Archive for October, 2015
International conference on overcoming stereotypes took place in Moscow
Press release, 28.10.2015 International conference “Killing Stereotypes and Finding Common Values and Points for Interaction” was held in Moscow on Saturday, 24 October. The conference was organized jointly by the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe party (ALDE) and its member parties – YABLOKO and Danish Radikale Venstre.
Posted: October 30th, 2015 under Moscow, YABLOKO and Radikale Venstre conference 2015.
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Video: ALDE, YABLOKO and Radikale Venstre joint conference on overcoming stereotypes
20.11.2015 International conference “Killing Stereotypes and Finding Common Values and Points for Interaction” was held in Moscow on Saturday, 24 October. The conference was organized jointly by the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe party (ALDE) and its member parties – YABLOKO and Danish Radikale Venstre. Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO Chairman
Posted: October 28th, 2015 under The ALDE party, YABLOKO and Radikale Venstre conference 2015, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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International conference on liberal values took place in Moscow
Press release, 24.10.2015 International conference “Killing Stereotypes and Finding Common Values and Points for Interaction” was held in Moscow on Saturday, 24 October. The conference was organized jointly by the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe party (ALDE) and its member parties – YABLOKO and Danish Radikale Venstre.
Posted: October 27th, 2015 under Moscow, The ALDE party, YABLOKO and Radikale Venstre conference 2015, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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International conference on liberal values to take place in Moscow
Press Release, 21.10.2015 Conference online translation (on bambuser.com) International conference “Killing Stereotypes and Finding Common Values and Points for Interaction” will be held in Moscow on Saturday, 24 October. The conference is organized jointly by the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe party (ALDE) and its member parties – YABLOKO and Danish Radikale Venstre. […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2015 under Moscow, The ALDE party, YABLOKO and Radikale Venstre conference 2015, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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YABLOKO picketed State Duma against sadists’ law adoption
Press release, 21.10.2015 YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person picketing outside the State Duma against the adoption of the bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners. Human rights defenses call the bill the sadists’ law. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and ex political […]
Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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The right to torture prisoners is a true GULAG system return
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 20.10.2015 The bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners, which the State Duma is planning to pass in the first reading, is nothing but the revival of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs methods in the Russian […]
Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Federal Penitentiary Service supports release on parole for Vitishko
Press release, 16.10.2015 Enviromnmentalist Evgeny Vitishko submitted another application on release on parole to the Kirsanovsky district court of the Tambov region. The Federal Penitentiary Service supported Vitishko’s motion for the first time.
Posted: October 19th, 2015 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Deputies of Karelia Legislative Assembly demand that cancellation of Petrozavodsk mayoral elections must be acknowledged unconstitutional
Press release, 14.10.2015 A group of deputies of the Karelia Legislative Assembly appealed to the Constituional Court demanding to aknowledge that the law on cancelling mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk, capital of the Republic, and the Kostomushka city is unconstitutional.
Posted: October 15th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO commemorated Boris Nemtsov’s memory
Press release, 09.10.2015 Today, on October 9th, the politician and public person Boris Nemtsov would have turned 56. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, the party founder Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO Political Committee member Sergei Ivanenko and Secretary of the Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva laid flowers to the place where Boris Nemtsov had been murdered on the Bolshoi […]
Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Condolences on the terrorist attack in Turkey
11.10.2015 On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me express our deep condolences to the families and next of kin of those killed in the brutal attack during a peaceful demonstration in Ankara.
Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO demands that Communist Party explain the use of quotation marks when mentioning political repressions victims
Press release, 09.10.2015 Chair of the Penza branch of YABLOKO Sergei Oleynik demanded that the head of the Communist Party regional branch Georgy Kamnev should apologise for mentioning the political repressions victims where the word “victims” was intentionally put into quotation marks.
Posted: October 11th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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A superior court satisfied Vitishko’s appeals
Press release, 08.10. 2015 Today, October 8, the Tambov regional court annulled the decision of the inferior Kirsanovsky district court (court of the first instance) on the refusal to release on parole Evgeny Vitishko, environmentalist from the Sochi region and YABLOKO member, and the refusal to amnesty him in connection with the 70th anniversary of […]
Posted: October 9th, 2015 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Federal Security Service proposals on closing property registers are unacceptable
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 07.10.2015 The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) proposed an initiative of closing public access to public registers of property rights, including real estate, aviation and water transport. At present register information is available to all, but tomorrow it will be available only to the “competent authorities”. YABLOKO considers this […]
Posted: October 7th, 2015 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Evgeny Vitishko went on hunger strike
Press release, 06.10.2015 On September 29, YABLOKO member and environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his three year sentence in a colony in the Tambov region, went on hunger strike demanding to release him. His lawyer Sergei Loktev reported the information to the press.
Posted: October 7th, 2015 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands to investigate detention of an architect at the event organized to commemorate 120th birthday of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin
Press Release, 03.10.2015 On 3 October, on the day of celebration of the 120th anniversary of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin in his hometown Konstantinovo, police detained Valentin Gavrilov, 77, honorable architect of Russia and a person who survived the siege of Leningrad in 1941 – 1944. Gavrilov was charged with resisting the police and […]
Posted: October 6th, 2015 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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President of Russia: Public Prosecutor General to examine the information on violation of the rights of imprisoned environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko
Press Release, 02.10.2015 Andrei Babushkin, Member of the Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, a member of YABLOKO’s Bureau, President Vladimir Putin to commission the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to inspect the penal colony, where Evgeny Vitishko, YABLOKO’s environmentalist, is serving his sentence. Vladimir Putin assured that the inspection would be […]
Posted: October 5th, 2015 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO to commemorate victims of the Great Terror
Announcement, 01.10.2015 On October 29 YABLOKO leaders and activists will participate in the memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. 30,000 people were executed in Moscow in 1937-1938.
Posted: October 1st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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