border to participate in an international conference caused a great public outcry.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in three election campaigns
Press Release, 26.06.2022
Photo: members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party
On 24 June, the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference made a decision on participation of candidates from the party in the elections that will be held in the region in September.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Yefimov called on the Ombudsman and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Volgograd Region to check the conditions of detention of prisoners of war
Based on the publication on the V1.ru web-site, 26.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Yefimov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party from Volgograd, appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Volgograd Region, the regional Public Monitoring Commission performing public control over the conditions of detention and providing aid to convicts, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the public prosecutor’s office with a request to visit and check detention centre No. 2 in the city of Kamyshin, where prisoners of war from Ukraine can be kept, as well as check the conditions of their detention .
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky received ten days of arrest and lost his right to participate in the Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 25.06.2022
Photo: Nikolai Kazkazsky in the police station / Photo from social networks
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has appointed ten days of administrative arrest to Nikolai Kavkazsky, a member of the regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko and human rights activist.
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Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police seized the laptop and phone of Sofya Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky district in the Pskov region, in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 24.06.2022
Photo: Sofya Pugacheva / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
On the morning of 24 June, the police inspected the premises of the administration of the Novorzhevsky district of the Pskov region as part of an administrative case initiated under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”).
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Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko asks Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan to conduct a check on the case of politically motivated expelling of a student from university
Press Release, 22.06.2022
Photo: Denis Mokrishin / Photo from social networks
The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan forwarded an inquiry to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan asking to conduct a check on the case of Denis Mokrushin, a student of Kazan State Architecture and Development University, who had been facing pressure from the university administration for his political stance.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Today this date [the day of remembrance of the victims of the Second World War] has become an open bleeding wound and our common immense responsibility”
81 years ago Hitler attacked the Soviet Union
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov and Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the night of June 21-22, members of the Yabloko party traditionally gathered on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow to lay flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park and light candles in memory of the victims of the Second World War.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under History, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Regional Court sent the case of Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, on “discrediting the army” for a new trial
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova and Vladimir Danilov / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
On 17 May, the Pechorsky District Court dismissed the case of Yabloko’s Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy of the Palkino District Assembly in the Pskov region, due to lack of corpus delicti. However, the employees of the Palkino Police Department appealed against this decision. The report on Lyubov Zhiltsova was drawn up for her photo by the school board with a sheet of paper with the inscription “No ** ***!”, which she published on her VKontakte page on February 25.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court fined Yabloko’s Valentina Komkova for “failure to comply with the lawful demands by the police”
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Valentina Komkova / Photo by Sergei Krasnoeyev
The Miass City Court found Valentina Komkova, Chairwoman of the Miass branch of Yabloko, guilty of “failing to comply with the lawful demands by the police” and fined her 4,000 roubles. Komkova provided legal assistance to a woman detained for making an anti-war inscription on the pavement.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Russian telecommunications supervising service Roskomnadzor responded to Yabloko’s inquiries about the reasons for blocking social networks pages of Yabloko’s politicians
Press Release, 14.06.2022
Photo: “Ban yourself!” / Photo by Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
From the beginning of the so-called “special military operation”, members of the Yabloko party, who had previously been under the scrutiny of the authorities and law enforcement agencies, were subjected to tremendous pressure. Dozens of activists were detained and arrested, homes of seventeen people were searched, nineteen protocols were drawn up against Yabloko members on “discrediting the army”. However, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) came up with another way to interfere with the work of Yabloko: in less than three months, personal pages on social networks of five Yabloko politicians and the web-site of one regional branch were blocked. Blocking took place in the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as on the Yandex.Zen platform.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Activist from Activist from Khanty-Mansiysk, West Siberia, fined 80,000 roubles under two protocols on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 5.06.2022
Photo: Ivan Menshenin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ivan Menshenin, a member of the Yabloko party in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, West Siberia, and a candidate for the State Duma in 2021, was fined twice under Article 20.3.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The fines total 80,000 roubles.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Behind Civilization” is available for download
Press Release, 03.06.2022
A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva is available for download in the Library section of the Yabloko party website.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, was fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made today by the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocks the page of Boris Vishnevsky
More than 11.500 people have been following his page
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred to a notification from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office dated May 20. According to the Public Prosecutor Genera, Boris Vishnevsky’s page contained “inaccurate socially significant information aimed at destabilising the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation”.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, has got compensation for the illegal actions of the police
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, obtained compensation for moral damage and material damage in connection with the illegal actions of the Novgorod police to bring her to administrative liability. The federal budget will pay the opposition politician 15,000 roubles. On 1 June, the Novgorod Regional Court upheld the decision of the Novgorod Regional Court and dismissed the appeal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Constitutional Court to consider the legality of restricting participation in elections for “persons involved in extremist organisations”
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks
Two complaints were filed with the Constitutional Court of Russia against the constitutionality of the norms of the Russian electoral legislation, which established restrictions on participation in elections for “persons involved in the activities of extremist organisations”.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, will be tried for “arbitrariness” in protecting the interests of Moscow residents
Press Release, 1.06.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin in the police station / Photo from social networks
On 31 May, police detained Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and an ex Chairman of Yabloko, during his meeting with residents of the Khamovniki district, Moscow. The meeting was devoted to plans of a developing company for laying communications for the construction of elite apartments through the courtyard of the house located at the address 11 Yefremov Street.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action
Press Release, 1.06.2022
Photo from social networks
The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action in the Saratov office of the party. In a few hours, 15 people – members of the regional branch, supporters and civil activists – signed 111 postcards that will be sent to prisons to 43 political prisoners, including Sergei Ryzhov, Andrei Pivovarov (whom Yabloko nominated to run in the parliamentary elections in 2021 when he was already detained and demanded his release), Alexei Navalny, Nikita Uvarov, Alexandra Skochilenko and many other.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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