Archive for January, 2016
[President of Chechnya] Ramzan Kadyrov – to Dismissal!
YABLOKO expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia 18.01.2016 The YABLOKO party expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia. Valery Borschyov, one of the initiators of the statement ad member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, signed the statement on behalf of YABLOKO’s leadership.
Posted: January 19th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Vishnevsky won The St.Petersburg citizen contest in nomination “historic preservation”
Press release based on Elizaveta Belova’s article, ZakS.Ru, 15.01.2015 Boris Vishnevsky, YABLOKO’s deputy in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, won the contest The St.Petersburg citizen in the nomination “historic preservation”. Over 15 thousand people voted on social media and 48,3 percent supported Boris Vishnevsky against Natalia Sivokhina and Marianna Alferova.
Posted: January 19th, 2016 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yabloko Youth protested against anti-gay bill
Press release, 18.01.2016 On 18 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth conducted a series of one-person picketing against the Communist Party’s (CPRF) bill prohibiting to come out as gay. The activists claim that the government must not interfere in the private life of people. They held picketing outside the Communist Party office with the picture […]
Posted: January 19th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, Youth Policies.
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YABLOKO’s Igor Artemyev proposes to considerably simplify the access of foreign pharmaceuticals to the Russian market
Press Release, 18.01.2016 Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service and member of YABLOKO’s Political Party, forwarded a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev informing Prime Minister about a catastrophic situation in Russian pharmaceuticals market.
Posted: January 18th, 2016 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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YABLOKO leaders – party founder Grigory Yavlinsky and Chair Emilia Slabunova – held a meeting with Galina Shirshina, Mayor of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, well-known for her anti-corruption actions in the city and was dismissed from her elected post by the pro-Governor’s majority of the City Council. The meeting took place in the YABLOKO Moscow office on 18 January.
Posted: January 18th, 2016 under Situation in Karelia.
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YABLOKO to honour the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed by neonazists
Press Release, 18.01.2016 Tomorrow, on 19 January deputy chairs of the party Nikolai Rybakov and Alexander Gnezdilov and YABLOKO activists will lay flowers to the place of where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street.
Posted: January 18th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Alexei Arbatov’s anniversary
Congratulations, 17.01.2016 On 17 January, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee Alexai Arbatov celebrated his 65 birthday. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and Chair of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky congratulated him.
Posted: January 18th, 2016 under Activities.
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Pskov Regional Court refused to reinstate Lev Shlosberg as regional MP
Press Release, 14.01.2016 Today the Pskov Regional Court has rejected the appeal of Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov region branch of YABLOKO and member of the Political Committee of the party, on termination of his regional MP proxies by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region and has upheld the decision of the Pskov […]
Posted: January 18th, 2016 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections.
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2015: the Results and the Prospects
By Grigory Yavlinsky, 29.12.2015 The Ladmarks The main events of the year were political reprisals against the dissenting: the murder of Boris Nemtsov and severe poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza who only miraculously escaped death. The point of this year – the toughest pressure on the civil society for the past 30 years, the stake on […]
Posted: January 16th, 2016 under Russian Economy.
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Yabloko first Russian party with a female leader – Emilia Slabunova
Liberal International, 14.01.2016 XVIII Congress of the LI full member from Russia “Yabloko” elected Emilia Slabunova, member of the regional parliament of the Republic of Karelia, as the new party President. With this groundbreaking development Mrs Slabunova stands as the first female leader of a Russian political party and for the first time in the […]
Posted: January 16th, 2016 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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The Court of the Pskov Region to consider Lev Shlosberg’s appeal on termination of his regional MP proxies by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region
Press Release, 13.01.2016 On 14 January, the Pskov Regional Court will consider the appeal of Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov region branch of YABLOKO and member of the Political Committee of the party, against the refusal of the Pskov City Court to recognize the decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region unlawful […]
Posted: January 13th, 2016 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg.
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Andrei Babushkin: One night and 1001 Arabs or on the events in Cologne
Blog-post by Andrei Babushkin in the Live Journal, 11.01.2016 In 2015 the authorities of Germany accepted about a million refuges and together with Sweden and Austria faced the main burden of the wave of migration hitting Europe.
Posted: January 13th, 2016 under Human Rights.
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Dismissed Petrozavodsk Mayor brings a law suit against deputies who sacked her
// RBC, by Elizaveta Antonova, 11.01.2016 Photo: ex head of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina. Photo by Igor Podgorny / TASS Former head of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina appealed in court against the decision of the city council on her dismissal. She argues that the [deputies’] thesis on her failure to implement the powers of the mayor are […]
Posted: January 13th, 2016 under Situation in Karelia.
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