Archive for March, 2014
YABLOKO participated in the Peace March
Press release, 15.03.2014 The YABLOKO party has taken part in the Peace March held in the center of Moscow today. The party column was headed by party leader Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO founder and Political Committee member Grigory Yavlinsky.
Posted: March 15th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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YABLOKO nominated candidates for municipal elections in Moscow region
Press Release, 17.03.2013 On March 16 the Regional Council of the Moscow region branch of YABLOKO nominated candidates for early municipal elections which will take place on April 27. Petr Zhukov was nominated as candidate for the head of the Naro-Fominsky minicipal district, Natalya Antonova was nominated for the head of the Zvenigorod city district.
Posted: March 15th, 2014 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Charity concert in support of Evgeny Vitishko conducted in Sochi
Press Release, 12.03.2014 A concert in support of Evgeny Vitishko took place in Sochi. His friends and colleagues gathered in an informal setting.The event took place despite the pressure on behalf of the authorities, said the organisers.
Posted: March 14th, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Rossiya 1 TV channel should be given the name of Joseph Goebbels
Press Release, 13.03.2014 The information that YABLOKO’s activists participate in courses to prepare provocateurs to wreck the Crimea’s referendum in Warsaw which appeared in a number of news agencies isn’t true. YABLOKO’s members participate in a training for press secretaries of political parties conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The situation in Ukraine and […]
Posted: March 14th, 2014 under Understanding Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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“We are calling for an international conference on Ukraine”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky on behalf of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, March 8, 2014 We, as a party and a public movement, using our expertise and possibilities of our international cooperation, will do everything in our power so that to restore the relations of friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine. We will be responsibly facilitating […]
Posted: March 11th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Committee Against Xenophobia showed film about deportation of Crimean Tatars in Stalin’s time
Press Release, 07.03.2014 Committee Against Xenophobia showed a film “Haytarma” about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in Stalin’s time in YABLOKO’s office on March 7.
Posted: March 11th, 2014 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Chair of the Volgograd branch of YABLOKO announced the bravest woman politician
Vysota, 09.03.2014 Chair of the Volgograd branch of YABLOKO Galina Boldyreva hit the top 10 as the bravest woman politician. On the International Women’s Day the journalists of a news agency remembered the women who distinguished themselves by unusual actions. Not only well-known politicians of Volgograd but ordinary women also entered the list.
Posted: March 10th, 2014 under Gender Faction, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: a war with Ukraine is unacceptable and criminal
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Live Journal, 02/03/2014 The Decision adopted on the 1st of March by the Federation Council on the president’s request represents a gross political error entailing extremely dangerous consequences. The intentions to bring troops to Ukraine and start armed hostilities of any scale there are without doubt unacceptable and criminal.
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: We are calling for an international conference on Ukraine
Press Release, March 8, 2014 We, as a party and a public movement, using our expertise and possibilities of our international cooperation, will do everything in our power so that to restore the relations of friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine. We will be responsibly facilitating weakening of the power of the oligarchs, their […]
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Russia is creating a zone of instability around its borders
Article by Grigory Yavlinsky, Vedomosti, 27 February 2014 The bloody confrontation in Ukraine resulting in the death of numerous people is a major tragedy, which also affects Russia. We share in the concern and pain over these developments. A significant number of problems that led to the current situation are also our shared problems. Some […]
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations, Topics of the day, Understanding Russia.
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YABLOKO’s Gender faction conducted a rally “Women against war!”
Press Release, 08.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Gender faction and a number of public organisations conducted a rally for protection of women’s rights in Russia. This time the annual rally was held under the slogan “Women against war” in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The participants of the action came out not only for equal rights for […]
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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YABLOKO conducted actions in support of Vitishko in the regions of Russia
Press Release, March 7, 2014 YABLOKO’s branches in Volgograd, Voronezh and Sosnovy Bor (the Leningrad region) conducted pickets and actions in support of the imprisoned environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko on March 7. Volgograd
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO held a picket under the slogan “Peace and happiness to all women”
Press Release, 11.03.2014 On the International Women’s Day, 8 March, YABLOKO held a picket under the slogan “Peace and happiness to all women” in the Vlevolzhsk city, the Leningrad region. YABLOKO activists distributed leaflets and spoke about women’s rights.
Posted: March 8th, 2014 under Gender Faction.
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YABLOKO and human rights activists held a picket against the military operations in Ukraine
Press release , 07.03.2014 Today YABLOKO activists and human rights activists held a picket against military action in the Ukraine in the center of Moscow. The action was attended by Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the “For the Human Rights” movement, members of YABLOKO’s Political Committee Alexei Yablokov and Victor Sheinis and Galina Mikhaleva, Secretary of […]
Posted: March 5th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Dmitry Kiselyov became one of the winners of the Sexist of the Year 2013 award
Press Release, 06.03.2014 A famous Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov [he is best known as a promoter of the Kremlin’s policies, denigrator of the West] became winner of the Sexist of the Year 2013 award in the category “Sexism in Mass Media” following the results of online voting. The award was founded by the initiative group […]
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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A war with a fraternal nation is inadmissible.
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 02/03/2014 The YABLOKO party condemns the decisions of the President of Russia and the Federation Council unleashing a war with a fraternal nation. Such developments will lead Russia to a national catastrophe and put the world on the brink of a nuclear war. But even if Vladimir Putin has no intention […]
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Those unleashing a war will be damned forever
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 02/03/2014 The YABLOKO party is categorically against the steps undertaken by Russia’s leadership targeted at unleashing a war with Ukraine. A war between Russia and Ukraine in any form and of any scope is unacceptable and inadmissible. Such a war will be a crime of a historic scope. Neither disputes over […]
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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YABLOKO conducted pickets against bringing troops to Ukraine
Press Release, 04.03.2014 The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person pickets under the slogans “No to war”. YABLOKO’s activists Alexandra Nalobina, Ivan Sokolov, Valentina Burdilova, Kirill Maryin participated in the action.
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Awarding ceremony Sexist of the Year 2013 will be held in YABLOKO’s office
Announcement, 04.03.2014 On Wednesday, March 5, awarding ceremony Sexist of the Year 2013 will be held in YABLOKO’s office, Moscow. The event will be held with support of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction.
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Gender Faction.
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YABLOKO to conduct a rally against military operations in Ukraine
Press Release, 03.03.2014 Today the YABLOKO party filed an application to conduct pickets on March 7 and a rally on March 16 against military operations in Ukraine. YABLOKO comes out against the steps of the Russian authorities aiming to outbreak the war with a neighboring state.
Posted: March 4th, 2014 under Russia-Ukraine relations.
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